Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-05-07 | Page 38 | Presidency Has Been Declined

HAS BEEN DECLINED Mog Americans ais are taU familiar with he the tt lt says s ys the Detroit Free Freer Press r S that G George Washington refused Crowned wn d king of and andIe h life Ie story t l' l that Alexander Hamilton ept dt b because taUs the colonies S feel t. t free om ont English rule were not to let get et up IP and a mt titled d of ef own The fact that Daniel Dani l W Webster t r. r Who vho anted d th the presidency d 0 o take vice presidential tt nomination w death of ot lh the win Ing to fo the subsequent Would have given him Jim the I Mr 11 Roosevelt Ii magistracy Just as r rt at t obtained ed it Is familiar al also o o to st Well veit read Americans But nearly ns believe no man has ever fused fled the presidency and arid most peo- peo ei argue from this premise 16 tb the thee e clu Ion that no man than ever win will do so sok Declining a strong t ong can call to the chief of th the nation l h Is p possible ss h hew hew- vr v jr fer r G George rge Washington rt had hal no to l ni poly oi of this kind o of m modesty d ty and tuO un- un O lushness JUsti Justice e teus refused tl a which V Was s equivalent t lel to cHon a according to i in rec lec ht b ta Ii ifer r d declared ct fed Ul that t It If eI elect t d his will he would n not t under UI r i b circumstances y ctt serve ser as ns pi pt l- l pere er Was ho no room koom for quibble The c 1 v Was S to too tOO tM p positive Ibe be mistaken k n for a anything els else elsO hip Up to this pres present nt no one Otle of the ny citizens m mentioned In connection tl h hh Hh th h the n Republican pre presidential U t th h has s offered t d an n oeal l But sho should ld ny Of et t them 1 correct to ac- ac C- C Je Tao sd It ift Is historically Wt Ft t such a declination as final There Ih le ii fly ally By are re Americans n J who do no h hot t want r presidency I i