Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-07-30

IONAo g. ;
notification committee appointed by
the Chicago convention formally ap-
praised William II. Taft of his selec-
ton as the standard bearer Of the Re-
publican party this year
All day crowds have swarmed about
the home of Chas. 2. Taft, on whose
lawn the notification ceremonies COM
menced at ? o'clock this
The city is gaily decorated, special
trains bringing crowds from all parts
of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and ken
lucky have been arriving all day, ana
the multitude have been RECALLED with
music from many brass bands in street
and park concerts while waiting for
the formal ceremony of notification.
When the hour arrived, so great was
the throng and SO intense the interest
that the significant scene around the
Taft lawn and the approaches remind
ed one of Inauguration day.
Mr., Taft and the ceurterie of es-
pecial friends who attended him in
receiving the notification committee,
were most gracious in courtes1es and
u~nassuring in
When Mr.. Warner, the spokesman
OF the committee had formally made
known to MI. Taft that he was the
nominee for President,
that gentleman replied in a speech
which for d~irectness of meaning and
comprehens1yeness of party policies is
most mastery and unequivocal.
The ARGUS regrets that it cannot
publish the speech in full, but we have
pruned it TO read as follows:
Senator Warner and Gentlemen of the
COMMITTEES:
am deeply sensible of the honor
which the Republican National Con
vention has conferred on me in the
nomination which you formally ten
der. accept it with full appreciation
of the responsibility it imposes.
REPUBLICAN IN MAINTE-
NANCE OF ROOSEVELT Policies.
Gentlemen, sthe strength Of the Re-
publican cause in the campaign a
hand is in the fact that we represent
bu0 DOIIClcS w IN
known abuses, to the continuance o
liberty and true prosperity, and thai
we are determined, as our platform I'm.
equivocalIy declares, to maintain then
and carry them on. 4 For more than tel
years this countryf passed through al
epoch of material development far be
yond any that Eeyer occurred in the
world before. . In it's course, certain
evils erept in. Some prominent anC
influential members of the community
spurred by financial success and il
their hurry for greater wealth, became
unmindfuI of the ommon rules of bus.
mess honesty and fidelity and Of the
limitations imposed by law upon theil
action. This became known. The
revelations of the branches of trust,t thu
disclosures as to rebates and d1scrlmi
nations by railways, the accommodating
evidence oftthe violation Of the anti
trust law by a number OF Interpretations
the overissue oIsstocks and bonds OF
interstate railways for the unlawful en-
riching of directors ana for ~thepurpos
of concentrating control of railways il
one management, all quickened TIA
conscience of the people, and brough
on a moral awakening among then
that BODIED well for the future of tn
country.
The man who formulated II express
ion of tie popular conscience and VIII
led the movement for practical reform
was Theodore Roosevelt. He lai
down the doctrine thatthe rich violate
OF 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 &C
ten to make that Eprinciple good i
actual performance. He secured tn
passage OF the so-called rate bill, de
signed more effectively to restrain ex
eessive and fix reasonable rates, an
to punish secret rebates and discrimi
nations which had been general in til
practice of the railroads, and who
had done muchs to enable unlawfu
trusts to drive out of business thei
competitors. It secured much close
supervision of railway transaction
and brought within the operation {
the same statute express companies
sleeping car companies, fast freigt
and refrigerator lines. terminal raj
roads and pipe lines, and forbade i
future the combination OF the trans
portation and shippin business undo
1900 &4 &