Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-08-05

Mr.. Root and Gentlemen of the Mott
6catiOn Committee accept the nomi.
nation which you tender do SO with
profound gratitude to the Republican
party. which has thus hOnored me
twice. accept 1t as an approval of
what | have done under its mandate.
and as an expression Of confidence
that in second administration l will
serve the public well. The issue pre-
scented to the convention. over which
your chairman presided with such a
Just and even hand. made crisis In
the party's life. A faction sought to
force the party to violate a valuable
and time hOnored national tradition by
intrusting 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 pro-
posals involving dangerous changes In
our present constitutional form Of rep
resentative government and our indie
pendent judiciary.
This occasion Is appropriate for the
expression of profound gratitude ut the
victory for the right which was won at
Chicago. BY that victory the Repub.
lican party was saved for future use
fulness. 1t has been the party through
which substantially all the progress
and development In our country's his
tory in the last fifty years has been
finally effected. 1t carried the country
through the war which saved the Un-
lon and through the greenback and sill
yer craxes to a sound gold basis, which
saved the country's honor and credit.
1t fought the Spanish war and sue.
cessfully solved the new problems of
our island possessions.
1t met the incidental evils of the
enormous trade expansion and extend
ed combinations Of capital from 1897
until now by successful crusade
against the attempt Of concentrated
wealth to control the country's politics
and its trade. 1t enacted regulatory
legislation to make the railroads the
servants and not the masters of the
people. 1t has enforced the antitrust
laws until those who were not content
with anything but monOpolistic con-
troll Of various branches of industry
are now acquiescent In any plan which
shall give them scope for legitimate
expansion and assure them immunity
from reckless prosecution.
The Duty Of Government.
The Republican party has been alive
to the modern change In the view Of
the duty Of government toward the
people. Time was when the least gov
ernment was thought the best. and
the policy which left all to the indi.
vidual, unmolested and unaided by
government. was deemed the wisest.
Now the duty Of government by posi-
tive law to further equality Of oppor-
tunity in respect of the weaker classes
In their dealings with the stronger and
more powerful Is clearly recognized.
1t 10 in this direction that real prog.
ress toward the greater human hap
piness is being made. 1t has been
such tendency to SO called paternalism
was impossible. Nothing is further
from the fact The power of the fed.
eral government to tax and expend
for the general welfare has long been
exercised. and the admiration one feels
for our constitution is increased when
we perceive how readily that instru.
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mental functions In the promotion of
the comfort of the people.
The list of legislative enactments for
the uplifting Of those Of our people SUI
fering disadvantage In their social
and economic relations to others enact
ed 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 governmental responsibility.
Thus there was the pure food law
and the meat inspection law to hold
those who dealt with the food of mil
lions to a strict accountability for Its
healthful condition.
The frightful loss of life and limb
to railway employees in times past
has now been greatly reduced by stat
utes requiring safety appliances and
proper inspection. Of which two i'm
portant ones were passed In this ad-
ministration
The passage Of time has brought the
burdens and helplessness Of old age to
many Of these veterans Of the civil
war who exposed their lives in the
supreme struggle to save the nation,
and. recognizing this, congress has
added to previous provision which pa.
triotic gratitude had prompted. a sub
stantial allowance. which may bs
properly characterized as an old mems
pension.
Railways and Employees.
In the making Of the contract Of EN-
ploy ment between railway employees
aud the company the two do not stand
On an equality. and the terms Of thu
contract which the common law i'm
piled were unfair to the employee
Congress In the exercise Of its c0ntro
over interstate commerce has 70 forme,
the contract to be implied and ha
made II more favorable to the EN-
ployee. Indeed. a more radical bill
which fully approve. has passed tn
senate and is now pending in tn
house which requires interstate rail
ways in effect to insure the lives o
their employees and to make provision
for prompt settlement Of the amour
due under the law after death or injur.
has occurred
Many millions are spent annually b.
the agricultural department to investi
gate the best methods Of treating tn
soil and carrying on agriculture and o
publishing the result We are nov