Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-23
LAWSON NEW PARTY
"Frenzied Finance" Foe to Force
 Third Term on Roosevelt.
JOHNSON FOR TAIL OF TICKET
Boston Man Has No Guarantee That Either Will Run, but That Matters Not Whit" He Says-"system" Would Discredit William j. Bryan.

New York, Dec. 23. Thomas w. Lawson of Boston, who on last Tues day called of President Roosevelt at the White House and who subsequent ly said he would probably make q statement to the public within few days" will soon launch new political party.
 It's candidates for president and vice president will be Theodore Roosevelt and Governor John A. Johnson of Min nesota. In his formal announcement Mir. Lawson avoids any direct state ment that his chosen candidates have acquiesced in his political programme.
 ''It matters not whit to me-" said MT. Lawson. whether President Roosevelt approves of the new party or not whether he consents to run as its presidential candidate or openly re- fuses to do so.
 "He will be our candidate just the same, and by the vote of the people will be compelled to complete the job he has commenced-the rescue of the country from the wholesale thieves of Wall street."
 Mir Lawson claims to have an organ ization in every state of the Union. He said:
 "I personally know that the system know William Jennings Bryan to be what we all know him to be-a clean, honest, unpurchasable, God fearing. country loving American. In other words, they know him to be a white man. Nevertheless they are satisfied to put him in the White House because they believe that they can discredit him at the very beginning by showing the world his helplessness in handling and controlling a situation which has almost stumped President Roosevelt to handle and control. President Roose- welt created it and perfected the meth cd of handling it, which fact necessari- ly has given him greater experience and familiarity with the situation than any other man, however able, can pos sibly have.
 with this knowledge and with full inside knowledge of the plans of the system, with full knowledge of the contemptible trickery begun with the panic and with a general knowledge derived from a most thorough investi- gatIon of the peoples wishes (my sys- tenn built up during the past four years at a personal expense of millions of dollars and which embraces over 430,- GOO correspondents in every part of the country, and these 430,000 the very cream of America's intelligence, af- lords me an opportunity to get at the real thoughts of the people, unquali- fiedly say:
 First. that but for the third term tradition and Theodore Roosevelt's promise to bow to it he would be today the choice of nine-tenths of the Amer ican people for another presidential term
 In his formal statement Mir. Lawson says in part:
 Since the panic President Roosevelt has awakened to realization that if he leaves his policies halfway estab- lished he will. as he should. go into history as an unworthy bungler.
 with class arraigned against class, with the whole people awakened to their wrongs yet unable to right them. with the whole people realizing that they are to be swept again into the unmerciful maw of the system. the whole people well realize that they had best been allowed to wallOw in their former degradation.
 President Roosevelt now realizes that if at the coming elections the sys tem's tools are placed in the White House the people. when they realize 1t. will do something. and President Roosevelt realizes that that something will be something mOmentOus.
 "I say President Roosevelt realizes this because he is not fool. and if he is not a fool he must realize it.
 When the crisis was on President Roosevelt was suddenly and with dia- bolical ingenuity surrounded - com pletely surrounded.
 He was compelled to allow moves and to make the move himself which made it possible for the system to know now that the Republican and Democratic candidates will be satis- factorv to fl