The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-07-28

public service; of their knowledge OF
the preparation which you will bring
to the discharge of the high and diff.
cult duties of president of their be-
lief in your deep conviction Of the
equality of all men before the law, and
in the practical application of that
principle by any administration Of
which you may be the head-the rule
by which every official act of Mr..
Roosevelt as president, has been
squared, which has won for him the
confidence and respect of his country
men throughout the land and which
has brought to him at all times their
unquestioned and earnest support.
1T is gratifying to your countrymen
to reflect that of that administration
you have been a conspicuous part, as
you were of the administration of Mr..
Mckinley, whose accomplishments
mark a national progress unsurpassed
in all of our previous national life.
1T, therefore, gives me genuine
pleasure, Mr.. Taft, to present to you
this formal nomination from the re-
publican party. whose governmental
policies have for so long kept in bal
ance the mighty forces of the nation
opd 70 u-ooCo cortin,,nd o,,idopco of
the nation we have every reasonable
right to believe that the people are
now looking"
The Candidates Speech.
In reply William H. Taft spoke as
follows:
Senator Warner and gentlemen ol
the committee: I am deeply sensible
of the honor which the republican
national convention conferred upon me
in the nomination which you formally
tender.
Il accept it with the full apprecia-
tion of the responsibility it imposes
Gentlemen, the strength Of the repub-
lican cause in the campaign at hand
| is in the fact that We represent poll
cies essential to the reform of known
abuses, to the continuance Of liberty
and to prosperity and that we are de-
termined to maintain them and carry
them on. For more than ten years this
country has passed through an epoch
of material development far beyond
any that has ever occurred in the
world before. In it's course certain
evils have crept in. Some prominent
and influential members of the COM
munity, spurred by financial success
and in a hurry for greater wealth, be-
come unmindful of the common rule OF
business honesty and fidelity and the
| limitations imposed by law upon their
actions This became known. Revela-
| tions Of breaches of trust, disclosures
an to rebates and DETERMINATIONS by
railways, accumuIatings evidence et ths
violation Of the antitrust law by 3
number Of corporations. the orsr-issue
of stocks and bonds on interstate rail-
ways for unlawful enriching Of direc-
| tors and for the purpose of concen-
trating the control of railroads in one
| management, all quickened the con-
science of the people and brought or
| moral awakening among them thai
BODIED well for the future Of the
country.
Three Cheers for Roosevelt.
.The man who formulated the ex-
preston of the popular conscience an6
who led the movement for practica
reform was President Roosevelt. He
laid down the doctrine tEat the rfcf
violator of the law should be as amen
able to restraint and punishment as
the offender without wealth and with
out influence and he proceeded by re-
commencing legislation and directing
executive action to make tnat primer
ple good in actual performance.
| .eWe should be blind to the ordinary
working Of human nature II we dio
not recognize that the moral standard
| set nv President Roosevelt will mo-
continue to be observed by those wnoH
cupidity and desire for financial power
NAV tempt. unless requisite machin'