Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-09
PRESIDENT TOLD
OF NOMINATION
rAFT FORMALLY ACCEPTS POSI-
TON AS REPUBLICAN
LEADER.
STANDS ON PARTY PLATFORM
n speech Addressed to Senator Root
present Occupant of White House
Declares Willingness to Appeal
to voters on His Record.


At the head of the committee appoint
al to notify President Taft of his re.
domination by the Republican party
for the presidency of the United
states, listened to the following speech
rom the chief executive:
Mr.. Root and Gentlemen of the Noti-
acation COMMITTEES:
/ accept the nomination which you
tender | do so with profound graft
Jude to the Republican party, which
has thus honored me twice. | accept
Il as an approval of what have done
nnder its mandate, and as an ex-
preston of confidence that In a second
administration l will serve the public
we'll. The issue presented to the con
yention, over which your chairman
presided with such a just and even
aand, made a crisis in the party's life.
faction sought to force the party
to violate 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
political 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 at Chicago. BY that victory, the
Republican party was saved for fu-
tuFe usefulness. 1t has been the
party through which substantially all
the progress and development in our
eountrys history in the last fifty
years has been finally effected 1t
carried the country through the war
which saved the Union, and through
the greenback and silver crazes to
sound gold basis which saved the
country's honor and credit. 1t fought
the Spanish war and successfully
solved the new problems of our island
possessions. 1t met the incidental
evils of the enormous trade expansion
and extended combinations of capital
from 1897 until now by successful
crusade against the attempt of concen-
trated wealth to control the coun-
try's politics and its trade 1t en-
acted regulatory legislation to make
the railroads the servants and not
the masters of the people 1t has en-
forced the antitrust laws until those
who were not content with anything
but monopolistic 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-
Tess prosecution.
The list of legislative enactments
for the uplifting of those of our peo-
pie suffering disadvantage in their
social and economic relation to others
enacted by the Republican party in
this and previous administrations is
long one, and shows the party sensI-
tive TO the needs of the people under
the new view of governmental respon-
sibility.
public Mind lnfiamed.
After mentioning in some detail
these enactments under the Repub-
iean administration, Mr. Taft con-
tlnued:
in the work of rousing the people
10 the danger that threatened our civ
hization from the abuses of concen-
Nated wealth and the power it was
likely to exercise, the public magma
tion was wrought upon and reign
sensational journalism and unjust
and unprincipled undertaking has fol-
lowed, In which much injustice has
oeen done to honest men. Dema-
gogues have seized the opportunity
further 70 infiame the public mind
and have sought to turn the peculiar
conditions to their advantage.
we are living in an age in which by
exaggeration of the defects of our
present condition, by false charges
ol responsibility for It against individ-
aals and classes. by holding up to the
teFerlsh imagination Of the less for
Innate and the disconnected the pos
sloi1ties of millennium, a condition
OF popular unrest has been produced.
NeW parties are being formed, with
ehe proposed purpose of satisfying
tnls unrest by promising a panacea.
n 80 far as inequality of condition
can be lessened and equality of oppor-
unity can be promoted by improve
ment of our educational system, the
oetterment Of the laws to insure the
quick administration of justice, and
oy the prevention of the acquisition of
privilege without Just compensation in
50 lar as the adoption of the legis-
anon above recited and laws of a
similar character may aid the less
fortunate in their struggle with the
Aardships Of life, all are in sympathy
WITH continued effort to remedy in
Justice and to aid the weak. and I ven
suFe to say that there is no national
administration in which more real
steps Of such progress have been
.aAen than in the present one. But
II so far as the r1r0r1a ga pfSes for fha