Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-02-21
In Earnest.

Evidently the Roosevelt third term
boomers are in dead earnest, and they
are going at it systematically and with
nerve They are out in the open fight
ing for their man against all corners.
They are publishing magazine en-
titled Limelight in aid of their
movement. Certainly that paper is
correctly named, for if ever there was
man who loved to battle himself in
the limelight it is the Hon. 7. R. 1t is
published In Chicago, the Windy
City-another observance of the pro-
prieties Limelight claims that its idol
is now filing his first term. If that be
true then the idol himself did not know
what he was talking about when he
declared that the present term is his
second Limelight seems to have a
corps of boomers judiciously located
about the land so as to give to the
third term movement the appearance
of being widely diffused, geographical
ly speaking, and it fills its columns
with more or less heated communica-
tions from these boomers. Of course
most of them belong to the s'bread and
butter brigade that is, to those hold
ing Office under the administration or
those who hope to do so. 1t ought to
be stated that there are some who are
whooping it up for third term for
Roosevelt under the delusion that the
country would speedily go to what Mr.
Mantalini was wont to denominate as
'sthe demnition bowwows' if Roosevelt
should lose his grip on the helm. Poor
soulst The governments life or prog
ress depends on no one man, thank
God! And if all the ofiiceholders in
America were to die today, in a week
or two their places would be filled
with men just as capable. Whatever
else happens in this land of the free
and home of the brave, the breed of
officeholders will not run out.
Ex-Governor Durbin of Indiana, an
other statesman out of job and in
hopes Of getting one, has been in Wash
ington lately throwing ice water on
the Fairbanks boom and screeching
for third term for Roosevelt. The
ex-governor thinks he knows that the
plain people are wild for Roosevelt
and that if he is not given a third
term they will be in the condition of
Rachel mourning for her children and
refusing to be comforted because they
were not. They do say, however, that
the reason why Durbin is against Fair
banks and for Roosevelt is that he is
ambitious to be v. p himself. Now,
the gossips who say that may be
wrong, but folks have habit in this
world of piecing two and two together,
thereby making four. Another notable
feature of the situation seems to be
that Senator Beveridge of Indiana is
not tearing his shirt for Fairbanks,
another case of green eyed monster.
Beveridge believes that he is himself
Of presidential stature, and he doesn't
want Fairbanks to get it for fear it
would initiate against his own
chances. So far as I know, Beveridge
has not openly declared for a third
term, but the chances are that he
would declare in favor Of third,
fourth and fifth if he supposed itwould
kill off Fairbanks and let himself In
There lis still another class screaming
for third term for Roosevelt consist
ing Of people whose appetites constant
II crave sensations. They may not in
aptly be termed sensation topers. If q
man should happen to be elected presi-
dent next time who would attend
strictly to his own business. pursuing
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