The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-18
ONE TERM ENOUGH
President Taft on Two Separate
Occasions in Speeches
Pours Cold Water on Sugges-
tiOns Of Second Term.
TOO MUCH FOR HIM.
Four More Years Is More Than
He Can Stand.
Pays Tribute to Good Influence
Of College Fraternities.
TOO MUCH FOR HIM.

Washington, d. c., April 1s.-7~v,c.
Saturday night President Taft de-
clared to Washington audiences that
one term in the White House is quite
sufficient for him.
The first time the president nada
this declaration was in talking tn tbe
District of Columbia branch of the
American Bankers association. He
made it again in the course of a taIl-
10 gathering of Washington's ouota
OF the Psi Upsilon fraternity. Both
tlnles the president spoke in Joking
FASHION, but under the smile there
appeared to be much seriousness-
To the bankers the president was
talking about the beauties of This
city. @'S
Washington is dear to me- he
said. I'm going to spend three years
more here"
Then the crowd broke in "Seven
years. you mean,' it chorused.
Hunareds OF voices shouted: "Sev-
en- years! Seven yearsr'
well, that sounds good" continu-
eo the president, smiling, "but when 1
remember that the vote in the Dis
trfct of Columbia doesn't cut anv Az
ure in national affairs my head il not
sWelIed with your approval"
To the fraters at the Psi Upsilon
banquet the president was more
frank Herbert L. Bridgman, presi-
n
citation, had said that he could tell Mr.
Taft how he might get twenty-fye
terms as president.
''One Term Quite Enough"
Brother Bridgman," sa,d the presi-
dent in the course of his remarks. "has
said that he can tell me how to get 25
terms l am much obliged to him,
but one is quite enough for me. All
the philosophy Psi U teaches will en-
able me to get through one but the
1~N
alone rs, is more than / can stand"
The president referred jocosely to
the doctrine of antf-race suicide of his
predecessor, Colonel Roosevelt He
OF not remembering the Psi u songs
We'll" he said, II think there's one
song that remember ana, taking up
his program for one brief glance. the
president quoted it:
Three times three for all the worn-
en-; ten times ten for all the men."
That said Mr.. Taft, proves that
/ am not in favor of race suicide and
c1es OF my predecessor"
The president spoke fee1ingly of the
good influence of the college fra
ternity.
The fraternity" he said. "devel-
ops loyalty to ones alma mater. In
college it enables men to take the
best the most ennobling. the most in
spring things.
of athletics at college and things one
learns there that are not included in
the curriculum and that are SUD
posed to be a disadvantage. You
know and I know that college in
cludes some more valuable things
than mental discipline, valuable as
that is. in the memories and exper-
fences in that epitome of life that col
lege really presents when characters
are being formed for life.''
The president admitted that there
were both saints and sinners in fra
ternities, but he thought many Of the
sinners later became saints.
He said many a man who had gone
down close to the gutter in his college
days had been rescued in later life
by the thought of his old associates
and had come back to class reunions
a remade man.
President Taft's statements were re-
ceived by congressman of both houses
generally as spoken in jest and not
really meaning anything. At the big
hotels where congressman board in
numbers, it was the sub
ject of discussion at the tables today
and except that an occasional remark
was made in a joking way about,
"many truths being spoken in JEST" or
words to that effect, 1t seemed to be
the unanimous opinion of both Repub-
1icans and Democrats that the presf-
dent merely said som mething in Jest,
that he did not consider seriously or
expect anyone to take 1t as being seri-
ous.