The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-10-16
NOT 70 ag AooctiT O..

gagged in some dreamy sort of affairs
such as calling the attention of the
Wheeling Telegraph to the constitu.
ton OF the United States and talking
about the case OF Caleb Powers to the
t'airmont Times and is inclined to
think 1t is still more Visionary in dis.
cussing the availability Of President
Roosevelt as the next Republican
nominee for President f the United
States VITA the Fairmont West vir.
ginian but It will remark few re.
named subject. This paper called the
attention of the West Virginian to the
fact that President Roosevelt was UNI
doubtedly sincere when he announced
that he would not again be a candi-
date for President, to which the Fair
mont illumination replies as follows:
1--WE have no doubt that President
Roosevelt was sincere when he made
that announcement but he had not
consulted the people at that time and
| IL iooNo ilhe tiitg VIII uiSitbaIu its Iit
may not have any desire whatever
to succeed himself. We will grant thai
he has not, yet II the people feel to-
ward him three years hence as they
10 now he will have to serve them
four years longer. II a convention
we're to be held in the. immediate fu-
ture he could not say or do anything
that would prevent his nomination.
and after 1t should be thrust upon
him he could not decline to accept 1t.
He would certainly feel 1t to be his
bounden duty to respect the wishes OF
the people"
To elect Mr.. Roosevelt President
again would be to practically give him
4 third term as he served nearly all
Of the one in which Mr.. Mckinley was
chosen and is now going along in the
one in which, to put 1t as he did him
self. "he is not an accident" George
Washington would not think of third
term as President. II Abraham Lin
coin had lived he could not have been
coaxed into it. General Grant after
adding nothing to his splendid repu-
tation by having two terms, allowed
himself to be persuaded into trying
ior third one and thus made the mis-
take of his life. Mr.. Roosevelt with.
out seeming to have any great oppor.
tunities coming in his direction when
he began to fill the office of President,
has done work already which marks
him as one Of the greatest chief execu-
tive officers of this country and yet
has more than three years of oppor.
tunity. He is man of too fine sense
to mar his reputation by throwing the
country into confusion in agreeing to
contend for the Office he holds for an
other four years. II the Republican
party were SO unwise as to offer him
the nomination, instead of being his
duty to accept II he would be under
the highest obligation to decline. He
would do so too no difference what
the opinion of the West Virginian may
be to the contrary. - Parkersburg
State Journal.
beloved contemporary that 1t would
be giving President Roosevelt prac-
tically a third term il lie should be
elected again. Washington was twice
elected, General Grant twice. President
Roosevelt has been elected but once.
1t is true that prior TO his present term
he served as President for three years,
but that was by accident. TIE Vice
Presidency was thrust upon him, a
thing he did not want, and through the
he became his successor. Everybody
knows that he did not want the Presi.
dency in that way. Mr.. Roosevelt
may have had an ambition to be Pres.
ident, but If he had he wanted it graft.
fled after he served second term as
governor of his native State. Nearly
everybody Knows that when he ac-
cepted the nomination for Vice Presi.
dent he did so very reluctantly, be.
: cause he had set his heart on being
twice the governor of New York. Mr..
Roosevelt is not a candidate for an.
other term as President, and II ne
: should be it will be because the people
will have made him such, hence in
that event the cry of a third term will
be so feeble as to attract no attention
He has so far been so much bigger
and done SO much more than any OF
his predecessors that 1t looks like
nothing will stop the people from
making him their President again in
1908. There would be some weight in
third term talk n thew should atternnt