The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-19
Tells w by Republican
Party Should Be Re-
turned to Power.
BEGS DELEGATES
TO ACT IN UNISON
Chairman Prays That Individual
Opinions Be Subordinated for
Good Of Party-Achievements
Of President Taft's Admins
tration Recounted-Pledged
to Uphold the Courts.

Chicago Hune Ex-senator Roots
Keynote speech" as temporary char
man Of the Republican convention was
a comprehensive resume of tho
achievements OF President Tafts ad-
ministrauon. He began with refer
chce TO the present struggle for con-
troll OF the Republican party, and
called upon the various members to
subordinate their individual opinions
and act in unison upon great questions
upon which they agreed
throughout our party's history"
ne said. lin each presidential election
we nave gone to the American people
with the confident and Just assertion
that the Republican party Is not
mere fortuitous collection OF indi-
fiduals. but coherent and living force
a. an ORGANIZATION"
Tnft'a Work Lauded.
referring to the work OF President
Tatt's COMMUNICATION. Chairman Root
referred to prosecutions under the,
pure food law conservation of natural
resources. economy In the public SER
vice and Improvement Lf the army and
navy. He referred to the refusal of
the Democratic Mouse to sanction two
oattleships this year. and said the
question Of whether the American navy
should be permitted to fall back now
and the Republican Senate.
The construction of the Panama
canal he referred to as greater than
a Roman triumph" The chairman re-
ferred Briefly to the foreign relations
OF the government under tAs present
admin!stra ton. and pointed to the
steady growth of American trade
abroad
Senator Root spoke at some length
NJ
ance OF American iAJtitutions He
said in part:
To the surprise of his assistants. the
plank upon which the Colonel sets
most store Is one which has so far
inquired simply in a letter from him
TO private citizen. That is one
calling for wholesale work on the
MISSISSIPPI River. curling It's floods. and
retaining its submerged areas. The
plank will pledge the party to utiliz-
ing for this purpose the powerful or
ganization that for another year wiz
be at work on the Panama Canal. and
the mass of machinery thar has been
used there will also be designed for
the new project.
His Trust Program.
Next In importance. as the Colonel
now sees II. Will be a plank promising
further control of the trusts This will
De the only one OF the three blanks
demanded by the Colonel that have
the least relation to the subjects of the
speeches in which he pleaded bis right
10 lead the Republican patty in its
coming battle. To offset the Presidents
record of convictions in trust prosecu-
tons the Colonel will put forward q
plan for more peaceful control bv
means of an industrial commission
by Federal incorpore ton
The third of the Colopej.s o,a,,L.
comes as the greatest surprise to his
lieutena nts. This will be on the tarin
in which the Colonel has never shown
the slightest interest Realizing tho
need OF outdoing in some way Presi-
oent Tafts earnest advocacy of tariff
reductions to point measuring diff
terence In cost at home and abroad
with a fair profit TO the American
manufacturer. the Colonel will drop
out of consideration the question OF
the PROFIT. His new tariff doctrine will
be that protection Is solely for tho
workingman and he will declare that
such was its original purptse with
Alexander Hamilton and his immediate
followers.
We claim that we arc entitled to
popular vote of confidence at the COM
ing election because We have demon
strated that we are a party of aftlr
NATIVE. constructive policies for the
retirement and progress OF our coun-
try in all the fields unon which the
activity and influence of government
can rightly enter.
NO government which must be ad-
ministered by weak anc fallible men
can be perfect. but We may Justly
CAIN for our government under the
Constitution that for a century and a
quarter 1t has worked out the best
results for individual liberty and
progress in civilization yet achieved
by governmental institutions
We Will maintain the power and
banor of the nation. but we Will oh.
serve those limitations which the
Constitution sets up for the preserve
ton of local self-government This
country is so large and the conditions
of life SO varied that It would be In
tolerable to have the local and domes-
tic affairs Of our home communities.
which involve no national rights. con-
trolied by majorities made up in 9TH
CIR States thousands of miles away, or