Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-02
Mr.. TAFT accepts
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mandate and as an expression Of con
tdonce that In a second admin,stra-
tion / VIII serve the public well. The
issues presented to the convention
over which your chairman presided
with such just and even hand, made
crisis In the partNs lifc A faction
sought to force the party to violate
"A valuable and time-honored national
tradition boy cntrustng 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 10
radical proposals involving dangerous
changes IN our present constitutional
form of representative government
and our independent judiciary. This
occasion is appropriate for the eK-
preston Of profound gratitude at the
victory for the right won at Chicago.
liy that victory the Republican party
was saved for future usefulness"
After reviewing the Legislative en-
actments OF the Republican party the
president launched into a bitter at
tack upon those responsible for the
popular unrest of the present day.
started by sensational journalism
and unjust and unprincipled muck
/ raking," he said, "dcmaeogues have
seized the opportunity to inname the
| public mind that they might turn pc
cullar conditions TO their own advant-
age" In the formation of new par
ties the president said these men
have promised the satisfaction OF un-
rest by the application OF panacca.
"ln the ultimate analysis. | fear
the equal opportunity which those
seek who proclaim the so-called SO
cial justice, involves forced division
Of property, and that means Social
ism. | venture TO say there is no
national administration 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 rcas-
onabN poor and the poor reasonably
rich 10y law We are chasing a phan-
tom; we are holding out to those
whose unrest We fear a prospect and
a dream; a vision OF the impossible
81 do not say that the two gentle
men who now lead. one the Demo
cratic party and the other the form
er Republicans who have left their
party In their attacks upon existing
conditions and in their attempts to
satisfy the popular unrest by promises
Of remedies. are consciously embrace
ing Socialism. The truth is that they
do not offer any definite legislation
or policy 10y which the hapy condi-
tions they promise are to be brought
about but II their promises mean any
thing they lead directly toward the
appropriation Of what belongs to one
man, to another.
The truth j. my friends, both
those who have left the Republican
party under the inspiration Of their
present leader and our old opponents,
| the Democrats. under their candidate.
are going I'm direction they do not
/ definitely know toward an end they
cannot definitely describe, with but
one chief and clear object and that ls
/ of acquiring power for their party by
|popuarl supper through the promise
OF a change for the better.
These gentlemen propose to re-
, form the government, whose present
/ defects, II any are due TO tho failure
TO the people to devote as much
time as Is necessary to their political
duties 10y requiring a political activity
/ by the people three times that which
thus far the people have been willing
| to assume
"But after we have changed all the
| governmental machinery so as to per
init instantaneous expression Of the
| people In constitutional amendments,
| in statutes ana in recall of public
agents what then?
Votes are not bread, constitutional
amendments are not work, referen-
dums do not pay rent or furnish
houses, recalls do not furnish cloth
ing. initiatives do not supply employ
ment or relieve Inequalities Of condi-
/ ton or Of opportunity We stlu
ought 20 have set before us the deh-
mite plans to bring on complete equal
ity OF opportunity and to abolish hard
ship and evil for humanity We list
en- for them In vain.s
The president discussed at some
length the recall of judges and judic-
ial decisions and the proposals to for
hid the use Of injunctions 20 protect
. property against secondary BOYCOTT
and the use OF jurios I'm contempt