Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
SPEAKS FOR PARTY
President Taft Accepts Nomina-
ton as His Due.
AUreals to the Voters on the Record
Made During His lncumbency as
the Chief Executive of the
American Nation.

Washington, Aug. President Taft
was today notified of his nomination
By the Republican party to be their
standard bearer in the contest of 1912.
Accepting the nomination he said in
part:
Mr.. Root and Gentlemen of the Noti-
fcation Committee:
1 accept the nomination which you
tender. / do so with profound graft
tude to the Republican party, which
has thus honored me twice. accept
it as an approval of what 1 have done
under it's mandate, and as an ex-
yression of confidence that in a sec
ond administration | will serve the
public well. The issue presented to
the convention, over which your chair
man presided with such a 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
honored national tradition by entrust-
ing 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 radical proposals involv-
ing dangerous changes in our pres
ent constitutional form of representa-
tive government and our independent
Judiciary.
Achievements of the Party.
This occasion is appropriate for the
expression of profound gratitude at
the victory for the right which was
won at Chicago. By that victory, the
Republican party was saved for flu
.ture usefulness. 1t has been the party
through which substantially all the
progress and development in our
country's history in the last fifty
years has been finally effected. 1t
carried the country through the war
which saved the Union, and through
the greenback and silver crazes to a
sound gold basis, which saved the
cOuntry's honor and credit. 1t fought
the Spanish war and successfully
solved the new problems of our ISL
and possessions 1t met the incidental
evils of the enormous trade expansion
and extended combinations of capital
Il
crusade against the attempt of concen-
jrated wealth to control the coun-
try's politics and its trade. 1t en-
acted regulatory legislation to make
the railroads the servants and not
the masters of the people. 1t has en-
forced the antitrust laws until those
who were not content with anything
but monopolistic control of various
branches of industry are now acquies-
cent in any plan which shall give
them scope for legitimate expansion
and assure them immunity from reck-
less prosecution.
The list of legislative enactments
for the uplifting of those of our peo-
pie suffering a disadvantage in their
social and economic relation to 9th
ers enacted by the Republican party
in this and previous administrations
is a long one, and shows the party
sensitive to the needs of the people
under the new view of COVE nmental
responsibility.
In the work Of rOusing the people
to the danger that threatened our civ
llizatiOn from the abuses of concen-
trated wealth and the power it was
likely to exercise, the public imagin-
alton was wrought upon and a reign
of sensational journalism and unjust
and unprincipIed undertaking has fol-
lowed, in which much injustice has
been done to honest men Dema-
gogues have seized the opportunity
further to infiame the public mind and
have sought to turn the peculiar con-
ditions to their advantage.
Opponents Offer No Remedy.
| do not say that the two gentle
men VINO row lead, one the Demo-
cratic PARTY and the other the former
Republicans who have left their party,
in their attacks upon existing condi-
tions. and in their attempt to satisfy
the popular unrest by promises OF
remedies, are consciously embracing
socialism The truth is that they do
not offer any definite legislation or
policy by which the happy conditions
they promise are to be brought about,
hut if their promises mean anything,
they leaG directly toward the ap-
preparation of what belongs to one
man by another The truth is, my
friends. both those who have left the
Republican party under the ms Nra-
ton of their present leader and our
old opponents, the Democrats, un Ter
their candidate, are going in direc-
ton they do not definitely know. to-
ward an end they can not definitely
describe. with but one chief and clear
object. and that is of acquiring power
for their party by popular support
through the promise of change for
the better. What they clamor for
is change They ask for change in
government so that the government
may be restored to the people, as If
this had not been a peoples govern
ment since the beginning of the con-
stitution. l have the fullest sympathy