The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-24
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PRESIDENT TAFT's VIEW.

The denomination Of President Taft
ana of Vice President sherman will.
we fully believe, prove entirely sat.
isfactory to the Republican party as
mass. The uproar created by the
dlctatorial Roosevelt raid upon the
convention will soon subside. and al
though Roosevelt will probably he able
to retain about him a body Of shout
ers, these will have but little effect
upon the country at large,
We fully believe that President Taft
expresses the sober, sound Judgment
which the country will confirm, when
he says that the question al stake was
not really as between individuals or rs
between the advocates of one set OF
progressive principles or another as
such, but it was fundamental differ
cnce going 10 The root OF our repuh'
licsn institutions AS President TAFT
puts 1T. the question WAS whether tine
Republican party was to change ITS at
titudc as the chief conservator IN the
nation of constitutional representative
government or was to weaken the con
stitutional guarantees of life,
liberty and property and all
other rights declared sacred in the
bill of rights, by abandoning the prin-
ciple of the absolute independence of
the Judiciary essential. to the mainten
ance of these rights.
His Judgment also is sound when
be earnestly saws that "the cam
paign carried on to seize the Republican
party and make it the instrument of
reckless ambition and the unsctttling
of the fundamental principles Of our
government was so sudden and unex-
pected that time was not given clearly
to show to the people and the party
the dangers which confronted them. IL
was sought to break the wise and val
liable traditions against giving more
than two terms to any one man in the
Presidency, and the danger from it's
breach could not be measured. -
President Taft 8 further comment is
both sound and wise when he saws:
1.-THE Importance of the great victory
which has been achieved cannot be
overestimated. All over this country
people tonight are breathing
more freely that most serious menace
TO our republican institutions has been
avcrted- And when. waving aside
For the present any forecast of the re-
suit in November, he saws that cit is
enough now to say that whatever may
happen in November, great victory
for the Republican party and the Unit
I'd States has already been won,'' be |
states the plain fact, There can be
10 question of the soundncss Of his |
Judgment in this, nor of the fact that
l great peril to the Republic has been
lverted
1t really looked as though the pco
Die were willing to cntrust their for
,unes to the vagaries Of the one-man
power and to give that one man a |
sway practically nothing short of a die |
;atorship.
When the people Of this country come
ully to size up the situation, and to |
zee the actual peril that has been avert
ID, aside from the tumult and the |
houting, they will join those whom
PRESIDENT Taft designates as the pntri-
tic people who breathe more freely
since a most serious menace to our
epublican institutions has been avert
d. And when the frenzied shouters
Who went into Mysteries at Chicago get
lome, out Of the heat Of strife, and find
themselves objects Of surprise and con.
empt, as they undoubtedly will in most
,ases, their cup Of bitterness will be
'ull.