Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-01
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Taft's Aeceptance.

Tafts Acceptance.
WASHINGTON, AUG. President
laft's formal speech of acceptance
Of the nomination Of the Chicago con
vention was delivered here today to
the official committee of notification
headed by Senator Root and a few
invited guests.
Although MI. Taft defined in detail
, the issues of the campaign as he saw
them, he reserved the right to am
! plify his statement in a letter as the
campaign develops.
The supreme issue that confronts
the voters, the president declared,
was that of the maintenance Of the
nations institutions and the p%reserva-
ton OF the constitution, threatened he
said, on the n hand by the Demo
cratic party and on the other by those
Republicans who had left the party to
try their fortunes in a new one.
Next in importance Mr.. Taft placed
the tariff. In the proposals Of the
Democrats for reductions IN the pres
ent schedules, he said, lay danger Of
business depression and hard times.
The Republican principle of revision
only where scientific investigation
shows it necessary, marked the
straight road tt continued prosperity
and commercial peace.
In discussing the tariff, the presl-
dent said that it was untrue that to
its door could be traced the high
cost Of living and pointed out that
conditions of living e alike over
the world. "A political promise could
not remedy such a condition he saio:
As an issue only less Important
than the tariff the president placed
the regulation of trusts. He said the
Sherman law had i,Deen enforced with
success but added that specific acts
of unfair trade should be denounced
as misdemeanors that such acts
might be avoided or when committed
punished by summary procedure. In
terstate business enterprises, he said,
should be offered a federal incorpora'
ton law.
Aside from those issued the presi.
dent pointed to the record of the Re-
publican party and particularly dur
ing his own administration as an ear
nest of what it might be expected to
do in the future if the people return
ed it to power in November. He at.
tackled the Democrats at other points
than the tariff, making special ref.
erence to the refusal of that party
in the house of representatives to
continue the naval policy of two bat.
tleships a year. Taft did not mention
either Colonel Roosevelt or Governor
Woodrow Wilson by name but re-
ferred to each. While he did not &C.
cuse either of embracing the doc
trines Of Socialism, many of the pro.
posals they had made, the president
said savored of it strongly. He
closed with a review of his admins
trative achievements and appealed d.
rectly to the conservative voters of
the Democratic party to join with the
Republicans at the polls.
g" 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 u
form of government that are reckless
ly advanced to satisfy what is sup.
posed to be popular clamor," said the
president.
"They are men who reverse the
constitution and the institutions of
their government with all the love
and respect that we could possibly
have, men who %deprecate disturbance
in business conditions, and are yearn-
ing for that quiet from demagogic agi-
tation which Is essential to the en-
joyment of the whole people of the
great prosperity which the good crops
and the present conditions ought to
bring us.
ITO them ] appeal, as to all Re.
publicans, to join us in an earnest
effort to avert the political and eco
nomic revolution and business paraly-
sis which Republican 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 under
stand the shallowness Of attacks up
on existing institutions and deceitful
promises Of underlined benefit by UNI
defined changes"
The president had heard officially
Of his nomination at Chicago from the
lips Of Senator Elihu Root Of New
York, chairman Of the notification
committee.
Il accept it." be began, "as an ap-
prevail Of what I have done under its
mandate and as an expression Of CON.
fidence that In . second administers
ton ] will serve the public we'll. The