The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-10
Pays Feeling Tribute to Past Career of the Taci-
 turn Justice
QUOTES DIFFERENCES
 MADE IN 1908 FIGHT
Senator Fall Presents RoOsevelts s Name in Brief Speech Emphasiz- ing the Need of Fighter to
 Guide the United States

Coliseum, Chicago, June Ex-Governor Whitman in nominating Justice Hughes said:
 "Our party is rich in men imbued with the true spirit of Americanism. No one of them can claim a preponderance or the American spirit in his heart or in his nature All have been brought up in the school of the great republican party whose record is the best guaran- tee of absolute, unswerving and devoted loyalty to the liberty, the integrity, and the national honor of this union Of states Our party has ever believed that for the maintenance of these principles, the na- ton should be ready, prepared, and, should necessity call, proud to fight
 we bring to you today the name of man trained III battle for the truth, tried and found faithful in the administra- ton of great public trusts, sterling in his republicanism free from the animosi- ties engendered by factional strife, his private life above suspicion, his public life without flaw, a great lawyer, an ef- fective campaigner, an able executive, a mature statesman, learned jurist. He, above all others, combines the essential qualifications of a true leader in this crisis of the party and of the nation
 INSURANCE PROBE
 His searching, fearless and epoch making investigation into the manage ment of our great insurance companies gave the people their first glimpse of his rare power, courage and idealism.
 When he was first nominated for gov ernor of the Empire state, so great was hi hol victorious, although every other candi- date on the republican ticket went down to defeat. His nomination here will carry with it absolute certainty of success in New York state.
 '.In 1908 the united republican party had nominated for it's presidential candidate that eminent statesman and judge, Will liam Howard Taft. One figure stood for the eminent in that campagn-the champion of the people of the party of the truth He had been renominated for governor
 Tn the midst of his own campaign the west called for him. At Youngstown, O., he delivered an address which, as an able and sincere presentation of the re- publican platform and destructive at tack upon the fallacies of the democratic proposals was not equaled except by his own later speeches. In Indiana he re- peated his Ohio triumph. Through the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota he bore the party's banner. In Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas he pounded home the truths and pledges of the re- publican platform. Through Missouri and Illinois his tour was one great rally of voters to our standards. Would that I could make you see him. the master of logic and effective speech, establishing himself as the greatest campaigner of that or any other political contest.
 "In the same year he consented that his name be placed in nomination for the presidency He signified his consent in a speech full of sterling republican and patriotic doctrine. Hear him speak of the republican party and it's mission:
 PARTY OF STABILITY
 !" The republican party is the party of stability, and the party of progress. It's fundamental policies have determined the