Show BOURNE E SEEKS THE LIMELIGHT Senatorial Pigmy pj From Oregon Offers 1000 for Argument in Favor of Third Term ROOSEVELT THE ONLY MAN MAM MAMONE MANNO NO ONE ELSE EITHER HONEST OR ABLE Special to The Herald Herad S Washington Oct 20 Jonathan Bourne Jr of Oregon United States senator has taken a unique step to test the sentiment of the country on the presidential sit situation situation situation Through the National Magazine of ot Boston Mass he has offered a cash prize reward of 1 1000 open to the Ameri Amen can people for the strongest and best written argument In support of his fol fo lowing assertions the s people and aUlI not Theodore Roosevelt the individual and public public servant will wll decide who shall be DO his successor Second That Theodore Roosevelt Roo velt can cannot cannot cannot not decline a second term or at attempt attempt attempt tempt to name his successor without mimic mak ing In his own personal desires or egotistical opinions paramount to the combined wish wishes es Cs and Intelligence of the Republican part party and the electorate of the nation No Other Man Capable Third That t honesty cour courage courage courage age Initiative ve Imagination versatility and tremendous capacity for work with heart and brain constantly attuned to the peo peoples peoples ples pies rights tights and commands and his in insistence Insistence insistence upon the enforcement rather than avoidance of ot laws and the protection of the rights of ot men and property have to toan toan toan an unparalleled degree gained the dence of ot all people that In the popular mind mine l during d u ri hit his M hi n i n t ives hi mind mine l during d u ri hit his M hi n i n t ives hi ng p has demonstrated his ability and deter determination determination determination to make good as the peoples chief public servant ervant and not their dicta dictator dictator dictator tor that this confidence being a brain deduction and not a heart emotion Is im impossible Impossible impossible possible of destruction except by b his be betrayal betrayal traya that by b the selection of any other man business contraction and restriction must exist during the period necessary for him to demonstrate to the peoples satis satisfaction satisfaction satisfaction faction his hi ability and determination to tomake tomake tomake make good and aoel therefore that barring death or serious Illness President Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt velt must and will wll be selected and elected for a second elective term The prize will be awarded March 15 the contest closing one month earlier and three fudges gentlemen of high standing will be he named shortly to pass upon the arguments submitted Purpose of the Offer Senator Bourne speaking of or this offer said tonight Frankly my m purpose Is to secure discussion and agitation a resulting In conviction and crystallization of opinion opinion opinion ion Confident that the overwhelming sentiment of ot the country regardless of party favors the and amI re reelection reelection reelection election of Roosevelt I take this method of inviting an expression on the subject The propositions set forth speak for them themselves themselves selves and the responses thereto will at least tend to disclose th te popular feeling existing today toda If the views which I hold and which are shared fully full I may mav ma add by men from every section with whom I Iam Iam Iam am brought Into contact are the views of the American people generally then It Is well to establish that fact and establish It at once The earlier earler the demonstration the better for the country countr Now Is the Time Nothing more conducive to business success and public tranquillity could pos possibly possibly sib sibly occur at this time In my opinion than the tho substitution of certainty for un uncertainty uncertainty uncertainty certainty regarding the presidency It would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars to our our material Interests The business world orld would profit incalculably by the assurance or reassurance such a certainty would bring The administrations administrations policies are accepted and approved Only the knowledge that Roosevelt will continue at the helm is needed to in inaugurate Inaugurate inaugurate anew an era em of prosperity on a asater safer sater and sounder basis than ever before Call Cal It a third term or Ot a a second elective term as you ou like the exigencies of the times demand demond that he ha serve seno four years more It Is a patriotic duty which he owes to his country countr He cannot shirk it If he would without making self set greater than country and forfeiting the respect and public confidence he now holds He will not shirk It once the people make their wishes known Now is the time for tor them to be heard |