The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-29
WILL CLINCH MY POLICIES
 SAYS TAFT In That Lies the Strength of Republican Party in This Campaign He Tells
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 Cincinnati, July 2S.-Wllliam H. Taft this afternoon. In his speech accepting the republican nomination for presi- dent of the United States, attempted to cover the entire field of issues involved in the campaign. The chief features of his speech were the declaration that the strength of the republican party lies in the maintenance and "cllnching of tho Roosevelt policies; his declarations for restraint and punishment of unlawful trusts, for the rights of labor. non-un- ion, as we'll as union. and his explana- ton of what he regards as the proper scope of the injunction. Following is tho text of the speech with Mir. Taft's own subdivisions and captions.
 Text of the Speech.
 Senator Warner and Gentlemen of the
 Committee:
 l nm deeply sensible of tho honor which the republican national con- NoheAOh huC OpHlflIfU u0 Hle III the nomination which you formally tender. l accept 1t with full appreciation of the responsibility 1t imposes.
 Republican Strength in Maintenance
 of Roosevelt Policies.
 Gentlemen, the strength of the re- publican cause in the campaign at hand is in the fact that we represent the policies essential to the reform of known abuses, to the continuance of liberty and true prosperity, and that we are determined. as our platform unequivocally- declares, to maintain them and carry them on. For more than ten years this country passed through an epoch of material devel- opment far beyond any that ever oc- cured fin 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 com mon rules of business honesty and fidelity, and of the limitations lmpos- ed by law upon their action. This became known. The revelations of the breaches of trust the disclosures as to rebates and discrlminations by railways, the accommodating evidence of the violation of the antitrust law by number of corporations. the over issue of stocks and bonds on inter- state railways for the unlawful en- ftTHfnn n of nd fnr tI, pose of concentrating control of rall- ways in one management, all quicken ed the conscience of the people, and brought on moral awakening among them that boded well for the future of the country
 What Roosevelt Has Done.
 The man who formulated the ex- pression of the popular conscience and who led the movement for prac- tical reform was Theodore Roosevelt. He laid down the doctrine that the vich violator of the law should be as emenable to restraint and punishment as the offender without wealth and without influence, and he proceeded by recommending legislation and di- recting executive action to make that principle good in actual performance He secured the passage of the so- called rate bill, designed more effect lively to restrain excessive and fix req sonable rates and to punish secret re- bates and dscriminations which had been general in the practice of the railroads, and which had done much to enable unlawful trusts to drive their competitors out of business. If se- cured much closer supervision of rail way transactions and brought within the operation of the same statute ex- press companies, sleeping car compa- nies, fast freight and refrigerator lines, terminal railroads and pipe lines and forbade in future the combination of the transportation and shipping business under one control in order to avoid undue discrimination.
 President Roosevelt directed suits tc te brought and prosecutions to be in- stituted under the antitrust law, to enforce its provisions against the most powerful of the industrial corpora tions. 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 ultimate benefit to the trades themselves. He recommended the passage of law, which the repubi- can convention has since specifically approved restricting the future issue 1- 1,,vi i,,in fo tn ways to such as may be authorized by federal authority. He demonstrated to the people, by what he said, by what he recommended to congress ano by what he did, the sincerity of his efforts to command respect for the law. to secure equality of all before the law, and to save the country from the dangers of a putocratic govern ment toward which we were fast tending. Tn this work Mir. Roosevelt has had the support and sympathy ot the republican party, and its Chiel hope of success in the present contro' yersv must rest on the confidence which the people of the country have in the sincerity of the party's declara- ton in it's platform, that it intends tt continue his policies
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 ress Made.
 MT. Roosevelt has set high the standard of business morality and ohe dience to law The railroad rate bil was more useful possibly in the imme