The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-29
Pitchy night.
 -AlPs Well That Ends Well.
Candidate Taft'S Speech

Candidate Taft starts his acceptance sIeech with comprehensive indorse- ment of the Roosevelt policies. In those policies the President has had, says MT. Taft, the support and sym pathy of the republican party. but he neglects to state that as to the most of them he did not have the support of republican Congress, especially of a republican Senate. Because of con gressional inaction the country has not therefore been saved, to use MT. Taft's words, from the dangers of a pluto cratic government toward which we were fast tending"
 Judge Taft favors the formation of railroad pools under the sanction of the interstate commission. This is at present forbidden by the Sherman anti trust law, and Judge Taft thinks the law should be relaxed in that respect He wants plenty of federal regulation of trusts, out he denounces the pro- posal to put on the free list all articles made by monopolistic trusts.
 He exonerates the republican party from all responsibility for the October panic. As the democratic power was not in power at that time no one seems to have been responsible for that oc- currence from MT. Taft's point of view It just arose spontaneously, and MT. Taft would have us believe that no p..rty and no public policy had any thing to do with it. This handy way of shuffing off responsibility will scarcely be accepted as truth by the victims of the October panic.
 He praises the Dingley tariff It brought, he says, period of enormous prosperity. He fails to mention What it has brought us since last October. He favors revision, however, gradually. Some rates, he says, should be raised, some reduced, and all this business should be done quietly.
 The issuance of injunctions in labor cases fills the central pages of Mr 1aft's long acceptance speech, and he wanders in and out to declare at last that the power to issue injunctions in some cases without notice must be re- tained. He opposes jury trials in cases of contempt that grow out of injunc- tions, and he argues the question at great length.
 He favors postal savings banks, a new currency system, and Philippine independence after two generauons have passed The nominee of the ~e. publican party winds up his speech with sops to the veterans of the union side, to the negroes, to the jingoes who want big navy, to the Pacific coast  which does not want any more yellow fellow-citizens, and, of course, to the Roosevelt administration.
 He is opposed to a constitutional amendment providing an income tax and he sits very evenly on the fence when he discusses the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. But his greatest fence riding act was done when he talked about publicity of campaign contribu tions. On the face of his remarks he appears to favor publicity, and he says there will be no publicity of Sheldon fan receipts until after election Tn: voters must therefore go to the poll; in utter ignorance of the source of the money paid in to carry the election MT. Taft almost sheds tears when he says that New York treasurer wal selected by his campaign committee and that that treasurer is absolutel! compelled to do his publicity according to New York law. He, however, sup presses his anguish to a great extent for he proceeds to condemn an income tax amendment and to take the man ner of electing United States SenAtori out of politics. His srief over the ss