Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-07-03


M 8. SHERMAN.
%; Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio,
16.
Mr.. Taft was nominated by Repre-
sentative Theodore E.. Burton of Cleve-
land, and the nomination was seconded
by George A. Knight of California.
The motion to make the nomination
unanimous was made by General Stew
art L. Woodford of New York, man.
ager of the Hughes boom.
Taft's Fitness For Presidency.
In the course of his speech placing
Taft in nomination Congressman Bur-
ton said:
Again Ohio presents a candidate to the
Republican national convention. In sew
en- stubbornly contested presidential CAM
paigns sons of her sacred soil have led
the embattled Republican hosts to VIC
tory. The buckeye State has assuredly
contributed her share of statesmen and
generals for the upbuilding of the nation.
But that of which we are proudcr still is
her stalwart citizenship, the mightiest
bulwark of the republic in every COM
monwealth, made up of Americas free
yeomen, ever ready to respond to the
tocsin of alarm in days of peril or to
crush corruption whenever it raises it's
menacing head. From this citizenship
Ohio in the supreme emergency of the
civil wal sent forth more than 200, 900 SOL
diers for our country's Defense, a formi-
dable array easily surprising in numbers
the world %conquering legions of imperial
Caesar and even larger than any army
ever mustered by Britain for the tented
field. But transcendent above all is the
fact that Ohio is one of a matchless un-
ion of states linked together in everlast-
ing bonds of amity and constituting an
empire wonderful in power and almost
unreasonable in extent. Each sovereign
state alone would occupy but a subordi-
nate place in the great current of the
worlds events, but when represented by
one of forty-six bright stars on a field of
stainless blue every one forms part of an
emblem of union and of strength more
beautiful far than the most brilliant con-
stel1ation in the heavens
The most perplexing questions of today
arise from the bountiful development of
our material wealth. Such a Development
cannot occur without the creation of IN.
j
most strenIously deny that the -
lean business man or the American citi-
zen cherishes lower standards than the
citizens of any other country. The Amer
lean people are by no means depraved.
But by reason of their busy absorption in
varied pursuits and of the glamour which
attends success in great undertakings
questionable methods have been able tc
engraft themselves upon the business OF
the country. Rich rewards have too fire.
quently been gained by some who are
none too scrupulous. Monopoly, dishon-
esty and fraud have assumed a promf-
hence which calls for the earnest atten-
ton and condemnation of every man who
truly loves the republic.
Against all these abuses and In the work
for restoring old ideals of honesty and
equality, as well as for higher standards
of civic duty, one man has stood pre-emi-
nent, and that man is Theodore Roose-
welt. Against corruption In every form
he has set his face with grim determine
ton, prompt and fearless in action and
with that intelligent leadership which has
assured the establishment of a better era
in which the strong and the weak alike
must submit themselves to the impartial
execution of the law. There was need of
a strong, courageous spirit to restrain
those destructive forces which have as
serted themselves in this time of growth
and plenty. The story of his achievements
will make up one of the brightest pages In
the history of this or any age and will
prove that today, as in any critical hour
of social unrest or of danger, the man VIII
appear who can grapple with the emer-
gency.
Who so fit to take Up the tasks which
THIS WOnuTOuS generation uetidIluS SiOulu
be wisely and impartially performed as
his great war secretary? Since the day
when in Benjamin Harrison's administra-
tion these two first met-the one as So
licitor general, the other as a member OF
the civil service commission-they have
been bound together by like ideals and
aims, by close ties of friendship and by
the exchange of mutual counsel, each
with his own individuality and character
istics keeping constantly in view the en-
Il = - 1900.
America. They have not been satisfied
that the temple of prosperity should be
decked alone by the jewels of the fortu-
nate and the opulent, but have insisted
that it should still more abound in tro-
phies which commemorate the enforce
ment of even handed justice and the
maintenance of that equal opportunity
which spreads hope and blessing even to
the humblest Home. Since the day when,
less than thirty years of age, Mr.. Taft
denounced with burning words a member
of his profession who had been guilty of
h%agrantly vicious practices and had de-
moralized the community he has ever
been associated with the cause of true
reform-with that reform which will not
content itself with academic dissertation
or hollow words. He has been imbued
with the spirit of action. His advocacy
of sounder conditions has never arisen
from a desire for the exploitation of him
self. 1t has always been based upon I'M
swerying integrity ana the courage to
speak the truth as he understands 1t on
all occasions, no matter how influential
or powerful the evils which he may at
tack.
No one has ever yet assumed the presi-
Dental chair who had received a more
ideal preparation for the duties of that
great office. As judge in state and federal
courts, as solicitor general, as governor of
the Philippines, as secretary of war, which
has included the work of colonial secre-
tary and director of national public works.
ne has received his training and has al
ways shown himself master of the situa-
ton and competent to make more honor
able and beloved the American name.
There have been no years of ~inaction In
his career. He has been continuously en-
gagged in weighty tasks, and each success
sive service has been characterized by an