The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-01
Presidents Speech to Senator
 Root and His Committee.
CAMPAIGN ISSUES DEFINED
Achievements of the Republican Party In Thls and Previous Admlnis- trations lauded-AeItation by Democrats and ProgressIves
 Is Denounced.

Washington, Aug 1.-President Taft today was formally notified of his nomination by the Republican con. vention in Chicago, and formally ac- cepted the honor. The committee, headed by Senator Root, called on the president at the White House. MT. Taft's speech of acceptance was carefully prepared for use as a cam paign document. It was in part as follows:
 Mir. Root and Gentlement of the Noti-
 flcation Committee:
 accept the nomination which you tender. do so with profound grati- tude to the Republican party, which has thus honored me twice. I accept 1t as an approval of what I have done under its mandate, and as an ex- pression of confidence that in a sec ond administration I will serve the public we'll The issue presented to the convention, over which your chair man presided with such just and even hand, made a crisis in the party's life. A faction sought to force the party to violate a 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- Ing dangerous changes in our pres ent constitutional form of representa- tive 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- ture usefulness. It has been the party through which substantially all the progress and development in our country's history in the last fifty years has been finally effected It 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. It fought the Spanish war and successfully solved the new problems of our isl and possessions. It 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 it's trade. It en- acted regulatory legislation to make the railroads the servants and not the masters of the people. It 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- 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 oth- CTS enacted by the Republican party in this and previous administrations is long one and shows the party sensitive to the needs of the people under the new view of governmental responsibility.
 Public Mind lnfamed.
 After mentioning in some detail these enactments under the Republic an administrations, Mir. Taft contin- ued
 In the work of rousing the people to the danger that threatened our civ- ilization from the abuses of concen- trated wealth and the power 1t was likely to exercise. the public imagin- ation 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 inflame the public mind and have sought to turn the peculiar con- uitions to their advantage.
 We are living in an age in which by exaggeration of the defects of our present condition, by false charges loe rasnopsibiiity for if against individ-