The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-01
TAFT'S SPEECH
 OF ACCEPTANCE
President Outlines His Aims and
 Political Beliefs.
REFERENCES TO THIRD PARTY.
Declares Country Is Safer Because of Action Of Republican Convention. Defends the Working of Payne Tar
 if Bill and Suits Brought to Dissolve

iH Bill and Suits Brought to Dissolve
 Trusts Mir. Root and Gentlemen of the Noti- fication Committed accept the nomi nation which you tender. do SO with profound gratitude to the Republican nzrty, which has thus honored me twice. I accept 1t as an approval of what I have done under it's mandate, and as an expression of confidence that in q second administration I will serve the public well. The issue pre- scented to the convention, over which your ehairman presided with such a just and even hand, made a crisis in the party's life. A faction sought to force the party to violate valuable and time honored national tradition by intrusting 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 pro- posals involving dangerous changes in our present constitutional form of rep resentative government and our inde- pendent judiciary.
 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 Repub- lican party was saved for future use fulness. It has been. the party through which substantially all the progress and development in our country's his tory in the last fifty years has been finally effected. 1t carried the country through the war which saved the Un- ion and through the greenback and sii- yer crazes to a sound gold basis, which saved the country's honor and credit. It fought the Spanish war and suc- cessfully solved the new problems of our island possessions.
 It met the incidental evils of the enormous trade expansion and extend ed combinations of capital from 1897 until now. by successful crusade against the attempt of concentrated wealth to control the country's politics and it's trade. It enacted regulatory legislation to make the railroads the servants and not the masters of the people It has enforced the antitrust laws until those who were not content with anything but monopolistic con trol of various branches of industry are now aequieseent in any plan which shall give them scope for legitimate expansion and assure them immunity from reckless prosecution.
 The Duty of Government
 The Republican party has been alive to the modern change In the view of the duty of government toward the people. Time was when the least gov ernment was thought the best, and the policy which left all to the indi- vidual, unrnOlested and unaided by governmentE w9 aea1Ged the sissst Now the dIffY.a0f&gp VeEament bg pSsi- tive law to further equality of oppor- tunity in. respect of the weaker classes in their dealings with the stronger and more powerful is clearly recognized. 1t is in this direction that real prog ress toward the greater human hap piness is being made. It has been suggested that under our constitution such tendency to so called paternalism was impossible. Nothing is further from the fact The power of the fed eral government to tax and expend for the general welfare has long been exercised, and the admiration one feels for our constitution is increased when we perceive how readily that instru- ment lends itself to wider govern mental functions in the promotion of the comfort of the people.
 The list of legislative enactments for the uplifting 'of these of our people suf- fering a disadvantage in. their social and economic relations to others enact ed by the Republican party in this and previous administrations is a long one and shows the party sensitive to the needs of the people under the new view of governmental responsibility.
 Thus there was the pure food law and the meat inspection law to hold those who dealt with the food of mil lions to @ strict accountability for it's healthful condition.
 The frightful loss of life and limb to railway employees in: times past has now been greatly reduced by stat utes requiring safety appliances and proper inspection, of which two im- portant ones were passed in this ad- ministration.
 The passage of time has brought the burdens and helplessness of old age to many of those veterans of the civil war who exposed their lives in the supreme struggle to save the nation. and, recognizing this, congress has added D previous provision which pa triotic gratitude had prompted, sub etantial allowance, which may be properly characterized as an old mems pension.
 Railways and Employees.
 In the making of the contract of en- ployment between a railway employee and the company the two do not stand lon an equality, and the terms of the contract which the common law inn piled were unfair to the employee. Congress in the exercise of its control over interstate commerce has reformed the contract to be implied and hal made it more favorable to the em ployee. Indeed, a more radical bill which fully approve, has passed tn, senate. and is now pending in thu house which requires interstate rail ways in effect to insure the lives O.