The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-09-08
HOW It WAS DONE,
Presidentto Issue State ment
Setting Forth His Part.
In the Russo japanese Treaty.
Which WIN Be Fully Consu-
mated This Week.

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Washington, ID. C., Sept. 5, 1905.
The enthusiasm felt in Washington
over President Roosevelt's large part
in bringing the Russian and Japanese
peace ENJOYS together is to be dis
played in a popular welcome to the
President when he returns to the
city. Washington is on particularly
good terms with President Roose-
Welt. He has been a resident of the
city so long aside from his term in
the White House and many Of the
leading citizens know him personally.
so that the man in the street feels
that he is better acquainted with
him than any president for many
administration past. The return
welcome that is being planned pro-
badly will not include parade or
set speeches but will consist in greet
ing the President at the depot as
was done two years ago and escort
ing him to the White House. 1t
will be personal tribute to his work
for peace and will be the informal
sort of greeting that the President
much prefers to more set and stilted
affairs.
OF course the plaudits of the
world that have been showered on
the President have awakened talk as
to whether the enthusiasm was likely
to carry him off his feet and make
him willing to accept nomination
for third term. In this connection
it will only be necessary to point to
President Roosevelt's statement last
election night when he said that un-
der no circumstances would he con-
sent to another nomination. He said
at that time that it was wise provis-
ion that unwritten law restricted the
President to two terms. and that
while he had been only once elected.
he had been President at that time
for three and q half years and he
proposed to regard the substance
and not the form Of the precedent
that had been honored from the time
of Washington.
1t is quite possible, however, that
the President may have something
to say little later as to the part he
personally played in the peace nego-
tiations. Up to the present. his part
in the negotiations has been well and
properly guarded. Alone and unad-
vised the President took step never
before attempted by any chief mag
istrate and threw himself between
the hostile ENJOYS till their instruct
ions could be changed by the two
sovereigns to whom he appealed.
The text or substance of those notes
to St. Petersburg and Tokyo has
never been divulged and it probably
will be well to keep them secret till
after the treaty of peace has been
signed. But then there will be a
great deal Of pardonable curiosity to
know just what steps the President
took that caused such a complete and
sudden change in the attitude of ia
pan. But that he bore an important
personal part is shown if by nothing
else in the kilograms of congratula-
tons that reached him from King
Edward, the Kaiser, the Gar him
self and other continental monarchs
who ascribed the conclusion of peace
as direct tribute to his Intervention.
Great pressure has been brought to
bear on the President to divulge the
text of his notes to the two rulers,
and it is possible in the near future
that he may either in public adj
dress or in an official statement say
something that will throw light on
this interesting chapter in modern
Diplomacy.