The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-09-18
4 MONTHLY VIEW Of THIRD
TERMS.


magazine 10 the remarkable assurnp-
ton that. even II President Roosc-
Yolt does not back out of ard a~ay
from his objections 20 third terms
and his repeated pledges Of uuaar-
rendering opposition 10 the third-
term idea. be will be unanimously
nominated and compelled TO run ~
third term candidate at any rate.
! nays the ST Louis Republic
The theory that President Roosc-
vel, is likely TO back out Of and
away from hts objections TO third
terms may suggest Itself naturally
enough He began his political ca
| recr and continued for long time
! a civii-service reformer. an aegres-
| siye and strenuous opponent Of the
| use Of the federal offices as a noliu-
cal machine to dictate succession in
office and for similar purposes Of
| usurpation He now has In operation
To dictate the presidential succession
nm offlceholders' machine of unpre-
| cedented strength. apparently work
| Ing up TO his full activities.
He is now assailing the Massaohu
setts or Long school of nature stu
dents In u magazine which he de-
nouneed last year as the embodiment
of the worst result Of the habit Of
}. T. a. 4 I'm
mediately after doing so he backed
out Of and away from that position
and took the position that muck
heaps of all kinds. state and inter
state, must be subjected to imme-
diate federal inspection. Though
he now demands that the Massachu-
dents shall be ANONYMOUSLY repu-
dated as takers. in favor of the New
York or Burroughs school, what GER
tainty is there that he will maintain /
this position Who knows but that !
he will back out of and away from |
1t, postponing all results from it as I
he did results from his official as
sault on the dictionary and the
spelling of the English language or
as he has done his strenuous best TO
postpone the admission of Oklahoma
and the new Southwestern states to
self-government in the union?
After what seemed to be q cyclic
Ia lat i'm tn
'ates and trust prices, We have had |
lis speeches at jamestown, at In
Annapolis and at Proyincetown, in
which he assures us that lower rates /
night be a great misfortune. As for ]
over trust prices, we are also as
5ured now that they are only to be
expected when his party Gncluding
and the campaign
who accept contributions
'n payment for peace becomes /
unanimous.
He has not yet backed out of and
away from a considerable number
of other things. including the views
he has disseminated from the
White House on bears, coyotes, lais-
sem faire, football, mollycoddles and
race suicide, but what assurance IS
there when congress meets and
Speaker Cannon begins standing pat /
for the usual opportunities to create /
confidence in the campaign COM .
mittee. that there will not be /
wholesale reimbursement of every
thing all along the line to suit the
continuous advance in trust prices
That. in fact is as much to be eXpec-
ted now as the meeting OF congress
before the opening of presidential
year.
/ When, under such conditions as
luis. a monthly magazine devotes
several pages TO torecasting a grand
uprising intended To force third
term. AN that remains to be said is
THAT these several pages are remark
liable even iu a monthly magazine.