Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-10-26
0NC' 4 AGAIN
The People viii Demand
Another Ierlll For Teddy
his PLAIN | ~ DUTY is TO ACCEPT


HIS Great Work as President Can
not Be Finished ln Two Years
Must Not Be left to Others
Vashingtorl, Oct. 22 The
liyeliest political subject iii
Washington just now is aa III
whether Preside lent Roosevelt
will accept renom mination under
any circumstances 4 Ii II Is y
months ago this question was
promptly and emphaticaIly
\ answered IT'D the negative by
I every man who stood in d close
relation to the presid lent. Now
il is different. II ID the first
conviction Of ree-fourths of
the leaders Of the republ blican
party that popular sentiment
will SO shape itself before the
national convention of 1903 as to
amount toa call to duty upon
the preside lent.
Even lIr Roose seyelt's closest
political friends admit there are
circumstances under which lie or
any other man would be h com
pell led as a matter Of public
duty to accept. Leading re-
publicans do not take the third
" pro osition as seriously
as the president himself con-
eeived and published the idea
that his present term is his
second term.
Really His first Term.
AS Il matter OF fact, strictly
speaking, it lis his first term to
vhich the people have elected
him. But the question of q
aecond OF third term ID not, figllr:
ing minently as d reason for
t the preside lent s accepting or
clining the neinination. The
zeal question is, can the oa,esi-
dent, who has created by his.
d own aggressive 81 policies an
unusual situation id his party,
refuse to carry out the work he
has SO well begun It is ap- 81
/ parent now that many of the re-
forms which the president has
1uggested and some which have
already begun, or will have
been started before the conyen-
tion meets in 1908, will not be
perfected at the end Of his pres
ent term of Office.
Senator El Elkins, who was not
in accord with the president
IN the matter Of railroad
/ rate legislation, made the state
ment q few days ago that The
president will be. his own sue
cessor. He said the people
would demand it and the presi-1
don't would be forced to accept
as a. matter of public duty.
Repr sentative Babco ock. who
was in Washington d few days
ago, was asked by a friend what
he thought about the next n0nni.
nee for presid dent.
Cannot Decline. He Says.
have belleVed for six
months. Z said Mr.. Babcock,
who is an unusually far sightedj
politician, that the president
will be renollinat ted. He will.
be renominated under circunl-#
stances which will not admit ofa
his declining His policies have
seen such that d situation has 1
been created which no other
Sandi idate we could name could /
80 well meet. know it iii dis
tasteful TO the presid dent to have
the leaders of his party specu-
late on the possih Utility DE his ac-
cepting another nomination. Il
hesitate, therefore to expressl
an opinion for pub lication, butt
the conditions ough I'd Bel
parent to an one. The people
will demand the presid lent 4 re-
nomination. and how can he de-
.Gline IL believe he would bel
elected BY q much more pro-
n0l1rlceu popular majority tEaan
was given 10 him Id 1904 +
his is the expression of thel
ntalwart wing Of the repub blicanI
party l w oiasiEl. he other