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Show Declares the Republican Party's Record Is Without Flaw Convention Hall, Chicago, June 19 As boon as the vote making him temporary tem-porary chairman of the convention was announced, Senator Root aiose Ho prefacod his propared speech with a few extemporaneous lemarks "I thank you," he said, "and I beg you to bcllovo that I deeply appreciate appreci-ate this' expression of your confidence." confi-dence." "Haw. haw, haw," came n guffaw from tho floor. Cries fiom membeis of the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania delegation brought a gioup of policemen In that direction. Sergeant-at-Arms Stone called upon the chief of police to rcstoie order In the liont rank of tho Pennsj Ivanla delegation, but Richard R. Quay, sitting sit-ting In the front put his hand to his mouth and called out "Receiver of stolen goods," while officers about him called for order. Root had scarcely begun his addiess before hundreds of spectatois on the floor and In the galleries began to move out of the hall noisily and hurriedly. hur-riedly. Senator Root suspended his speech and asked Sergeant-at-Arms Stone to ask those who wished to leae to go '"As soon as those desiring to leave have gone the senator will continue. ' shouted Stone through the megaphone and the spectators began to csowd ouL Root, scowling, resumed his place at the table. Senator Root's voice could not be heard half way down tho hall As the senator dat there, "Rill" Fllnn, with a cigar stub In the corner of his mouth, and his straw hat jammed down on his head, climbed ocr the stage railing. He stepped up to Senator Sen-ator Root, shook hands and conferred with him for several minutes, leaving just as Root resumed speaking. When Mi Root lcsumed, the ontlrc rear part of tho floor and gallery wns empty and those who remnlned to hear him crowded to t,ho front and the empty seats woro emphasized by the sharpness of tho contrast Root's Keynote Speech. Mr Root spoke ns follows: Gentlemen of the convention Tho struggle for leadership in the Republican Re-publican party, which has so long engrossed ihe attention and excited the feelings of Its members, is about to be determined by the selection of a candidate Tho arylng claims of opinion for recognition In the political polit-ical creed of the party are about to be settled by the adoption of a platform. plat-form. The supremo council of tho party in this groat national convention, rppresentlnr every state and territory terri-tory In due proportion, according to mles long since established, is about to appeal to the American people for tho continuance of the power of government, which the party has ox-ciclsed ox-ciclsed with bit brief interruptions for more than half a centurv In the performance of duty by the convention and In the acceptance of Its conclusions by Republicans, Is to bo applied the ever-recurring test of a party's fitness to govern, its cohci-encc cohci-encc and Its formative and controlling control-ling po'Aer of organization. Without organized parties, having these qualities of coherence and loyalty, loy-alty, free popular government becomes be-comes a confused conflict between a vast multitude of individual opinions, Individual Interests, individual attractions at-tractions and repulsions. The lofty purpose of Its great originators orig-inators has been transmitted by spiiitual succession from generation to generation of parly leaders', and It is no Idle rhetoric when we 3ay, as we have so often said and a,re about to say again to the American people. "We are entitled to youi belief in the sincerity of the piinciples we piofess and the lowilty of our candidates candi-dates to those principles, becauso we are the party of Lincoln, and Sumner, Sum-ner, and Seward, and Morton, and Grant, and Hayes, and Garfield, and Aithur, and Hairlson, and Blaine, and Hoar, and McKinley." We claim that we are cntltld to a popular vote ol confidence af the coming election because wo have demonstrated that we aie tbt party of affirmative, constructive policies for the betterment and progress In our co -n try. In all the fields upon which the actlvltj and influence of government can rightly enter. We claim It because wo have shown ourselves our-selves a party of efficient, honest and cocnomlcal administration, In which public moneys are faithfully applied, appointments are made on grounds of merit, efficient seivlce is rigoiously exacted, giaft is reduced to a minimum, derelictions from official of-ficial duty aro sternly punished, nnd a high standard of official morality is maintained We challenge the judgment of the American people on the pohclps of McKinley and Roosevelt and Taft. President Taft's Position. President Taft in his speech of acceptance ac-ceptance on the 2Sth of .luly, 190S, paid a Just tribute to the great service serv-ice rondei cl by his predecessor In awakening tho public conscience, inaugurating in-augurating rofonns and saving the country from the dangers of a plutocratic pluto-cratic government He Instanced the railroad rate law, the prevention or railroad rate discriminations, the enforcement en-forcement of the anti-trust law, the puro food law, the ment inspection law. the general supervision and control con-trol of transportation companies, the conservation of natural resources and then proceeded to say: "Tho chief function of the next administration, ad-ministration, In my judgment, is distinct dis-tinct from and a progressive development develop-ment from that which ban been performed per-formed by President Roosevelt. The chief function of the next administration adminis-tration Is to complete and perfect the machinery by which these standards stand-ards may be maintained, by whicn. the law breakers may be pioruptly restrained re-strained and puniehed, but which shall operate with sufficient accuracy and dispatch to interfere with Iegitimaco buslnesb as little as possible." Faithful Observance. There ppoko the voice of two Republican Re-publican administrations and the promise of that declaration has been faithfully observed wth painstaking and assiduous care. The Republican administration which is now drawing to a close lias engaged In completing and perfecting the machlnerj', in applying ap-plying tho standaids and working out tho practical results of established Republican policies, Including also the , McKinley policies of a protective tariff an dsound finance. Tho Republican party stands now, as McKinley stood, for a protective tariff, while the Democratic party stands against the principle of protection pro-tection and for a tariff for rovenue only Wq, stand not for the abuses of the tariff, but for the beneficial uses No tariff can bo levlsed so modenjto, so rensonablbe that It will not be rejected re-jected bj the Democratic party, provided pro-vided Its duties be adjusted with reference ref-erence tolabor cost so as to protect American products against being driven out of the market by foreign for-eign underselling made possible through the lower rate of wages rn other countries. The American ' foreign merchant service has been driven from the face of the waters because with tho wages of the American sailors It could not compete with foreign shipping. ship-ping. 1 havo said that we do not stand for the abuses of the tariff. Tho chief cause of abuse Is that we havo outgrown our old method of tariff-making. tariff-making. Our productive Industries have become too vast nnd complicated, compli-cated, our commorclal relations loo extensive, fpr any committee of congress con-gress of ItFelf to get at the facts to which the principle of protection may be properly applied. The Republican partj proposes to remedy this defective method through having the facts ascertained by an Impartial commission, through thorough thor-ough scientific Investigation, so that tho president and congress shall havo the basis for the just application of the principles of protection. The Republican congress included In the Pnyno-Aldrich bill a clause mm. i uiuv.il uiu invsiutui, nuu authority au-thority to appoint such n board to make such investigations and report the results to him. The president appointed tho board. Its mombers aro drawn fiom both political parties par-ties Tholr competency. Integrity ana fairness ib unquestioned. They" have reported upon the woolen bchedule; they have reported on the cotton schedule The president has transmitted trans-mitted their findings to congress. Tho Democratic house of representatives Ignores and repudiates them. Democratic Delay. In January. 1911. tho last Republican Repub-lican hoube of representatives passed a bill to crcat a tariff commission with1 much broader and more effective effec-tive powers for compelling tho attendance at-tendance of witnesses and securing information, charged to report Its findings to tho congress. The bill passed the senate wlt,h some amendment, amend-ment, but It was delayed there by an avowed Democratic filibuster until un-til it reached tho house so late in the session that a vote was prevented by another Democratic filibuster in the house. Nov the house is Democratic Demo-cratic and tho bill is dead. Tho Democratic party does not want the facts upon which a just meaeure can bo framed because thej' mean that there shall be no protection protec-tion for American industries. In the last session and In Its' present session of congress the Democratic house has framed and passed a series of tariff bills for revenue only, with complete indifference to tho absolute destruction that their enactment would bring upon great American industries. in-dustries. Some of them havo fallen by the wayside in the senate and some of them havo gone to the president to meet his wise and courageous veto. Up to the People. The American people now have to pass, not upon tho abuses of the tariff, tar-iff, but on the fundamental question between tho two systems of tariff-making. tariff-making. The national currency which the election of McKinley rescued from disaster at the hands of a free silver Domocracy still rests upon tho civil war basis of Government bonds and is no longer adapted to our changed conditions. It lb inelastic, and its volume does not expand and contract according to legitimate demands of business. No congress could by Us ordinary methods get beyond the surface sur-face of the vast and complicated problem, yot the working out of a 'new system adapted to American conditions Is of vital importance to the prosperity of the country and th securllyof every business and or everv man whoso support directly or indirect!; is dependent upon American Ameri-can business. For tho solution of this question the policy of the Reimblinnn nnrtv established a monetary commission which has made a most thorough and exhdiistlvo study of the financial sv stems of all clvili7ed nations of their relations to our own svstcm and tho needs of American "business. "busi-ness. Tho commission has reported a bill for the establishment of a new sys-tom sys-tom of reservo associations under which the currenc.v will he elastic; the business world will find ready sale for its commeicinl paper, the people at large will exercise contiol. instead of a little group of large bnnkcis. and the dangers of panic will disappear The president has iccommended the conclusions of the commission to the congress where the proposed bill Is under consideration considera-tion It is for the interest of every business busi-ness man In tho United States that tho party controlling the government shall not be changed until this policy has been carried Into execution Railroad Rate Control. Upon the recommendation of the president the powers of the Interstate Inter-state commijrco commission have been greatly enlarged and their control con-trol over railioad rates and railroad service made moie effective. Railioad Rail-ioad rebates lhave J-en vigorously prosecuted; tho imposition of large fines has ended practice. The tro2cufIon of the inteicsts and combinations in violation of tho Sherman act has gone ahead with extraordinary success. The Standard Oil company has been dissolved by suit begun under Roosevelt and brought to successful conclusion under un-der Taft, through a judgment in exact ex-act accordance with Ihe piayer of tho complaint The Tobacco company com-pany has been dissolved. The heel packers, tho wholesale grocers, the lumber dealers, the wire makcis. the "window glass pool, the electric lamp qomblnatron, the bnth tub trust, the shoe machinery trust, tho foreign steamship pool, tho sugar company with fhe steel corporation, the Harvester Har-vester company -all have been made - to feel the heavy hand of tho law through suits or Indictments against restraints and monopolies. Bureau of Mines. The newly created bureau of mines und tho newly authorized children's bureau mark the limit to which the national government can go towards improving the conditions of Interstate Inter-state labor without usurping the powers of the states. The pure food law has bee,n onforced with vigor and effectiveness. There hnvc been over five hundred prosecutions for violations of that law within the past year and more than a thousand cases within tho past three years. More than five hundred shipments of adulterated nnd misbranded foods and drugs have been condemned and forfeited and enormous quantities of injurious food materials have been destroyed. Conservation Policy. The consorntlon of natural resources re-sources has been in tho hands of its friends The process of examining and separating the timber and agricultural agri-cultural land In the great forest reserves re-serves established at the close of tho Inst administration has pioccedcd under the present administration in accordance with the original plan. The study of the water resources of the countr) and the recording o( the flow of streams have gone on under tho geological survey. Classification and appraisal of coal lands and their restoration to entry at discriminating prices based upon the classification ha3 extended to over sixteen million acres, of a total valuation of over seven hundrod and twelve million dollars. dol-lars. Economy in Service. Great reforms have been made In the economy of the public service. commission appointed by the president presi-dent hns boon examining all the departments de-partments of government operating under the antiquated statutes passed generations ago with a view to applying ap-plying In them the labor saving and money saving methods which have made the success of the great busl- I ness estaoiisnments 01 our country. In the meantime, also, the new Republican policy of tho postal savings sav-ings system has been successfully inaugurated in-augurated under the act of June 25, ' 1905. beginning experimentally with a few offices and now, after eleven months of operation, extondlng to seventy-five hundred presidential postofflces, with $11,000,000 of deposits. de-posits. Army and Navy. The army has been made more effective. ef-fective. The great process of training train-ing not onh the regular army, but also the militia, has been pressed forward to the end that. If war un-foitunately un-foitunately comes upon us we shall havo a great body of trained American Ameri-can citizens, competent to act as of-cers of-cers of the volunteer force upon which we must so largely depend for our milltarv defen&e. The navy has Improved its organization organ-ization and decreased Its expense: has increased Its nreparedness and m'litnry efficiency; has Improved Its marksmanship and skill in seamanship seaman-ship and evolution, and has reorganised reorgan-ised and reduced the cost of the s.vs-tein s.vs-tein of construction, repair and supply. sup-ply. The execution of the cular and established program of adding two battleships to the fleet annually to take the iilace of the old ships which from year to year grow obso-'ete, obso-'ete, and to maintain the position of our navy among those of the great novvers. has met with a reverse in the refusal of the Democratic house of representatives to appropriate nnv money fo- the construction of battleships, battle-ships, and the question now stands between be-tween the Republican senate and the Democratic house as to whether our navy shall be maintained or shall be normit'ed to fall back to a level with the weaker and unconsidered countries coun-tries of (he world. What Is the will of the American people on that qucs-t'on? qucs-t'on? Panama Canal. The construction of the Panama ranal has been pressed forward wltn renewed ovidonces under the concentrated concen-trated observation of all the civilized world that America possesses constructive con-structive genius, organization power and habits of honest administration equal to the greatest undertakings. It ! manifest now that the work will be ione in ndvanco of the time fixed and vlthin the cost estimated, and that during the coming year it will be substantially sub-stantially completed Will not the American people consider con-sider whether they have no grateful appreciation of the honor brought to 'E all bj the grcit thing that has been done on the isthmus? When the wonderful procession of ships takes its way for the flist time through the canal between the waters of the Atlantic At-lantic and the Pacific, will the people of Amorica wish that the honors of that greater than a Roman triumph be given, not to the men who executed exe-cuted the si eat design, but to, tho men who opposed and scoffed and hindered and sought to frustrate the enterprise, until In spite of that its success was assured " International Questions. In our foieign relations controversies controver-sies of almost a bundled vears over the northern flshoiles have been settled set-tled by arbitration at The Hague. The attempt to preserve tho further seal life of tho Alaskan Islands, in which we Weie defeated twentv years aso in the Beiing soa aibltratlon. has been brought to success by diplomacy in the fur seal treaty with Great Britain, Japan and Russia The delicate questions ques-tions arising from the termination of our treaty regulating trade and travel with Japan has been disposed of by a now treaty satisfactory to both nations na-tions and to the people of both coasts of our nation. Our tariff lelations with all the woild under fhr max I mum nnd minimum clause of the Paine-Aldrich bill havo been readjusted. The departments of state and commerce com-merce and labor have promoted the extension of American commerce so that our foreign exports havo grown from 31.191,011.611 in 1905 to $2,010,-549,025 $2,010,-549,025 in 1911, and the balance of trade In our favor for 1911 was $522,-091,091, $522,-091,091, American rights have been asserted and maintained and peace with all tho world has been preserved and strengthened. With this iccord of consistent pol-ioy pol-ioy and faithful service tho Republican Republi-can party can rost with confidence on Itb title to command the .typroval of the Ameilcan peoplo. We-have a right to say that vve can be trusted to preserve and maintain the American Ameri-can sstem of free representative government gov-ernment handed down to us by our fathers. Stable Government. No government must Jbe administered adminis-tered by tho weak and fanatics, and wo "Justly claim for our govern- ment, under the constitution that for a centurv and a quarter it has woikcd out the best lesults for Individual liberty and progress in civilization yet achieved by governmental institutions. insti-tutions. Under tho peace and security It has afforded not only has our country become vastly rich, but there has been a diffusion of wealth which should Inspire cheerful confidence in tho future. Witness the 9.959,175 seuarate savings bank accounts with $4,421,721,532 deposits In the year 1911. Witness the G,G31.D02afnrme and the value of fauns and farm property of $40,991,449,090 in the year 1910, a record more than doubled between 1900 and 1910. We will maintain the power and honor of the nation, but will observe ob-serve those limitations which tho constitutions sets up for tho preservation preser-vation of local self-govevniMent. This counr is so large and the conditions condi-tions of llfej so varied that it would bo intolerable to have local and domestic do-mestic affairs of our home communities, com-munities, which Involve no national rights, controlled bj majorities made up in other states thousands of miles awav or b tho officials of a central government. Observe Limitations, We will perform the duties and exorcise ex-orcise the authority of Ihe offices with which wo may be invested, but wo will observe and require all officials of-ficials toobserve these constitutional limitations which pi escribe tho boundary boun-dary of official power. However wise, however able, however patriotic a congiess or an executive may be; however, convinced they may be that the doing of a nartieular thing would be beneficial to Ihe public if that thing be done by usurping the power confined to another department or anolhr- officei. it but opens the door for the destruction of liberty Tho door opened for the ijatrioiic and well-meaning to exercise power not confencd upen them b law is the door opened also to the seek-seckmg and ambitious There can be no fiee government in which official power Is not limited, and the limitations upon ouiciai power can he preserved only by rigorously insisting upon their obsei vance. We will make and vigorously enforce en-force laws for tho promotion of public pub-lic interests and the attainment of public ends, but we will observe those great rules, of right conduct which our fathers embodied in tho liniita- ' tions of constitution. Ue will1 hold sacred the declaration and pro- i hibitions of tho bill of rights, which , , u 'protect the life and liberty and prop- i ' ft 'erty of thc citizens against the power :' rj of government We will Keep the .p covenant that our fatheis made and ,ti that we have reaffirmed from gen- . ;jk oration to generation, between tho ftl whole body of the people, and every - , u. individual under national Juiisdiction, f L With a deep sense of dr.tv to ?3 f p order our country's gov eminent th.TJ jhU the blessings which God has vouch- f. safed us may be continued, vve can li jr bo trusted to keep the pledge given v a. to the American people bv the last f- S Republican national convention , "The Republican party will uphold ; : at -all times thc authority and in- .. ; ,, tegrjty of the courts, state and fed- : j eraL and will ever Insist that their a powers to enforce their process and 'i m to protect life. liberty and prospeiity ' jr, shall bo preserved inviolptc " Try Qur new trailqrs with the Trav- 5, L elers, Juno 21 and 22. 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