Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-08-01

ROOT DECLARES NO TAINT IS ATTACHED
TO ACTION or DELEGATES IN CHICAGO

| dl government OF the L. 5, you be-
| lieye in the rule of law rather than
the rule of men. You know that the
great declarations of principle in our
constitution cannot be made an effec-
tual guide to conduct in any other
way than by judicial judgment upon
attempts TO violate them: and you
maintain the independence, dignity
and authority of the courts of the
, United States"
Although Mr.. Taft in his speech OF
acceptance defined in detail the is
sues of the campaign as he saw them,
! he reserved the right TO amplify his
statement in letter as the campaign
develops. The supreme issue that con-
fronts the voters, the president de-
clared was that OF the maintenance of
the nations institutions and the pres
erEatiOn Of the constitution, threat
ened, he said, on the one hand by the
democratic party, and on the other by
those republicans who had left the
party to try their fortunes in a new
one,
in discussing the tariff the presi-
dent said that it was untrue that to
its door could be traced the high cost
Of living.
AS an issue only less important than
the tariff the president placed the
regulation of trusts. He said the
Sherman law had been enforced with
success.
Taft did not mention either Colonel
Roosevelt or Governor Woodrow Viii
son by name but referred to each.
Il know that in this wide country
there are many who call themselves
democrats, who view the same aver
sion that we republicans do, the rad
Iical propositions of change in our
form Of government that are .reck-
essly a1yaHced re Gatisfy what il b,Gg
posed to be popular clamor,3 said tie
president.
ITO them I appeal as to all repub-
lcans, to join us in an earnest effort
to avert the politicalo and economic
revolution and business paralysis
which republican defeat will bring
about"
After reviewing the legislative en-
actments of the republican party the
! president launched into a bitter at
tack upon those responsible for the
popular unrest of the present day.
Started by sensational journalism
and unjust and unprincipled muck
raking," he said, 'demagogues have
seized the opportunity to infame the
public mind that they might turn pc
Culiar conditions to their own advan-
tage"
In the formation of new parties,
the president said, these men have
promised the satisfaction of unrest
by the application of panacea.
In the ultimate analysis, fear the
equal opportunity which those seek
who proclaim the so-called social jus
tice, involves a forced division of
property and that means socialism. |
venture to say there is no national
administration in which more real
steps of progress have been taken
than in the present one. But as for
the millennium, condition in which
the rich are to be made reasonably
poor, and the poor reasonably rich by
law, we are chasing a phantom.
Il do not say that the two gentle
Imen who now lead, one the democrat
party, and the other the former re-
publicans, who have left their party,
in their attacks upon existing condi.
tons and in their attempts to satisfy
the popular unrest by promise of
remedies, are consciously embracing
socialism. The truth is that they do
not offer any definite legislation or
policy by which the happy conditions
they promise are to be brought about.
The truth is, my friends both those
who have left the republican party
under the inspiration of their present
leader and our old opponents the
democrats, under their candidate are
going in a direction they do not defin-
itely know, toward an end they can.
not definitely describe, with but one
chief and clear object, and that is of
acquiring power for their party by
popular support through the promise
Of change for the better.
These gentlemen propose to re-
form the government, whose present
defects, if any, are due to the failure
lof the people to devote as much time
as is necessary to their political du-
ties by requiring POLITICAL activity
by the people three times that which
thus far the people have been willing
to assume