Milford chronicle., 1912-08-09
PRESIDENT TAFT FORMALLY
NOTIFIED OF NOMINATION.

President TAFT learned last Thursday
that he Is the nominee of the Republican
party for Presidential honOrs. The Ma
tional Republican Convention : nOtltica
ton committee performed their perfume
torY duty at ceremony remarkable
for its lntormality.
Senator Etlbu Root, who as chairman
of the convention headed the notification
committee, formally rendered the nOmi
nation. i'll a brief speech, striking at
Roosevelt for his charge OF stolen dele
gates and glowingly commenting TAFT
for his administration.
President TAFT replied with a 10000
word "keynOte" speech, outlining the
issues OF the campaign as he saw them,
and bitterly assaiing "Demagnguery,
fraud and Misrepresentation against him
self and his administration. He did not
mention Roosevelt by name Ia the entire
speech but dubbed the Coone and his
followers as "Former Republicans who
have left their party where he did not
couple them with adlectives OF denuncla-
ton The P,p.iueut formally accepted
the nomination with profound gratitude
to the Republican party
The speechmaklul took pace in tie
spacious East Room, of the White House.
The original plan had been to make the
affair an al frescJe one, the President
speaking to his audience, on the avn,
from the south portlco Of the executive
mansion. Possibility lnclemeut wealth
er led to the change
The notification cOmmjttee-one rtpre
sentative frou each stAte-Dr. Ceorg- "
Marshall representing Delaware, met IN
the executive ,ii.res shortly before II
O'Clock aud marched IN bod, 10 the 2
bathroom There they were met by the
Pfe-ideut and Mrs Iatt-th- President
smiiuglv rpadv To receive the expected
news Of his denomination Charley
raft. the President Young ST sou, and
the Uu.l other mrmbrr oi thr family
present. was ar Interested spectator Inc
East Room heid Eeary LOO invited
guests cabinet officers, members % con-
grr--. prominent citlZrus aud personal
friends Igev we're grouped q Out IN
10 mauy. FrluWig the exc. nge ui
speeches. a recepi II lu- WAS started and
the President ana MIs Taft personally
shook hands with the guests. y buffet
luncheon was then served
he President d. d SENATOR Ernt -nl-
ingJv -lomttad to a battery ot photo
g,aphers, aud tnea the -peecue- began.
bret and formal INT he laid particular
stress on the point that Tait's title 70 Il
nomirati0n was as clear and uulInpesch-
able a. the title Of any candidate of amy
party siuce political conventions began,
and that he was regularly and duly nom
mated
Referring to the Roosevelt bolt Root
said:
For the second time in the history Of
the Republican party, a part OF tue dele
gates have refused to be bound nv the
action OF the convention. The
reason assigned for this course is di.satls
faction witn.the decision OF certain con-
tests in the making up OF the temporary
roll of the convention. These contests
We're decided by the tribunal upon which
the law that has governed the Republican
party tur more than forty wears imposed
the duty OF decl1lng such contests So
long a these decisions were made honest.
ly and in good faith all persons were
bound to accept them as conclusive IN the
makllg up of the temporary roll OF the
convention, and neither in the facts and
arguments produced before the national
committee, the committee on edentlals
and tue convention itself nor otherwise,
does there appear Just ground for in
peaC hing the honesty and good faith of
the committee decisions
"B tn the making up Of the temporary
roll, and the rights accorded TO the per
sons upon that roll whose seats We're con
tested were in accordance with the long
estab shed and unquestiOned rules Of law
governing the party, and founded upon
Justice and cOmmonsense.
"Nour selection has broader basis
than mere expression Of choice between
d fferent party leaders representing the
same ideas You have been nominated
because you stand pre- eminently for Ger
tain fixed and essential principles which
the Republican party maintains.
you believe in the rule of law rather
than the rule Of men. You realize that
the only safety formations as for individ-
uals, is to establish and abide by declared
principles of action. You are in sympathy
with the great practical rules of right
conduct that the American people have
set up for their guidance and self restraint
in the limitations of the constitution
the limitations upon governmental and
official power essential to the preserva
ton of liberty and justice. You know
that to sweep away these wise rules of
self restraint would not be progress, but
decadence.
"You know that the great declarations
of principles in our constitution, cannot