Show ROOSEVELT OUT OF FIGHT 1 Mr Ir friends pay him a very doubtful J JS S 11 they t ey col t their t th talk Wk In a 11 statement Issued from Crom the White House Wednesday Mr Ir Roose Roosevelt velt tt repeated rf 40 p the proclamation p n he lie putt puts putout out on the night after affer the last Jast pre i lection In that th t he be said stid The i t wise custom which president to toto two Mc regards the th substance and not the form and under no circum circumstances circumstances circumstances stances will I be a candidate for or ac accept accept acc c pt another nomination To this Mr Wednesday added I 1 have hav not changed and shall shaU not change the th de then announced Surely thIs is definite enough If 11 It means anything at all It means exact exactly ly I what It says Mr Roosevelt could not accept another nomination no without stultifying himself His friends cannot urge his nomination without Inferentially Inferentially charging him him with hypocrisy Mr Roosevelt has absolutely eliminated himself from the list of Republican possibilities As a Democratic news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper The Herald is sorry this Is true Mr Roosevelt would not not be a strong candidate next year ear The people of the United States have a fixed and set settled settled tied aversion for third presidential terms by whatever name they may be called and this fact would alone be sufficient to defeat Roosevelt if he were put forward by the Republicans The national politicians must now perforce direct their attention to other possibilities There are lightning rods up in every direction The most prom prominent promInent prominent figure at this writing Is the fig figure figure figure ure of or Secretary Taft It Is known to tobe tobe tobe be Mr desire that the big secretary of or war succeed him All of his powerful Influence will be thrown in that direction very delegate vote that he can cn command will be given to Taft The question Is as to whether or not he will be able to nominate his sec see secretary secretary As is the case with the idea the people have also an aversion to the naming by a president of his successor The voters at t large would have very little to say in the election of their presidents If this were to be become become become come an established rule The president president dent of the United States has no rio busi business business business ness using his vast power for the con control control control of ot nominating conventions It is I Inot not fair to other candidates and it could not fall fail to cause dissatisfaction so widespread as to seriously endanger the chances of the nominee Indeed the present tude of the Taft boom may be ascribed In large measure to work for Taft TaCt If Ir the convention were to be held to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow however it is entirely probable probable probable able that Taft would have more votes on the first ballot than any other can candidate candidate candidate Still he would not have enough to nominate him There will be many favorite sons at the next conven convention convention convention tion Foraker must be reckoned with not as a possible nominee but as a possible of 01 Taft T ft Fair Fairbanks Fairbanks banks will have some following but hardly enough to give ghe him the nom nomination in Speaker Cannon is talked of but his age will almost certainly c bar him It Is 16 the opinion of a large larg and grow growing growing growing ing number of ot observers observer that the can candidate c candidate n who wh gets more votes If any does than a certain bewhiskered red gen gentleman gentleman en tie man who is just now acting as gov gay governor governor of New York will wili be the nom noni nominee nOmInee inee of ot the convention con |