Show OFFICIAL TERMS OF OFFICE v The New York Tribune wants a a. constitutional amendment amendment- extending the pr presidential terni term to six r or eight years with the provision that no president will be eligible for Jor a second term and thinks in fi that way the country wo would wod d be bc spared the thc disgusting disgust which was precipitated e l at lug ing ng struggle Chicago The rhe Herald lerald indorses th that tha view and says it H t might prevent a a civil war and argues argues' that th the only of that kind was not e s something precipitated If in Chicago was because the man who was wa making the thc trouble had not the steady courage and calculation t ion tion to s so lay his plans as to make a civil war p po ps p's pos pos- sible s- s ible S We Te ar are not assured against a civil civi war var at any We v c would not be if the constitution was 1 r mended making the election re-election of a president nt hn ira ira- f f Our country is so bo filled at present 1 en W who lO do not know and appreciate the spirit out outI i 4 l or f I which C came l our magnificent government nt th tha J in f a insurrection can be he gotten up uP among th them n. n atay at ay r time Tl The e fir first t thing we C ou ought ht t to se see about ou s mt the hc cl election laws law be m amended so that the tho rough t- t J. J luff of the land can no lon longer cr vote otc so amended 1 I m t i that hat a map would h have ve to have some J e intelligence g nc before he vote tote t About the e excitement of ot national conventions the best Fa VL to avoid that would be to have the election every v ry year ye u because then it would be a at habit n not nOSO so mu much h would 9 ld depend upon it the interests interests in in- o J jany an any parti particular ular part party The thing h ng could be carried carric 1 quietly and our belief is that if national conventions could be avoided if each I state could coul record d its vote f for fl l' l its its' ayo ed ca candidate and the tho national l committee decide Wh which h ha had the most votes and declare decla him candidate president i i 1 h b better ter The Th Then n instead i of J the these noisy convention where all aJl t the 7 states participate t all aU i the ithe c conventions 1 lons would be c in in hi- hithe the s s several vJ veral ral states and Jd the the of the national nation l' l committee c would be bc like liko the wo work of the the ee electoral commis' commis commission commiso o I merely to count the vo VOt votes es s and l d which whre has been nominated nomi f 1 I I J tJ sf t 1 Anyway A y a no i man n s should be ed two hyo terms to to- t the presidency in In direct succession because as soon soo as liS a man i is elected then the s' s scheming begins cond term Sand and the thc president is involved from t in making arrangements f for r it We Ve think P Pr President nt Taft Tait is a conscientious man but hat that he has as d devoted voted more time in jn the last two years in making arrangements to succeed himself than lie he has i in the handling of the government with ih its responsibilities If the law had made it impossible ble for him in to succeed himself the undignified spectacle spec spectacle of his pis racing up and down the co country in a with the president ex-president would have been bce a avoided and that shame shame would woul l have been taken away va vay Now they say 58 he lie proposes an extended ex- ex tended electioneering tour They do not call it t that that but b bt t that is what it means that is what w at it i would be ble if candid ate f of I. I I a man was a 01 r justice the he pea peace c and went out and stumped the countr country About the best elective in the United States States' i is that in Massachusetts fass where no man holds an office ii long except the United State States s senator nato that the thc legislature lature elects The rhe idea behind that was vas that every man o ought to have an iI interest erest in in poll tics tics ai that th that t interest ought never to b be al allowed allowed l lowed tp to grow cold Its It's a good idea It would be better if the president only held his office two years ears and t then 1 n was ineligible for ten years years to come for el re B main thing after all is the fact that the tile life ife of his country depends upon upon tl the e honest judgment judg judg- ment of the people and hence u n no man man inan ought to o be b allowed to vote for for any fo any office mc 1 under nd r QUi our ur government gov gov- i who has not some intelligence nn mid and l by resi- resi least has established tl that at his interests are arc ill all c country r. r s. s |