The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-18
Endorses Platform and Taft's
Speech of Acceptance.
is A PROTECTIONIST.
Takes Strong Grounds Against
the Democrats
On Their Declarations Regard
ing the Tariff.

the official notification of his nominal
tion for the vice presidency by the
Chicago convention today Mr.. James
S. Sherman spoke as fonows:-
Senator Burrows and Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee:
Your chairman, speaking for the
committee, has notified me Of my NOM
ination by the Republican national
convention. held in Chicago in June as
the party's candidate for vice presi-
dent. AS I CHANGED to be in Chicago
In June, had an inkling of the con-
vention's action. which was confirmed
by a warm-hearted reception rendered
me by my neighbors on the occasion OF
my homecoming on July 2. This off,
cial notification, however. is welcome
and the nomination you tender me is
accepted; accepted with a gratitude
commensurate with the great honor
conferred; accepted with a full appre-
citation Of the obligations which accom-
pany that honor, an honor greater be-
cause my name is linked with that or
William H. Taft, whom I respect and
esteem highly and who approaches the
| high office of president exceptionally
well equipped to discharge the duties
| and bear the varied and weighty re-
| sponsibilities of that exalted position.
My acceptance could not be made with
| honor unless were in full accord with
| the declaration of principles adopte
| by the convention Not only am 1 in
full and complete accord with my
| party's platform. but 1 endorse every
statement made by Mr.. Taft in his ad-
| dress of acceptance when notified OF
| his nomination as the Republican can
didate for president.
That speech fully and comprehen-
sively discusses the issues of this cam
paign as presented by the platforms of
| the two great parties, so that it is ap-
propriate that my statement should be
tSH nrf
presentation of Mr.. Taft I could not
| hope to persuade. 1t is, however, in
conformity with custom that I refer
at least briefly to some of the impor-
tant issues of the campaign.
| He Is a Protectionist.
! First, then, let me say that / am a
protectionist.< I am sufficiently practi-
cal to value the utility of fact higher
| than the beauty of a theory, and I am
| a protectionist because experience has
| demonstrated that the application of
| that principle has lifted us as Nation
| to plane Of prosperity above that
occupied by any other people.
| I especially commend that plank of
our platform which promises an early
revision of tariff schedules. That
pledge will be fulfilled in an adjust
ment based in every particular upon
the broad principles of protection for
all American interests; alike for labor.
| for capital, for producers and con-
sumers. The Dingley bill. when en-
acted. was well adapted to the then
| existing conditions. The developments
of industrial prosperity in a decade,
which in volume and degree have sur
| passed our most roseate expectations,
have so altered conditions that in GER
tains details of schedules they no long
| er in every particular mete out justice
| to all. In this readjustment the prin-
ciple of protection must and will gov
ern; such duties must and will be i'm
posed as will equalize the cost of
| production at home and abroad and
| insure reasonable profit to all Amer
| lean interests. The Republican idea
| of such a profit embraces not alone
| the manufacture not alone the capi-
tai invested, but all engaged in Ameri-
| can production, the employer and en-
ployed, the artisan, the farmer. the
miner and those engaged in transpor-
tation and trade; broadly speaking,
| those engaged in every pursuit and
| calling which our tariff directly or in
directly affects.
Revenue Tariff Is Bad.
| During statutory application of this
principle, prosperity has abided with
us. When a revenue tariff has been
| the law, adversely and want have been
| our portion. Our Democratic brethren,
whose memories are as short as their
promises are frail, and who have al
| ways exhibited lack of capacity to
profit by experience. unmindful of the
| distress and destruction that arrived
and departed with the last Democratic
| administration, declare in their plat
| form that they favor such Immediate
| revision of schedules as may be nee
essary to restore the tariff to a reve-
nue. basis" A revenue basis" a
tariff for revenue only ultimate
| free trade"-all have an Identical
meaning; that meaning being an as
| sault upon American industries, an at
| a lessening demand for the products of
American soil and American toll; less
work, less pay, less of the necessaries
| of and comforts of life. In the light
of history. what issue of the cam
| paign so vitally affects American citi-
? zens? Experience. that effective
| teacher-effective save with the one
man power now parading under the
title of the Democratic party-has
| taught the nation valuable lesson
and the result of the coming Novem-
| her election will once more prove the
American people to be apt scholars.
| what the laborer of the land, skilled
and unskilled, desires is the oppor-
tunity at all times to exchange his
| hrain and Drawn for good pay in good
| gold standard, both now the existing
achievements of the Republican party.
in spite of Democratic opposition, give
| the laborer that opportunity.
The RepuOucan party DeHeVeS In the
equality Of all men before the law: be-
| neves in granting labor's every re-
| Guest that does not seek to accord
lights to one man denied to another.
/ Fsir-rninded labor asks no more no
less. and approves the record of the
Republican party because of that
partys acts.
His Legislative Record
| 1 have helped to make my party's
/ record in the enactment of the eight
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