Show PRESIDENT IS officially NOTIFIED BY COMMITTEE taft accepts nomination in address which will be used as campaign document by his sup supporters porters washington republican leaders leader who crowded the east room of the white house on thursday to heat president tafts speech accepting for the presidency were berc confident thursday night that hla his address would be the real keynote for the campaign and expressed the belief that it was one of the best speeches mr taft has delivered since lie he entered the white house members of the presidents cabinet republican leaders senators root lodge smoot crane and representatives mann payne and others were confident that the presidents address will be used as a campaign document and sent broadcast the cerenio ceremony ny itself was short and simple the president and senator root spoke from a platform raised a few feet above the floor ot of the east easl room mrs taft mrs leonard wood mrs beckman winthrop wife of the assistant secretary of the navy and anc mrs A G mcclintock the only wo we men present sat just below the plat form while around the halt half circle were grouped members of the committee senators and congressmen and other invited guests the affair was informal most ol of the committee and congressmen appeared in conventional dress after the speech the president disappeared into his private apartments for a few minutes and returned wearing a silt ho house t instead of his formal dress and acted as waiter for mrs taft and the other women and mingled among tho the guests asked to luncheon in the state dining room your title to the nomination Is ap clear and unimpeachable ble as the title of any candidate since the conventions began that was the keynote of senator ellhu roots address to president deni taft when as chair chairman iyan of the he committee of notification he formally ad the president of his nomination by the chicago convention president aident taft declared that the three great issues of the campaign in the order of their importance are first maintenance of the nations institutions and preservation of the constitution ution lon second the tariff third regulation of trusts he stands st andson on the record of the republican party and points to his bis own administration as in an era of greatest progress to them men who revere the constitution ution and the institutions of their government I 1 appeal as to all republicans public ans to join us its in an effort to avert the political and economic and business paralysis which republican defeat will bring about started by sensational journalism and unjust and unprincipled lplez muck raking demagogues have seized the opportunity to inflame the public mind that they might turn peculiar conditions to their own advantage these gentlemen both those who have left the republican party and our old opponents the democrats propose to reform the government whose present defects it any are due to the failure of tho the people to devote as much time as is necessary to their political duties by requiring a political activity by the people three times that which thus far tho the people have been willing to assume |