60 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



The visitor noticed that she was thinking more of herself 

 than any thing else, and after some conversation he said 

 it does not appear that you think anybody will be in heaven 

 but yourself and your minister. She said I am not so sure 

 about my minister. I am not so sure about your visitor but 

 there is ample evidence of him being here. Charley Tay- 

 lor, chairman of the committee, will speak at this time. 



CHARLES TALYOR: Mr. Chairman, Fellow Rotarians, 

 and Kiwanians and Invited Guests: A year ago you asked 

 me, with some associates, to go to Galesburg to invite the 

 State Dairymen's Association to hold their next annual con- 

 vention in Harrisburg. I made certain pledges that night 

 for the city of Harrisburg and these invited guests are to 

 pass upon the question whether or not the pledges we made 

 that night have been fulfilled. I said you would meet hos- 

 pitality. I think you have met it. I told you we would 

 do whatever Galesburg, Peoria or any other town would 

 do and do it better because we have got a better town than 

 any of them. Our home folks did not understand how 

 Harrisburg was able to secure this convention. We got it 

 like the big long nigger in Illinois who ran a foot race. A 

 man said boy are you a runner. He said '*I sure am." He said 

 **have you run on the track?" ''No sir: but I have run by 

 myself and I sure can run." He said ''Nigger you get down 

 into your running gears and you get out on this track and 

 you are going to run this foot race" and as he came by he 

 poked him with his walking cane and the nigger fell about 

 nine feet ahead of anybody else and he said to Dad Long, 

 "My God didn't I have a gang hollering for me." You sent 

 a booster with me. I had a good press agent, Fred Lieber- 

 man, and what I lacked in telling the truth about Harris- 

 burg he finished it out with something else. He said to 

 me I have to go down in town and do a few things and he 

 went down to the newspapers and he said one of the past 

 Governors of Illinois, Governor Taylor, was there and you 

 want to get in touch with him and his gang, and it was not 

 very long until a delegation come to meet me and wanted 

 to find out about me and wanted to know how big a crowd 

 I had with me, and I said I had a press agent. My friends. 



