Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-29
CALM, LUCID AND LOGICAL
Judicial in Tone and Without De.
clamatory Platitudes.
MESSAGE AN ABLE EFFORT
Republican Nominee Expresses His
Opinions in His Own Style.
Some Hostile Criticism.
From the Baltimore American.


dustrial habits of the people. to diminish
the force of wrongful manipulation of
the sources of prosperity, to stimulate
the aspirations Of the entire people for
a better distribution of the products of
industry. to develop law in conformity
to sentiment. to bulwark the weak from
the inroads of the strong. to point to
the plain path Of progress unclouded by
demagogy-this is the kernel Of the speech
of Mr.. Taft in reply to the notification
Of his selection by the republicans of the
country as the standard-bearer of the
party In all respects the message will
be regarded as one of the ablest papers
of its kind that have ever been prepared.
The country has taken Mr. Taft's meas
ure. He has unbared his convictions upon
public policies. The democratic declara-
ton has been shown to be mechanical and
unwise. The people are delighted with
Mr.. Taft.
Proclaims His Purpose.
From the New York Tribune.
Mr.. Taft's speech of acceptance pro-
claims the purpose of his administration
II he is elected President 1t will be to
"clinch" the policies of President Rocse-
welt He is in hearty sympathy with the
conscience and to correct the abuses that
have grown up with the substitution Of
corporate organization for individual con-
troll of industry. He reprobates these
evils as keenly as the President himself,
and no great lawbreaker can expect to
find a less thorny course under the next
republican administration than under the
present one But Mr. Taft sees that the
work of arousins the public conscience
has been accomplished and that the duty
-.
feet the machinery for carrying out the
national policy of regulation promptly.
smoothly and with the least destructive
effect on business. Mr.. Roosevelt's func-
ton was to awaken the public mind to
the necessity of checking serious abuses
and to set in motion the machinery for
their correction. Mr.. Taft's will be to
develop that machinery. to see that it is
exactly adapted to its purpose and COM
pletely performs its work.
Taft Is All Right.
From THO New York Sun.
Mr.. Taft's speech. deplorable as 1t is.
will not lose him a republican vote.
What a relief is must be to him today
to have the fearful thing off his mind.
and off his conscience; and how ardently
he must look forward to the time when
he can say things and do things not be-
cause they are to make votes for him.
but because they are the right things to
say and the right things to do! The
nauseating incubus beneath which he
staggers in nearly every sentence would
SURROGATE any ordinary man. The odious
compulsion to seem and not to be: the
leaden sense of a crushing debt upon
which an Unsuitable creditor computes
from hour to hour his compound interest;
the deadly obligation to gratitude that
makes that sweetest and simplest of vir-
tues to seem a very vice; the never re-
lenting admonition to self-effacement-did
ever a man. free. independent and sane.
find his neck in such a yoke?
Contrast.
From the New York World.
1t would be folly to deny that Mr.. Taft's
speech of acceptance Is a strong and SIN
gularly able political brief independent
voters may agree or disagree with Mr.
Taft on the issues of the campaign, but
there are few who will fail to admire the
calm. dispassionate. judicial tone in which
he discusses every question Of Importance
presented in either the republican or the
democratic platform. Although Mr. Taft
still proudly poses as a Man of Ny Type
there are few more vivid contrasts in
American politics than that which his
speech presents in comparison with the
passionate, turbulent denunciation of MIR.
Roosevelt's speeches and messages.
Political Calvinism.
From the New York Times
Mr.. Taft carries a big stick, but he
speaks softly. 1t was. indeed, the quite
unfamiliar suavity Of language in
which the Roosevelt policies are presented
and adopted by him that deluded early
and hasty readers Of his speech Of accept
ance into the belief that 1t is rea ssuring
nh I've No do
We do not see how anybody can find re-
assurance and conservatism in AN address
In which Mr.. Taft declares that the re-
publican party must find its chief hope of
success in continuing the policies of Mr.
Roosevelt. Mr.. Taft cannot get away
from the idea. drummed into the heads Of
people during seven years by the
President, that we are nation of trans
gressors. The bulk of his speech consists
of advocacy of new laws Of penalty and
restriction.
Mr.. Taft's Sanity.
From the New York Evening Post
Mr.. Taft. in his long speech Of accept
ance. is. of course. enthusiastic over the
policies and methods of Mr. Roosevelt and
the republican party. Candidates seem
bound to say the conventional things: and
therefore we attach little weight to Mr..
Taft's sweeping denunciation of the oppo-
sition and his distinction between the re-
publican platform as progressive and
regulative' and the democratic as "radi-
cal and destructive Mr. Bryan will pay
his respects to Mr.. Taft in much the same
terms and will mean as little by them.
OF the document as a whole we may say
that it exhibits franknesS and common
sense and confirms former Impressions of
Mr.. Taft's sanity and courage.
judicial in Tone.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Judge Taft's speech Of acceptance of
his nomination by the republican party
for President of the United States is jul
dicial in tone. 1t is careful, comprehen-
sive and conservative exposition of the is
sues involved in the coming election and
a clear statement of the candidates posi-
ton thereon. He recognizes that many of
these issues have been raised in President
Roosevelt's administration. He gives the
President full credit for having "formu-
lated the expression Of the popular con-
science and led the movement for popu-
lar reform" He plants himself squarely
on the Roosevelt policies and announces
that the chief function of the next admin
istration should be, in his judgment. "a
progressive development Of what has been
performed by President Roosevelt"