The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-09-27
thereon, whether within or without
the state"
TWO sTATEsMEN's VIEWS.

passed through Norfolk and have |
stopped in the new northwest's gate
way long enough to give their views |
on this or that. one was United |
states Marshal Seth Bullock Of Dead. |
wood, The other was Governor Coe |. |
Crawford of Pierre. And 1t is inter
esting to note the Numerically oppo- |
site views of these two statesmen re-
garding a question which has been up.
permost in the mind of the nation for
some months past-the question as
to President Roosevelt's successor.
Seth Bullock was a rough rider with
Roosevelt and is one of the warmest
personal friends of the president to be
found in the west. Governor Craw-
ford is likewise a staunch friend of
the presidents policies in government,
though not the intimate personal
friend that Bullock Is to the chief ex
ecutive. And because both are such
ardent friends and admirers of the
president, their precisely opposite
opinions regarding the third term
question for Roosevelt is the more in
teresting.
Governor Crawford in Norfolk the
other day declared that he is abso-
lutely and unqualifiedly for Roosevelt
for third term, and he said that he
believed that South Dakota republic
ans would send a delegation to the
next national convention instructed to
insist upon the presidents acceptance
of another nomination. 1--WE have no
second choice" said the governor,
because that would be qualifying our
support of the president"
But Seth Bullock takes a different
view. Seth Bullock has just come
back from Washington, where he
talked with President Roosevelt as
matter of course. And when shown
dispatch quoting Senator Clapp of
Minnesota as declaring that the presi
dent would be compelled to accept a
third term nomination, Bullock said:
I'D like to see photograph Of any
one compelling Theodore Roosevelt to
accept a nomination for the presiden-
cy of the United States. The Amer
lean people know that the president
can't be driven to do anything. Unit
. ed States senators ought to know it
and If they don't it is about time they
were finding it out"
I Seth Bullock and Governor Crawford
both know that the president on the
, night of election, November s, 1904, in
the face of an overwhelming Roose-
welt landslide, declared his faith in
/ the wise custom which limits the
2 president to two terms" and contin
!. ued: "Under no circumstances will
. be a candidate for or accept another
: nomination" Apparently Seth Bull
A lock, the personal rough-rider friend
/. who knows Roosevelt, the man, has
e more faith in the latter's integrity anG
e sincerity than has Governor Crawford
e for where the one would take the
g president at his word and be willing
!. to allow him to live up to the letter
# of his announcement, the other appar
!. emily so far doubts the absolute de
J. termination of the president to sucf
). IN extent that he will seek, and will
J. some hope of success, to persuade thu
a president to reverse himself and TAX,
= another nomination in the face of hi
g declaration
h The general public naturally ques
r tons which of these South Dakot;
e opinions is the true one; whether Bull
n lock Is right when he says that tn,
v president can't be driven to accept, o
r. whether Crawford is right when h
q pins his faith to the hope that hi
&c delegation, and others like it, may in
D. fluence the president to change hi
n mind. And it might be remembers
n in this connection that first of all Blu
lock is personal friend of the pres
o. dent, and is in better position to knoy
Is the mans determination and absolut
IN integrity of purpose than the govern
Is or, who knows the president only a
in long range. 1t must also be borne /
a, mind that Bullock, secure in his fec
re eral appointment so long as his frien
III Roosevelt remains at the helm. an
he maybe longer, is in a position to sa
~ just exactly what he thinks withou
is regard to its effect upon the voters
st while Governor Crawford must consic
,e er to a large degree, in view of hi
,g candidacy for Senator Klttredge
ID toga, what effect his public expires
ye sions will have upon the public
h. South Dakota. And a dispatch recen
ly sent out from Pierre goes so ia