The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-07-30
CAMPAIGN OPENED
Mr.. Taft's Speech of Acceptance
at Cincinnati Tuesday.
A STRONG DOCUMENT

Notification Speech by senator War
ner-Mr. Taft Will Garry Out
RooseyeIt's PoIieies-Fayors Re-
vision of the Tariff-The Welfare
of the Farmer is Vital to the
Whole Country Difference BE-
tween the Two Platforms-Demo-
cratic Leaders Embrace Amy Doc
trine to Win.
The Republican campaign was for
merly opened at Cincinnati. Ohio.
Tuesday, with the notification cere-
monies officially notifying Secretary
W. H. Taft of his nomination for
President, by the Republican Con-
vention at Chicago, on June 18th.
The ceremonies were held on the
lawn of Secretary Taft's brother. A
large and enthusiastic crowd was
present to hear the next President
In his speech Mr.. Taft outlined his
policies and touched on the vital
questions involved in the campaign.
Senator William Warner made the
speech formally notifying Secretary
Taft of his nomination.
Responding to the Senator, Mr.
Taft said:
Mr.. Taft's Speech.
Mr.. Taft said in part:
Senator Warner and Gentlemen of
the Committee:
l am deeply sensible of the honor
which the Republican National Con-
vention has conferred on me in the
nomination which you formally ten
der. l accept it with full apprecia-
ton Of the responsibility it imposes
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 plat
form unequiVocally declares, to
maintain them and carry them on
For more than ten years this country
passed through an epoch of material
development far beyond any that
ever occurred in the world before.
In its course, certain evils crept in.
Some prominent and influential
members of the community, spurred
by financial success and in their hur-
ry for greater wealth, became un-
mindful of the common rules of busi-
ness 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 determinations by railways, the
accommodating evidence of the viola
ton of the antitrust law by a num-
Der of corporations, the over-issue of
stocks and bonds on Interstate rail-
ways for the unlawful enriching of
directors and for the purpose of con-
centrating control of railways in one
management, all quickened the con-
science of the people, and brought on
a moral awakening among them that
BODIED we'll for the future of the
country.
Praises Up Roosevelt.
The man who formulated the ex-
preston of the popular conscience
and who led the movement for prac-
tical reform was Theodore Roosevelt.
He laid down the doctrine that the
rich violator of the law should be as
amenable to restraint and punish
ment as the offender without wealth
and without influence, and he pro-
ceeded by recommending legislation
and directing executive action to
make that principle good in actual
performance. He secured the passage
of the so-called rate bill, designed
more effectively to restrain excessive
and fix reasonable rates, and to pun
ish secret rebates and discrimina-
tions 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. 1t secured much closer
supervision of railway transactions
and brought within the operation of
the same statute express companies,
sleeping car companies, fast freight
and refrigerator lines, terminal rail-
roads and pipe lines, and forbade in
future the combination of the trans
der one control in order to avoid un-
due discrimination.
President Roosevelt directed suits
to be brought and prosecutions to be
Instituted under the antitrust law, to
enforce its provisions against the
most powerful of the industrial cor
porations. He pressed to passage the
pure food law and the meat inspec-
ton law in the interest of the health
of the public, clean business methods
and great ultimate benefit to the
| trades themselves. He recommend
ed the passage of a law, which the
Republican Convention has since spe-
cifically approved, restricting the fu-
| ture issue of stocks and bonds by in
ter-State railways to such as may be
authorized by Federal authority. He
demonstrated to the people by what
he said, by what he recommended to
Congress, and by what he did, the
sincerity of his efforts to command
respect for the law, to secure equali-
| ty of all before the law, and to save
the country from the dangers of q
plutocratic government, toward
which we were fast tending. In this
| work Mr.. Roosevelt has had the sup