Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1912 — OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED OF PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION. [ARTICLE]

OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED OF PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.

Eiihu Root Made Speech of Notification and Declared Thai No Taint * Was Connected with Procedure. Eiihu Root, senator from New York, Who served in Theodore Roosevelt’s cabinet as secretary of war and later as secretary of state, and who is one of the country’s most able statesmen and most honorable citizens, made the speech of notification at Washington Thursday, informing President Taft officially that he had been nominated by ’.he republicans for president Mr. Root declared that theje was no taint of dishonesty in , the president’s nomination and that the national committee settled all contests in honesty and good faith. President Taft accepted the nomination with a speech complete in a resume of his administration and in the discussion of the needs of the government and the method of meeting and caring for these needs. His speech was dispassionate, and was the calm expression of a thinker and- a student. It should be read and studied* by every man. In concluding his speech President Taft said:

I have thus outlined, Mr. Root and gentlemen, what I consider to be the chief issues of this campaign. There are others of importance, but time does not permit me to discuss them. In accordance with the usual custom I reserve the opportunity to supplement these remarks in a letter to be addressed to you at a later date when the alignment of the campaign may require further discussion.

I can not think that the American people, after the scrutiny and education of a three months’ campaign, during which they will be able to see through the fog of misrepresentation and demagoguery, will fail to recognize that the two great issues which are here represented to them are, first, whether we shall retain, on a sound and permanent basis, our popular constitutional representative form of government, with the independence of the judiciary as a necessary key to the preservation of those liberties that are the inheritance of 1,000

years, and, second, whether we shall welcome -prosperity which is just at our door by maintaining our present economic business basis and by the encouragement of business expansion and progress through legitimate use of capital. May we not hope that the great majority of voters will be able to distinguish between the substance of performance and the fustian of promise; that they may be able to see that those who would deliberately stir up discontent and create hostility toward those who are conducting legitimate business enterprises, and who represent tlje business progress of the country, are sowing dragons’ teeth? Who are the people? They are not alone the unfortunate and the weak; they are the weak and the strong, the poor and the rich, and the many who are neither, the wage earner and the capitalist, the farmer and the professional man, the merchant and the manufacturer, the storekeeper and the clerk, the rail-

road manager and the employe—they all make up the people and they all contribute to the running of the government, and they have not any of them given into the hands of any one the mandate to speakUSr them as peculiarly the peoples’ representative. Especially does not he represent them who, assuming that the people are only the discontented, would stir them up against the remainder of those whose campaigns before this, the American people have been confused and misled and diverted from the truth and from a clear perception of their welfare by spacious appeals to their prejudices and their misunderstanding, but the clarifying effect of a campaign of education, the pricking of the bubbles of demagogic promise which the discussions of a campaign made possible, have brought the people to a clear perception of their own interests and to a rejection of the injurious nostrums that in the beginning of the campaign, it was then feared, they might embrace and adopt. So may we not expect in the issues which are now before us that the ballots cast in November shall show a prevailing majority in favor of sound progress, great prosperity upon a protective basis, and under true constitutional and- representative rule by the people?