The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-01
TAFT RECEIVED OFFICIAL
NOTIFICATION Of HIS
NOMINATION TODAY
(Continued from page l.,

lips of Senator Eliau Root of New
York. chairman of the notification
committee.
II accept it," he bang, las an APP
prevail 0t what ] have done under its
mandate and as an expression of on
tidcnCe that in .. second adninistra-
ton | will serve the public Well. The
issues presented to the convention
over which Your chairman presided
with such 4 just and even hand, made
a crisis in the party's life. a faction
sought 10 force the party to violate a
valuable and time-honored national
tradition by entrus'ing the power of
the presidency for more than two
terms to II 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
occasion is appropriate for the express
sion Of profound gratitude at the vic
tory for the right won at Chicago. BY
that victory h republican party was
saved for future usefulness"
After reviewing the legislative en-
actments of the republican p"TtE the
president launched into a bitter at
81 ~ tl''I iIlbSt EtSIlOTlS1n1S IOr the
popular unrcst" of the present DAY.
Started by sensational Journalism
and unjust and u~nprincipled muck
rakine." he said. "~demasogues have
seized the opportunity to inflame the
public mind that they might turn Pc
clllar conditions to their own advant-
age" In the formation of new par
ties the president said. these men have
promised the satisfaction of unrest by
the application of panac"a.
In h ultimate ANALYSIS. I fear.
the equal opportunity which those
seek who proclaim the so-called social
justice. involves a forced division of
property. n that means socialism. I
venture to say there is no national adj
mlnistration in which more real steps
of progress have been taken than in
the present one. But as for the mill
lenium, a condition in which the rich
are to be made reasonably poor and
the poor reasonably rich by law, we
are chasing II phantom; we are hold
ing out to those whose unrest we fear.
n proSpec II a dream, a vison of the
impossible.
men who now lead. one the democratic
party and the other the former re-
I~ublicans who have left their party,
in their attacks upon existing condi-
tlnns, n in their attempts to satisfy
the popular unrest by promises Of
remedies. are consciously embracing
socialism. The truth is that they do
not offer any definite legislation or
policy ly which the happy conditions
they promise are to be brought about.
but If their promises mean anything,
they lead directly toward the appro-
rriation of what belongs to one man,
to another.
The truth is. my friends. both
those who AVE left the republican
party under the inspiration of their
present leader. and our old opponents,
are going in a direction they do not
definitely 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 a change for the better.
These gentlemen propose to re-
form n government. whose present
defects. if any, are due to the failure
of the people to devote as much time
as is necessary to their political du-
ties, by requiring a political activity
by the people three times hat which
thus far the people have been willing
to assume.
The president discussed at some
ieil6lI tHe recall OF Judges and JudlCi-
al decisions and the proposals to for
bid the use Of %injunctions or protect
property against n secondary boycott
and the use of juries in contempt pro-
ceedings brought to enforce DEGREES or
orders. The recall of decisions he
labelled the ~"grotesque proposition by
the leader Of former republicans 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 a change. and c%ultivating pop
ular hope hat in the change some
thing beneficial. underlined, will take
place. We favor the greatest good to
the greatest number. We believe that
we have made progress from the be-
ginning to now and that the
Is to continue into the far future: that
II is reasonable progress thai expert
ence has shown to be really useful
and helpful, and from which there is
no reaction to something worse. It
is said that this is not an issue in
the campaign. 1t seems to me 1t is
the supreme ISSUE"