The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-28
MIR. rAFrs spEECH.

Suggestions of all sorts have been
floating around the country since the
Republican convention at Chicago that
because the platform adopted there
was not specifically strong in its APP
proval. or endorsement, of many of the
salient policies of President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Taft, the presidential nominee OF
the party, would, if elected, disregard
many of these policies and provide an
administration of the affairs of the
government that has been character
lied rather indefinitely as more con
sentative" than that which Mr.. Roose-
welt has given.
But any ideas that may have been
formed that Mr.. Taft had any inten-
ton of deserving Mr.. Roosevelt's poll
cies will be rudely shattered by read
ing of the speech which he delivered
today on being formally notified at
Cincinnati that he is the Republican
candidate for the presidency. And one
does not have to read far in the 1900
word address to find this out. From
the very beginning of it Mr. Taft
makes it plain in unmistakable Ian
guage that he will use all OF his well
known enerries in promoting the poll
cies which have made the Roosevelt
administration the most famous of any
of recent years. He insists that these
are the policies which are necessary to
save the country from the dangers OF
a plutocratic government and toward
which 1--WE were fast tending" until
Mr.. Roosevelt put on the curb. He
declares that the strength of the Re-
publican party is in the maintenance
of the Roosevelt policies and through
out his entire and lengthy speech he
reiterates this declaration repeatedly
as he points out the efficacy of these
policies to his way of thinking. And
in closing he states that there never
has been an administration of govern
ment more efficiently conducted, more
free from scandal and in which the
standard of official duty has been set
higher than in the present Republican
administration. He makes 1t evident
throughout the entire speech that 1t
will be his duty and that of his party
to continue in every possible way the
Roosevelt policies "of progress and
regulation" In fact he says at the
outset that the chief function of the
next administration is to clinch what
has already been done by Mr.. Roose-
Welt in this line. He also looks on
this work of the next administration
as being constructive in the way of or
ganizing subordinate and ancillary
machinery to maintain the standards
which. have already been set by Mr..
Roosevelt and at the same time not
to do these things in such way as
will interfere in any manner with the
business prosperity of the country
Mr.. Taft's speech is a most able eff
fort in the enunciation Of Mr.. Roose-
velt's policies which he insists are also
the policies of the Republican party.
and also in a denunciation of various
of the features of the Democratic
propaganda as put forward in the Dem
yer platform. 1t is speech well worth
anyone's time to read and is sure to
make Mr.. Taft UNNECESSARILY stronger
with the thinking people of the coun-
try than he ever was before. It's
long speech but Mr.. Taft rightly ex-
plains that its length is necessary Tor
a proper discussion of the many issues
of the campaign and he discusses these
issues in great detail, especially those
relating to railroad regulation, federal
regulation of corporations, the revision
of the tariff and the various labor
questions which will occupy promi-
nent place in the campaign and par
ticularly the one relating to the pro-
cess of injunctions in labor troubles.
On this latter question Mr.. Taft
strongly assails the Democratic plank
demanding jury trials in certain
phases of injunction proceedings by
saying: THE administration of JUS
tice lies at the foundation of govern
ment. The maintenance of the author
ity of the courts is essential unless we
are prepared to embrace anarchy.
Never in the history of the country
has there been such an insidious attack
upon the judicial system as the pro-
posal to interject jury trial between
all orders of the court made after full
hearing and the enforcement of such
orders" Mr.. Taft makes this state
ment after a lengthy and elaborate dis
sertation In the premises which viii
lead the average person to believe that
his position in this regard is as emil
nently just as it is firm.
In his peroration Mr.. Taft enthusiasts
tically declares that prosperity will
certainly come with Republican sue
cess this fall and that business disaster
will come Just as certainly with DEM
ocratic victory.