Show PRESIDENT NT will LL NOT ACCEPT THIRD TERM N ma nall I 1 loins ith I th fit allow W president dent mckinley in has put oloff quietus on the third term talk which haa has gained some currency in the newspapers through interviews with cetla well known republican republicans favor lot in alie re r nomination of the president preal dent for a third term wren willi S loaton depka suRest lon ten tea days ago ifo that the president should be elected reelected re tar for a third term ben began to be seriously disc sted and od when sev oral ral of 0 the presidents friends foll ca called iltz upon to the idea the preal pent decided ded thit that the public mind should be instantly cleared of even th 0 suspicion that be was seeking to break down the precedent precedents of the past bybe comley a Is candidate for another term alth ith the idea ot of suppressing any movement leading to hi his nomination la in 11 be he issued tb the following alceed statement State meat 11 I 1 I 1 regret that thi the suggestion of a third term baa has been lands I 1 doubt bather I 1 am called upon to give gl it hut but there ire are now ques tlona lon of the gravest importance beffie the th a administration and aba country and their juat just consideration abound not be prejudiced in the public mind by ean the suspicion of tb the thought of a third term la in view 1 therefore of the melters rel aloi of the suggestion of it I 1 will is now once for all expressing a long settled conviction that I 1 not only tm am not dot and will oot not be a 1 candidate for a third term but would not accept a oa nomination for it if it were tendered me mj my only ambition la Is to servo through my second to the accept ance of my iny countrymen countr yaen whose becer oui coo confidence I 1 ao so deeply appreciate und lad then with them to do my duty la the ranks of private citizenship IN buum M klisit |