Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-20
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poflant commission to investigate the moneyed interests and instituted number of suits against large busi- ness combinations for all alleged vio- latlon of the sherman antitrust law.
 His Third Term Utterances.
 1t was following the announcement Of his reelection in 1904 that Colonel Roosevelt made his famous statement regarding the third term.
 T am deeply sensible of the hon. or that has been done me-" he said, and l shall try 10 show my grati- flcation by wise and just adminis- tration. On March 4th next l shall have completed three years and half as president of the United States shall regard that three years and a halt as my first term. The wise GUS tom which limits the president to two trems regards the substance and not the form; and under no circumstances will be candidate for or accept an other nomination..
 It has been since said the Roose welt has broken this pledge in seek ing the present nomination, though there are others who maintain that as he made no definite preference to the time at which he would accept or seek third nomination, his declaration had reference to third consecutive term.
 In any event he accepted a position as contributing editor of the Outlook, after laboring manfully for the elec- ton of his then friend and companion, William Howard Taft, and set about preparing for the African hunting eX- petition which he had arranged to execute for the Smithsonian Institute at Washington.
 Roosevelt's hunting trip consumed the greater portion of the years of 1909 and 1910, and was followed by a tour through the European countries, during which he received the vel come and homage of their rulers and peoples.
 His return to the United States ill 1910 was the signal for a demonstra- ton such as has not been accorded any other American. OfficialdOm and proletariat joined in welcoming him home. He could not have received a more hearty greeting had he been member of royalty |
 MT. Roosevelt alniost immediately took up his duties of contributing edl- tor, voicing his editorial views on cur rent topics with an enthusiasm that riyaled his vigorous statements while he was president. It was through these editorials that he. later attacked the proposetl agreement and peace treaties advocated by the Taft admin istration.
 The nomination of governor TOT the state of New York came up for consideration in 1910, and Roosevelt, hardly grown accustomed to his daily trip to the Outlook offices, journeyed to Saratoga, stampeded the Republl- can convention in favor of Henry l.. Stimson and, for the time being, over threw the Republican machine con trolled by Boss William Barnes, Jr. The state Republican machine had in tended to nominate Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman.
 His Candidate Beaten.
 Stimson was overwhelmingly beat en in the ensuing election and the iubilant Republican machine men claimed that the popularity of the Colonel was on the wane. Stlmsons s defeat, they said was solely due to his utilization with Roosevelt. The Col onels friends, however, maintained that the drubbing was administered because of the Payne-Aldrich Tarlff law. which had been passed during the summer of 1909 and which placed the Democrats in power.
 Roosevelt then lapsed into political oblivion. He refused to discuss the political situation other than through his publication, and terminated ms career speech making, temporarily.
 As 1911 drew to close, however, if became more and more evident that he was dissatisfied with the Taft ad- ministration. He attacked the reel procity agreement and the peace trea- ties vigorously-an action that result ed in a breech of the intimacy be- tween himself and his erstWhlle friend, President Taft.
 This breech led to much talk of ms views on renomination. His old statement positively stating that ne would not be candidate or accept ah- other nomination was raked up ana his position in the great fight to pc staged in 1912 became a burning ques- tiOn