The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-19
ROOT MAKES
 KEYNOTE SPEECH
Praises Taft's Administration and Advises Delesates That
 Constitution is the Thing

Senator E1ihu Root as temporary chairman of the Chicago convention spoke in part as follows, yesterday:
 Gentlemen of the Cbnvention: Be- lieve that appreciate this imprss-
 sion of confidence. wish were
 more competent for the service you
 require of me. The Gtrugefe for Jeed-
 ership in the Republican party, which has so long engrosSed the attention
 and excited feelings of itS members,
 IS about to be determined by the Se-' lection of a candidate. The svarying
 the political creed ot the party are.
 about to be settled by <he adoption
 of platform
 | The supreme council os the. party, in this great national convention. rep resenting every State and Territory in since established. is about to appeal
 to the American people for . contin- which which tl the pc party Sss e1ssalssd '3ias but brief Interruptions for morks than
 half century. and that Appeai is principles approved, and the quaiitisy. Eof the candidates selected by the con- [vention
 !. In the performance of this duty by the convention. and In the accepfance OI llS COuCluSiOuS Oy 1toUuDt1C008 18 to be applied. the ever-recurring test
 of a party's fitness to govern, ffs cp-
 herence and its formative and cou-
 trolling power of organisation And these depend upon the wfllinGnesS of the members of the party to subord1n-
 ate their varying individual opintons
 and postpone the matters of difference between them in order that they may
 act in unison upon the great questions
 wherein they agree; upon their will
 ingness and capacity to thrust aside the disappointment which some of
 them must always feel in. falling 10 secure the success of the candidates
 of their preference; upon the loyalty
 of party members to the party ttse1f, ! ito the great organisation whose
 agency in government they believe to
 be for tho best interests Of the na-
 power their love of county constrsfns
 them to labor.
 Without these things there ben be no party worthy of the name. Without
 them party aqsociatjon is . rops of sand, party organization b an: fnefec-
 pears, and with 1t disappears the right to public confidence without oe0an-
 ized parties, having these qualities oz coherence and loyalty, free popular government becomes confused ana { continual conflict between a vast mu1- titude of individual opinions, individ- ual interests, individual attractions and . repulsions, from which effective gov
 ernment can emerge only by answer ing to the universal law of necessary organization and again forming par ties
 each Presidential election we have gone to the American people with the confident and just assertion that the Republican party tS not a more for tuttous collection of indivfduals, but fs g. coherent and living force ao an 0r- ganization. It is efreotive, resyon. sible, worthy of confidence, competent to govern. The traditions, of it's great struggles for liberty for tAe. supremacy of law. for the preservatieA of consti- tutional government, for rational hon. or exercise a controlling thffuence up- on its conduct. The lofty purpoee of it's great -originAtors has been. trtne- mitted by spirituaE succession from generation to generation of party lead- CTS. and 1t is no idle rhetoric when we say, as we have so often zaid and. are about to say again to the American people: we are entitled to your be- lief in the sincerity of the principles didates; to those principles, beoause Fe are tho party. of Lincoln, and Sumu4r, and Seward. and. Andrew and MortQn, and Grant, and Hayes, and 9Ar1eld, .anQEAEtA0f, t4QQ HaHr1Son, and 1445Ss and E1oar and McKinley. We cla4m that we are entitled to asDopular vgte of confidence at the coming election because we have deFnonstrnted t6at we are the party of affirmative. con- structive policies for the betterpQ4Df and progress of our country in a1t24Ae ffelds upon which the activity and m~ fiuente of government can rfehty eq- ter.'' % { Under Republican administrkti4n there has been one unbrokens c0ntln- uous course of consistent policy and effective performance in dealing with the evils which have been natuSeuy incident to the amaS1ng iuduox1al changes of our rgeneration, the yeef creation of new wealth, the incre4ee of our population and the expeneien of our commerce, If reete with Ae American electorate to saH whether thay will permit those minor dioeafe~ factions which are inseparable from all human performance and tho 4eetre for change by which all men are sonetifnas affected, to obscure n the@F the wisdom Of conti1uing the execution of these policies and the evil of charterfng another and untr1ed party for a new departure in g0vvrn- mental experiment.