The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-12
BROKERS'.
DEWEY WANTS TO RUN.
Admiral Confessss to Presi
Dental Aspirations.

y WASHINGTON, April B.
4 Admiral, in view of the many
+ conflicting reports relative to
+ your attitude toward a nomina-
4 ton for the Presidency, will
4 you make q statement to The
4 World?'
4 Yes; / realize that the time
4 has arrived when | must def
4 nitely define my position. When
+ 1 arrived in this country last
+ September / said then that
+ nothing would induce me to be
r a candidate for the Presidency.
4 Since then, however, / have
r had the leisure and inclination
4 to study the matter, and have
4 reached a different conclusion,
4 inasmuch as so many assurances
4 have come to me from my
+ countrymen that / would be ac-
4 ceptable as a candidate for this
4 great Office. III the American
4 people want me for this high
4 Office I shall be only too willing
4 to serve them. IL is the high
4 est honor in the gift of this ma
4 tion; what citizen would refuse
+ it? Since studying the subject
4 | am convinced that the Office OF
4 the President is not such a very
4 difficult one to fiji, his duties
+ being mainly TO execute the
+ laws of Congress as faithfully as
4 | have always executed the or
Z ders of my superiors.
4 rs there any political signifi
4 canoe in your trips West?"
4 No: ! am simply filling the
4 engagements made months ago
4 long before / ever thought Sc
4 riously of the Presidency"
+ "On what platform will you
4 stand?"
+ II think I have said enough
+ at this time. and. possibly,
+ too much"
4 Admiral George Dewey Is will
r ing to be a candidate for Pres
r ident. He authorizes the an
4 nouncement to the American
+ people that, after mature re-
t fection and in response to the
4 earnest entreaties from all
r parts of the country, his for
r mer decision not under any cir
cumstances to run for the Pres
+ idency Is reconsidered.
+ A correspondent saw the Ad-
4 miral at his home at 1747 Rhode
+ Island avenue at o'clock this
t evening. Admiral Dewey die
r tated the answers to the above
h questions and signed the notes.
r Admiral Dewey has been over
+ whelmed with invitations from
r all sections of the country, but
r has refralned from making any
r new engagements. There
Il might be "a misconstruction
4 placed upon his purpose.
r Months ago he promised to visit
e the cities which are now pre-
y pairing receptions for him. But
4 few men have had greater OPP
r portunities to add to their per-
r sonal prestige than the Ad-
4 miral, but he had made no bid
\ for the honors. No political
h motives can be ascribed to the
+ Admiral in making his visits to
4 the Western cities, for so far as
+ he Is concerned his trips are en-
r tirely OF a social character.
4 WASHINGTON, April A.
r The Associated Press has con-
+ frmed the Worlds statement
+ that Dewey Is n candidate for
r the Presidency.
4 WASHINGTON. April At
4 Is not known what ticket Dew
+ ey wants to run on. He is a
4 nominal Republican and his
r wife is an active Democrat, as
4 becomes the sister of John X.
4 Mclean, OF Ohio. She is ambi-
+ tious to rule the White House,
\ and probably imagines the
4 Admiral as a candidate of pa
+ triotic Americans without re-
. spect OF party.