Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-02-07
leads 70 DICTATORSHIP
CITES MANY EXAMPLES or MANY
NATIONS WHERE RUIN HAS
FOLLOWED.
S No POVERTY IN MEN
Declares That Plenty of Competent
Men Can BE Found to Entrust the
Rcins of Government.

WASHINGTON Feb. 6.-Applauded
by majority Of the regular republ-
cans and sharply questioned l.y in
surgents, Representative Mccall, OF
Massachusetts, long prominent re
publican in the house, today aligned
limself with the movement against a
presidential third term
In a speech in the house Mr.. Nc
Nall declared American presidents
lad set IA precedent in retiring after
q service of eight years and quoted
he declaration made by President
3oosevclt before the end of his last
.erm. that he would not be candi-
date for reelection.
"The tremenduous influence Of ec-
.cutive power concentrated in the
lands of one strong, INSCRIPTIONS
nan. may easily be adequate in criti-
al times to remove all limitations
lpon his tenure and to change the
essential character Of the government
aid Mr. Mccall. Under the consul
hip of Caesar, the annual alection to
he leadership~of the Roman republic
became an idle form and this annual
'arce was performed each year for
centuries and Augustus, nero and
other emperOrs,
Cites Old Mexico.
and if you ask for an instance
learer to our own country and time
ou hav eOnly to turn to the neigh
boring republic of Mexico, where au-
,ocracy paved the way for revolu-
ion and only bloody war terminal
ID the rule of a president
Mr.. Mccall devoted much of his
rpeech to quotations from former
presidents against a third term idea.
lie dwelt at length particularly upon
the utterances Of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt saying the latter had not
attempted to equivocate or bubble
over the technicality of a Second
lective term Twice he quoted
from President Roosevelts statement
after his election in 1904 the following
.entence
Under no circumstances viii I he
y candidate for or accept another
lomiuation."
\ Long Precedent.
Mr. Mccall said in The framing Of
he constitution the presidential ten
IRE was one of the foremost among
he problems that received the
thoughtful consideration Of the con-
,ention.
For nearly q century and a quar-
ter" he pointed out, the precedent Of
Washington la fixing the limit at two
terms had acquired The force II a
constitutional limitation and by pre-
scriptiou it has today the validity of
positive law.
"Jeffcrou's example following that
Il Washington. removed the question
of a third term from the politics "
that time. There was an universal
acquisoncence in the practices estob-
ushed by Madison and Monroe. An
drew Jackson did not believe I'm even
one recollection.
During Grants second term there
was an agitation to secure his election
for a third term. After more than a
year Of discussion the question was
brought up ln congress III ie'eHlueI
Is. 1875. the house Of representatives
81 vote Of 2S3 to IS passed a reso-
luton against a third term idea. -Four
years after his name was presented
to the republican convention, but he
was defeated for the nomination.
Mr.. Mccall recalled that on June
10. 1901. after President Mckinley
had entered upon his second term, he
put himself unequlvocally on record
against a third term by saying he
would not accept the nomination II
1t were rendered him President. he
declared. was equally emphatic in his
refusal to consider a third term.
The nation has on poverty In men,
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