Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1909 — TOWN OF TAFT HEARS TAFT [ARTICLE]

TOWN OF TAFT HEARS TAFT

President Speaks In Place That Want Unanimously Republican. Gregory, Tex., Oct. 22.—President Taft shook hands with the entire town of Taft and then delivered a speech in the Taft school house. It was not much

of an ordeal —this hand-shaking with 1 an entire town, for Taft hfis a popula-j tion of about 300. The town is on the C. P. Taft ranch j and the eight mile drive which the president took to it was on his broth-: er’s estate for the entire distance. Taft j Is one of the few towns that went Re-1 publican unanimously in the last national campaign. “Every one,” said Taft, “who is looking forward to making a decent living is considering the question whether he has in him the elements of a good farmer, for there is no doubt today that, taken as a class, the farmers are the most contented, havo the best homes and the best prospects of any class m the comfhunity." The president congratulated Taft on the-Slic of its school house. “It showed there was no race suicide in the town,’' ho said.