The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-07-28
CEREMONIES
At HISTORIC
TAFT MANSION
Speech Of Candidate Was Blue
Penciled to One Hours
Delivery
GREAT PARADE REVIEWED BY
JUDGE TAFT FOR TWO HOURS
Marching Throngs Rent the Air With
Cheers for the Party and Its Splen.
did Leader Into Whose Keeping Its
Emblem Has Been Given.

Cincinnati, Ohio, July 2S.-William
Howard Taft today accepted the re-
publican presidential nomination. His
official notification combined a politi-
cal jubilee for the city of Cincinnati
and its environs and an historic gath
ering of the national party leaders.
Notification day broke with the roar
of cannon from the several hills
which looked down at o'clock this
morning through the customary haze
and smoke to discover the city in a
futter Of the liveliest animation, be-
decked and garlanded, flags flying and
banners waving, bands playing and a
budding carnival of riotious enthus-
: iasm in process of going into full
bloom. @
The notification ceremonies ut AiSs
toric old Taft mansion on Pike STREET
were led up to and followed by minor
displays in the program of the day.
These ceremonies were impressive in
their directness and simplicity.
For the sake Of his hearers Judge
Taft took his blue pencil and went
through the speech for the sole pur,
pose of making his delivery a matter
of less than an hour instead of two
hours. He. however. did not elimin-
ate any topics touched upon but SIM
ply took out the long detailed explain
ations, all of which will appear in
full in the printed document.
With his speech over, the scene
shifted for the review of the parade.
A platform with a canopy cover was
thrust through the high iron gates
of the mansion out over the sidewalk.
On this Judge Taft took his stand
and the anxious marchers were given
their way for nearly two hours.
The days festivities are to be
brought to an end by a night program
of fire works from the hills, intended
to surpass any previous display.
The notification speech was made
by Senator Warner of Missouri, chair
man Of the notification committee ap-
pointed by the Chicago convention.
His speech was a masterful recital of
the reasons why the convention select
ed Judge Taft as the party's candi-
date. and a glowing tribute of his
worth as tried public servant. In
his reply Judge Taft said in part:
Senator Warner and gentlemen of
the committee:
I am deeply sensible of the honor
which the republican national conven-
tton has conferred on me in the
nomination which you formally ten
der. / accept It with full appreci-
alton Of the responsibility it imposes.
Strength Of Roosevelt Policies.
Gentlemen, the strength of the re-
publican cause in the campaign at
hand is in the fact that we represent
policies essential to the reform of
known abuses to the continuance of
liberty and true prosperity and that
we are determined, as our platform
unequivacolly 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
10 rebates and discrimination by rail-
ways. the accumulatfng evidence of
the violation of the antitrust law by
q number of corporations, the over
issue Of stocks and bonds on inter-
state railways for the unlawful en-
riching Of directors and for the pur-
pose Of concentrating control of rail-
ways in one management, all quick
ened the conscience of the people, and
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