Arizona republican., 1912-03-05


 | This is by the Washington Herald: l Mir. Roosevclt's announcement as
 tc his candidacy removes all doubt as
 tn his attitude in the present cam
 paign.
 He has reached his decision in total disregard of his positive statement of ] November. 1904. that he would not be | a candidate for or accept another nomination: of his repetition of this | position in December. 1907; of his admittancc that he has already served | two terms, and of the fact that by lis act he indicates a hostility to the | president which seriously jeopardiZes | the future of the republican party He has not made up his mind has tily. He has had every opportunity to consider the effect of his action.
 and he must assume all of the re- sponsibility therefore
 Mir. Roosevelt says that he will ac- ccpt the nomination for president if
 it is rendered him, but The Washing ton Herald reiterates its express l ed conviction that the nominee of the republican national convention will be William Howard Taft.
 The New York Tribune. which tries
 to minimize the harm done by the Roosevelt Announcement has this
 to say:
 The Tribune regrets that Colonel Roosevelt is again seeking the repub- lican nomination for the presidency His candidacy. because of personal relations formerly existing, can hard ly fail to engender unusual political
 bitterness and create a breach among republicans wider than rival candi- dacies ordinarily produce. and in a year when the party will need its full strength to win. colonel Roose- welt would have served best the party that has often honored him gener-
 ously by remaining in the back ground.
 Under the caption. Democracy or Caesarism'' the Springfield Rcpubli-
 can prints the following: The more truly democratic in political theory a man is. the less likely he would be to favor another term in the presi dencY for citizen who had been president two terms already. The case
 of those republican prOgressves who favor third term for MT Roosevelt, consequently. is not easy to diagnose.
 IL cannot be that they are so full of
 democratic theory as they profess tO
 be. while they fall short to such an extent in democratic practice. Moth
 ing could be more undemocratic than
 the proposal to make Mir Roosevelt president again. Congressman Norris of Nebraska and men of his stamp merely juggle with phrases in pre- tending that the third term precedent has no application in Mir. RooseVelt's | case. For what is the record to date? It never entered the heads of Wash | ington, Jefferson or Jackson when re- tiring from office after two terms | that they would ever return. Mir. | Roosevelt served two terms and then | he selected his own successor. For | him to destroy that successors chance for a rcnOmination and take the nom l ination himself would be utterly re- pugnant to the spirit of the anti | third-term precedent; and. in view | particularly of the fact that no grave | udilOIidl pDlHltu " lilil ''the one indispensable man." the ac- ceptance of such a nomination would 1 be a blow struck at the democratic ! theory of government iteslf. The is sue would be democracy or Caesar ism Yet men like the western pro- gressives, while protesting extreme l attachment to democracy. take up the | Caesar end of the proposition.
 The following is by the Denver Re publican, the most influential news paper of Colorado:
 Col Roosevelt is in the ring again | despite his assevations that never again would he don the gloves and l strip to the buff for the great prize. His excuse is on the order of the l Jeffries excuse for entering another 1 kind of arena-to save the white race.
 Logic is not one of the Roosevelt | assets. The colonel states that his determination to come back" IS bas- cd on the Bryan dictum of shall the i, people rue?"
 In brief. the Rough Rider would hreak a solemn contract and defV