Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-02
TALKS OF HIS OPPONENTS
RENIliNED ACHIEVEMENTS OF
MS ADMlNISTRATION-Ap-
PIGAIS 10 THE PEOPLE.
lie DISCUSSES THE TARIFF
RcUtation Of Trusts and Mnlntcn,
ancc OF Nations Institutions
Are Essential.

w MASlllNGIoN, aug, l,-lfeNlutnt
rafts formal speech Of acceptance of
the nomination OF the Chicago CON
yentlon was delivered here todul to
the official committee OF notification
headed by Senator Root and a few
invited guests.
Although Mr.. Taft defined In detail
the issues of the campaign as he saw
them, he reserved the right TO am
pllfy 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 prcscrya-
ton Of the constitution. threatened. he
said, on the one hand by the Demo-
cratic party and on the other by
those Republicans who had left the
party TO try their fortunes In new
one.
Next In Importance Mr.. Taft paced
the tariff In the proposals of the
Democrats for reductions IN the prcs-
ent schedules, he said lay danger Of
business depression and hard t'mcs.
The Republican principle Of revision
only where scientific Investigation
shows It necessary. marked the
straight road to continued prosper y
and commercial peace.
In discussing the tariff the presl-
dent said that It was untrue that to
its door could pc traced the high
.f I.tt,,
conditions of living were alike over
the world. A political promise could
not remedy such condition, he said
AZ an Issue only less important than
the tariff the president placed the
regulation Of trusts, lie said the
Sherman law had been enforced with
snccess but added that specific acts
of unfair trade should be denounced
as misdemeanors that such acts might
be avoided, or when committed pun
ished by summary procedure. Inter-
state business enterprises. he said,
should be offered a federal incorpo-
ration 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 earn
est example Of what II might be ex-
pectcd to do In the future IL the peo-
pie returned 1t TO power in Novem-
ber lie attacked the Democrats at
other points than the tariff, making
special reference to the refusal Of
that party in the house Of represen-
tatives to continue the naval policy
Of two battleshlps 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 embrac-
ing the doctrines of Socialism. many
OF the proposals they had made, the
president said. savored of il strongly.
He closed with d review of his ad-
ministrative achievements and ap-
pealcd directly to the conservative
voters of the Democratic party to
join with the Republicans at the
polls.
u 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 reck-
lessly advanced to satisfy what Is
supposed TO be popular clamor," said
the president.
They are men who revere the
constitution and the institutions Df
their government with all the love
and respect that we could possibly
have, men who depreciate disturb
ance in business conditions, and are
yearning for that quiet from dema-
gogic agitation which is essential to
the enjoyment by the whole people of
the great prosperity which the good
crops and the present conditions
ought to bring us.
" To them l appeal, as to all Re-
publicans' to join us in an earnest ef-
fort 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-earner.
May we not hope that he will see
what his real interest is, will under
stand the shallowness Of attacks upon
existing institutions and deceitful
promises of underlined benefit By un-
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.
81 accept IT," he began as an ap-
proval OF what ! have done under its