Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-01
Mr.. TAFT NOTIFIED
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W D. JflI VUIuILU
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Of the committee Of notification, he
formally advised the president of his
nomination by the Chicago conven-
ton.
Surrounded by the members Of the
committee and a hundred or SO in.
vited guests, the chairman of the con-
vention in a brief speech delivered
the official announcement.
1.-THE committee on notification,
said Senator Root, here present, has
the honor to advise you formally that
on the 22d day of June, last, you
were regularly and duly nominated BY
the national convention of the Re-
publican party. to be the Republican
candidate for president for the term
beginning March 4, 1913.
For the second time in the history
OF the Republican party a part OF the
delegates have refused to be found
by the action OF the convention. Now,
as on the former occasion, the II.
r%econcilable minority declares its In
tention to support either your Demo.
cratic opponent, or q third candidate.
The reason assigned for this course
is dissatisfaction with the decision OF
certain contests in the making up OF
tie temporary roll Of the convention.
Those contests were decided by the
tribunal upon which the law that has
governed the Republican party for
more than forty years. imposed the
duty of deciding such contests.
$50 long as those decisions were
made honestly and in good faith all
persons were bound to accept them
as conclusive in the making up of the
temporary roll Of the convention, a1ld
neither in the facts and arguments
produced before the national commit
tee, the committee on credentials and
the convention itself, Cor otherwise,
does there appear just ground for i'm.
peaching the honesty and good faith
Of the committees decisions. Both
the making up Of the temporary roll,
and the rights accorded to the per
SOM upon that roll, whose seats were
contested, were in accordance with
the long established and u%nQuestion.
ed rules of law governing the party,
and founded upon justice and COM
mon sense. Your title to the nomina-
ton Is as clear and unimpeachable
as the tile of any candidate of any
party since political conventions be-
gan.
"Y0ur selection has a broader basis
than q mere expression of choice be-
tween different party leaders repre-
senting the same ideas. You have
been nominated because you stand
pre.eminently for certain fixed and es-
sential principles which the RepubD-
can party maintains. You believe IN
preserving the constitutional govern
ment of the United States. You real
ize that the only safety for nations,
as for individuals, is to establish and
abide by declared principles of action.
You are in sympathy with the great
practical rules of right conduct that
the American people have set up for
their own guidance and self.restra1nt
in the limitations of the constitution,
s"Lu0 llulll0SlOuo upOA 6OVSA
and official power essential to the
preservation of liberty and justice.
You know that to sweep away hos
wise rules Of self.restraint would not
be progress but d%ecadence. You know
thatFthe great declarations of princi.
pie in our constitution cannot be
made an effectual guide to conduct In
any other way than by judicial judg-
ment upon attempts to violate them;
and you maintain the independence,
dignity and authority of the courts OF
the United States. You are for pro-
< gress along all the lines of national
development, but for progress which
still preserves the good we already
have and holds fast to those essen
tial elements Of American institutions
which have made our country pros
porous and great and free. You rep
resent the spirit of kindly considera-
ton by every American citizen to-
wards all his fellows, respect for the
right Of adverse opinion, peaceable
methods Of settling differences the
spirit and method which made order.
ed and peaceful self.government pos
sible, as distinguished from intoler-
ance and hatred and violence.
'In respect Of all these things our
country Is threatened from many
sides. It 10 your high privilege to
be the standard4bearer for the cause
in which you believe; and in that
cause Of peace and. justice and liberty
the millions Of your countrymen who
believe o. you do will stand with
you, ana the great party which was