Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-07-15
WASHINGTONLETTER
POLITICS OF NATION CYNICALLY
Considered.
Our PeSSimiSfiC Friend Takes a WhirI
Out of Everything That Presents
Itself. Third Term Gossip. pa.
triOtiSm Lacking at Washington
and oyster Bay.
Especial correspondence to the HERALD.

WAsHINGToN, D. c., July 10.-Since
President Roosevelt carted off Secretary
Loeb and his typewriter to Oyster Bay,
we are denied the pleasure OF reading
and commenting upon the news that
originates at the seat of government and
to which Mr.. Loeb gave the vivid color.
that suited the strenuous ideas CT the
administration. Deprived OF these Off
cial communications the newspaper men
have to rely more upon their Imagination
and when all else fails guess whether
the president will take a third term. if
he can control the convention through
the manipulation Of the federal Office
holders, and if The time honored opposi.
tion to the third term would lead to his
defeat if he was re.nominated. There is
no doubt that the great majority of the
politicians have now come to believe
that Mr.. Roosevelt is scheming for a
third term, and the newspaper men be-
lieve he will control the convention.
How much OF revolt there would be
in the republican ranks against third
term cannot be prognosticated at this
time and nothing but such third term
campaign will develop how much respect
remains in the republican heart for the
precedent set by Washington and en-
doreed by Jefferson and decided for the
time by the defeat of General Grant for
a third term.
Can Roosevelt get what Grant was
denied? is question OF constant discus.
sion in Washington. Thomas Jefferson
opposed the third term idea. When Ger.
tain citizens Of Baltimore urged him to
become candidate for the presidency a
third time, he wrote reply in which he
declared that while there was no express
constitutional provision on the subject,
yet the example Of Washington formed a
precedent which ought to control the
practice of all future presidents; and
added that if president should ever
serve three terms he might easily serve
for life and even make the Office heredit-
ary in his family. No honest democrat
ever favored third term. Those re-
publicans who favored Grant were de.
feated by the better element of their
party. But it is now almost certain that
the lily white republicans OF the South
ern states, aided by the office.holders OF
the North and West. will try to renomi-
nate Roosevelt, and there would be great
danger of electing him unless the demo-
Gratis are able to unite upon some candi-
date who can win votes among disgusted
republicans.
1t is rather extraordinary that there
was no public celebration of the Glorious
Fourth either in Washington or Oyster
Bay. 1t is true the Old Settlers Asso-
citation of the District Of Columbia, most.
ly democrats, met, and the Declaration
OF Independence was read, but the re.
publican office-holding class that control
the public doings here evidently took
the cue from Oyster Bay and did not join
in celebrating the greatest and most
glorious event in our history.
At Oyster Bay there was nothing to
remind the patriotic citizen that the
Fourth is anything but public holiday,
and the children of that burg are likely
to grow up with the idea that the day is
set apart for the inalienable right to set
up fire crackers, instead OF being the
day sacred to Liberty. j. X. Y.