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Show President Taft Says Victory j Can Not be Overestimated j i Washington. President Taft honied he following statement Saturday Bight after hp hud learned of the final action of the convention: A national convention of one of the greatest parties h ordinarily important im-portant only as a preliminary to a national na-tional campaign for the election of a president. The Chicago convention Just ended la much more than thlH and is In itself the end of a pro-convention campaign presenting a crisis more threatening and Issue more Important Im-portant than those of the election campaigns which Is to follow between the two great national parties. The question here at slake was whether the Republican party was to cluing" Its attitude us the chief conservator con-servator In the nation of constitutional constitu-tional representative government and was to weu!:cn the constitutional guaranties of life, liberty and property prop-erty and all other rights declared Haired Hai-red In the bill of rights, by abandoning aband-oning the principles of the absolute Independence of the Judiciary essential essen-tial to the maintenance of these right s. The campalfti carried on to seize the Republican party and make It the Instrument of reck Van fiiald ttnn and the unsettling of the fundament;1! funda-ment;1! principles of our government was so Hidden and unexpected that time wi'n not given clearly to show to the people and the p'i'-ty the dangers dan-gers which confronted tin in. It wits sought to break the wise and valuable valua-ble tr; '.dltloim against giving mump H'."ii two tern:.; to any oie man In the presidency and the danger from ps breach could not lie measured. The importance of the neat victory which has been achieved cannot be overestimated. All over this country patriotic people nre breathing more freely that a most serious menace to our republiian Institutions h.;w been averted. It is not iieressary to ppeak of the result In November on the Issues which will arlfe between th-- ltep'tb-llcan ltep'tb-llcan and Democratic Perth's in the presidential campaign to follow. It will be time enough to do that after the action of the Paltitnoro convention. conven-tion. It Is inough now to say that whatever may happen in November, a great victory fur the Republican party and the I'tttt-d States has already al-ready been won. The party remain as a great powerful organization for carrying out Its patriotic principles as an agency of real progress In the development of the nation along Dip constitutional lines upon which It whs constructed and has ever been maintained; and Its future opportunity for usefulness Is as great as itti at hlevemetita lu the past. 6herman Is Pleated. j rilea, N. Y. Vice 'resident Slier-I man Issued the following statement late Saturday night. I am not unmindful of the honor conferred by the nomination by the Republican national convention as the party' candidate for vice-president. To' appreciate Its full significance, one must remember that not for thrce-quai tcrs of a century has a re-uciuiuailoti re-uciuiuailoti been accorded to any one for thi'.i office. It has long been known to my (lore petsonal friends that my prefer-nice prefer-nice was to retire from public offh e at the close of the present term and tt no time have I been a candidate for rcnomlnation. I have been too greatly honored by the party, however, how-ever, to decline further service when its leaders and lis representative by I their convention action have ex-pressed ex-pressed u belief that that service was required. My services as vi'-e -president have been both agreeable and congenial, and, I believe, have been acceptable 'to the senate. My desire to retire was based upon u wish to devote more line to my private affairs and to have lemiilniiig a moderate amount for rst and recreation. It goes without saying that not the. east cause for satisfaction sat-isfaction Is the added honor which the convention's actions bring: to ft lea. |