Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-08-08

Justice and liberty the millions OF your
countrymon who believe as you do Will
stand with YOU, and the great party
which was born in the struggle for con-
freedom will support you"
PRESIDENT TAE.rs ACCEPTANCE. |
Although President TAFT In his speech
of acceptance defined in detail the Is.
sues Of the campaign as he saw them.
he reserved the right to amplify his
statement In a letter rs the campaign
develops.
The supreme Issue that confronts the
voters, the President declared, was that
of the maintenance of the nations insti-
tutions and the preservation OF the con-
stituticn. threatened he said. on the one
hand by the Democratic party and on
the other by those republicans who had
left the party to try their fortunes IN n
new one.
Next in importance Mr.. Taft places the
tariff. In the proposals of the democrats
for reductions in the present schedules.
he said, lay danger of business depres-
sion and hard times. The republican prin-
ciplc of revision only where SCIENTIFIC
investigation shows it necessary. marked
the straight road to continued prosperity
and commercial peace.
In discussing the tariff. the President
said that it was untrue that to its door
could he traced the high cost of living
| and pointed out that conditions of liv-
| ing were alike over tho world. A politi-
cal promise could not remedy such a
| condition he said.
REGULATION OF TRUSTS.
As an issue only less important than the
tariff the President placed the regulation
Of trusts. He said the Sherman law had
been enforced with success but added that
specific acts OF unfair trade should be de-
| rounced as misdemeanors that such acts
might be avoided or when committed pun
ished by ummary procedure. Interstate
business enterprises. he said. should be
offered a federal incorporation law.
Aside from those issues the President
pointed to the record Of the Republican
| party and particularly during his own ad-
ministration as an earnest of what II
might be expected to do in the future II
the people returned 1t to power In Novem-
Der. He attacked the democrats at other
points than the tariff. making special ref
| erence to the refusal of that party In the
House of Representatives to continue the
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Mr.. Taft did not mention either Colonel
| Roosevelt or Governor Woodrow Wilson
by name but referred to each. While he
did not accuse either of embracing the
doctrines of socialism. many OF the pro-
rosals they had made. the President said.
savored of 1t strongly. He closed with a
review of his administrative achievements
and appealed directly to the conservative
,,a&.r. 80 thn 1ap,Ap,nttc ,nrtt- ~ tpln
with the republicans at the polls.
APPEALS TO CONSERVATIVES.
81 know that in this wide country
there are many who call themselves
democrats. who view, with the same
aversion hat We republicans do, the
radical proposition of changes In our form
of government that are recklessly adj
vanced to satisfy what is supposed to
be popular clamor.' said the President.
"They are men who revere the con-
stitution and the institutions OF their
government with all the love and respect
that we could possibly have. men who
|deprecate disturbance in business condi-
tions, and are yearning for that quiet
from demagogic agitation which is
essential to the enjoyment by the whole
people of the great prosperity which the
good crops and the present conditions
ought TO bring us.
ITO them / appeal. as to all republic
cans, to Join US in an earnest effort to
avert the political and economic revolu-
ton and business paralysis which re-
publican defeat will bring about. Such
misfortune will fall most heavily on the
wage Garner. May we not hope that ne
will see what his real interest is. will
understand the shallownesss of attacks
upon existing institutions and deceitful
promises of underlined benefit by UNI
defined changes?"
The President had heard officially of his
nomination at Chicago from the lips of
Senator Elihu Root Of New York. chair
man OF the notihcatin committee.
a. EXPRESSION OF CONFIDENCE.
II accept it, he began, 'as an approx
al of what I have done under its man.
: date and as an expression Of confidence
5 that in a second administration I will
3 serve the public well. The issues present.
: ed to the convention. over which your
chairman presided with such a just an
9 even hand, made n crisis In the party's
) life. A faction sought to force the part!
to violate a valuable and ~time-honored
= national traNltlon Dy entTuStinS tHe pow
. err of the presidency for more than two
terms TO one man. and that man, Ont
n whose recently avowed political views
+ would have committed the party TO rad
4 ical proposals involving dangerous
u changes in our present constitutions
u form of representative government ant
our independent judiciary. This occasion
j Is appropriate for the expression OF pro
found gratitude at the victory for tn
< right won at Chicago. BY that victory
L the Republican party was saved for fu
u ture usefulness"
After reviewing the legislature enact
u ments OF the Republican party. the Presi
dent launched into a bitter attack upol
those responsible for the popular un
rest OF the present day.
"Startcc by sensational journalism an
unjust and unprincipled undertaking." h
said, 'demaeogues have seized an oppor
tunity to inflame the public mind tina
they might turn peculiar conditions t
their W advantage" In the fOrmatiol
. of new parties the President said. thes
- men nave promised the satisfaction OF un
d" rest by the application OF a panacea.
In the ultimate analysis. / fear, tn
equal opportunity which those seek VIII
" proclaim the so-called social Justice. In
~ wolves "A forced division of property, an
=" that means socialism. ! venture to sa
there is no national administration
which more real steps OF rogress hav
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