Arizona republican., 1908-07-29
William H. Taff'S AmpIifiCatiOn of the RepubIi- Can National Conventions Declaration
 of Principles
An RequvOCa Statement at Length of the Policies Which Will Govern inc Next Administration if ii Should be Republican, Comparison of the Platforms
 of the Two Great pdrfieS

Cincinnati, July 2S.-The following is the speech of acceptance of William H Taft, of the republican nomination for the presidency:
 Senator Whrner and Gentlemen of the Committee: I am deeply sensible of the honor which the republican na- tional convention has conferred upon me- in the nomination which you formally tender. l accept it with full appreciation of the responsibility it imposes.
 Gentlemen. the strength of the re- publican cause in the campaign at hand is the fact that we represent pol icies essential to the reform of known abuses, to the continuance of liberty and true prosperity and that We are determined as our platform unequivo- cally declares, to maintain them and carry them on. For more than 10 years this country has passed through an epoch of material development far beyond any that ever occurred in the world before In it's 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 common rules of business honesty and fidelity and of the limitations imposed by law upon their action. This became known.
 The revelations of the breaches of trust, the disclosures as to rebates and discriminations of railways. and ac- cumulating evidence of the violation of the anti trust 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 concentrating con trol of railways in one management, all quickened the conscience of the people, and brought a moral awaken ing among them that boded well for the future of the country.
 WHAT ROOSEVELT HAS DONE
 The man who formulated the eX- precision of the popular conscience and who led the movement for practical reform was Theodore Roosevelt He laid down the doctrine that the rich violator of the law should be as amen able to restraint and punishment as lllh blifll''l NiAlibAl NfellNil anu W llil- out influence and he proceeded by recommending legislation and direct ing executive action, to make that principle good in actual performance He secured the passage of the so- called rate bill designed more effec- lively tO restrain excessive and fix reasonable rates and punish secret re- bates and discriminations which had been general in the practice of the railroads. and which had done much to enable unlawful trusts to drive out of business their competitors. It secured much closer supervision of the 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 forbade in future the combination of the transportation and shipping busi- ness under one control in order to avoid undue discrimination.
 President Roosevelt directed suits to be brought and prosecutions to be in stituted under the antitrust law to enforce it's provisions against the most powerful of the industrial corporations He pressed to passage the pure food law and the meat inspection law in the interest of the health of the public; clean business methods and great ulti mate benefit to the trades themselves. He recommended the passage of law which the republican convention has since specifically approved, restricting the future issue Of stocks and bonds by interstate railroads to such as may be issued by federal authority. He demonstrated to the people, by what he said, by what he recommended to con gress, and by what he did, the sheer ity of his efforts to command respect for the law; to secure equity of all before the law and save the country from the dangers of a plutocratic gov ernment, toward which We were fast tending. In this work Mir. Roosevelt has had the support and sympathy of the republican party and its chief hope of success in the present controversy must rest upon the confidence which the people of the country have in the sincerity of the party's declaration in it's platform, that it intends to con tinue the policies.