Eureka post. (Eureka, McPherson Co., S.D.) 18??-19??, 1907-01-11
The Roosevelt Third Term Ma
ti0nal League.
PLATFORM

We, the members Of the Roosevelt
Third Term National League, having at
heart the great social and political prob.
lens now confronting the people, and In
order that the rights of the masses be
protected and that national harmony be
preserved, deem it imperative that Theo.
dore Roosevelt be reelected t. the Presi-
dency in 1908.
We have come upon days in our social
and political life, fermentng with dis
trust and requiring firm control
We view with alarm the evils already
grown from the abuse of corporate
power and see in these evils fertile
field for the demagogue, from which
might readily spring political and So
cial revolution, and believe that moth
ing short of temperate and prayerful
solicitude. on the part of the people,
will hold our political and social struc-
ture intact.
To the people irrespective of party
lines is due the credit that their Presi-
dent, to- day, is Theodore Roosevelt A
new era of real freedom and vitality in
our institutions of government and poll.
tics was demanded, and they wisely saw
in him means TO attain il.
So valaEtly and wholeheartediy has
this man reflected the wishes of the peo
pie, that his personality has entered in
TO and become part Of every depart
ment Of our national life.
He has won the confidence of the peo.
pie; and this fact alone, makes him the
most potent factor in the solution of the
present disturbing conditions. To
eliminate this personality is to
eliminat" that confdence--at a time
when the people, as whole, are restive
and trembling with apprehension, is to
invite national disorder,
So closely woven is this bond between
the President and the people, that he
has become to them a public necessity,
an essential part of things in the social
and political fabric. Therefore, Theo-
dore Roosevelt is not only the one logi.
cal candidate for nomination, but mani.
festly is the only logical President for
the people.
Already has it been demonstrated that
The frightened and yengeful wealth con-
trolling forces Of the country, will re-
sort to any means 10 defeat his nomina.
ton for Presidential Third Term.
We, therefore, must be on the alert and
quick to action II we would save that
which has already been accomplished
by our illustrious President.
We are not unmindful of the fact that
Theodore Roose gelt himself declared in
1904 that under no circumstances would
he be candidate for, or, would he ac-
| cept another nomination.
We challenge, however, his right to
| refuse To accept the Presidency of the
United States for Third Term, in the
| face OF the peoples demand, especially
at time when so many undertakings of
the highest Importance have been
| brought about and set in motion by him,
and SO subject them to the danger of an
untried and improved successor, to
whom public confidence would be re-
luctantly extended, if at all.
Manifestly the selection of its Presi-
| dent rests with the people. The public,
alone, is judge. No man may say he
will not accept. 1t is not the province
of Theodore Roosevelt to say he will or
will not be the President He, who acts
as President, act solely as a servant of
the people, and when called by them,
musL come.
We further hold, that in point of fact
his reelection in 1908 would not consti-
tute Third Term. He has been
elected to the Presidency but once.
lnasmuch, however, as the issue has
been so generally spoken of as Third
Term, the League has adopted the title.
We, therefore, in the interest of pub
| lie welfare, demand that Theodore
Roosevelt be nominated for the Presi-
| dency and be rejected in 1908, and TO
that end hereby pledge our support.
EDWARD A. HoRNER,
| President