Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — The Third Term. [ARTICLE]

The Third Term.

Inordinate ambition, a lust for power, a vanity so excessive that it touches the very - verge of madness, an utter contempt for the people—for Mr. Roosevelt has always entertained a profound contempt for the people, although, with the craft of the demagogue, he has ever posed as their friend and champion—and a defiance of the wisdom of the fathers of the republic and the teachings of history have combined to make Mr. Roosevelt hunger to occupy the White House for the third time. He is ambitious to be Caesar and to implant Caesarism upon the United States. To reach the cerule ehalr he has had to use the dagger of treachery and to trample upon his solemn promises. For these he cares nothing. He stabs his friend with as little remorse as he shows shame when he Is reminded of his repudiated pledge. Utterly without shame, utterly unscrupulous, utterly without conscience or sense of honor, he Is willing to do anything, to lend himself to any base plot, to resort to any falsity to become Caesar. For him the republic exists only as he can make it his personal property.— A. Maurice Low, in Harper’s Weekly.