Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1912 — “As Clear as Day.” [ARTICLE]

“As Clear as Day.”

Is it possible for Mr. Roosevelt to tell the truth about any matter in which he is personally interested? Take as an example the statement he made in his Worcester speech about the third-term tradition. Mr. Roosevelt said: “Therefore, it is as clear as day that it Is and can only be a consecutive third term that violates the tradition. I had this in view when I said that the custom regards the substance and not the form.” Mr. Roosevelt knows that previous to the time he broke his own solemn pledge the third-term Issue had arisen only once in American history. That was In the case of Grant, who retired from the House March 4, 1877, and whose follower endeavored to nominate him for president again in 1880. The Grant campaign was the campaign that definitely established the third-term tradition. It was not a consecutive third term, but the kind of a third term that Theodore Roosevelt Is seeking. These are all elementary facts known to the most casual student of American history, yet because they relate to his own candidacy Mr. Roosevelt is incapable of telling the truth about them. ’