Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-08-09
PRESIDENT TOLD
OF NOMINATION
tAFT FORMALLY ACCEPTS POSI-
TON AS REPUBLICAN
LEADER.
STANDS ON PARTY PLATFORM
l Speech Addressed to Senator Root
Present Occupant of White House
F,clares Willingness to Appeal Y
to Voters on His Record.

Washington, Aug. 1.-Senator Root,
the head of the committee appoint
h TO notify President Taft of his re-
domination by the Republican party
pr the presidency of the United
hates, listened to the following speech
rcm the chief executive:
fr. Root and Gentlemen of the Noti-
fcation Committee:
I accept the nomination which you
ender | do so with profound graft
hide to the Republican party, which
as thus honored me twice. accept
as an approval of what have done
tnder its mandate, and as an ex-
eression of confidence that in second
administration | will serve the public
hell The issue presented to the con-
fentton. over which your chairman
presided with such a just and even
hand. made a crisis in the party's life.
faction sought to folGe the party
10 violate a valuable and time-honored
National tradition of entrusting the
bower of the presidency for more
han two terms to one man, and that
han. one whose recently avoWed
political views would have committed
[he party to radical proposals involv-
he dangerous changes in our present
Constitutional form of representative
Government and our Independent
judiciary.
Achievements of the Party.
This occasion is appropriate for the
Expression of profound gratitude at
he victory for the right which was
ZION at Chicago. By that victory, the
Republican party was saved for flu
lure usefulness. 1t has been the
barty through which substantially all
he progress and development in our
kountry's history in the last fifty
Fears has been finally effected. It
larrled the country through the war
Which saved the Union, and through
Die greenback and silver crazes to a
bound gold basis, which saved the
kountry's honor and credit. 1t. fought.
Efhe Spanish war and successfully
Bolved the new problems of our island
evils of the enormous trade expansion
Ind extended combinations of capital
Rom 1897 until now by successful
Crusade against the attempt of concen-
rated wealth to control the coun-
RVS politics and it's trade. 1t en-
cted regulatory legislation to make
he railroads the servants and not
he masters of the people. 1t has en-
breed the antitrust laws until those
Eho were not content with anything
ut monopolistic control OF various
ranches of industry are now acquies-
lent in any plan which shall give
hem scope for legitimate expansion
nd assure them immunity from reck-
ess prosecution.
The list of legislative enactments
or the uplifting of those of our peo-
lie suffering a disadvantage in their
ocial and economic relation to others
Enacted by the Republican party in
his and previous administrations is a
long one, and shows the party senst-
I've 20 the needs of the people under
he new view of governmental respon-
ibility.
Public Mind infIamed.
After mentioning in some detail
hese enactments under the Repub-
Jean administration, Mr.. Taft con-
inued:
In the work of rousing the people
"a the danger that threatened our civ
lzation from the abuses Of cOncen-
$fated wealth and the power it was
lkely to exercise, the public magma
pom was wrought upon and reign
sensational journalism and unjust
nd unprincipled undertaking has fol-
pwed, in which much injustice has
peen done to honest men. Dema
ogues have seized the opportunity
nrther 20 infiame the public mind
nj have sought to turn the peculiar
onditions to their advantage.
We are living in an age in which by
xaggeration of the defects of our
resent condition, by false charges
I responsibility for it against individ-
fals aud classes, by holding up to the
,RVerish Imagination cf the less for
lnate and the disconnected the pos
eollties of millennium, a condition
popular unrest has been produced.
eW parties are being formed. with
ie proposed purpose of satisfying
nis q'Eest by promising panacea.
so far as inequality of condition
an be lessened and equality of oppor-
unity can be promoted by improve
leht OF our educational system, the
euerment Of the laws to insure the
uck administration of-justice, and
the prevention of the acquisition of
IFAege without Just compensation in
Tar as the adoption of the legis-
'lon above recited and laws of
iulIiar character may aid the less
Or'unate in their struggle with the
araships Of life, all are in sympathy
i'n continued effort to remedy in
NStloe and to aid the weak, and / ven-
1fe 10 say that there is no national
um&ulstration in which more real
cps 81 such progress have been
'hen than in the present one. But
SO lar as the propaganda for the
8lStaction of unrest involves the