Evening journal., 1907-12-12
ROOSEVELT OUT
OF RACE, lie SAYS
Presidents New Announce
ment Causes a Stir in
Washington
ALL THE OTHER BOOMS
ARE GETTING BUSY"
BY THE JOURNALS Special wire.

BY THE JOURNALS Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, Dec. FIT was
just what we were hoping he would
say. Now we win go ahead and win
chorus of managers of the presidential
booms of Taft, Cannon, Fairbanks. Corr
telyou, Knox, Foraker, Hugles and pos
slbly a few others, when they heard
that PresidenJ Roosevelt had repeated
mis- declaration of election night 1904,
and had absolutely put himself out of
the race for 1903.
The President issued last night the
following statement:
In view Of the issuance Of the call Of
the Republican National Committee for
the convention, the President makes
the following stattment;
sOn the night after election ] made
the following announcements
4 am deeply sensible Of the honor
done me by the American people IN
thus EXPRESSING their confidence m
what / have done ard have tried to do.
appreciate TO the full the solemn re-
sponsibiIity this confidence imposes
mon me. and ! shall do all that in my
ro,,,er lies not TO forfeit it. On the eth
of March next shall have served three
md = halls years, and this three and
balf years constitute my first term.
The wise custom which limits the
Eresident to two terms regards the
s,,hstanee and mt the form, sni under
no circumstances will ] be candidate
for or ACCEPT ssher nomination
81 have not changed and shall not
ohanae the deelsr,a thus anneSneea'
ssvs He Was rs mckee ous"
tIthourh the stat ement was expected 20
bs made some time before the convention
should meet, it came to-day as hls
eurprise TO politicians on both SIDES OF
the fence. The hotel lobhies we're hlled to-
dav with little groups of Republicans ana
Democrats examining the anne uncemeni
at every possible argyle The general belief
expressed is that t5e President had heen
.smoxed OUT but opanions differ widely
as 20 VINO was respons BILE for the smudge
Democrats say that the visit tc the execu-
five office yesterday of John Sharp VIII
uams. the minority leader was respon-
sible Many Republicans guess that
..ITncle joe Cannon was at the bottom
Of If for he called before John John
sbarp some give the clayton anti-third
term resolution credit for Influencing
the Presidents s,rnind to a considerable ex-
tent.
Those In the anti-administrauon camp
seem to agree in declaring that The TAFT
boom will molt probably be injured thar
benefited by the move. So long as the
President could hold his forces in reserve
by allowing his adherents TO nurse the
belief that they might secure him fer
their standard bearer in 1908. very pow
erful faction Of the c. o. p. If not good
working majority was bound 70 refrain
from declaring for any particular candi-
date. and. when the crucial eleventh hour
came the Roosevelt hand might lead tn M
into the last corral If he made a dsc!ara-
tion putting himself finally out Of The
question. the President believed that his
great personal following would scatt
to the four winds, becsuse wlile some
would be loyal it was not likely that tn.
same votes would stand rat. So the aspr-
ing anti-administration candidates chafed
under the collar placed upon them by the
white house.
The Washington Herald Qndependentl
IN its leading editorial says that the senti-
ment merely emphasizes the President s
personal position and still leaves him in
the hands of the people The editorial pre-
diets his and Bryans nomination as the
two party leaders.