The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-01
Believes Record of His Party and
Himself Merits Confidence
A Mild ATTACK ON OTHERS
In Accepting Republican Nomination for
President, Taft Declared He Be-
leved in Standing Pat Until
Better Course Is Certain.

Washington, D. c., Aug. l.-Presiden
Taft was formally notified to-day b,
senator Elihu Root of his nomination a
the Republican national convention a
Chicago. Surrounded by his family ant
friends in the historic East room of th'
White House, the president heard from
Chairman Root Of the committee OF notl
flcation his first official information Of
tho conventions action.
''Your title to the nomination is clear
and unimpeachable as the title OF any
candidate since political conventions be-
gan" said Root.
II accept the nomination you tender
replied President Taft "I.accept it as
ar expression of confidence that in my
second administration l win serve the
public we'll"
Although Mr.. Taft defined in detail
the issues of the campaign as he saw
them, he reserved the right to amplify
His statement in letter rs the cam
psign develops.
The supreme issue that confronts the
voters the president declared, was that
of the maintenance of the nations in
stitutions and the preservation of the
constitution. threatened, he said, on the
one hand by the Democratic party and
on the other by those Republicans who
lad left the party to try their fortunes
III d new one.
Next in Importance Mr. Taft placed
the tariff. In the proposals of the Dem
ocrats for reductions in the present
schedules, he said, lay danger OF business
depression and hard times The Repub-
lican principle of revision only where
scientific investigation shows it neees-
sary marked the straight road to con-
tinued prosperity and commercial peace.
In discussing the tariff, the president
said that it was untrue that to its door
could be traced the high cost of living
and pointed out that conditions of living
were alike over the world. A political
promise could not remedy such a condi-
tion, he said.
As an issue only less important than
the tariff, the president placed the regu
Iation of trusts. He said the Sherman
law had been enforced with success, but
added that specific acts Of unfair trade
should be denounced as msdemeanors
that such acts might be avoided or when
committed punished by summary pro-
8CNuAIt. fHlfINldlt uuSiHtSs tHbtl
he said. should be offered federal in
corporation law.
Aside from those issues, the president
pointed to the record of the Republican
party and particularly during his own
administration as an earnest of what it
might be expected to do in the future If
the people returned it to power in Mo-
yember He attacked the Democrats at
II. Al Al - l..
cial reference to the refusal of that
party in the House of Representatives to
continue the naval policy of two battle
ships year.
Taft did not mention either Colonel
Roosevelt or Governor Woodrow Wilson |
by name. but referred to each. While !
he did not accuse either of embracing |
the doctrines OF socialism. many of the |
proposals they had made, the president |
said savored of it strongly, He closed |
with a review of his administrative |
achievements and appealed directly to
the conservative voters of the Democrat |
ic party to join with the Republicans
at the polls.
81 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 our
form of government that are recklessly
advanced to satisfy what is supposed to
be popular clamor," said the president.
"They are men who revere the consti-
tuition and the institutions of their gov
rnment with all the love and respect
that we could possibly have, men who
deprecate disturbances in business condi-
tions, and are yearning for that quiet
from demagogic agitation which is essen
tial to the enjoyment by the whole peo
pie of the great prosperity which the
good crops and the present conditions
ought to bring us.
"To them | appeal, as to all Repub
llcans, to join us in an earnest effort to
avert the political and economic revolu
ton and business paralysis which Re-
publican 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 understand the shallowness of at
taeks upon existing institutions and de-
ceitful promises of underlined benefit by
underlined changes?"
The president had heard officially OF
his nomination at Chicago from the lips
Df senator Emu hOOI Oh New 1Ofk.
Chairman of the notification committee
81 accept it," he began, "as an ap-
proval of what | have done under its !
mandate and as an expression of conf
dence that in second administration /
will serve the public we'll The issues ,
presented to the convention over which
our chairman presided with such a just
and even hand. made a crisis in the par
VS. life. A faction sought to force the
party to violate valuable and time.
IGNORED national tradition by entrust-
ing 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
% radical proposals involving dangerous
,hanges in our present constitutional
iorm of representative government and v
,ur independent judiciary. This occa- d
'ion is appropriate for the expression II
If profound gratitude at the victory for t
he right won at Chicago. BY that t
retory. the Republican party was saved I
or future usefulness" a
After reviewing the legislative enact Il
nents of the Republican party, the pres f