The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-02
Result of a Republican Defeat

"To them ] appeal as to all republicans,
to aQn us in an earnest effort to avert
the political and economic revolution and
business paralysis which republican de-
feat will bring about Such misfortune
will fall most heavily on the wage
earners. May we not hope that he Will
Garner May we not hope that he will
stand the shallowness OF attacks upon
existing institutions and decetful prom
ises of underlined benefit by underlined
changes?'
The President had heard officially of his
nomination at Chicago from the lips of
Senator Eiiiu Root OF New York, chair
man of the notification committee.
Il accept IT," he began, as an APP
proval OF what / have done under its
mandate and as an expression of conf
dence that In a second administration
viii serve the public we'll. The issues
presented to the convention over which
your chairman presided with such just
and even hand made a crisis In the
party's life. A faction sought to force
the party to violate a valuable and time
Eonored national tradition by entrusting
the power Of the presidency for more than
two terms To one man, and that man. one
whose recently avowed political views
would have committed the party to radi-
cal proposals involving dangerous
changes in our present constitutional form
of representative government and our
Independent judiciary. This occasion Is
appropriate for the expression of pro-
found gratitude at the victory for the
right won at Chicago BY that victory the
republican party was saved for future
IuSefulness
After reviewing the legislative enact
ments of the republican party the Presi-
dent launched into bitter attack upon
those responsible for the popular UNI
resi-" Of the present day.
Started by sensational journalism and
unjust ana unprincipled undertaking" he
said, "demaRogues have seized the oppor-
tunity TO infiame the public mind that
they might turn peculiar conditions to
their own advantage In the formation
Of new parties the President said these
men have promised the satisfaction of
unrest by the application OF q panacsa.
I'm the ultimate analysis, | fear. the
equal opportunity which those geek who
proclaim the so-called social justice, in
volves forced division OF property. and
that means socialism. 7 venture 10 say
there is no national administration In
when more real steps of progress have
been taken than in the present one But
as for the millennium. condition In which
the rich are to be made reasona bly, poor
and the poor reasonably rich by law. we
are chasing a, phantom; we are holding
out 10 those whose unreset we fear.
prospect and dream, a vision of the i'm
possible.
Talks of Socialism
II do not say that the two gentlemen
who now lead. one the democratic party
and the other the foNmer republicans who
have left thei- party, In their attacks
upon existing conditions, and in their at
tempts to satisfy the popular unrest by
promises of remedies. are consciously EN-
bra cing socialism. The truth Is that they
do not offer any definite legislation or
policy by which the happy conditions they
promise are to brought about. but II their
promises mean anything. they lead d.
rectly toward the appropriation of what
belongs to on man, to another.
The truth Is. my friends, both those