The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-16
OF
THIRD TERM
Senator Lodge Says III They
Keep Pounding Taft
LOOKOUT FOR STAMPEDE
To tks PEsnssnt --s4zzto-s Prsphs<g
NJ Political cssp, he says-Nsw
Ware Of seessz E1eetIvs TsEn
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W'Askingt0n, u. g., MaseA is--seEsEer
Io1xs, the sBpses. yeysnai friend tie
gfesa1ees Nae "a [05msss. ~ nom =
rlga. " @enatCw 1yurNe in talaiag .
seeDsI eiert5gs teFEn s9s asooseaest.
A few nigAtH a00 orator LOdge aas
= guest " a airncs Eegs. ard ID the
smoking FesgEa 6ee4ne 0ae of q gr0sip
III fcsw who discussed presidential poai
TIVE. One * shemy psDmirens repre-.
sentative, remarked that If tbs DsMSs.
Gratis wonM allow hirn 10 write the plat
form Bryan could give Taft bard ran
ant coad come very near % defeating
R1DAsEes
Senator Lodge Observed tAst people
need not ~ 20 certain that ROcseyelE
world not i,e nominated
ri they keep pounding away Ak Sec
rotary Taft ard succeed il preventing
ais domination az Chicago On the frst
ballot, look ogt for 3 stampede 70
Rooseveit.7 said he
"Oh. you are ~ saying that nols n
the hope Of driving business men % sup.
port Taft said another New England
senator, who lad been one 81 the group.
1T il a nice political eosp, bat it Won
~0rk."
Senator Lodge insisted that there vas
decided prospect that the president
W0nid be nominated lie lias been talk
ihg Il emphaticaig IN other places dur
ing the past week, ~ emphatieassy that
sDme ansi.Taft Republicans are begiH
Ming 10 think that the president may
want the nomination after all
Az far ~ political and Official Wash.
inglon are concerned, The president
name has never been used more tn con
nection with THE present campaign than
of late. There has been q new wave
If the third term talk, and. al has ger.
orally bern the ease, II proceeds In the
main from the president's eonfdants.
some ~ Biz opponents take il up, az
they frequently have heretofore, to dem
onstfate their claims that he Is not
sincere III his declaration Of election
night. 1904.
Tho presidents friends used the third
term talk last autumn To Keep bis sup
p0rters from straying % other eandi-
dsfes before the Taft boom could be
we'll organized When that had been
accomplished the thirdterm talk vas
Discouraged and eventually ceased for a
while. With the issuance Of the presi-
dents Feiteration that he would Under
no circumstances accept renomina-
ton
Washington prophets say that the
present wave Of thirds term talk viii
nbside AZ soon as il Is aseertaiTted
whether business interests that are hos.
tile to the president viii lie affected By
Il and Join the TAFT standard
Incidentally The denomination talk
proceeding from administration circles
Just now proposes that TIE ola ticket Of
Roosevelt and Fairbanks shall ~ put
into the running Tie convention II
siampeded, would "a Its work quickly
men saw There would be nothing lett
to M ~ TINT stage but name the ticket
al All the preliminary work would BE-
ont oF the way. And if the Roosevelt
enthusiasts should succeed IN their
work they would hot stop for the usual
consultations about running mate
They would put Fairbanks name right
through BY reclamation and adjourn
sine die before Roosevelt would have
time to send telegram declining.