The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-27
Roosevelt Address at Saratoga
Endorsement OF President.
Enumerates the Reforms Sc
cured by His Successor.
TARIFF COMMISSION.
Says That It's a Step in Right
Direction.
No Honest Business Man Need
BE Afraid.

/ Saratoga, Sept. 27.-Theodo
Roosevelt was today chosen temper.
/ airy chairman of the Republican state
! convention after a bitter struggle on
| the floor of the convention here. The
/ decisive vote came on a motion to
substitute Col. Roosevelt's name for
that of Vice President Sherman, can
didate of the regular organization
| known as the old guard. The ballot
4 ing early disclosed Roosevelt in the
lead and this steadily increased until
his election was assured by a decisive
majority. The roll call was finished
at 3:46 p. m. and the unofficial count
was 567 votes for Roosevelt to 445 for
Sherman, with three not voting.
Saratoga, Sept. 27.-Ex- President
Theodore Roosevelt delivered the fol-
lowing speech in accepting the tenn
porary Craftsmanship of the Republi-
can state convention of New York:
I'VE come here feeling that we have
the right to appeal to the people from
the standpoint alike of national and
state achievement.
Gives Taft Credit.
I'm the last eighteen months a long
| list of laws embodying legislation most
heartily to be commended as combin-
alton wisdom with progress have been
|
by President Taft. The amendments
to the interstate commerce law; be-
ginning of a national legislative pro-
gram for the exercise of the taxing
power in connection with big Norpora-
| lions doing an interstate business; the
appointment of a commission to frame
measures that do away with the evils
of disqualification and improper
and excessive issues of stocks and
bonds; the law providing for publicity
iof ion 10 nCf1
ment of the maximum and minimum
tariff provisions, and the exceedingly
able negoti-tion of the Canadian and
, other treaties in accordance there
| with; the Inauguration of the policy of
providing for a disinterested revision
of tariff schedules through high
| class commission of experts which will
treat each schedule purely in its own
merits with a view both to protecting
| the consumer from excessive prices
and to securing the American produc-
err and especially the American wage
: worker what will represent the differ
: ence of cost in production here as
compared with the cost of production
| in countries where labor is less liber
ally rewarded; the extension of the
: laws regulating safety appliances for
: the protection of labor; the creation of
| a bureau of mines-these and similar
laws, backed up by executive action,
reflect high credit upon all who sue
. ceeded in putting them in their pres
ent shape upon the statute books they
: represent an earnest effort for
? achievement which is yet to come and
the beneficence and far reaching i'm
, portance of this work done for the
whole people measure the credit which
is rightly due to the congress and to
our able, upright and distinguished
: president William H. Taft.
g Have Turned RascaIs Out.
= Turning from the national to the
state we find that during the term of
- office of Governor Hughes an extraor-
binary amount of wise and good leg
islation in the interest of all the peo-
pie has put upon the statute books and
the standard of business integrity and
efficiency in the several state depart
ments has steadily raised. OF course
| with a party as long in control of ma
ton and state as ours has been there
have been individual instances of mis-
conduct and corruption. But there is
no need of any other party raising the
| cry of turn the rascals out, for we
| have turned our own rascals out; and
wherever rascality is found to exist in
| the future, will be even more
prompt to punish any one of our own
| party adherentS than an adherent OF
| another party, because we feel a pc
culiar responsibility in dealing with the
man who not only degrades himself
| and the public service but discredits
| our own party by belonging to it.
Believe in Republicans.
| belong because I believe in the princi-
| pies for which the Republican party
stood in the days of Lincoln; and
Furthermore and especially because
| believe in treating these principles not
as dead but as living. Empty glorifi-
cation of our past amounts to less than
nothing if we put it forward as an ex-
cuse for not doing our duty in the liv-
ing present. We can deserve the con-
fdence of the people by proving in
deed as well as in words that we face
| the problem of dealing with political
and business corruption and of work
ing for social and economic justice and
| for the betterment of the conditions of
life and the uplifting of our people with
the same fervor and sincerity that Lin
coin and his followers brought to the
| great tasks allotted to them in their
da--.
Corruption in every form is the
arch enemy of this republic, the arch
enemy of free institutions and of gov
| eminent by the people, an even more
dangerous enemy than the open law
lessness of violence, because it works
in hidden and furtive fashion. We are
against corruption in politics, we are
against corruption in business and
above all, and with all our strength
we are against the degrading alliance
of crooked business and crooked poll
tics the alliance which adds strength
to the already powerful corrupt boss
and to the already powerful corrupt
head of big business and which makes
them in their dual capacity enemie:
against whom every patriotic mar
should stand with unwavering firm
ness.
No Assault on Honest Business.
LET no man say that this is an as
sault upon the honest business man.
I'm short our attitude is merely tina
we stand for honesty as we'll as fol
progressiveness and for efficiency
that we believe both business men and
| politicians should be just and uprigh
and honest as well as wise, courageous
and farsighted.
I'VE are against crookedness in th'
| small men, but We are against it jus