The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10


to issue a statement setting at rest
ell of this third term talk. He has
not done Il thus far, It Is said, be-
cause he wants to play little political
game of his own. He believes he can
use the publicity that third term talk
Is gaining, as leverage by means of
which he can dictate the next repub-
lican national convention. He thinks,
1t is said in a Washington dispatch,
that this third term boom, while "all
nonsense" will allow him to write
the platform for the next national con-
vention and to name the man.
1t is said that the president takes
the view that the third term prece-
dent, set by Washington, should not
be violated; that a lot of kilograms
which he is receiving now urging him
to run again are from Office holders,
politicians and candidates who are
shouting as a means of securing white
house favor. But the idea that there
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enough to run things In the white
house is laughed at by the president,
according to report. 1t Is said that
after the president has the next ma
tional convention snugly tucked away
in his vest pocket, so securely that his
word will be accepted as final and
absolute by the assembled delegates
from all over the nation, he will make
a new announcement stating finally
and absolutely that he is not can
didate and that he will not accept the
nomination If it is offered to him.
Whether or not the president will
be able to play out to successful fin
ish the big political game which he is
said to term his playing of cards with
the control of the coming national con-
vention in view, is question which is
just now being disputed in many states
by many ambitious favorite sons. In
New York there is Governor Hughes,
who is going on his own hook and re-
fusing to line up with the administra-
ton; there is Fairbanks in Indiana,
Cannon in Illinois, Foraker in Ohio,
and even Cummins in Iowa. And the
friends of each favorite son resent
the idea that they are to be brushed
aside in the national convention and
put under control of any one man.
This battle against a determination on
the part of the president to dictate
candidate platform and all, does not
promise to end until after the conven-
ton is done.
Nor is it alone in the region of
candidates that there is found oppo-
sition to the administrations an
nounced determination to dictate the
convention. Particularly in the east
there are said to be a great many re-
publicans, private citizens when it
comes to politics, who sincerely differ
with the president in many of his pol
icies and who hold the view that a
man should have right to think as
he pleases without being punished for
it with the big stick. A New York
dispatch to the Chicago Tribune says
that there are thousands and tens of
thousands of republicans in the east,
good men too, who are out of har-
mony with the administration policy
and who believe, since the constitu-
tional preamble speaks of I'VE, the
the nation ought to assemble to frame
a platform and nominate candidate
according to the honest desire and
opinions of the greatest number, re-
CARELESS of the attempts of any indi-
vidual or set of individuals to domi-
nate, whether or no, and dictate to
the delegates whom they shall nomi-
nate and what policies shall be placed
in the platform that goes before the
voters of the nation. There are many
who believe that the great masses of
men scattered all over the nation
ought to have share in framing the
program adopted by the coming ma
tional republican convention, and that
these common citizens should resist
any efforts put forth to gain the die
tatorship of the convention for any
one man or set of men.
Henry Watterson, VINO some time
ago said Roosevelt would accept an
other nomination, now says he will
not and gives the following reasons,
in answer to a challenge from a Bos-
ton and Washington paper:
Except that the editor of the Cou.
rier Journal had direct and precise in
formation he would have made no such
statement. 1t came to his knowledge
last winter that in company of jour
nalists, many in number, the president
said:
81 know that you do not trust me,
but why can't you trust me? Why
can't you believe in me, have faith
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