The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-22
THE THIRD
TERM ISSUE
Letter of Mckinley
Now Settles
It.
HIS EXPLICIT
STATEMENT
he Would Not Accept a Nomi-
nation if it We're rendered
to Him.

WASHINGTON, June u-President
Mckinley today put an effectual quie-
tus on the third-term talk which has
gained some currency in the newspapers
through interviews with certain we'll
known Republicans favoring the re-
term.
Shortly before today's Cabinet meet
ing adjourned Secretary CorteIyou gave
to the press a signed statement by the
President intended for the American
people, announcing that he was not a
candidate for third term. and would
rendered. The statement In full is as
follows:
II regret that the suggestion OF
third term has been made. 1 doubt
whether l am called upon to give it no
tice. But there are now questions of
the gravest Importance before the ad
ministration and the country, and their
just consideration should not be preju-
diced in the public mind by even the
suspicion of the thought Of a third
term. In. view, therefore. of the reitera-
tion of the suggestion Of 1t, ] viii say
now, once for aTL expressing fcng-
settled convicsien,s that not sezk1s~a1n
not and will not be q candidate for
third term. but would not accept
nomination for it. If it were tender
ed me-
My only ambition Is to serve through
my second term to the acceptance Of my
countrymen, whose generous "a CONF
dence 80 deeply appreciate, and then.
with them, to do my duty in the ranks
of private citizenship.
WILLIAM M'KINLEy.
Executive Mansion. Washington, D. c..
June 10, 1901
A decision to issue this statement was
reached last night, when the Presi-
dent read to the members of the Cabinet
his proposed statement. at the same
time personally pledging each to Sc
crecy until hepublic announcement was
made. The Cabinet, on hearing the
reasons the President advanced, which
are substantially set forth in the pub
lie announcement, namely, that talk of
a third term would react on the nation
al policies the administration is endeav-
oring to promote, conceded with the
view of their chief that the present
was an opportune time for it's promul-
cation. The phraseology of the an
nouncement was considered further by
the Cabinet today, and after a change
| or two in last nights draft, Secretary
Cortelyou was directed to make it pub
| lie.
The Presidents intimate personal
and political friends later expressed
themselves as not surprised at the de-
cision announced, but quite generally
conceded that they had not expected
such an announcement at this time,
thinking that the President would not
so quickly give heed to the third-term
gossip. They said, however, that they
believed the President had shown his
quick and excellent. political Judgment
by crushing the thirdeterm movement
In its very birth.
The President is already being del
uged with kilograms commendatory of
his announcement putting at rest all
third term rumors. These kilograms
began arriving at the White Hou4e this
evening, and are from prominent per-
sons throughout the country. They
place emphasis on the opportuneness
Of the statement and the beneficent
effect on the country from a political
standpoint. None of the telegrams
was made public.