Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-08-08
Presidents Speech to SenahT
Root and His Committee.
CAMPAIGN ISSUES DEFINED
achievements Of the Republican Party
IN This and Previous Admins
tratIons Lauded-AsltatIon BY
Democrats and ProsressIves
10 Denounced.

his nomination Dy the hepuphSou w"
vention In Chicago. and formally &C
oepted the honor. The committee,
headed by Senator Root, called on
the president at the White House
Mr.. Taft's speech of acceptance was
carefully prepared for use as cam
paign document. It was In part as
follows:
mr.. Root and Gentlemen Of the Moth
fication Committee:
accept the nomination which you
tender. do so with profound graft
fude to the Republican party, which
has thus honored me twice. accept
a rs an approval Of what have done
under its mandate, and as an ex-
uressIon of confidence that In a sec
nnd administration | will serve the
public well. The issue presented to
the convention, over which your chair
man presided with such a just and
even hand, made a crisis in the party's
life. A faction sought to force the
party to. violate valuable and time
honored national tradition by entrust-
ing 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 proposals involv-
ang dangerous changes in our pres
ent constitutional form of representa-
Give 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 at Chicago. BY that victory, the
Republican party was saved for fu-
cure usefulness. It has been the party
through which substantially all the
PrOgress and development IN our
uOuntry's history in the last nifty
years has been finally effected. 1t
carried the country through the war
which saved the Union, and through
the greenback and silver crazes to a
sound gold basis, which saved the
m0untry's honor and credit. II fought
che Spanish war and successfully
solved the new problems of our isl
and possessions. II met the incidental
mviIs of the enormous trade expansion
and extended combinations Of capital
from 1897 until now by successful
nrusade against the attempt Of concen-
arated wealth to control the coun-
ery's politics and its trade. It en-
acted regulatory legislation to make
the railroads the servants and not
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forced the antitrust laws until those
who were not content with anything
but monopolistic control Of various
branches of industry arc 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-
pie suffering a disadvantage in their
social and economic relation to 9TH
ers enacted by the Republican party
IN this and previous administrations
b a long one, and shows the party
sensitive to the needs of the people
under the new view Of governmental
! responsibility.
Public Mind InfIamed.
After mentioning in some detail
these enactments under the Republic
nm administrations, Mr. Taft contin.
ned:
In the work Of rousing the people
TO the danger that threatened our CIV
tlization from the abuses of concen-
trated wealth and the power 1t was
likely to exercise, the public imagin-
alton was wrought upon and reign
of sensational journalism and unjust
and unprincipled undertaking has fol-
lowed, in which much injustice has
been done to honest men. Dema-
gogues have seized the opportunity
further to infiame the public mind and
have sought to turn the peculiar con.
ditions to their advantage.
We are living in an age in which by
exaggeration of the defects of our
present condition, by false charges
of responsibility for It against individ-
uals,And classes, by holding up to the
feverish Imagination of the less for
kunate and the Disconnected the pos
sibIlities of millennium, condition
of popular unrest has been produced.
New parties are being formed. with
the proposed purpose of satisfying
this unrest by pfo.nlsing a pahacea.
In so far as inequality of condition
can be lessened and equality of oppor-
tunity can be promoted by improve
ment OF our educational system, the
Settlement of the laws to insure the
quick administration Of justice, and
By the prevention Of the acquisition Of
privilege without just compensation, in
90 far as the adoption OF the legis-
lation above recited and laws Of q
similar character may aid the less
fortunate IN their struggle with the
hardships Of life. all are in sympathy
with a contaued effort ia remedy in-