The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-07
TAFT OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED.
Convention Committee Informs Presi.
dent Of His denomination,

Convention Committee Informs Presi.
dent Of His denomination.
WASHINGTON. August 1.-President
Taft was formally notified today of
his nomination by the republican na.
tional convention At Chicago. Sur.
rounded by his family and friends in
the historic East room. the president
received from Senator Elihu Root, the
chairman of the notificst committee
bis first official information of the
convention act.
"Your title to the nomination IL as
clear and unimpeachsble as the title
OF any candidate since political con-
ventions began" said Root at the
notification.
"For the second time In the history
Of the republican party part Of the
delegat have refused to be bound
by the action Of the convention. Now,
as on the former occasion, the irrec-
oncilable minority declares its inten-
tion to support either your democra.
tic opponent or q third candida ate.
The reason assigned for this course is
dissatisfaction with thedecision of GER
tain contests that were decided by the
tribunal upon which the law that has
governed the republican party for
more than 40 years imposed the duty
Of deciding such contests.
Your selection has q bro ader basis
than mere expression of choice be.
tween different party leaders repre-
senting the same ideas. You have
been nominated because you stand
prominently for certain fixed and es.
sential principles which the republican
party maintains. You believe in pre-
serving constitutional government OF
the United States; you believe In
the rule of law rather than the rule OF
men; you realize that the only safety
for nations, as for individuals, is to
establish and abide by declared prin-
ciples OF action. You are in sympathy
With the great practical rules OF right
conduct that the American people
have set up for their own guidance
and self restraint in the limits OF the
constitution - limitations of govern
mental and official power essential to
the preserv alton of liberty and jus.
tice.''
In his reply to the committee Presi.
dent Taft defined Ia detail the issues
of the campaign as he saw them, re-
serving the right to amplify his state.
ment in letter as the campaign de-
velops. The supreme issue that con-
fronts the voters, the president de-
clares, was that of the maintenance of
the nations institutions, threatened,
he said, on the one hand by the demo-
CT attic party and on the other by those
republicans who left the party to try
their fortune in q new one.
Next in Importance Mr.. Taft placed
the tariff. In the proposals of the
democrats for reductions in the pres
ent schedules, he said, lay danger of
business depression and hard times.
The republican principle of revision
only where scientific investig alton
shows 1t necessary, marked the straight
road to continued prosperity and CON-
mercial pc ace.
In discussing the tariff the presiden,
said that it was untrue that to its
door could be traced the high cost oi
living and pointed out that conditions
of living were alike over the world.
As an issue only,less important than
the tariff, the president placed the
regulation of trusts. He said the
Sherman law had lbeen enforced with
success. The president pointed to the
record of the republican party, par
ticularly In his own sdministr alton,
as an earnest of what it might be ex'
pected to do in the future II the people
returned 1t to power.
Political Dispute In Court.