Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-01
TAFT BITTER in
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
CONTINUED From PAGE IL
Peint. 70 Party Record.

Aside from those issues the presi-
dent pointed to the record OF the re-
publican party and particularly during
his own administration as an earnest
OF what 1t might be expected to do In
the future II the people returned 1t to
power in November. He attacked the
democrats at other points than the
tariff. making special reference to the
refusal Of that party in the house Of
representatives to continue the naval
policy OF two battle ships year Taft
did not mention either Colonel Roose-
welt or Governor Woodrow Wilson by
name but referred to each. While he
did not accuse either of embracing the
doctrines of socialism, many of the pro-
posals they had made. the president
said savored Of it strongly. He closed
with q review of his administrative
achievements and appealed directly to
the conservative voters of the demo-
cratic party to join with the republic
cans at the polls
A Rap at Roosevelt.
II know that in this wide country
there are many who call themselves
democrats. who view, with the same
aversion that we republicans do, the
radical propositions Of change in our
form OF government that are reckless
" advanced to satisfy what is sup
posed to be popular clamor." said the
president.
They are men who revere the con-
stitution and the institutions of their
government with all the love and re-
spect that we could possibly have, men
who deprecate disturbance in business
nd hot
quiet from demagogic agitation which
whole people OF the great prosperity
conditions ought to bring us.
ITO them I appeal, as to all repub-
licans, to join us in an earnest effort to
avert the political and economic revo-
luton and business paralysis which re-
publican defeat will bring about. Such
misfortune will fall most heavily on
the wage Garner May we not hope
| that he will see what his real interest
is, will understand the shallowness of
attacks up on existing Institutions and
deceitful promises Of underlined benefit
by underlined changes ?"
Nomination as Approval.
The president had heard officially of
his nomination at Chicago from the lips
Of Senator Elihu Root, Of New York.
chairman Of the notification commit
tee
Il accept It," he began. "as an ap-
prevail Of what have done under its
mandate and as an expression Of con-
f1dence that in a second administrator
will serve the public we'll. The issues
presented to the convention over which
your chairman presided with such a
just and even hand, made q crisis in
the party's life A faction sought to
force the party to violate q valuable
and time honored national tradition by
entrusting 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 propos-
ais involving dangerous changes in our
present constitutional form Of repre-
sentative government and our indie
pendent judiciary. This occasion Is
appropriate for the expression Of pro-
found gratitude at the victory for the
right won at Chicago. BY that victory
the repu blican party was saved for fu-
ture usefulness"
Prssidsnt Grows Bitter.
After reviewing the legislative enact
ments of the republican party the
president launched into a bitter attack
upon those responsible for the popu-
lar unrest" of the present day.
Started by sensational journalism
and unjust and unprincipled muckrak-
ing" he said. "demagogs have seized
the opportunity to inflame the public
mind that they might turn peculiar con-
ditions to their own advantage" In the
formation Of new parties the president
said, these men have promised the sat
isfaction Of unrest by the application
Of panacea.
In the ultimate analysis. fear. the
equal opportunity which those seek
who proclaim the 50 called social jus
tice. involves forced division Of prop
erty, and that means socialism. I ven
ture to say there Is no national admin
istration in which more real steps Of
progress have been taken than in the
present one. But as for the millennium, a
condition in which the rich are to be
made reasonably poor and the poor
reasonably rich by law, we are chasing
phantom: we are holding out to these.
whose unrest we fear, a prospect and
a dream. vision of the impossible.
Whether They Don't Know.
Il do not say that the two gentlemen