The Washington times., 1904-06-21
ROOT GIVES REVIEW
OF REPUBLICANISM
Speech as Temporary Chair
man at Chicago.
SURVEYS PARTY'S PROGRESS
Prosperity Of Country Hand in Hand
With Success of Republican
Administration.


man OF the Republican convention. and
on taking the chair delivered an ad-
dress on the career Of the Republican
party. saying in part:
With the platform and the candidates
OF this convention. we are about TO ask
a renewed expression of popular conf
dence IN the Republican party.
Have not the American people reason
Tor satisfaction and pride In the con-
duct OF their government since the cleo
ton of 1900, when they rendered their
judgment Of approval upon the first Ad-
ministration of President Mckinley
Have We not had an honest Govern
mcnt2 Have not the men selected for
Office been men Of good reputation who
by their past lives had given evidence
that they were honest and competent?
Can any private business be pointed out
in which lapses from honesty have been
50 lew and so trifing proportionalely,
as IN the pubic service OF the Unlteu
Stetcs2 And when they have occurred,
have not the offenders been relcndesslY
prosecuted and stcrnly punished without
regard to political or personal relations
Have we not an effective Government
Have not the laws been enforced? Has
not the slow process of legislative dis
CussiOn upon many serious questions
been brought TO practical conclusions
embodied in beneficial statutes? and has
not the Executive proceeded without
fect2 Are not the laws or the United
States obeyed at homer and does not
our Government command respect and
honor throughout the world?
Have we not had safe and conserva-
tive Government Has not property been
protected Are not the fruits Of enter
prise and industry secure? What safe
guard Of the Constitution for vested
right or Individual freedom has not been
scrupulously observer When has any
American Administration ever dealt
more considerably and wisely with
questions which might have been the
cause of conflict with foreign powers
When have more just settlements been
reached by peaceful meansI When has
any Administration welded more pow
erful influence for peacey and when
have we rested more secure in friendship
with all mankind2
Practical Trust Busting.
At every election. the regulation of
trusts had been the football of cam
paign oratory and the subject OF many
insincere declarations.
our Republican administration has
taken up the subject in a practical. SEN
sible way as a business rather than a
political question. saying what it really
meant, and doing what lay at its hand
to be done tc accomplish effective regu-
lation.
The Attorney General has gone on in
the same practical way. not to talk
about the trusts. but 10 proceed against
the trusts by law for their regulation.
in separate suits fourteen of the great
railroads OF the country have been re
strained by injunction from giving ille-
gal rebates TO the favored shippers. who
by means of them were driving out the
smaller shippers and mOnOpQliZing the
grain and meat business of the country.
The beef trust was put under injunc-
ton. The officers Of the railroads en-
gagged I'm the cotton carrying pool, af-
fecting all that great industry of the
South. were indicted and have aban-
doued their combination
80 sfar
which undertook by combining in one
ownership the capital stocks Of the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
Railroads to end traffic competition In
the Northwest. has been DESTROYED by q
vigorous prosecution expedited and
brought TO a speedy and effective con
clusion in the Supreme Court under the
act of February II, 1909.
Postal Service Purified.
The postal service has been extended
and improved. It's revenues have in
creased from s76.0O0O0O in 1895 70 S95
000O 900 in 1899. and $l44. 900 in 1904 In
dealing with these vast sums, a few
cases Of peculation. tri1ing in amount
and by subordinate officers. have oc,
Cured there as they occur IN every
business. Neither fear nor favor moi
political or personal influence has avail
ed to protect the wrOngdOers. Theil
acts have been detected. investigated
from their places, prosecuted criminally
indicted. many Of them tried. and many
OF them convicted.
When the last national convention
met the Philippines also We're under
military rule The last vestige Of insur-
rectiOu has been swept away. with
their work accomplished. over IS. 90
American troops have been brought bach
across the Pacific. Civil government
has been established throughout the
archipelago. Peace and order and JUS
A complete census has been taken. de
signed TO be there as IL was in Cuba
the basis for representative government
and the people Of the islands Will soor
proceed under provisions already made
BY Congress 20 the election of a repre-
sentative assembly, in which for tho
first time in their history they may
have voice in the making Of their owl
laws.
The Panama Canal
Concerning the Panama Canal Mr.
Root said:
The action OF the United States OF
every step has been iu accordance witt
the law OF nations consistent with IN,
principles ~ justice and honor. in dis
charge OF the trust TO build the cana
We long since assumed. by denying tn
right OF every other power TO build IL
dictated by q high and uuselhsh pUr
pcee. Tor the common benefit % an man
Kind. That action was wise. consider
ate prompt. vigorous and effective.
Success n. that enterprise greatly
Concerns the credit and honor OF tn'
NI-crican people. and 30 g. for them q
Eav whether Tho building or the cana
snail be in charge Of the men who mad'
itA building possible. or ~ the weakliug'
whose lucrgdgioBs objections wOul'
lave postponed ~ for an0tEcr genera
tItI-
rhrourhout the world the diplomac,
OF The present Administration has made
FOR peace and justice among nations
Clcor-slVhtcd 10 perceive and prompt e
maintain American interests. b. has beer
sagaci0us and simple and direct I'm IN
methods and considerable of tho right
and OF the feelings of others.
~ 1900 the first Administration Of Nc
itlnlcy had played n great part in es
t1htshing The Hague tribunal for in
tcrnational arbitration. The prevailing
opinion cf Europe was incredulous RS q
TIC practical utility OF the provision. aut
AtclpHied paper tribunal unsOugh
by hflsauts. II was the example OF tn
tnu@a states which set AT uaught this
upiuou. The first International Cusi
taken 70 The Hague tribunal was unde
our protocol with Mexico. Of May -
1872. submitting our contention FOR IN,
rights Of the Roman Catholic Church u
California 10 a share or the churcl