The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-07-16
TAFT'S SPEECH
OF ACCEPTANCE
NOMINEE COMPARES PLAT
FORMS & SHOWS THAT
REPUBLICAN IS PAR
TY OF CONSTRUC-
TON VERSUS DE-
STRUCTION

L fOunQ IN my experience oi
the bench" he continued, that 1t
was easier to write long opinion
than to put the same argument In
fewer words. The speech should
be short and | approach the task
with feeling that saying what
want to say in comparatively
brief space will be hard work.
Mr.. Taft has decided upon what
he wants. He has completed the
outline OF his speech and on the
subject OF the principal issues his
ideas are we'll formulated. His
speech will make the overshad-
owing issue: Destruction VS..
Good Government" 1t will begin
with a review of the history OF
the Republican party and a vindi-
cation of its principles in the gen.
eral prosperity which their appli-
cation has brought. He will re-
fer also to the PROOF OF the integ-
rity of the party as seen in full
fllment OF its promises. He will
parallel this with a review OF the
past Democratic platforms, poll
cies and promises, with a sum-
ming up which will indict them,
especially rs reviewed in the light
of the leadership of Mr.. Bryan.
This leadership he will say has
been populistic, secialistic, DEM
agogic and revolutionary.
The difference between the
two parties in their relations to
present problems will be review
ed, not only in the light of his
tory, but in their present plat
forms. The Republican platform
his speech says, is the embodi-
ment of progressiveness, con-
structiveness, loyalty to the gov
ernrnent and prosperity built up
on honesty. He will assert that
the Democratic platform IS full OF
negation, antagonism and de-
struction.
From this preliminary. sum-
mary up of the situation, Mr..
Taft will assert the line of cleav-
age between the two parties to be
a difference of attitude toward
the government and business in
feresfs legitimately pursued
Theodore Roosevelt will be rec
ognized and honored as N in
strument in awakening the con-
science of the nation to the neces-
sity OF honesty in politics and
business, ard this awakening, Mr.
Taft says he proposes, if elected
to crystalize into laws which will
strengthen and perpetuate the
processes of business upon the one
hand and reduce the possibility ol
commercial wrongs on the other
His discussion ofVhe Democrat
ic plank providing for physica
valuation of railroads will be stat
istical and commercial. He will
assert the utter futility of such ar
effort and will charge that its enc
is the pet theory OF Mr.. Bryan
which, while not directly embod
led in the Democratic Platform
7 is in reality government owner
ship of railroads.
In discussing the injunction
plank Mr.. Taft in his speech will
insist on the right OF individual
TO make complaint and TO have
hearings. He will say that injunc
tions without notice are useless
An illustration like this will b
used:' IF ones home has beer
set ahre an injunction can accom-
pIish nothing, but where there i
time for a threat to be made ther
is time for hearing"
Mr.. Taft will denounce tn
Democratic proposition of sub
mission of contempt cases to jur,
uials as constituting within itsel
an attmepted impeachment OF tn
integrity of the judiciary, and ais,
as entailing endless complication
in the solution of labor troubles
which viii work irreparable in
Jury to those most in need of i'm
mediate relief; namely, the labo
class.
:. illustration of this will b
the case OF either capitalist o
workingrnan who goes 10 cour
for relief. If a juror summone
refuses to serve, the case must b
delayed while another jury is i'm
penelled to try the reealcitran
Juror.
Mr.. Taft will say that the Dem
ocratic proposition to put or tn
free list the product of trusts n
wolves the practical destruction {
the business of the country; tina
the execution of that programm
would close many of our creates
manufactures and fill the countr
with an army of unemployed. H
will state that the differnce be
tween the Democratic and the Re
publican parties on this questio
is the difference between radica
ism and conservatism.
Where the tariff should be rt
duced, the Republican party pre-
poses reduction. Bryanism pre-
poses wholesale and unqualifie
destruction of the tariff thus pre-
posing to cure the evils CROWN
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