The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-24
TUE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.

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TUE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.
Again we repeat an idea obtained from
the suggestion of the Louisville Courier
Journal, that the fairest and best way to
settle that question of presidential sue
cession is to give the power of electing a
president to fill a vacancy occasioned by
death or otherwise to the electoral col
lege, just as originally it elected presi-
dent, permit it to elect his successor.
Undoubtedly the spirit of our institu-
tions require that the presidential chair
shall be filled by the choice of the people
as expressed by the vote of the electoral
college. That body is, during the four
years succeeding its action, the most di-
rect voice of the people and therefore the
proper exponent of the popular will.
To make this effective it
is only necessary for congress
to make the electoral college
a continuous body, not only with the duty
of then and there expressing the senti-
ment of the popular will, but having the
power to hold itself together for the four
years that follows its specific duty.
In fact, there can be no trouble about
TnalSAfng.it rational congress with specific
duties. If it were so made, then there
could be no doubt of the succession &C
cording to the will of the people.
| AS it is, partisan opposed to the cleo
toral majority may become the unwelcome
and unrepresentative president of the
United States, for a term of years, long
enough to defeat the policy of a party that
emphatically expresses its preference for
certain political policy.
This is against the genius and inspira-
ton of our elective mode of determining
such matters.
In presidential election the will of the
people is expressed through an electoral
college of their selection for president
to represent certain principles for foul
years. The party that is so elected is en-
titled to embody in the government tn,
specific principles that they advocate TO
four years, and there ought to be NJ
prive that party of power to engraft
certain civil polity on the gov
eminent for that specific time
Any other policy would defeat tn
object of civil government run under
republican and representative form o
government, in which it is supposed tn
, majority rules.
Under any other system, when major
ity of the senate exists of the opposition
party, that party may elect president o
t the senate, and, per officio, the vice presi
, dent of the United States, that may, if tn
, elected president dies, become the presi
dent of the United States and carry on
policy antagonistic to the expressed ser
t timent of majority of the people of th
, United States.
: It is, therefore, best that a
electoral college should be mad
!, a continuous body, holding o.
\ fee during the term for which the pres
{ dent elected by that college is empower e
{ to hold office.
\ This is the plainest and fairest way
settle the question of succession. 1t
unpartizan and preventative, and keeI
he power of succession out of the HAND
the minority party according to ii
ain principles of law, under which a r
klican government is constructed,
opposition can take power by the TO
Of having majority in the sena
United States, then the senate ca
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