The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-29
Taft Accepts Nomination in
the Presence of Thousands
(continued From First Paee)


corted Judge Taft to the substantial
platform, which projects out over he
old stone steps leading to the entrance
of the mansion, where the presidential
nominee spoke in part as follows;
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. | accept il with full appreciation
of the responsibility it 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 uH-
.equivocally declares, TO maintain them
and carry them on For more than ten
years this country passed through an
epoch OF material development far be-
yond any that ever occurred in the
world before. In its course, certain
evils crept in. Some prominent and
influential. members of the Communi-
", spurred by financial success and in
their hurry for greater wealth, be-
came unmindful of the common rules
of business and honesty and fidelity
and OF the limitations imposed by
law upon their action, This became
known. The revelations of the
breaches of trust, the disclosures as
to rebates and determinations by
railways, the accommodating evidence
of the violation of the antitrust law
by number of corporations, the over
tissue of stocks and bonds on inter
Estate railways for the unlawful en-
Eriching of directors and for the pur-
spose of concentrating control of rail-
ways in one management, all quick
ened the conscience of the people, and
brought on a moral awakening among
them thas BODIED well for the future of
the country.
What Roosevelt Has Done.
The man who formulated the ex-
preston of the popular conscience
and who led the movement for practi-
cal reform was Theodore Roosevelt
He laid down the doctrine that the
rich violator of the law should be as
amenable to restraint and punishment
as the offender without wealth and
without influence. and he proceeded
by recommending legislation and di
frecting executive action to make that
gprinciple good in actual performance
He secured the passage of the social
led rate bill. designed more effective
lly TO restrain excessive and fix rea
lsonable rates. and TO punish secret
hrebates and determinations which
had been general in the prac
.tice of the railroads, and which had
idone much to enable unlawful trusts
TO drive out of business their com
petitors. II secured much closer super
vision of railway transactions and
brought within the operation of tht
rsame statute express companies
sleeping car companies, fast freigh
and refrigerator lines. terminal rail
roads and pipe lines, and forbade il
future the combination of the trans
kportation and shipping business unde
tone control in order to avoid undue
discrimination
President Roosevelt directed suit
to be brought and prosecutions to b,
Instituted under the antitrust law. Il
enforce its provisions against tn
most powerful of the industrial cor
porations. He pressed to passage tn
pure food law and the meat inspection
law in the interest of the health of tn
public. clean business methods an
great ultimate benefit to the trade
themselves. He recommended tn
passage of law, which the Republ
can convention has since Speci1call
approved, restricting the future iSsu
OF stocks and bonds by interstate raj
WAYS TO such as may be authorized b
federal authority. He demonstrated [
the people by what he said. by vhe
he recommended 10 Congress and D
fvhat he did, the sincerity OF his e
.xests to command respect for The lay