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V V 1. TAFT IffiPIS Mill President's Speech to Senator , Root and His Committee. CAMPAIGN ISSUES DEFINED Achievements of the Republican Party In Thlo and Previous Adminis trations Lauded Agitation by Democrats and Progressives . Is Denounced. Washington, Aug. 1. President Taft tod'ay was formally notified of his nomination by tho Republican con vention In Chicago, and formally ac cepted tho honor. Tho cominlttco, headed by Senator Root, called on 5, fLjor Mr. Taft's speech of acceptance was carefully prepared for use as a cam paign document. It was in part as follows: Mr. Root and Gcntloment of tho Noti fication Committee: I accept tho nomination which you tondcr. I do so with profound gratl tudo to the Republican party, which has thus honored mo twice. I accept It as an approval of what I havo dono under Its mandate, and an an ex pression of confidence that In a sec ond administration I will servo the public well. Tho Issue prc3onted to tho convention, over which your chair man presided with such a just and oven hand, mado a crisis In tho party's Ufo. A faction sought to force tho party to violate a valuable and time honored national tradition by entrust ing tho powor of tho presidency for more than two terms to one man, and that man, one whoso recently avowed political views would havo committed the party to radical proposals Involv-. Ing dangerous changes In our pres ent constitutional form of representa tive government and our Independent Judiciary. Achievements of the Party. This occasion Is appropriate for tho expression of profound gratitude at tho victory for the right which was won at Chicago. By that victory, tho Republican party was saved for fu ture usefulness. It has been tho party through whih substantially all the progress and development In our country's history In tho last fifty years has been finally effected. It carried tho country through tho war which saved tho Union, and through tho greenback and sliver crazes to a Bound gold basis, which saved tho country's honor and credit. It fought tho Spanish war and successfully solved tho now problems of our isl and possessions. It met tho incidental evils of tho enormous trado expansion and extended combinations of capital from 1897 until now by a successful crusado against tho attempt of concen trated wealth to control tho coun try's politics and Its trado. It en acted regulatory legislation to mako tho railroads tho servants and not tho masters of the peoplo. It has en forced tho anti-trust laws until those who wero not content with anything but monopolistic control of Various branches of industry are now acquies cent in any plan which shall givo them scope for legitimate expansion and assure thorn Immunity from reck less prosecution. Tho list of legislative enactments for tho uplifting of thoso of our peo plo suffering a disadvantage in their social and economic relation to oth ers enacted by tho Republican party In this and previous administrations Is a long one, and shows tho party sensitive to tho needs of the peoplo under the new view of governmental responsibility. Publlo Mind Inflamed. After mentioning In some detail these enactments under the Republic an administrations, Mr, Taft contin ued: In tho work of rousing tho peoplo to the danger that threatened our civ ilization from tho abuseB of concen trated wealth and tho powor It was likely to oxerclso, tho public Imagin ation was wrought upon and a reign of sensational journalism and unjust and unprincipled muckraking has fol lowed, In which much Injustice has been done to honest men. Donia gogues havo seized the opportunity further to Inflame tho public mind and have sought to turn the peculiar con ditions to their advantage. Wo aro living In an age In which by exaggeration of tho dofects of our present condition, by false charges of responsibility for it against Individ uals and classes, by holding up to tho feverish Imagination of tho less for tunate and the discontented tho pos sibilities of a millennium, a condition of popular unreBt has been produced. New parties aro being formed, with tho proposed purposo of satisfying this unrest by promising a panacoa. In so far as Inequality of condition can be lessened and equality of oppor tunity can be promoted by improve ment of our educational system, tho tjettermont of the laws to Insure tho quick administration of justice, and by tho prevention of the acquisition of privllego without Just compensation, In ao far as the adoption of tho legis lation abovo recited and laws of a similar character may aid the less fortunato In their struggle wlththe hardships of Ufo, all aro In sympathy with a continued effort to remedy In justice and to aid tho weak, and I von ture to say that there la no national administration In which more real teps of such progress have been tak- en than in tho present ono. But in so far as tho propaganda for tho satis faction of unrest Involves the promlso of a millennium, a condition In which tho rich aro to bo mado reasonably poor and tho poor reasonably rich by tho law, wo aro chasing a phantom; wo are holding out to thoso whoso un rest wo fear a prospect and a dream, a vision of tho impossible. Looks Like Socialism. In tho ultimate analysis, I fear, tho equal opportunity which thoso seek who proclaim tho coming of so-called social Justlco involves a forced divis ion of property, and that moans so cialism. In tho abuses of tho last two decades It is truo that Ill-gotten wealth haa been concentrated In soiuo undeserving handB, nnd that if It wero posslblo to rodlBtrlbuto It on any equi table principle to thoso from whom it was taken without ndequate or proper compensation It would bo a good re sult to bring about. Dut this is ob viously Imposslblo nnd Impracticable All that can bo dono Id to treat this as one Incidental evil of a great ex panslvo movement In the material progress of tho world and to mako suro that thoro will be no recurrence of such evIL In this regard wo havo mado great progr38 and reform, as in respect to secret rebates In railways, tho Im proper conferring of public fran chises, and tho Immunity of mo nopolizing trusts and combinations. The misfortunes of ordinary busi ness, tho division of tho ostatcs of wealthy men at their" death, tho chances of speculation which undue good fortune seems often to stimu late, operating a3 causes through a generation, will do much to divide up such large fortunes. It is far better to await tho elimination of this evil by nat ural causes than to attempt what would soon tako on the aspect of confiscation or to abolish tho prlnclplo and Insti tution of private property and to change to socialism. Socialism In volves tho taking away of the motive for acquisition, saving, energy, and enterprise, and a futile attempt by committees to apportion, the rewards duo for productlvo labor. It means stagnation and retrogression. It de stroys tho mainspring of human action that has carried tho world on and up ward for 2,000 years. Opponents Offer No Remedy. I do not say that tho two gentle men who now lead, ono tho Demo cratic party and tho other tho formei Republicans who havo left their party, In their attacks upon existing condi tions, and In their attempt to satisfy the popular unrest by promises of remedies, are consciously embracing socialism. The truth is that they do not offer any definite legislation or pnllcy by which tho happy conditions they promlso are to be brought nbout, but if their promises mean anything, they lead directly toward tho ap propriation of what belongs to ono man, to another. Tho truth Is, my friends, both thoso who hnvo left tho Republican party under the Inspira tion of their present leader, nnd our old opponents, tho Democrats, under their candidate, are going In a direc tion they do not definitely know, to ward an end they can not definitely describe, with but ono chief and clear object, and that Is of acquiring pow or for their party by popular support through tho promlso of a change for the better. What thoy clamor for Is a change. They ask for a change In government so that tho government may be restored to the people, as if this had not been a people's govern ment since tho beginning of tho con stitution. I have tho fullest sympathy with every reform in governmental and election machinery which shall facilitate tho expression of the popu lar will as the short ballot and tho reduction in elective offices to mako it posslblo. But these gentlemen pro pose to reform tho government, whoso present defects, If any, aro duo to tho failure of tho people to devoto as much time as is necessary to tholr political duties, by requiring a. politi cal activity by tho people three times that which thus far the peoplo have bo;n willing to assume; nnd thus the? proposo remedies which, instead of exciting tho peoplo to further lnterost and activity in tho government, will tire thorn Into such an Indifference as still further to reinand control of pub lic affairs to a minority. Hostility to Judiciary. Instead of giving us tho benefit of any specific remedies for tho hard ships and ovlls of society thoy point out, they follow tholr urgent nppcals for closer association of tho peoplo in legislation by an attempt to culti vate tho hostility of tho peoplo to tho courts and to represent that they nro In somo form upholding Injustlco and aro obstructing tho popular will. At tempts are mado to take away nil thoso safeguards for maintaining the Indopendonco of tho judiciary which aro so carefully framed In our consti tution. These attempts find expres sion In tho policy, on the ono hand, of tho recall of Judges, a system un der which a Judge whoso decision In ono caso may temporarily displease the electorate Is to bo deprived at onco of his ofllco by a popular vote, a pernicious system embodied In the Arizona constitution and which the Democrats of tho house nnd senate refused to condemn as tho Initial pol icy of a new stato. Tho samo spirit manifested Itself In tho vote by Demo cratic senators on tho proposition, first, to nbollBh tho commerco court, and, second, to abolish Judges by moro act of repeal, although under the con stitution their forms aro 'for life, on no ground except that they did not Hko somo of tho court's recent deci sions. Another form of hostility to tho Ju diciary Is shown in tho grotesque proposition by tho leader of former Republicans who havo left their party, for n rocall of deciuuns, so tnnt n de cision on a point of constitutional law, having been rondcrod by tho hrghost court capablo of rendering It, shall thon bo submitted to popular vote to determlno whother it ought to bo sus tained. Again, tho Democratic party In con gross and convention shows its desire to weaken tho courts by forbidding tho uso of tho writ of Injunction to protect a lnwful buslnoss against tho destructlvo effect of a secondary boycott and by lntorposlng a jury In contompt proceedings brought to en forco its order nnd docrcos. Thoso provisions aro really class legislation doslgncd to secure Immunity for law lessness In labor disputes on tho part of tho laborers, but oporatlng much moro wldoly to pnralyzo tho arm of tho court In cases which do not In volvo labor disputes at all. Tho hos tility to tho judiciary and tho meas ures to tnko away Its power and its independence constitute tho chief dnfl nlto policy that can bo fairly attribut ed to that class of statesmen and re formers whoso nbsorptlon and control tho Republican partv escaped nt Chi cago and tho Democratic party ylold ed to at Bnltlmoro. Such Innovations Rejected. Tho Republican party, Mr. Taft con tinued, stands for nono of theso in novations. It rofuson to make changes simply for tho purposo of making a change, and cultivating popular hopo that In tho chango something benefi cial, undefined, will take place. Tho Republican party believes In progress along tho linos upon which wo have at tained progress nlready. Tho president then devoted somo tlmo to a review of what has been ac complished during his administration, Including a warm defease of tho Payne tariff bill. In conclusion ho said: I can not think that tho American people, after the scrutiny and educa tion of a three-months' campaign, dur ing which they will bo able to see through tho fog of misrepresentation and demagoguery, will fall to recog nize that tho two great Issues which aro hero presented to them are, first, whether we shall retain, on a sound nnd permanent basis, our popular con stitutional representative form of gov ernment, with tho Independence of tho Judiciary as a necessary key to tho preservation of thoso liberties that aro tho Inheritance of 1,000 years, and, second, whether wo shall welcome prosperity which Is just nt our door by maintaining our present economic business basis and by the encourage ment of business expansion and prog ress through legitimate uso of cap ital. Appeal to All Conservatives. , I know that In this wldo country thero aro many who call themselves DomocratB, who view, with tho same aversion that wo Republicans do, tho radical propositions of chango In our form of government that aro reckless ly advanced to satisfy what Is sup posed to bo popular clamor. They aro men who revere tho constitution and tho Institutions of their government with all tho love and respect that wo could possibly havo, mon who depre cato disturbance In business condi tions, and aro yearnlngjfor that quiet from domagoglo agitation which Is essential to tho enjoyment by tho wholo people of tho great prosporlty which the good crops and tho present conditions ought to bring to us. To them I appeal, ns to all Republicans, to join us In an earnest effort to avert tho political and economic rev olution and business paralysis which Republican dofoat will bring about Such misfortune, will fall most heav ily on tho wago earner. May wo not hopo that ho will see what hlB real In terest is, understand tho shallowness of attacks upon existing institutions and deceitful promises of undefined benefits by undefined changes? May wo not hopo that the great -ma-Jorlty of voters will bo ablo to dis tinguish between tho substance of performanco and tho fustian of prom ise; that they may be ablo to boo that those who would deliberately stir up discontent and create hostility toward thoso who aro conducting legltlmato business enterprises, and who repre sent tho business progress of tho coun try, are sowing dragons' tooth? Who aro tho peoplo? They aro not alone tho unfortunato and tho weak; they aro tho weak and tho strong, tho poor and tho rich, and the mnny who nro neither, tho wago earner and tho cap italist, tho farmer and tho professional man, tho merchant and tho manufac tuior, tho storekeeper and tho clork, the railroad manager and the employe thoy. all mako up tho peoplo and they all contributo to tho running of the government, and they have not any of them given into tho hands of anjono tho mandato to speak for them as peculiarly tho people's representa tive. Especially docs not he represent them who, assuming that tho people aro the unfortunato and discontented, would stir them up against the re mainder of thoso whoso government allko this Is. In other campaigns be foro this, tho American peoplo havo been confused and mlBlcd and diverted from tho truth and from a clear per ception of tholr welfare by specious appeals to their prejudices and their misunderstanding, but the clarifying effect of a campaign of education, tho pricking of tho bubble of demogogic promise which tho discussions of a campaign mado possible, havo brought tho peoplo to a clear perception of their own Interests and to a rejection of the Injurious nostrums that In tho beginning of the campaign, it was then feared, they might embrace and adopt. So may wo not expect In the issues which nro now beforo us that the ballots cast In November ehall show a prevailing majority In favor of sound progress, great prosperity upon a j.rotectlvo basis, and under true con st 'tutlonal and represontatlva rule by tho peoplo? NOTES s?-ol MFAD0WBR00K -&Lr FARM hJ Keep tho hoo going. Feed the hogs n variety. The best feed is cheapest Turkeys devour many Insects. Separating cold mill: m can 3 a loss of cream. This season of tho year is trying on cows and dairymen. Get a dlo and stamp your Initials on the cream or milk cans. Paint will rub off in time. - Tho cow that can hold up well In milk production In August Is a valu able animal. Selling nil the hay nnd grain raised on the farm Is u suro method of sell ing the farm. From 10 to fiO per cent, ofcrcnm Is lost by "setting" milk In pans, say tho experimenters. With the exception of the plow, tho harrow Is perhaps tho oldest of till age Instruments. Less Kaffir corn In tho feevd as tho weather gets warmer will keep hens from getting fat and lazy. Don't fail to divide tho buttermilk between Biddy nnd tho pigs. She rel ishes It aB much as they. All fowls, chicks, ducks and duck lings that nro kept In yards should have plenty of green food every day. A chicken takes naturally to having feed handed him, but tho turkey Is al most self-supporting until cold weath er. Don't allow tho hen-mother to drag around all day with her brood, ns many chicks succumb through exhaus tion. Ono advantago in keeping feed al ways beforo poultry la that they do notihavo to hurry so to get tholr meals. In building a wlro fence for hogs put one barbed wire at the bottom and the worst rooter in tho pasturo won't root out. Ono mite on tho back of n fellow's neck makes him Just about wild. What must It bo to havo a million crawling? There is Btlll tlmo to put out a crop of roots for cow feed next winter. Rich light soil Is tho best placo for them. Turkeys always find a ready Balo and aro nlmost clear profit. There Is always a demand. Tho market Is nev er glutted. Neat, clean crates nnd boxes help to sell fruit even though it may not bo qulto up to standard of excellence set by tho grower. Tf the season is dry, haul a few bar rels of water to thoBO late planted trees. Don't let them suffer for water during n dry spell. If hogs are lousy, set a Kmall post, wrapped tight with an old rope, In tho ground and soak the rope with coal oil. The hog will do the rest. Overheating Is to bo avoided by cau tious working nnd careful watching of work horses; with shado nnd water at Intervals, is possible. If you use tho litter in tho house keep It dry nnd clean. Musty and moldy litter Ib particularly liable to causo trouble nt this Beason of tho year. Plymouth Rocks have been mado to weigh bovou pounds, dressed, at Thanksgiving time, by Judicious feed ing for growth and development while on range. Lund plaster has a very small per centage of lime; lump lima, has tho largest percentage and hydrated llmo next. Marl is usually a little richer in llmo than ground limestone. As the pastures begin to drop off tho cattle grow moro uneasy. . Look out for the fences. A herd of cattle will destroy moro stuff In ono night than you enn grow in,a. whole season. Shall wo salt stock? A friend says to feed the Halt in tho feed and not lot them havo access to It. His grounds aro that he does not like to eat unsalt od food, and then go Into tho pantry and eat a lot or salt, and ho tnkes It that tho sheep or cow Is llko him In this respect. This looks like good leglc. Btss jv -' Train tho" colt early. Train tho horso carefully. Flics cut down tho milk supply. You cannot bogln to feed nnd tralni a colt too enrly. Tho cow that gives much milk must' havo plenty to drink. Cllmato Ib an elomont In tho dlfll-i cult art of turkey raising. Continue tho spraying of grapes: with bordeaux mixture to prcvont rot.' It's an ill wind that chills a now born animal. Tlmo of year cuts no figure. ! When chicks stand around listless ly and peep, llco aro very often to blnmo. In hard times or prosperous years tho man with a fow good cows Ib well Insured. A good cream separator with, sov cral good cows will soon abolish a mortgago. Bo patient with tho cows .Thoy can't help giving you a Bwat In tho fnco with their tails. Wet mashes aro better for fattening fowls becauso they are moro easily digested than dry feeds. Strips of cano sown nt Intervals, near tho cow lot, will como In handy when pastures fall In early fall. No land is bo rich tliat Its ownor can afford to wasto tho mnuuro that Is mado by his farm stock. Tho work of llco Is often mistaken for disease. When a fowl seems to bo nlllng look for llco first. When cultivated cowpeas are to bo cut for hay, tho ground does not want to bo ridged up very much. i Movo tho colony houses and brood coops on to fresh ground every day or two and tho chicks will grow faster. Feeding tho chicks too much Is worse thansyaste, as feed lying about will soon sour, nnd then come3 trou klo. Chickens at ten weeks old aro ready for tho broiler market and thoy ought to weigh two pounds by that tlmo. Crops must bo gathored In proper condition nnd sont to tho market fresh and clcati. Careful grading Is essential. It costs n good deal of money to buy a satisfactory toum. In most cases, this can bo avoided by tho farmer raising his own. Two pounds of mixed shorts and bran per cow per day Is not sufllciont' for cows that aro expected to glvo' libera flows of milk. Tho breast of tho Indian game is very much llko that of tho pheasant, or tho pralrlo chicken. Tho heft of tho meat lies on tho breast. ; Veal calves In hot weather will grow better if kept during tho day in a dark, cool stablo, but tho stable must bo cleaned out and well ventilated. Unless tho Httlo turkeys aro allow ed free rango all the tlmo, they should bo kopt shut In on rainy days and mornings whon there is a heavy dew. If tho pens aro obstinate about us ing tho supports provided for thom, give them a start up to tho brush or wlro, and thoy will cause no moro trouble. In order to got tho greatest profit from tho pigs on tho farm, It Is neces sary to encourago them to consumo ns much of tho cheap feeds as posslblo early In life. Don't expect tho hired man to work In hay and harvest till dark, and then milk a dozen cowb nftor dark, and be very gontlo about it. Ho Isn't, built that way. Clover should bo cut for hay whon In first bloom. If left much longer than this, tho seeds form and weaken the plant, and there Is also a loss, duo to tho shattering of dry leaves. To Insuro tho highest per cont of fertility In tho eggs, stock ducks need bathing water, but this does not nec essarily mean that they must have a stream or lake on which to disport themselves. Tho peanut Is becoming moro Impor tant ns a feed for stock, especially. In tho southern states. Tho vines with tho nuts attached aro often cured and they mnko a palatablo hay for all kinds of farm stock. Ono of tho safe things to tlo to on the farm Is u good brood sow puro bred. In a few years sho and her off spring, If properly cared for, will put many dollars into tho pockots of tho farmers of tho country. Tho bIIo will supply tho animals with succulent food during winter or in times of sevoro drouth when pas tures fall. Every farm whoro a fow animals aro kopt should havo a silo to save tho entlro corn plant for feeding purposes. Why not build u silo and plant com to fill It? KH-ry Boinrrar FAVOR INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS Hardest of All Domestic Fowls and Do Equally as Well Confined as on Frco Range. Indian Runner ducks nro thq hardiest of all domestic fowls. As tlicy do equally well in confinement or on froo range, thoy may bo profit ably kopt by persons In town or city aB well as by farmers. Thoy do not requlro pond or running water Just wntor to drink In, something doop enough bo tho wholo head can bo Im mersed, says tho Interstato Poultry man. They may bo kept moro cheap ly on froo range, as thoy will find many things of Httlo or no vnlue, such as bugs, worms, grasshoppers, grass, etc. Theso thoy convert Into largo whlto eggs, which If not Bold for hatching will command several cents abovo tho market prlco of hen egga and at Eastor will bring twice na much. Thoy do not differ In flavor from hen eggs, but nro superior for all kinds of cooking. As n table fowl tho Indian Runner duck Is excellent. Tho meat Is tender, Juicy and flnei grained. Thus far tho demand for breeding stock nnd eggs for hatching has been so groat that tho duck has, not been ralsod to n great extent as market stock; but wherever it has becomo known as a table fowl It Is wanted. As egg-producers tho Indian Run ner femalos nro too valuablo to Bell on tho market until from three to nlno years old. A flock from n good-laying Btraln will averago from 240 to 250 eggs por layor per year, If prop-, erly managed. I find by actual tost that tho food that will keep a Ply mouth Rook hen In good shapo will keep n Runner duck plump, so I 'think; it snfo to say that they can bo kopt as cheaply as any of tho largo breeds 3f henB In winter nnd cheapor In sum mer if on froo rnngo, as thoy will for ago farther Into tho flolds. Wo llko. Hiom much bettor than hens, ns they donot destroy crops, neither nro they so much of n nulsanco nround tho buildings ns hens. Tho ducklings of this breed enn bo raised to a market ablo size cheaper nnd moro quickly than thoso of any othor breed. As tho ducks never set, tho ducklings must bo hatched by incubators or hens. lions glvo tho best results, ort en hatching ovcry egg given thom. Tho eggs nro very fertllo nnd may, if desired, bo hatched any month In tho year. Ducklings hatched in Juno or July often lay all winter, whilo, if hatched In March, they will lay In tlmo to hatch duckllngB from them by tho 1st of October. PLAN FOR A HEN HATCHERY Door Placed In Front of Each Nest, Hinged With Leather and Held by Wooden Cleat3. Hero Is my plan for a successful hen hatchery: I tako 16-foot lumber nnd mako stalls for 12 hens which makes tho nest boxes n Httlo over 14 60' , A Hen Hatchery. Inches wldo, writes J. A. Crandall of Norwich, Kan., In tho Farmers' Mall and Breozo. Slats and thin lumber may bo used for tho 11 partitions. Floor tho nest department. Chlckon wlro Is usod to cover tho top of runs except for tho doors A, each of which is 28 inches long, enough to covor two runs. Tho doors B aro tho samo length. Thoro is also a door 8 by 10 Inches In tho front of each nost box and all doors aro hlngod with leather and held with cleats. Tho roof board la not hinged or nailed but held In placo with cleats and may ho lifted off. Rapo makes a good crop for lata green food. Poultry Is extremely profltablo it properly handled. Poultry, fruit und bees form a com bination hard to beat. Fowls havo no senso of smell. They havo nostrils, but not noses. A cement floor In tho laying pen and roosting closet Is advisable. Don't let llco "got away" -with youi chicks, whilo you wondor what alia thom. Keep tho malea separated from tha growing pullets. Both will develop bottqr. Ducklings generally begin molting when eleven weeks old nnd continue for about six weeks. Don't forget that wot and leakjr coops do not tond to produco healthy chickens, but early death. It Is n good plan to let all tho breeding Btock out of tho yards to' en Joy frco rango during tho summer. Don't try to breed from poor stock. It takes too long nnd good Btock is cheap enough for you to start right. Freo rnngo for tho flock greatly sim plifies tho feeding problem, becaueo tho fowls can balance their ration, to a large extent, with tho food they pick up.