The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-01
NOTIFICATION BY
SENATOR ROOT
Felicitates the President on
the Things For Which
He Stands.

Washington. Aug. 1.-"Your title to
the nomination is as clear and unim-
peachable as the title of any candi-
date since political conventions be-
gan"
That was the keynote of Senator
Elihu Roots address to President Taft
here today when. as chairman of the
committee Of notification, he FINALLY
advised the president of his nomina-
tion by the Chicago convention.
surrounded by the members of tive
committee and a hundred or so IN
vited guests, the chairman of the con-
vention in brief speech delivered the
official announcement.
The Committee of Notification"
said Senator Root. here present, has
the honor to advise you formally that
We're regularly and duly nominated
by the national convention of the re-
publican party, to be the republican
candidate for president for the term
beginning March 4, 1913.
For the second time in the history
Of the republican party part of the
delegates have refused to be bound
by the action of the convention.
Now. as on the former occasion. the
irreconcilable minority declares its
intention to support either your demo-
cratic opponent. or third candidate.
The reason assigned for this course is
dissatisfaction with the decision of
certain contests in the making up Of
the temporary roll of the convention.
Those contests were decided by the
tribunal upon which the law that has
governed the republican party for
more than forty years imposed the
duty Of deciding such contests.
| so long as those decisions were
made honestly and in good faith all
persons We're bound to accept them as
lccnclusive in the making up of the
Temporary roll of the convention. and
neither in the facts and arguments
produced before the national COM
mittee. the committee on credentials
and the convention itself, nor other
wise, does there appear just ground
faith of the committees decisions
Both the making up of the temporary
roll, and the rights accorded to the
persons upon that roll. whose seats
were contested, We're in accordance
with the long esta hlished and unques-
toned rules of law governing the par
ty. and founded upon justice and COM
mon sense. Your title to the nomina
ton is as clear and unimpeachahle as
the title of any candidate of any party
since political conventions began.
| Broader Basis.
| Your selection has broader basis
than A mere expression of choice be-
tween different party leaders repre-
senting the same ideas You have
been nominated because YOU stand
pre- -eminently for certain fixed and es-
sential principles which the repuhi-
can party maintains You believe II
the rule of law rather than the rule
of man. You realize that the only
safety for nations, as for individuals
is to establish and abide by declared
principles Of action. You are in sym
pathy with the great practical rules OF
right conduct that the American peo-
pie have set up for their own guild
ance and self-restraint in the limita
tions of the constitution-the limita-
ticns upon governmental and official
power essential to the preservation OF
liberty and justice. You know that to
sweep away those wise rules Of self
restraint would not be progress but
decadence. You know that the great
declarations of principle in our con-
stitution cannot be made an effectual
guide to conduct in any other way
than by judicial judgment upon at
tempts to violate them; and YOU main
tain the independence. dignity and au-
thority of the courts of the United
States. You are for progress along all
the lines of national development. but
i for progress which still preserves the
good we already have and holds fast to
| those essential elements of American
institutions which have made our
country prosperous and great and free.
You represent the spirit of kindly
consideration by every American citi-
zen towards all his fellows, respect for
the right of adverse opinion. peaceable
methods of settling differences-the
ST irit and method which made ordered
and peaceful self-government posi-
BILE. as distinguished from intolerance
and hatred and violence.
In respect Of all these things our
country is threatened from many
sides. 1t is your high privilege to be
the standard-bearer for the cause in
which you believe: and in that cause
of peace and justice and liberty the
millions of Your countrymen who he
lieve as you do will stand with you.
and the great party which was born
in the struggle for constitutional free
dom will support YOU"