Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-19
ROOT KEYNOTE
SPEECH LAUDS
ROOSEVELT
taft Chairman Refers to the
Achievements Of Mckinley,
Roosevelt, and Taft.

CHICAGO. June IA Referring to the
accomplishments of the administration
81 Theodore Roosevelt when president
as part Of the record Of the Republican
party which should call for a continu-
anee in power of the G. o. p, Senator
Elihu Root. the Taft nominee for tenn
porary chairman of the Republican ma e
tional convention, who was elected aft
er long and hard fight over Governor
McGovern OF Wisconsin, the Roosevelt
nominee, by vote of sos TO 602 sound
ed the keynote" 81 the Taft wing Of
the party late last evening to a par
tally filled convention hall Senator
Root went into the achievements Of the
Taft administration in detail Among
other things he said:
Mckinley, Roosevelt and Taft.
Il believe that | appreciate this ex-
preston Of confidence
Throughout our partys history in
each presidential election we have
gone TO the American people with the
confident and Just assertion that the
Republican party is not mere fortui-
tous collection Of individuals, but is a
coherent and living force as an organ
ization Ii Is effective, responsible
worthy of confidence. competent to
govern.
We claim that we are entitled to
popular vote of confidence at the com
ing election because we have demon
strated that we are a party Of az
firmative, constructive policies, better
ment and progress Of our country In all
the fields upon which the activity and
influence Of government can rightly en-
ter.
I'VE challenge the judgment OF the
American people on the policies of Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt and Taft
President Taft in his speech OF ac-
ceptance on July Is 1908, paid a just
tribute to the great service rendered
by his predecessor IN awakening the
public conscience, ihaugurating re-
forms and saving the country from the
dangers Of a plutocratic government.
He instanced the railroad rate law the
prevention OF railroad rebates and dis
examinations. the enforcement Of the
antitrust law, the pure food law, the
meat inspection law, the general super
vision and control of transportation
companies, the conservation Of natural
resources, and he proceeded To say
Next Administrations Duties.
The chief function Of the next ad-
ministration, in my judgment. Is dis
tinct from a progressive development
OF that which has been performed by
President Roosevelt The chief func-
ton Of the next administration is to
complete and perfect the machinery by
which these standards may be main
tanned, by which the lawbreakers may
be promptly restrained and punished,
but which shall operate with sufficient
accuracy and dispatch to interfere with
legitimate business as little as posi-
bic
The Republican party stands now,
as Mckinley stood, for protective tar
iff while the Democratic party stands
against the principle of protection and
for a tariff for revenue only.
The prosecution Of trusts and com
binations in violation Of the sherman
act has proceeded with extraordinary
vigor and success The Standard OIL
Company has been dissolved by a suit
began under Roosevelt and brought to
successful conclusion under Taft
through judgment in exact accord
snce with the prayer Of the complain
ant The American Tobacco Company
has been dissolved and its property
scattered among fourteen different
companies with stringent injunctions
against common control which, in the
unanimous opinion OF the four judges
OF the circuit court Of appeals, were
fully adequate TO accomplish the relief
demanded. The beef packers, the
wholesale grocers, the lumber dealers.
the wire makers, the window glass pool
the electric lamp combination. The bath
tub trust the shoe machinery trust
the foreign steamship pool the Ameu-
can Sugar Company. the steel corpo-
ration, the harvester company have
been made TO feel the heavy hand OF
the law through suits or indictments
against restraints and monopoles
What Party Promises.
I'VE will maintain the power and
honor OF the nation, but we viii OBJ
serve those limitations which the con-
stitutlon sets up for the preservation Of
local government
we Will make and vigorously en-
force laws for the promotion ~ public
interests and the attainment of public
ends. but We VIII observe those great
rules Of right conduct which our a-
thers embodied "a the limitations n tbe
constitution
The Republican party will uphold
al AN times the authority and integrity
~ the courts state and Federal and
viii ever insist that their powers 10 en-
force their processes TO protect life Ito
erty and prosperity shall be preserved
inviolate.
We mus, be true 20 that pledge fo,
In no other way can our country keer
itself within the strait and narrow path
prescribed by the principles of right
conduct embodied IN our constitution
Senator Roots tariff comment
evoked a nipple % cheers. predicting a
Republican success In the fan election
he was Given "a and of aDplaUea