The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-12-19
ROOSEVELT DECLARES
He IS NOT IN RACE
Announcement Leaves 10 Doubt lie Is
Not a Presidential Candidate.
ROOSEVELT RESPECTS PnCcErrE1
He Reiterates His Statement riade on
the Night OF Election lIiG sag
Most Positively Thai ii, Wi! Not
Change His Mind.


WASHINGTON, Dec. I2.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt will not be candi-
date for a third term. All doubt
on this point was dispelled by the
authoritative statement from the
White House last Thursday that
Mr.. Roosevelt still adheres to the
declaration of remuneration made
on the night OF the election three
years ago. In the statement issued
President Roosevelt says he has
not changed and shall not change
the decision communicated to the
American people in 1904.
1t appears that the President
had been awaiting the call for the
Republican National Convention
to afford the proper opportunity
for making his position clear and
unmistakable, thus leaving the
field clear for Fail banks, Taft,
Cannon, Knox, Foraker and other
declared OF receptive candidates for
the Republican nomination.
The Presidents statement fol-
lows:
On the night after election 1
made the following announcement:
81 am deeply sensible for the
honor done me by the American
people in thus expressing their
confidence in what 1 have done
and have tried to do. l appreciate
to the full the solemn responsibility
this confidence imposes upon me,
and l shall do all that in my power
lies not to forfeit it. On the fourth
of March next l shall have served
three and half years, and tins
three and a half years constitute
my first term. The wise custom
which limits the President to two
terms regards the substance and
not the form, and under no cilCum-
stances will | be a candidate fol- or
accept another nomination.
Il have not changed and shall
not change the decision Thus all
nounced."
The announcement that the P. es-
idet would not accept the Republi-
can nomination, if rendered, came
at too late an hour to become gen
orally known in political circles,
but among those who learned of it,
Democrats and Republicans alike,
the feeling was general that it left
no element Of doubt in the Presi-
dental situation, so far as relates
to the third term talk, and that it
definitely eliminates Mr.. Roosevelt
from the contest now being
waged. Some Democrats, how
ever, expressed a belief that
Roosevelt stampede in the Repub-
lican Convention would shake his
resolution, and that he would
prove no exception to the historic
precedent that no American citi-
zen ever refused a Presidential
nomination.
Administration Republicans de-
clare that the announcement gives
great impetus on the Taft boom,
while the Democrats, many of the
leaders of which party are here to
attend the meeting of their Ma.
tional committee today, are shout
ing that it means Bryan in
walk"
Speaker Cannon, when shown
the Presidents statement said:
THE President speaks for him
self. 1t would be useless and in
appropriate for me to attempt to
interpret the Presidents words"
Senator Foraker, the only other
declared candidate who could be
seen said:
"That has been his position all
the while, suppose, but I don't
care to discuss the matter, thank
you"
The National Anthem.