Show THE presidential TERM murat halsted thinks it should be shortened TWO YEARS ARE ENOUGH ira he argues that a president and vice president should be chosen chose 11 tit every election of a house of representatives rower power ot of impeachment peach ment should ile be restrained need to our ideas copyrighted by irving syndicate the tendency of the p of 0 the citizens who have bee heen 11 at the trouble 40 be thought thoughtful lul about the I 1 improvement ot of uie the machinery of 0 our govern arri arriott ont Is toward vhf the elongation of tho cho term of tho the presidential office coupled willa B ach tho proposition that the chief shalliot shall not be eligible 0 tor for to TC election the contention of this piper paper Is that the th better way would lie be to choose a president and vice it at overy every of a a house of depre iseril luves and to io the matter of 0 re where it to clonas to thy tho judgment ot of tho the people wie we aro are amply guit guarded eded against precipitate popular action which was wa tho the apprehension of the fathers and the ithe cause ot of the unchangeable pr ea ident tor for the pelfred of wo we congresses our constitution makers were too conserva tave where there are a crown and a dynasty under a constitution the people have ling fling through a change ot of government hy by a vote ot of Cong congress Tess or parliament the principle of royo royally I 1 ty Is relied upon as the balance withell and we have the fiction of person personal nl nov chelenty cre lenty reduced to transparency one ot of the lessons of the administration ion for over a century of our form of government Is 11 that we need not be ba afraid of the people if they cannot govern no one can do it for fop them jefferson regarding popular sovereignty was wiser than IT amIlton MS OF impeachment restrained STRAINED it la Is well thai the executive government ment cannot bp be overthrown by oy a vote of congress Con gleas the process of impeachment Is restrained so as aa to be almost inoperative end and it certainly will never tie be undertaken save aavo after great provocation or except under circumstances cum stances the most moat extraordinary jt it la Is fortunate that khat impeach ment bajil d in the oase case of andrew johnson Joh naon and the ta clinKS of his trial win will long lone be krofl tahle table to the country the public virtue of patience te Is to be commended commend ad exceedingly the people are apt when dis pleased with a pi resident lo 10 lometor lon etor the immediate exercise of their sovereign rights but it Is desirable to wait walt wait at all winter or all summer and see whether the clouds do not roll liy by pause and note the tha flight of phan clearing the air an executive ln chiet who booted cou d be deposed denoted by a vote of congress would not be strong enough and to give congress the power of if removal of t he cabinet cabine t up would have too much flavor of royal ceremony and tend rather to magnify the constitutional advisers of the president by associating with them an excess of individual responsibility our system hol holds ds that the act of a cabinet Is the act of the president and it la Is vindicated by lie he tact fact that as a rule the strongest presidents have called about I 1 them hem the strongest cabinets it there Is 1 a roan man in the country too large to go into a a cabinet the president Is too weak for his place the cabinets of washington and lincoln are arc illustrative it Is a fatality for a corn commander mander in 0 chief ter to be jealous of his subordinates and he Is a great man when he Is pleased be 1 cause others gather harvests of glory WE NEED TO OUR IDEAS we tho the people of lite unite states have ml felt the harness of 0 republican Governer ant and are satisfied that it Is strong and wo ave may say rather too stiff in somo particulars tho the question Is whether we should not relax the restraint that is 1 impo lin pool cl by the constitution upon the rapid exercise ot of tho the public mill do we nul not need to lic anize our ideas as to presidents we should have object lessons ot or education that thai the president is not our ruler we are ruled hy fundamental and statutory law and not by a por per manage the fault of the french in carrying on a republic Is that they continue the old habit 0 of mind attributing to the chief magistrate something ot of import allam they do not regard simplicity na as dignity they are fond end of sashes and plumes and parades and insist ulon a splendid there Is however 11 L great deal ot of true republicanism tn in france the blue blouse and rough sage fanoe in the galleries of oc art and the absence ot of cringing in the presence of the depre representatives of oc public potency toll tell that the tha revolution was not in fit vain we must guard the presidency knelt itself from sudden invasion owing to a swift impulse ln puls from some rushing folly and we should secure th the onice MCA from all imputations ot or uncertainty 00 and impetuosity this la Is admirably done by nur system ot of presidential electors much has been wild sald favorable to tile the abolition of this alleged com allo li kiwon Won ion and the choice of presidents t by y a popular vote veto the election ot of electors elector has bes bo however wever more than once been the salvation of the government and Is now it keeping the peace in so vast a nation we must cling to local responsibility and aba th half million popular mafoi fly given in oil corner of tile the country where suffrage sul Is 1 peculiar lias bas divwer enough and indeed too lia in selecting otate electors clet tors tho pop uliar maJor majorities itlen in remote and obscure regions to overcome by whole dle idle i the greater and more enlightened elligh bened communities would be bi dangerously disputed for universal suffrage suf trace is not ct stafe baltesu guard ird era BO as to carr carty on its tico face the warrant wai raut ot of absolute confidence WE LIVE ix IN A RAPID AGE we travel ao 0 o rapidly now we glide cross across the continents and do oceans e ans at such a startling rate wo we know the news ot of the world morning and evening and through tho the journals we ue are actually engaged in the parliament of 0 man every day time la Is more valuable than thai it was wait and the years are longer ulm than they were it if we have a president who wb Is too strong headed or orand and it amounts to the same wrong Il headed leaded four our years yeara are rather too long to have him blocking the way while we cultivate the instinct or 0 ean conservatism serva and console ourselves by the reflection that the republic Is 1 tar more inflexible than A monarchy and impose limitations upon our will moro more elgia than royalty royally tire th most natural and pertinent sug gration of ct remedy for the in conven lances ot of which we are conscious is that tile t period of the presidency should lie be precisely that of 0 congles s two itara and no room and alons along W with ith this come an another 0 the r change tatt the day ot of the I 1 inauguration nau gurR tiOn ot of a Prem president ident knust be th that t of the MI eting of congress in regular ms re aslon Inn this adjustment would anid taut fart to all that Is so solid in tte the limitations the people impose on an themselves for their own good ed and give the public will greater freedo nj and force tho wheel does not 10 lore strength because there Is 1 more play on the axletree it roe SOME objections considered CON the first objection offered to an the two year terms of 0 the presidency p that w we ahn should d have tile the berrini and tv costly dy baLlee aion dl disturbance ur ot of a Pre presidential sidon t al c election act twice as often as ai under tho the existing reg regula u lations tlona the answer Is we should not have at all such ouch profligate gal agitations eions am now attend presidential contests meet elect a president overy two yours and wo we tako take the plethora out 0 of tho the office strip the republican un gla bla recur front it and free ret ourselves of a sentiment sentimentality aliby that Is almost ft a super eltion it if we liked a president well enough woi could give elve him hill four terms and it if we did lant ant like him we would 31 not of have so long loner to wait to get at him tho the two iwo year terms would elide illde easily into each other the strain anti and the racket of 0 a olan chiango 9 0 would be reduced tho the intensity ot of orrice seeking for or the timo time of an administration would subside thore thero would be ba something more of 0 contra comradeship enship than we have now between the president and congress Con gresa there would bo be less leas talk about our ruler and a real civil service reformation take inke place the presidential office would not 1 the term were two years seem eem so inaccessible as a now there might be a greater number ot of can candidate didat A but their anxieties would he be lessened the celebrated bee in the bonnet would not make so BO much noise the supply of it ex cx presidents would probably increase liui haiie and their occupation cease front from trou brou biang our tomi form or 0 government lovern ment would lir be more popular and not less strong I 1 have found in preg preventing enting three views that so BO thoroughly ha have the freenis fri enis of 0 the longer presidential 11 term without eligibility for or election reelection re occupied the public attention given tho the subject that a directly opposing statement Is as BS as a rule received as it if it bore a label of eccentricity and ought to be considered as amusing rl rather ather than of the higher order of grave matters the weight of oc the proposition that the terms of the presidency should correspond with the years of a congress Is that it ft the office without icah ening it and given it rather assimilation with than distinction from the congress Co which Is representative of the staica and the people JAMES G FAVORED TWO YEARS TEARS I 1 will add for the fact possesses interest for millions that james G maine blaloc was waa of oc the judgment chete was waa no overbearing reason tor for changing at all the provisions as to 0 the e presidency but held bold it if there was waa a change chan gre it would be better to make the term two years than sl this ho he expressed in wilh 11 it me ine when m the lite time lime had conte como for him that he be no longer looked upon the office or of tile the presidency as one that was wan desirable or possible for MURAT HALSTEAD HAI STEAD |