River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-08-08
Mr.. TAFT ACCEPTS
THE NOMINATION
Presidents Speech to Senator
Root and His Committee.
CAMPAIGN ISSUES DEFINED
of the Republican Party
In This and Previous Admins
trations neutrality-suspicious. by
Democrats and Progressives
10 Denounced.

washington, Aug. president
Taft today was formally notified OF
his nomination by the Republican con-
vention In Chicago, and formally ac-
cepted the honor. The committee,
headed by Senator Root, called on
the president at the White House.
Mr.. Taft's speech of acceptance was
carefully prepared for use as cam
paign document. 1t was in part as
follows:
Mr.. Root and Gentlemen of the Noti-
fication COMMITTEES:
I accept the nomination which you
tender. / do so with profound graft
tude to the Republican party, which
has thus honored me twice. | accept
1t as an approval Of what | have done
under its mandate, and as an ex-
preston of confidence that In a sec
ond administration will serve the
public well. The Issue presented to
the convention, over which your chair
man presided with such a just and
even hand, made crisis In the party's
life. A faction sought to force the
party to violate a valuable and time
honored national tradition by entrust-
ing the power OF the presidency for
more than two terms to one man, and
that man, one whose recently aVoweo
political views would have committed
the party to radical proposals involv-
ing dangerous changes in our pres
emit constitutional form of representa-
tive government and our independent
judiciary.
Achievements Of the Party.
This occasion is appropriate for the
expression of profound gratitude at
the victory for the right which was
won at Chicago. By that victory, the
Republican party was saved for fu-
ture usefulness. 1t has been the party
through which substantially all the
progress and development in our
country's history in the last fifty
years has been finally effected. 1t
carried the country through the war
which saved the Union, and through
the greenback and silver crazes to a
sound gold basis, which saved the
country's honor and credit. It fought
the Spanish var and successfully
solved the new problems of our ISL
and possessions. 1t met the incidental
evils of the enormous trade expansion
and extended combinations of capital
from 1897 until now by successful
crusade against the attempt of concen-
trated wealth to control the coun-
try's politics and it's trade. 1t en-
acted regulatory legislation to make
the railroads the servants and not
the masters Of the people. 1t has en-
forced the antitrust laws until those
who were not content with anything
but monopolistic control of various
branches of industry are now acquies-
cent in any plan which shall give
them scope for legitimate expansion
and assure them immunity from reck-
less prosecution.
The list of legislative enactments
for the uplifting of those of our peo-
pie suffering disadvantage in their
social and economic relation to 9TH
ers enacted by the Republican party
in this and previous administrations
Is long one, and shows the party
sensitive to the needs of the people
under the new view of governmental
responsibility.
Public Mind InfIamed.
After mentioning in some detail
these enactments under the Republic
an administrations, Mr.. Taft contin-
ued:
In the work OF rousing the people
to the danger that threatened our civ
ilization from the abuses of concen-
likely to exercise, the public imagin-
alton was wrought upon and reign
of sensational journalism and unjust
and unprincipled undertaking has fol-
lowed. in which much injustice has
been done to honest men. Dema-
gogues have seized the opportunity
further to infiame the public mind and
have sought to turn the peculiar con.
ditions to their advantage.
Looks Like Socialism.
In the ultimate analysis, I fear, the
equal opportunity which those seek
who proclaim the coming of so-called
social justice involves a forced divis-
ion Of property, and that means so
cialism. In the abuses of the last two
decades it is true that ill-gotten
wealth has been concentrated in some
undeserving hands, and that If 1t were
possible to redistribute it on any equi-
table principle to those from whom it
was taken without adequate or proper
compensation It would be good re