Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-28
HE UPHOLDS ROOSEVELT
Praises President In Speech
 of Acceptance.
WILL BE FAIR TO LABOR.
AntI.injunctiOn and Trusts Are
 Also DWeIt Upon.

Senator Warner and Gentlemen of the Committed am deeply sensible of the honor which the Republican Ma tional Convention has conferred on me in the nomination which you formally tender. l accept it with full apprecia- tion 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 unequivocally declares. to maintain 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 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 unmindful of the com mon rules of business honesty and fidelity and of the limitations imposed by law upon their action. This be- came known. The revelations of the breaches of trust. the disclosures as to rebates and determinations by rail- ways, the accommodating evidence of the violation of the antitrust law by a number of corporations. the over- issue of stocks and bonds on interstate railways 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 a moral awakening among them that boded we'll for the future of the coun- try.
 What Roosevelt Has Done.
 The man who formulated the expres- sion of the popular conscience and who led the movement for practical reform was Theodore Roosevelt He laid down the doctrine that the rich vio- lator of the law should be as ame- nable to restraint and punishment as the offender without wealth and with out influence, and he proceeded by rec ommending legislation and directing executive action to make that principle good in actual performance. He se- cured the passage of the so-called rate bill, designed more effectively to re- strain excessive and fix reasonable rates, and to punish secret rebates and discriminations which had been gen. eral in the practice of the railroads. and which had done much to enable unlawful trusts to drive out of bust ness their competitors. It secured much closer supervision of railway transactions and brought within the operation of the same statute express companies, sleeping car companies, fast freight and refrigerator lines. ter minal railroads and pipe lines. and for bgde in future the combination of the Transportation and shipping business under one control in order to avoid un- due discrimination.
 President Roosevelt directed suits to be brought and prosecutions to be inst tuted under the antitrust law. to en force its provisions against the most powerful of the industrial corporations He pressed to passage the pure food flaw and the meat inspection law in ths interest of the health of the public clean business methods and great uiu mate benefit tO the trades themselves He recommended the passage of a law which the Republican convention hai since specifically approved, restricting the future issue of stocks and bonds bl interstate railways 10 such as may b' authorized by Federal authority. H' demonstrated to the people by what hI said. by what be recommended to Con rresS. and by what he did. the sinceri ty of his efforts to command respect fo the law, to secure equality of all Delof' the law, and to save the country iron the dangers of a pIutocratic govern meut. toward which ve were fast tend snr. In this work 1Ir. Roosevelt ba had the support and sympathy of th' Republican party, and its chief hope Q ruccess fn the present eO1troversy mus rpSf on the confidence which the peSOa 0r rne country nave in the sincerity o the paFty's deciaratioa in its platform that 1t intends to continue his policies Necessary to Devise sons hsans e PsrrnaneusEy Securing Progress MsSs
 Nr. Roosevelt has set hish the stand srd of business ncralitT and obedienc to law. The raflrpad rate hfA v1 nore useful possibly ia ths i1aDedi1tl nura1 saect of fts passage thzn evsi h xh< legal sEsetsqf tn Esrz H<sfE