The Daily News WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24. UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 157, 24 June 1908, Page 2

The Daily News WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24. UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

The result of the Republican uoiniuatio'i for the ['residency of tin: I'niled Stales is no mole than was to have been expected, although .Mr. Tail's majority may give occasion for some surprise. Three delegate, records a cable, threw away their votes bv casting them for Mr. Roosevelt with evident design to d istiatc tin' esteem in which the President is held. The -immense cheering" which immediately followed upon the act showed bow much it was appreciated. The delegates from Pennsylvania had touched a button setting in motion pealing) bells the tones of which reverberated all over America. It was a graceful compliment llltingiy marking the Hose of a great presidential career.

Casting his keen eyes around him. Mr. Roosevelt had decided who the'niau best qualilicd to continue his policy was, and by so doing ensure the welfare of his country. He did not hesitate to lei bis judgment be known. To figure as the nominee of any man, no matter how great than man may be, is not likely to prejudice, the cause of any candidate however high his personal and political claims. The disposition to resent being dictated In, or the lucre appearnee of being diclaled to, is perfectly natural, and at lirst Ihere. was a IVciing of an(agoiiisuiaruiised against Mr. Tall. No doubt it was due to this feeling that no fewer than six candidates for the nomination were induced i u be present against him. The popularity of President Roosevelt is intense, (he only State in any degree hostile lo him living that of New York. The New Vork delegates no doubt cast their voles solidly against the President's nominee; but, notwithstanding, Mr. Tali, out of 1 IT'.I votes, (Killed no fewer than 702, which must lie regarded as an indubitable (riumiiii for the President as well as for Mr. Tuft.

Speaking at Kansas City in the early part of February last, Mr. Taft afliniied that in his judgment vigorous measures were necessary in order lo eradicate existing business abuses. Tliis mi doubt was levelled against the. (rusts, tin' syndicates and other capitalist ie combinations who have llio.ii' headquarters i» Xew York, (ining furl lie, the new Republican candidate said that unless ell'eetive social and moral reforms were instituted, society as at present constituted must yield to the demand for a new order of things, that is to say, some such new conditions of life as are being foreshadowed by the socialists. These words are applicable to other lands as well as to America. In this Dominion, with a population of about one million, the revolutionary socialists number, it is said, about 2000. They ar<> insignificant in number; they have not one representative in Parliament; they have no recognised leaders commanding confidence; for puposes of agitation their stock-in-trade consists of aliases I hat have no place in this five land. In America and the nations of Kurope the situation is very diifci-cnu it is so serious, indeed, as tn constrain instant- attention. In no land under the sun are the evils arising from the abuse of capitalistic power so pronounced as in America; an 1 in eonsecpioncc. all hough America is a republic constituted on the solid basis of popular representation, in no laud lias socialism made such -Hide-. How far the Convention was in agreement with the. | view, of Mr. 'fait is shown by the fact i thai before proceeding with the aieep'.I nine of nominations of candidates for j the I'lv-idom-y i: was agreed to ileiuiiii I a-, lae leading plank in the Uepublica'l i programme the .-I noig-Jiellilig —the rem I del-ill--, .-till more .-ti-ingeiil--of the pro : \i-ioiis of the Sherman An; i-'.l'nist Act.

The Convention al-o declared in favor ol a revision of the tariff. In America to-day no voice is raised for free trad •• There was a time when freedom of trade was the shibboleth of the Democrat-, but in regard to Protection the party has subsided into a mmcral acquiescence. What is known as the "Uinjfley tarill" has now been in operation lor over ten years; on the whole it has answered the purposes for which it was designed; but changed conditions call fur amendment. The Republican platform broadly allirms that under the protective .system the workers are Ihe most direct bciicliciarir., in Hat contradiction of tlii' equally positive assertio i of the Bilieral party in England. In ftiiglaud Protection means starvation for the worker; in America Protection is the bread of life- so sav the Liberals.

Singular it is that a stretch of water that can now be crossed in five days should diu'de peoples of sllcll opposite lomlilioiis ami opinions. The nomination ol .Mi. Hill as a candidate was received wi'b a "groat demonstration": there was a manifestation of much enthusiasm. It is many years now since a Deo rat sat in the i'rosido.ntial chair, and it is probable that many years ui'l elapse before ill a pronounced' form lei will do so again. As the Dcmocra's have weakened oil public questions—free trade and the silver currency—so they have fallen in political strength. It is a fair thing to conclude, therefore, that the accepted candidate of the Kepublican party will be the next President of the United States, and no doubt at such a result every well-wisher of his kind will be well satisfied.