Evening journal., 1908-07-28
Favors Physical Valuation
of Railroads, Curbing of
Unlawful Trusts, and
Defines at Length
His Views on fhe
Labor Question
FORMALLY NOTIFIED
OF NOMINATION

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 2s.-Wi-
liam Howard Taft of Ohio. received
official notification today that he is
the Republican party's choice for Pres
ident of the United States The news
was briken to him on the lawn Of the
residence of his brother Charles f..
Taft, and the occasion was celebrated
with a jolliication that will long live
in Buckeye state history.
Miles Of decorated streets, thousands
of dollars worth of daylight fireworks,
bands without number and happy para
ders that required two hours TO pass
a given point, were few of the out
ward evidences of Cincinnatis JOY.
Even the Democrats joined in the goo1
time for it was agrS ed beforehand that
the celebration shot \ be strictly nom
partisan and hundre.3 of followers Of
Jefferson shouted and clapped their
hands to give the affair the proper
amount of vim. True, some of the
Democrats, notably governors Of states
and figures Of national prominence who
had been invited to attend, found at
the last moment that they had busi-
ness elsewhere. But that did not dam
pen the Republican enthusiasm.
Dennr Gratis Headed Parade.
The grand marshal of the parade
which Mr.. Taft reviewed. after he was
SO agreeably surprised, was an old time
Democrat, so were many of the cont
rlittee who raised the money for the
show. Crowds on the hilltops sur
rounding the city opened the festivi-
ties at z o'clock, by fag raising, sing
ing and prayers. A little more than
an hour afterwards, the notification
committee, headed by Senator William
Warner, of Missouri. the chairman,
was escorted from the Hotel Sir, on
to the Taft home.
BY the time the committee had reach
ed the house Of the big platform, upon
which the ceremony was to be held
was filled to overflowing with luchy
ticket holders. and the lawn surround
ing it was packed by the next Lucky
ones who were entitled to standing
room. For two or three blocks each
way from the house and up and down
= the nearby cross streets the thorough
fares were packed with people anxious
TO get a glimpse Of bill Taft's smile
or a note of the candidates voice. Al
noon Senator Warner began his speech
of notification and Judge Taft from q
nearby seat smiled cordially and looked
as much as tonished as he could.
Not more than couple of hundred
persons in the great crowd heard 9
single word of Senator Warmers speech
but no one showed any impatience and
all waited until the address was finished
and they were able to turn loose the;l
voices to greet their distinguished
negbbor
Address Of Taft.
Judge Taft waited until the Tsneer.
had been partially subsided before h,
began speaking.
Gentlemen, the strength of the Re.
publican cause in the campaign al
hand is in the fact that we repres4 nj
the policies essential to the reform o.
known abuses. to the continuance o.
liberty and true prosperity. and thai
we are determined, as our platform
unequivocslly declares. to maintair
them and carry them on. For more
than ten years this country passed
through an epoch of material develop
ment far beyond any that ever oc
Cured in the world before. In IT.
course. certain evils crept in. Soml
prominent and influential members o
the community, spurred by financia
success and in their hurry for create
wealth. became unmindful of the com
mon rules of business honesty an'
fidelity and of the limitations imposed
by law upon their action. This becami
known.
The revelations of the breaches o
trust. the disclosures as TO rebates ant
r Determinations by railways, the accu
mulating evidence of the violation o
the antitrust law by number Of cor
po-ations, the overissue of stocks ant
bonds on interstate railways for tn
unlawful enriching of directors and 70
the purpose Of concentrating contro
of railways in one management, al
quickened the conscience of the peo
pie, and brought on a moral awaken
ing among them that boded well 70
the future of the country.
What Roosevelt Has Done
The man who formulated the expires
sion of the popular conscience and VIII
led the movement for practical reform
was Theodore Roosevelt. He laid dow
the doctrine that the rich violator o
the law should be as amenable to re
straint and punishment as the offende
without wealth and without influence
and he proceeded by recommendin
legislation and directing executive ac
tion to make that principle good in ac
tual performance. He secured tn
passage of the so-called rate bill, de
signed more effectively to restrain ex