The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-08-01
Title Is UninpeachabIe
Says Root to Pres. Taft

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his real interest is; will understand
the shallowness of attacks upon exist
ing institutions and deceitful prom
ises Of underlined benefit by underlined
changes?"
Accepts Nomination.
The president had heard officially OF
his nomination at Chicago from the
lips of Sen. Elihu Root Of New York.
chairman OF the notification COM
mittee.
Il accept it." he began, "as an ap-
proval of what have done under it's
mandate and as an expression. of con-
Hdence that in a second, administra-
ton / will serve the public we'll. The
Issues presented to the convention
over which your chairman presided
with such Just and even hand, made
a crisis in the partys life. A faction
valuable and time -honored national
tradition by entrusting 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 involving dangerous
changes In our present constitutional
form of representative government
and our independent judiciary. This
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pressions Of profound gratitude at the
victory for the right won at Chicago.
BY that victory the republican party
was saved for future usefulness."N
After reviewing the legislative en-
actment 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 tV7n
raking," he said, "demagogues have
seized the opportunity to infiame the
public mind that they might turn PEE
culiar conditions to their own adj
vantage" In the formation Of new
parties the president said, these men
have promised the satisfaction of un-
rest by the application of panacea.
1t Is Socialism.
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
administration in which more real
steps of progress have been taken than
In the present one. But as for the
millennium, a condition in which the
rich are to be made reasonably poor
and the poor reasonably rich by law,
we are chasing a phantom; we are
holding out to those whose unrest we
fear, a prospect. and a dream, vision
OF the impossible.
Il do not say that the two gentle
men who now lead, one the democratic
party and the other the former repub-
licans who have left their party, in
their attacks upon existing condi-
tons, and in their attempts to sat
isfy the popular unrest Of promises
of reme6ies, are consciously embrac-
ing socialism. The truth is that they
do not offer any definite legislation
or policy by which the happy condi-
about, but IL their promises mean any
thing, they lead directly toward the
appropriation Of what belongs to one
man, to another
Don't Know Where Headed.
The truth is, my friends, both those
who have left the republican party un-
der the inspiration of their present
leader, and our old opponents, the
democrats under their candidate, are
going In a direction they do not defi-
nitely 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
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These gentlemen propose to reform
the government, whose present defects.
II any, are due to the failure of the
people to devote as much time as is
necessary to their political duties, by
requiring q political activity by the
people three times that which thus
far the people have been wiling to
assume
But after we have changed all the
machinery so as to per-
NIT instantaneous expression Of the
people in constitutional amendments,
in statutes and in recall OF public
agents, what then?
Votes are not bread, constitutional
are not work, referen-
dums do not pay rent or furnish
houses, recalls do not furnish clothing,
initiatives do not supply employment
or relieve inequalities OF condition or
Of opportunity. We still ought to have
set before us the definite plans to
bring on complete equality Of op-
portunity and to abolish hardship and
In vain"
The president discussed at some
length the recall Of judges and judi
cial decisions and the proposals to
forbid the use of injunctions to pro-
tect property against secondary boy
cott and the use of juries in con-
tempt proceedings brought to enforce
DEGREES or orders. The recall of de-
cisions he labelled the "grotesque
proposition by the leader Of former re-
publicans who have left their party"
The republican party" concluded
the president, Stands for none of these
innovations. 1t refuses to make
changes simply for the purpose of
making change. and cultivating pop
ular hope that in the change sonne-
thing beneficial, underlined will take
place. We favor the greatest good
to the greatest number. We believe
that we have made progress from the
beginning to now and that the progress
Is to continue into the far future; that
It is reasonable progress that expert
ence has shown to be really useful
and helpful, and from which there is
no reaction to something worse. 1t
Is said that this is not an issue in the
1t seems to me 1t Is the
issue"