Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-08-01
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method which make ordered and
peaceful self-government possible,
as distinguished from intolerance
and hatred and violence.
"In respect of all these things our
country is threatened from many
sides. 1t is your privilege to be
the standard bearer for the cause III
which you believe; and in that cause
of peace and justice and liberty. the
millions of your countrymen who
believe as you do will stand with
you, and the great party which was
born in the struggle for constitu-
tional freedom will support you
Presidents Speech.
President Taft spoke as follows:
MI Root and Gentlemen Of the Noti-
fication Committee accept the nomi-
nation which you tender. l do so with
profound gratitude to the Republican
party, which has thus honored me
twice. / accept 1t as an approval Of
what I have done under its mandate,
and as an expression Of confidence
that in second administration l will
serve the public we'll The Issue pre-
scented to the convention, over which
your chairman 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 tho 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
resentauve 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. 1t has been the party through
which substantially all the progress
and development in our country's hls-
tory In the last fifty years has been
finally effected. 1t carried the country
through the war which saved the Un-
lon and through the greenback ana sli-
yer crazes to a sound gold basis, which
saved the country's honor and credit.
It fought the Spanish war and sue
cessfully solved the new problems OF
our island possessions.
1t met the incidental evils OF the
enormous trade expansion and extend
cd combina tons Of capital from 1897
until now by a successful crusade
against the attempt Of concentrated
wealth to control the countrv's politics
and It's trade. 1t enacted regulatory
LEGISLATION to make the railroads the
servants and not the masters OF the
peopIe. 1t has enforced the antitrust
laws until those who were not content
With anything but monopolisdc con-
troll Of various branches Of industry
are now acquisscent in any plan which
shall give them scope for legitimate
expansion and assure them immunity
from reckless prosecution.
The Duty Of Government.
rhe 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
srnment was thought the best, and
the policy which left all to the indi-
yidual. unmolested and unaidsd by
government, was deemed the wisest
Now the duty OF government BY post
tj,e law to further equality OF oDpor-
tunity In respect Of the weaker classes
In their dealings with the stronger ana
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