The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-01
Elihu Root Makes the Noti-
fication Address, Com
mending President on Ad-
ministration's Work.
TAFT CRITICISES
T. R. IN RESPONSE
Says that Roosevelt Has
Done Wrong by Forming
a Third Party.-Expects to
Win in November.
(Nationsl News Association)

(Nationsl News Association)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Wm. H.
Taft today accepted the nomination of
the Republican party for second
term as president in a speech marked
by sharp attacks on Theodore Roose-
welt and the Democratic party. He
wasted no time in launching his at
tack on Roosevelt saying at the very
outset Of his speech:
"A faction sought to force the party
to violate 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 proposals involving danger
GUS changes in our present constitu-
tional form of government and our in
dependent judiciary"
In discussing the subject of "Popu-
lar unrest" the president said: 81 now
say that the two gentlemen who now
lead one the Democratic party and the
other the former Republicans who
have left their party, in their attacks
upon existing conditions, and in their
attempt to satisfy the popular unrest
by promises of remedies are conscious
ly embracing socialism. The truth is
that they do not offer any definite ex-
planation of policy by which the hap
py conditions they promise are to be
brought about, but if their promises
mean anything they lead directly to-
ward the appropriation of what be-
longs to one man to another"
The president sounded a warning as
to the evil that might be expected to
follow a Democratic victory and
pledged himself to uphold the consti-
tuition and representative rule by the
people. The address of notification was
made to President Taft by Elihu Root
of New York who presided as temper
ary and permanent chairman of the
national convention in Chicago.
Root Makes Address.
1t was as follows: Mr.. President
The committee Of notification here has
the honor to advise you formally that
on the 22nd day of June last you were
regularly and duly nominated by the
national convention of the Republican
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 part of the
delegates have refused to be bound by
the action of the convention.
Now, as on the former occasion the
l;oh
intention to support either your DEM
ocratic opponent or a third candidate.
The reason assigned for this course
Is dissatisfaction with the decision
of certain contests In the making up
of the temporary roll Of the conven-
tion. These contests were decided by
the tribunal upon which the law that
has governed the Republican party for
more than forty years imposed the du-
ty of deciding such contests. So long
as these decisions we're made honest
ly and in good faith, all persons were
bound to accept them as conclusive in
| the making up of the temporary roll
of the convention, and neither in the
facts and arguments produced before
the national committee or the commit
tee on credentials, nor otherwise, does
! there appear just grounds for i'm
! peaching the honesty and good faith
of the committees decision, both the
making up of the temporary roll and
the rights accorded to the persons up
! on that roll, whose seats were contest
! ed were in accordance with the long
established and unquestioned rules OF
law governing the party and founded
upon Justice and commen sense Your
title to the nomination is as clear and
unimpeachable as the title of any can
didate Of any party since political
convention began.
Your 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 Republi
can party maintains. You believe In
the rule of the law rather than the
rule Of men. You realize that the on
ly safety for nations, as for individu
ais, is to establish and abide by de
clared principles of action. You are
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