Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-02-28
Third Term' Issue
Discussed By "Gath''
Wants to Know Why Champ Clark Some Others Do
Not Retire From Places Now Held by Them

jump on the Democratic party, which
owe to the Democrats the highes
tariff President ever reelected Notl
ing but the Democratic party can Civ
us four years more of the fatted calf
Some difference may be noted. Co
Roosevelt has not seen the Whit,
House in four years. His three
quarters first term was as Eice-Pres-
ident. He refused to run even for I,
second term. He continued Mckin-
1cy's full term with his policy and
statesmen, so saying, when he tool,
the remnant Of it UP. Had he mad,
that first term his own, the interests
would never have got the start they
have. But Mark Hannah's band and
all the Wall street papers yelled.
You are not Roosevelt, YOU are
Sainted Mariah:"
The man they say they fear squat
ted down forty months to let Mckln-
leys ghost resume. Then he squared
the books by saying that AIckinley's S
term was MS and went out after ere
ating William Taft.
1t is going to be job to prove two
terms on the mild rough rider.
Champ Clark has been nine terms
In Congress, eighteen years. but is
not afraid TO be President eight
more. Oscar Underwood has also
been eighteen years in Congress, un-
limited, and thinks he ought now to
be President. Such retiring set OF
resofvers against a second term are
not to be found in Christendom.
Grover Cleveland and William J.
Bryan, the only standard Democrats
have each run three times for Presi-
dent. BefOrethat Martin VanBuren
ran in 1896. 1910, 1874 and 1S4S, four
times, and the last time Neglected
Gen. Taylor. jefferson operated the
administration of himself, Madison an
AaoAioe tFCHtS -iouI years. FdubuIel
and Polk both stood for Jackson,
who hau thus sixteen years rule
ashhinggton tired of the presidennc,
after eight years, but in 1899, for
first time, he became a politician and
ran the centre campaign to defeat
Jefferson in Virginia. calling up Hen
ry Lee, Patrick Henry, John Marshall
and others to run for Congress, and
all the Jefferson historians lay
it on Hamilton and say that death
removed the great man from what
he desired. | have no doubt from the
readings that Washington would
have run Tor a third term had he
lived. The resolutions of '9S had ex-
POSED the intentions of the opposi-
tion to hiu--to rule or nullify Mon
roe and J. q. Adams restored the
principles OF Washington to the gov
e'nment. We had no more embar-
goes or surrenders of the Chesapeake
or burning of Washington City.
The resolutions, aimed only at
Roosevelt, are at a man who has
taken not . single step towards the
presidency. He is not Grant in tthe
White House. He is hardly fifty-four
Years old, rich in experience, thor
oughly knowing the country and the
world, as we'll known by the world
as by his country, and he has no peel
in avocation; as a giant forwarder
and athletic thinker the people dis
cern him and expect him and will
Il have him in some form. He who
put the Panama canal in motion
ought to be the magistrate to in
augurate it.
Is Congress willing to dismiss any
man whatever in the future for be-
ing useful and popular? Shall We
like that country in the Arabian
Nights enact that whenever a
wife dies her husband must starve to
death? Must We drive all our ex-
Presidents into big business?"
: | believe that this proposed bonn
bast of a test by Congress will nerve
Col. Roosevelt to call their bluff
rouse the people to compel him.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND.