Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-29

Following is the full text of William
III. Taft's address in accepting the Re
publican nomination for President,
which was rendered him yesterday at
his home in Cincinnati, Ohio:
Senator Warner and Gentlemen of the
Committees:
am deeply sensible of the honor
which the Republican National Con
vention has conferred on me in the
nomination which you formally tender.
/ accept 1t with full appreciation of the
responsibility 1t imposes.
Republican Strength in Maintenance
Of Roosevelt Policies.
Gentlemen. the strength of the Re
publican cause in the campaign at
hand Is in the fact that we represent
the policies essential to the reform of
known abuses, to the continuance of
liberty and true prosperity. and that
we are determined, as our platform
unequivocally declares, to maintain
them and carry them on. For more
than ten years this country passed
through an epoch of material develop
ment far beyond any that ever occur
red in the world before. IL it's course,
certain evils crept in Some prominent
and influential members Of the COM
munity, spurred by financial success
and In their hurry for greater wealth,
became unrnindful of the common rules
Of business honesty and fidelity and of
the limitations imposed by law upon
their action. This became known. Tho
, revelations of the breaches of trust.
the disclosures as to rebates and dis
ordinations by railways. the accumu-
lating evidence of the violation of the
antitrust law by number of cor
porations, the overissue of stocks and
bonds. ON interstate railways for the
, unlawful enriching of directors and for
the purpose of concentrating control
OF railways in one management, all
Quickened the conscience of the peo-
pie. and brought on a moral awaken
ing among them that BODIED well for
the future Of the country
'ST What Roosevelt Has Done.
: The man who formulated the express
aion Of the popular conscience and who
led the movement for practical reform
was Theodore Roosevelt He laid
down the doctrine that the rich vio-
lator Of the law should be as amen
able to restraint and punishment as
the offender without wealth and with
out influence. and he proceeded by
recommending legislation and directing
executive action to make that princi-
ple good in actual performance. He
secured the passage of the so-called
rate bill, designed more effectively to
sestrain excessive and fix reasonable
rates, and to punish secret rebates and
discriminations which had been gen.
Sral in. the practice of the railroads.
and which had done much to enable
unlawful trusts to drive out of bust
ness their competitors. 1t secured
much closer supervision of railway
transactions and brought within the
nperAiyon of the same statute express
companies, sleeping car companies
FAST freight and refrigerator lines. ter
iniuai railroads and pipe liness and for
hade in future the combination OF the
Transportation and. shipping business
hinder. one control in order to AVOID
undue discrimination.
q flfSsfdeat Roosevelt directed suits 10
NJ iYef0ufi1t ana prosecutions to be In
st,tsteas uutlsfa tfiel ai1ti1tfust' law. to
a1f6fc9 iitS provisiofs agaihstithe most
SoNvitufs6e tf,y Industrial corporations