The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-06-20
TAFTs WORK IS
LAUDED BY ROOT
Temporary Chairman Delivers
Eloquent Speech.
URGES LOYALTY TO PARTY
Declares Its Achievements Have Been
Honest, Efficient and Economical
and Maintained and Promoted
Peace of the World.

0uiCdSO, JUNE IJ.-DSLdIOI E11uu
Root upon assuming the temporary
craftsmanship Of the Republican ma
tional convention delivered an elo-
quent keynote speech in which he de-
tailed at great length the work done
in every federal department under the
Taft administration.
He said in part:
'The supreme council Of the party
in this great national convention, rep
resenting every state and territory in
due proportion, according to rules long
since established, is about to appeal to
the American people for a continuance
of the power of government which the
party has exercised with but brief in
fury, and that appeal is to be based
upon the soundness Of the principles
approved and the qualities of the can
didates selected by the convention.
"In the performance of this duty by
the convention, and in the acceptance
of it's conclusions by Republicans, is to
be applied the ever-recurring test of a
party's fitness to govern, it's conference
and it's formative and controlling pow
er of organization.
Must Yield Opinions.
/ "And these depend upon the willing
ness of the members of the party to
subordinate their varying individual
opinions and postpone the matters Of
difference between them in order that
they may act in unison upon the great
questions wherein they agree; upon
their willingness and capacity to
thrust aside the disappointment which
some of them must always feel in fail
| ing to secure success for the candi-
dates of their preference; upon the
| loyalty of party members to the party
| itself, to the great organization whose
agency in government they believe to
! be for the best interests of the nation,
| and for whose continuance in power
their love Of country constrains them
to labor.
"Without these things there can be
no party worthy of the name. With
/ out them party association is a rope OF
/ sand, party organization is an ineffect-
i've form, party responsibility disap-
pears, and with it disappears the right
to public confidence"
Lauds Partys Achievements.
Summarizing his estimate Of the
| party's record, he said:
1--WE have shown ourselves a party
| of honest, eff cient and economical ad-
ministration in which public moneys
are faithfully applied, appointments
are made on grounds Of merit, efficient
service is vigorously exacted, graft is
reduced to minimum, derelictions
from official duty are sternly punished
and high standard of morality is
maintained
1--WE have maintained and promoted
peace with the world, and the dignity
honor and just interests of the United
States among the nations.
Our party stands now, as 1t has
ever stood, for order and liberty and
for the maintenance of the constitu-
tional system of government through
which a self-controlled democracy fol-
more than a century has established
against all detractors the competency
of the American people to govern
themselves in law-abiding prosperity
We challenge the judgment of the
Americsn people on the policies of Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt and Taft