obbed him of his sane judgment, and in such a case the spoiler invites
himself, political murders have occurred quite often, committed by some
power that works in the dark and only too frequently of late the
assassin was classed as an anarchist, but the real instigators could
never be brought before justice. Whoever the direct murderer of
McKinley has been it could never be proven that he has ever been
affiliated with any anarchistic or similar society, but we may well
conclude that the man who in years after so willingly violated the
first unwritten law, which is the third term tradition, may have
readily promised to violate the third unwritten law of the country
whenever he thought it profitable to change his creed while president,
perhaps to the mother of monarchies.

Gentlemen of the jury, a man's first presidential term begins when he
takes the oath of office and constitutes a full term if it will only
last twenty-four hours after oath and a man's third term is his third
when he seeks it or is given to him twenty years or more after his
second. When Roosevelt took the oath of office at McKinley's departure,
he had ceased to be a Republican. He at once began to build a political
machine of his own. It was then in fact that his one man party
so-called Progressive party was born, parts of which we find later in
the insurgents, handicapping Mr. Taft wherever they could. Later in
August at the convention of treason he took the material where and as
he found we see him trying hard to bring the money power of the union
into his service, we find him extorting large sums for his political
campaigns from the so-called despisable trusts, since then we became
accustomed to look upon every man of wealth and the great industrials
corporations who have been and are today of incalculable value and
benefit to our national welfare, as nothing more or less than
contemptible criminals, whom he offended in the most profane language
during his crusade against them, if they refused to become a part of
his machine. At the decline of his second term the remainder of the
Republican party, those who had not been absorbed by "my policies"
could no longer be in doubt as to the third termer's real intentions,
and for the first time the third termer realized the magnitude and
importance of the third term tradition and most men of influence in
those used their power to scare him out of office at the same time
comforting him with the fairy tale th