Admiral Dewey has just startled the country by announcing himself candidate for the presidency. The announcement was made in the form of a statement to a New York newspaper in these remarkable word "When I arrived in this country last September T said then that nothing would induce me to be a candidate for the Presidency.
"Since then, however, I have had the leisure and inclination to study the matter, and have reached a different conclusion, inasmuch ax So many assurances have come to me from my countrymen that I would be acceptable as a candidate for this great office.
this high office,-I shall be only too willing "Tf the American Peorle want mo for to serve them, "Should I be chosen for this exalted position, I would execute the laws of Congress as faithfully as I have always executed the orders of my superiors."
When asked "On what platform you will stand?" the Admiral replied think I have said enough at this time, and possibly too much."
Such a decision on his part was entirely unexpected in all quarters. Even his own brothers and his son had no intimation of it. The statement, too, is as unlike the Dewey of Manila Bay as could well be imsined. He stands for no party, no poliical principles; he simply says, prazstsxt, ly: "I should like to be President," and es the rest to any political party or managers who might see fit to take up his cause.
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