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Show LEWIS' PROPHECY SESRJUE Former Senator Sees Possibility Possi-bility of President Wilson Wil-son Running Again. By JUSTIN McGRATH, Editorial Correspondent for Universal Service. WASHINGTON, July 13. Ex-Senn tor James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, who, when he was In the senate, was known as the administration spokesman, gave Washington statesmen and politicians a shock by the interview with him published pub-lished today, In which he predicted President Presi-dent Wilson would be a candidate for a third term. It was not so much ex-Senator Lewis's prediction that the president would seek re-election that startled the politicians as it was his declaration of the basis on which Mr. Wilson probably would rest, his candidacy. On this point Mr. Lewis said: "The message of President Wilson to the United States senate creates a new alignment of politics in the United States. It ends both old political parties. The question of today is, shall the United States continue, to be a government apart from the world or a world government:' If the opposition to the , peace treaty a nd the league of nations shall force Wilson to be a candidate to vindicate his work in Paris, the people will not regard him as a third-term candidate, but as a first-term candidate on the new issue for America." Notwithstanding the fact that ex-Senator Lewis called at the White house the other day to confer with President Wilson, Wil-son, his statement of yesterday is not accepted as authorltat Ively setting forth I the president's intention to run again. It is known that Mr. Lewis did not see the president, and therefore could not have based his prediction on any statement state-ment of the president. His prediction Is generally regarded as merely his own view of the altitude the president will assume in the event tha t the senate, by special reservations t tho peace treaty shall defeat the purposes of the league of nations covenant. |