The Socorro chieftain., 1907-10-26
$1,000 PRIZE FOR ARGUMENT
For the Best Argument Showing
Why President Roosevelt Should
Run Again,
U, S. SENATOR MAKES OFFER
A Unique Step 20 Test the Country's
Sentiment on Paramount
Question.

ne lOllOWlnR important news
comes from Washington under
date of October 21:
Hon Jonathan Bourne, Jr., of
Oregon, United States senator,
has taken step to test the sem
tinent of the country on the
Presidential situation. Through
the National Magazine, Of Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, lie has offer
ed cash prize reward of 81 900,
open to the American people, for
the strongest and best-written
argument in support of the fol-
lowing assertions:
First, that the sovereign
people, and not Theodore Roose-
welt, the individual and public
servant, will decide who shall be
his successor.
Second. That Theodore
Roosevelt cannot decline a second
elective term or attempt to name
his successor without making his
own personal desires or egotisti-
cal opinions paramount to the
combined wishes and intelli-
gence of the Republican party
and the electorate of the nation.
Third. That RooSevelt's
honesty, courage, initiative, i'm
agination, versatility, and tre-
mendouS capacity for work, with
heart and brain constantly at
tuned to the peoples rights and
commands, aud his inSistence
upon the enforcement rather
than avoidance OF laws, and the
protection of the rights of men
and property, have to an unpar-
alleled degree gained the conf
dence of all people; that. in the
popular mind, Roosevelt, during
his eXecutiveship, has demon
strated his ability and determin-
alton to make good as the peo-
pies chief public servant, and
not their dictator; that this con-
fidence, being brain deduction
and not a heart emotion, is inn
possible of destruction except by
his betrayal; that by the selec-
tion of any other man, business
contraction and restriction must
exist during the period neces-
Sary for him to demonstrate to
the peoples satisfaction his abil-
ity and determination to make
good, and therefore, that, bar
ring death or serious illness,
President Roosevelt must and
will be selected and elected for a
second elective term"
TO AWARD PRIZE NEXT MARCH.
The prize will be awarded
March Is, 1908, the contest clos
ing one month earlier, and three
judges, gentlemen of high stand
ing, will be named shortly to
pass upon the arguments sub
mitted.
Senator Bourne, speaking OF
this offer, said today: Frankly,
my purpose is to secure discus
sion and agitation resulting in
conviction and crystallization of
opinion. Confident that the
overwhelming sentiment of the
country regardless of party, fa-
vors the denomination and re.
election of Roosevelt, take this
method of inviting an expires.
sion on the subject. The pro-
position set forth speak for them.
selves, and the responses thereto
will, at least tend to disclose the
popular feeling existing today
If the views which ! hold-and
which are shared fully, | may
add, by men from every section
with whom | am brought in con
tact are the views of the Amer
lean people generally, then it is
we'll to establish that fact an(
establish it at once. The earlier
the demonstration, the better FOL
the country.
PRESIDENT OWES 1T TO COUNTRY
TO SERVE FOUR MORE WARS.
Nothing more conducive I,
business success and public tran
guilty could possibly occur a
this time, in my opinion, thai
the substitution of certainty TO
uncertainty regarding the Pres
idency. II would be worth hun
dreds of millions of dollars +
our material interests. Th
business world would profit in
calculably by the assurance o
reassurances such a certaint