The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-08-19
TAFT IN SPEECH
ACCEPTS NOMINATION
Roosevelt Policies Need to Be
CIinched, He Says.
CINCINNATI HAS GREAT DAY
Multitude From Ohio and Near
Neighbor States Packed Street
to Hear Republican Candidates
10000 Word Speech.

NelgHUOr StateS fdChcu otTSet
to Hear Republican Candidates
$4,000 Word Speech.
Cincinnati, Ohio.-Wiliiam How
ard Taft accepted the Republican
Presidential nomination. His official
notification combined a jubilee for
the city of Cincinnati and it's envir-
ons, a historic gathering of national
party leaders and an occasion for the
announcement by the candidate of his
views.
The notification was without any
great ceremony. Upon the hour OF
noon Mr.. Taft, a party of friends and
the notification committee filed out
of the colonial door to the broad
porches of the Taft mansion.
The porches and lawn were re-
served for ticket holders, the street
being the free-for-all field. A band
stationed directly in front Of the plat
form on the front walk kept the as
sembling crowd in a merry mood.
Senator William Warner, of Mis-
souri,, past commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army Of the Republic, chair
man of the notification committee,
escorted Mr.. Taft to the speakers
stand.
Senator Warmers speech of notif-
cation was brief. After formally in
forming Mr.. Taft of his nomination
he gave him an e%ngrossed copy of
the Chicago platform.
In reply Mr.. Taft did not deliver
his full speech Of acceptance. but
gave only about enough Of it to &C.
cupy an hours time. He said:
Nomination Accepted.
Senator Warner and Gentlemen Of
the Committee:
am deeply sensible of the honor
which the Republican National Con-
yention has conferred on me in the
nomination which you formally ten
der. I accept it with full apprecia-
ton of the responsibility it imposes.
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 Jul platform
unequivocally declares, to maintain
them and carry them on. For more
than ten years this country has passed
through an epoch of material devel-
opment far beyond any that ever &C.
Cured in. the world before. In Its
course certain evils crept in.
Some prominent and influential
members of the community, spurred
by financial success and in their
hurry for greater wealth, became I'm
mindful of the common rules Of bust
ness honesty and fidelity, and Of the
limitations imposed by law upon their
action. This became known.
The revelation of the breaches OF
trust, the disclosures as to rebates
and determinations by railways, the
accumulating evidence of the VIOLA
ton Of the antitrust law by a num-
Der of corporations, the oser-issue OF
stocks and bonds on interstate rails
ways for the unlawful enriching of
directors and for the purpose Of con-
centrating control of railways in one
management, all quickened the con-
science of the people and brought on
q moral awakening among them that
BODIED well for the future ofsthe coun-
try.
What Roosevelt Has Done.
The man Who formulated the ex-
preston of the popular conscience
and who led the movement for prac-
tical reform was Theodore Roosevelt.
He laid down the doctrine that the
rich violator of the law should be as
amenable to restraint and punish
ment as the offender without wealth
and without influence, and he pro-
ceeded by recommending legislation
and directing executive action to
make that principle good in actual
performance. He secured the pass
age of the so-called rate bill, designed
more effectively to restrain excessive
and fix reasonable rates, and to pun
ish secret rebates and determinations
which had been general in the prac-
tice of the railroads, and which had
done much to enable unlawful trusts
to drive out of business their COM
p%etitors.
Suits Begun.
President Roosevelt directed suits
to be brought and prosecutions to be
instituted under the antitrust law,
to enforce it's provisions against the
most powerful of the industrial cor
p%orations. He pressed to passage the
Pure Food law and the meat inspec-
ton law in the interest of the health
of the public, clean business methods
and great ultimate benefit to the
trades themselves. He recommended
the passage of a law, which the Re-
publican convention has since spe-
officially approved, restricting the fut-
ure issue of stocks and bonds by in
terstate railways to such as may be
authorized by Federal authority.
Chief Work of Next Administration.
The chief function of the next Ad-
ministration, in my judgment, is dis
tinct from, and a progressive devel-
opment of, that which has been per-
formed by President Roosevelt. The
chief function of the next Admins
tration is to complete and perfect the
machinery by which these standards
may be maintained, by which the law
breakers may be promptly restrained
and punished, but which shall oper-
ate with sufficient accuracy and dis
patch to interfere with legitimate