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Show Basic Things By G. W. States HIRAM JOHNSON AND THE THIRD TERM A great educator says there are al least two huuu'.vil thousand useless use-less words in the dictionary. They lull' ' l,e kept there for the use of poiit irians to explain why they toddle. Hiram Johnson is now against a third term. AYhile listening to the Senator I thought of the wise saying of Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Say not to me in words for what you are stands over me and shouts so loud I cannot hear what you say." All during the Senator's address there pounded into my ears the fact, that Hiram was a vice-presidential candidate with Theodore Roosevelt when "Teddy" was a third term candidate for President on the Progressive Pro-gressive ticket. The Democrats don't need to feel too cockey about that for in 1912 the Democrats were all denouncing the third term. Perhaps Hiram is Just getting even. This only goes to show that no politician ever builds his fences so high that they can't be successfully success-fully and comfortably straddled. "Well politics is a great game. Public officials are first sworn in then we cuss them out." |