Mexico Missouri message., 1912-08-08
PRESIDENT TOLD
or NOMINATION
.- soRMALLY ACCEPTS POSI-
TON AS REPUBLICAN
LEADER.
GLANDS ON PARTY PLATFORM
. e,sseh Addressed to Senator Root
" resent Occupant Of White House
oselares Willingness to Appeal
10 Voters on His Record.

washington, Aug. 1.-Seator hOOt,
-. tbc head of the committee appoint
~ N notify President Taft of his re-
sorlnation by the Republican party
%, the presidency OF the United
states listened to the following speech
iran, the chief executive:
vr Root and Gentlemen of the Noti-
6csrion COMMITTEES:
accept the nomination which you
tender / do so with profound graft
,ude TO the Republican party, which
bas thus hunored me twice. | accept
/, as an approval of what l have done
under its mandate, and as an ex-
presson Of confidence that in a second
administration will serve the public
we'll The issue presented to the con
ventl5n. over which your chairman
presided with such a just and even
hand made a crisis in the party's life.
, faction sought to force the party
70 violate a valuable and time-honored
national tradition of entrusting the
power of the presidency for more
than two terms to one man. and that
man. one whose recently avowed
politica views would have committed
The party to radical proposals involv-
ing dangerous changes in our present
Constitutional form of representative
government and our independent
judiciary
Achievements of the Party.
This occasion is appropriate for the
expression of profound gratitude at
the victory for the right which was
won al Chicago BY that victory, the
Republican party was saved for flu
twe usefulness. II has been the
party through which substantially all
the progress and development in our
cOuntry's history in the last fifty
years has been finally effected. 1t
carried the country through the war
which saved the Union, and through
the greeuback and silver crazes to a
sound gold basis. which saved the
cOuntry's honor and credit. 1t fought
n the Spanish war and successfully
solved jhe new problems of our island
POSSESSIONS 1t met the incidental
evils Of the enormous trade expansion
and extended combinations of capital
fom 1897 until now by a successful
crusade against the attempt of concen-
rated wealth to control the coun-
ty's politics and its trade 1t en-
t,ted regulatory legislation to make
he railroads the servants and not
tie r'asters Of the people. 1t has en-.
forced the antitrust laws until those
who We're not content with anything
but monopolisiic control of various
branches OF industry are now acquies-
cent in any plan which shall give
them scope for legitimate expansion
and assure them immunity from reck-
less prosecution.
The list Of legislative enactments
! for the uplifting of those of our peo-
4 pie suffering a disadvantage In their
social and economic relation to others
enacted by the Republican party in
Ibis and previous administrations IS a
long one, and shows the party sensi-
live to the needs of the people under
The new view of governmental respon.
4 yiblity.
Public Mind Infamed.
After mentioning in some detail
i these enaCtments under the Repub-
lhcan ADMINISTRATION. Mr.. Taft con-
j tinued:
In the work OF rousing the People
10 the danger that threatened our civ.
izatlon from the abuses of concen-
Uated wealth and the power ii was
ukeIy TO exercise, the public magma
uoA was wrought upon and a reign
o. sensational journalism and unjust
and unprincipled undertaking has fol-
lowed in which much injustice has
peen done to honest men. Dema-
sOsueS have seized the opportunity
~ u'taer TO infiame the public mind
'"uu la'e sought to turn the peculiar
conditions TO their advantage
We are living in an age in which by
tAaggeration of the defects of our
present condition, by false charges
VI responsibility for 1t against individ.
sals ana classes, by holding up to the
ie'erlsh Imagination of the less for.
'upals and the disconnected the DOS.
aOlllles Of a millennium, a condition
" popular unrest has been produced.
Se" parties are being formed, with
.u Is proposed purpose of satisfying
,us unrest by promising a panacea.
~ 30 lar as inequality of condition
.4u De lessened and equality of oppor.
suu''y can be promoted by improve
Ieu' OF our educational system, the
so,'e'ment OF the laws to insure the
S-'vh administration OF Justice. and
=! uie prevention OF the acquisition OF
|''"ee without just compensation In
lar 3 the adoption of the legis
'a''oh above recited and laws of a
Il'ar character may aid the less
%,S''unaIe IN their struggle with the
r ra,uSn'pS OF life, all are in sympathy
VIM continued effort to remedy in
.usuce and to aid the weak, and | ven
- 10 say that there is no nationa
u'ulslratlon In which more rea
eps OF such progress have beer
Sen IMAM in the present one. But
ESQ 80 lar as the propaganda for the
Suslactlon Of unrest involves tn,
g''nlse OF a millennium. a condition
Nhich the rich are to be made rea
OS rich by the law, we are chas