The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-06
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John w. Kern Refers to the
Rock Island Speech of
Nicholas LongWorth.
LATTER ENTERS A DENIAL
ATTEMPTS TO GET OUT FROM
UNDER LOAD OF CRITICISM.

-ASheville, y. C., Oct. 5.-"PatrlOtlc
men everywhere will agree with me
that the third-term idea is not more
hateful to the minds of the American
people than that the president of this
great nation should undertake TO name
and indicate his own successor"
Before one of the largest and most
demonstrative audiences that has greet
ed him on his speaking campaign in the
south, John w. Kern, Mr.. Bryan's run
ming mate on the Democratic ticket, in
these words arraigned the president
and the leaders of the Republican cam
paign at a rally of North Carolina
Democrats here today.
He declared that he saw in recent
utterances of Congressman Nicholas
Longworth the plan of President Roose-
welt to insure his return TO the white
house In 1916.
Eulogized Bryan.
He contrasted the course of the Re
publican leaders. which he described as
merely an evasion of popular antipathy
to a third term, with the declaration
of Mr.. Bryan that if elected he would
not again be a candidate, and brought
the audience to its feet with an eulogy
OF Mr.. Bryan as a candidate whose
nomination was demanded by all pa
triotic Americans"
Mr.. Kern spoke in the large audito-
rum, which was crowded to it's ca
pacity. A parade of carriages and
horsemen through the streets, Governor
Glenn of North Carolina said, was the
greatest political demonstration in this
city since 1896.
Mr.. Kern's speech followed a short
Introductory address by Governor
Glenn.
James Hamilton Lewis of Chicago
closed the meeting with a character
istic address which held the attention
of the audience for an hour.
Third Term Idea Hateful.
Taking up the question of the third
term idea in his speech, Mr.. Kern said:
1T is a principle hateful TO the minds
of the people since Washington's time.
When one of the most popular char
acters in the history of this country
General L. S. Grant, after having
served two terms as president, was a
candidate for reelection, the people
said that the example of Washington
and of Jackson should be respected:
that there should be no third term
Recognizing, therefore. that the third
term proposition was wellnigh an i'm
possibility, the president of the United
States has undertaken to name mis- own
successor, both in the convention of
his party and now in the councils of
the people. l believe all patriotic men
viii agree with me that a third term
is no more hateful than that the pres
ident should dictate his own successor
Longworth's Break.
only a day or two ago the future
policy of the administration and those
in charge of the Republican campaign
was made known by a member of the
presidents own household. In a speech
in the west that distinguished gentle
man, Nicholas LOngwOrth, who has be-
come distinguished because of his mat
rimonial relations with the presidents
family, declared TO the people of Amer
lea in effect that after eight years of
Taft. then Mr.. Roosevelt shall again
assume the reins of government in this
land. And there the whole plan is dis
closed"
Mr.. Kern pointed out what he termed
the futile efforts of Mr.. Roosevelt to
effect reforms. which efforts ne said
were thwarted by the speaker of the
house Of representatives and a ''domi-
nant coterie in the senate"
Mr.. Kern will leave tomorrow for
Greensboro, y. c. He will speak to-
morrow afternoon at Guilford battle
ground