| Show THAT THIRD TERM A united and concentrated is to be made to reelect re elect president rousevelt roosevelt N elt to a third term in spite spile of lits kiib repeated repealed assertions that thai under no circum stance will lie he aguin become a bundi dote date for the office of tho the nations nut ions chief executive the roosebelt Roo third term national league v m latch is ia taking the lead la in the matter has hai adopted tile the following platform we tit tho ile room members be of tho the roosevelt third ter term national league ha hafi ing ligat at heart the greach ocial and political problems now confronting the people and in order that tile the of the ma tees be protected arid that national harmony be pre ered deem it Impe ruthe e that theodore roos rooi belt be reelected to the lite in 1903 wo we hae hac come upon days in our social and political life fermenting v m ith distrust and requiring firm control wo view with alarm the eili ul nl ready grown from froan tile the abuse of corix corporate power and teo bee in these colls a fertile field for the demagogue front from maleh might readily spring a political and social reo revolution lution said and M balico s that nothing short of temperate and prayerful solicitude on the part of the people will hold our political und and bacilli ture lure intact to the people irrespective of party lines hues la Is due the credit that their luicir president today loday is theodore reese velt A new era of real freedom anti and N vitality lla lily in our institutions of go eminent and politics was wad den tended and they N aluc lue ly saw in him a means to attain it so bo valiantly ali antly and wholeheartedly has this man reflected the of tho the people that his hid personality has haa entered into and become a purl part of every department of our national life ahe ho has bag won the of the people and this thia fact alone in lakes harn all the most potent factor in the solution of the present disturbing conditions conditi ony to eliminate this flits personality which lii is to eliminate ell minato that conil confidence dence at a time when the people ab m am a whole atole tire ire restive and trembling witti fill apprel ion sion alon tit la to in lie national disorder bo closely woven Is this thin bond between tile the president and the people that lie lass ima become to them a public necessity au an essential part of shingi in tho the social and political fabric therefore theodore Roo smell IN IH not only the one logical candidate for but manifestly in ill tile only I 1 logical president for tho the people already zang hill it 11 been coil demonstrated that the frightened and vengeful m et ith controlling forces of tho the country tryam tt ill all resort to any means to defeat ills his nomination for a presidential third term we therefore guht be on oil tile alert and quick to action it if wo we mould sae that which has already been accomplished by our illustrious i president we boaro are not or of tile tho fact hint t theodore roosevlt himself do blared it in 1004 1904 that under no circumstances would lie he be a candidate for erm or mould lie he accept another nomination wo we challenge ho heweet howe cr his right to defuso to accept tile iho presidency of the united states for a third term in the face of tile peoples demand especially it nt a time lian wanny undertakings of the highest importance have been brought about and set in motion by linn him and no subject them to tho the dim dan ger of nil an untried ond and unproved successor ce or to chona public confidence mould be reluctantly extended if at all manifestly tho the election cation of its president rests nv ith the people the public alone ly Is the judge no roan man may say lie will tint not ept it Is not in the pre province ince of theodore reese rosscell Roo scell elt to say bay lie i ill or m hlll ill not be the president lie he who nets acts as president acts solely as a set sen ant of the people anti wh when en called by them must come awe we further hold that in point pointer of fact lib his reelection election re iu in 1908 would not conti constitute tuto a third athard term lichas he has been elected to the presidency but once inasmuch however lie ever as the lisue issue has it as been so generally spoken of as ft a third term the league has adopted the title we therefore in tho the interest of public mel fare demand that theodore roose Roos roosvelt celt elt bo be nominated for the presidency dency and be reelected elected re in 1908 1903 and to that end hereby pledge our support |
