Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-06-25

nominating Senator Kern of Indiana
and attacking Alton B. Parker, Bryan
took the stand. He made a plea for
harmony. asked Parker to join him in
Withdrawing from the contest for
temporary chairman and substituting
any one Of list of several men.
After waiting in vain for reply
from Parker, Kern himself Withdrew
and nominated Brya@
Again Bryan took the platform. He
accepted the nomination and the line
UP for definite struggle was COM
pleted.
Election is Made Unanimous.
On motion of Luke Lea of Tennes-
see, Parker's election as temporary
chairman was made unanimous.
Judge Parker was escorted to the
platform by Senator Stone of Mis-
souri,, Senator Lea of Tennessee, and
Judge Westcott of New Jersey, amid
continued cheers. Judge Parker was
presented by Chairman Mack and be-
gan his keynote speech as temporary
chairman. He said in part:
I'VE meet while the hills yet echo
to wild cries of liar, thief and traitor
and furious walls Of fraId, bribery,
treachery and corruption; and our
ears are weary with the din Of the ar
ticulate shrieking ana passionate yilli-
fication of the most shameful braWl
OF our political history.
Our candidates, however, are with
out exception, men of such lofty mten
that we meet immune from the dis
temper which seized the Chicago con
Nention and privileged to discharge a
solemn public duty calmly. deliberate
! ly, seriously.
Calls 1t a BraW.
The cause of government by the
people the world over has been mater
rally checked by the disgraceful
hrawl which terminated in the bed
lam Of Chicago. Every good citizen
! has been put to shame by the brutal
ity and the abuse which characterized
/ this wrangIe between a president and
al eXpresident. Gratitude. friendship,
party loyalty, patriotism and common
decency were forgotten in the tuss!e.
The assault upon the unWritten
prohibition against a third term made
, in the wild scramble for the Republi-
can nomination, warns US of the vital
necessity of incorporating in our con-
stitution safeguard against repeat
. ed terms.
In the very beginning of our con-
stitution making it was urged by
delegates participating that safety re-
quired a constitutional limitation Of
the period Of years one man might
hold the office of president. History
warned them of the coming of man
whose Unsuitable lust of power would
be as consuming as Caesars, tower
ing high above his 'oye of country.
The danger seemed to the pessimists
to have passed with the establish
. / w
Jefferson and their successors. In
deed where lives the man who has
not either heard or said that an I'M
written law tOrbids more than two
terms and if any one could be so fool
hardy as to seek further he would be
crashed by the wrath Of a patriotic
land ipte11iCpD+ r,aoOla
Hot Shots for Theodore.
The man who split his party at
Chicago, once recognized the third
term tradition and acknowledged its
application to his situation. On the
eve of his triumph in 1904 he said;
THE wise custom which limits
the president to two terms regards
the substance and not the form, and
under no circumstances vii | be a
candidate for, or accept, another nom
nation
Wrong in this year of grace he
was right in that. Peradventure he
was honest with his soul and he may
have confessed to it that even pres
ident may be tempted to resort to sor.
did devices and shameless importuni
ties to gain his ambition.
IF so he WAS in mental condition
to realize to the fall the danger to
the republic involved in setting aside
custom constituting the only bull
wark against the assaults of men
whose ambitions choke their patriot
ism and whose selfish desire for per
sonal victory and power thrott!es
those moral scruples with which
they may once have been endowed,
Perpetual Office Holders.
$ Would the man who threw his ha
$ in the ring and sought to slug his op
: ponent over the rope in his fight 70
:, a third term rest satisfied with it
J. achievement? Clearly his lust 0
d power would have brooked no sucl
n limitation. A third term would bu
i have brooked no such limitation.
u third term would but have whette'
his desire for more and as the term
. slipped away each renewal would dis
cover greater injury to our constitr
ton, to the form of government estat
= lished under it and to every lega
:, curb on his imperious will
This is the man who menaced Il
n. with an increase of federal power b
n. usurpation of state rights and Withou
k authority of constitutional ament
n ments; the man who took the lstl
mus of Panama, and let Congress d.
bate about it afterward.' The ma