The Delta independent., 1912-08-09
PRESIDENT TAFT SAYS
EVIL FACES NATION
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH ANALYZES
THE DANGERS FACING
OUR NATION.


Taft at the white house last Fri
day by Senator Elihu Root before
large assembly.
Senator Roots notification was
brief and formal, but he laid partic-
ular stress on the point that Taft's
title to the nomination was las
clear and unimpeachable as the title
of any candidate on any party since
political conventions began. and that
he was regularly and duly nomi-
mated.
Referring to the Roosevelt bolt,
he said:
For the second time in the his
tory of the Republican party, party
of delegates has refused to be
bound by the action Of the con-
ventfon. The reason assigned to this
course is dissatisfa ction 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
years imposed the duty of deciding
such contests. So long as those de-
cisions were made honestly and in
good faith all persons were bound
to accept them as conclusive in max
ing up of the temporary roll of the
convention and neither in the facts
or arguments produced before the
national committee, the committee on
credentials and the convention itself
nor otherwise, does there appear
just grounds for impeaching the
honesty of the com mittee's decisicus.
Both the making up of the tenn
porary roll and the rights accorded
20 persons on that roll, whose seats
were contested, were in accordance
with the long established and un-
questioned rules of laws governing
the party, and founded upon JUS
tice and common sense
After MIR. Root closed his presen-
tation sreech, Mr.. Taft accepted the
nomination by the Republican party
as follows:
freSluonCS 3 acceptance.
"Mr. Root and gentlemen of the
notification committee:
Il accept the nomination which |
you tender. l do SO with profound |
gratitude to the Republican party.
which has thus honored me twice. |
accept it as an approval of what |
have done under it's mandate, and |
as an expression OF confidence that
in a second administration, l will |
to serve the people well. The issue
presented to the convention over
which your chairman presided with
such a juet an even hand, made a
crisis in the party's life A faction
sought to force the party to violate
and time-honored nation
al tradition by entrusting the pow
er of 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 proposals. involv-
ent constitutional form of represen-
tative government and our inde-
pendent judiciary.
This occason is appropriate for
The expression of profound graft
fude at the victory for the right
won in Chicago. By that victory,
the Republican party was saved for
future uGefulnees. 1t has been the
party through which essentially all
he progress and development of our
history in the past fifty ,
Years has been finally effected.
THE Republican party has been
alive to the modern change in the {
view of the duty of government to- s
ward the people. Time was, when !
he least government was thought ,
III to the Individual unmolested
Ind unaided by government was
ieemed the wisest. Now the duty
If government by positive law to
'urther equality of opportunity in ,
he respect to the weaker classes ,
Ii their dealings with the stronger ,
ind more powerful, is clearly recog- :
lized. 1t Is in this direction that 9
'eal progress toward the greater hu-
nan happiness is being made. 1t
las been suggested that under our =
such tendency to so call ,
ID paternalism was impossible. But
nothing Is further from the fact.
The power of the federal govern
nent to tax and expend for tho gen. I
sral welfare has long been exer-
fSed and tho mi ono faa1o