The Alaska citizen., 1912-05-20

his party continued in power up to the time of his death. no further attempt was made to restore him to the great position which duty had led him finally to resign Is years before he died. FrCm 1872 until 1875 there was no suggestion that any President should be reelected after his second term, although Madison. Munroe and Jackson each served two terms.
 Case Of President Grant.
 In 1875, toward the close of Pres ident Grants second term. move ment was started fer his renomina- tion The Pennsylvania state con- vention in May of that year. adopted this resolution
 That We declare and affirm un- qualified adherence to the unwritten law of the republic. which wisely. and under he sanction of the most venerable of examples, limits the presidential service of any citizen to two terms; and we, the repub- licans of Pennsylvania, in recognition of this law, are unalterably opposed to the election to the presidency of any person for a third term"
 In reply 10 this President Grant wrote to Gen Harry White who had presided over the Pennsylvania con- vention. letter, saying:
 Now, for the third term. do not want it. any more than I did the first"
 He added that he would not ac- cept nomination if it were ten dered, unless it should come under circumstances such as to make it an imperative duty circumstance not likely to arise
 Edward Stanwood. the political his torian, says that the universal in terpretation of these phrases was that Grants friends were at liberty to make il appear the imperative duty of the republicans to nominate him and cf the President to accept but that death blow was given the movement when Representative Springer of Illinois offered and the house passed by vote of 233 10 Is a, resolution That in the opinion of this house the precedent established by Washington and ether presidents of the United States in retiring from the presidential office after their second term has become by uni versal concurrence. part of our republican system of government, and that any departure from this time honored custom would be un- wise, unpatrictic and fraught with peril to our free institutions"
 While the democrats then con- trolled the house, 70 out of 8s re- publicans, says MT Stanwood. voted for the resolution.
 New York adopted resolutions de Claring "unalterable opposition 10 the
 
 term" Many of the states did the same.
 MT. Hayes became president and Gen. Grant made a tour of the world, receiving the homage of foreign gov ernments and bearing himself in a manner which excited the pride a dppi iPofi nf nla American citizens movement was begun for his renomination in 1880, many persons who had opposed the idea of third term in 1876 arguing that four years having intervened, his return to the presidency would not violate the anti-third term tradi- tion. MT. Hayes was not a candi- date fer renomination or reelection.
 Gen. Grants Defeat.
 Gen. Grants nomination was ad- vocated by Senators Conklng and Cameron and by Henry Ward Beecher. George s. Boutwell, and others diligently sought to write down the anti-third term custom. They did not deny that it was national tradition, but they sought to show that the tradition was not we'll grounded in constitutional law; that Washington had declined third term because he yearned for retirement rather than that he feared the principle, and that Jefferson foreswore a third term because he could not get it.
 The Grant managers went to the convention at Chicago in 1880 with a compact fighting force. Their candidate had BOA votes on the first ballot and 3O6 on the 39th, which was the last. MT. Garfield was nom- mated. Gen Grant was hotly fought on the ground that his nomination would shater the anti-third term rule. The result of that convention has always been regarded as having given additional strength to the tradition
 Mir. Mekiniey's Refusal.
 After Gen. Grant MT. Mckinley was the first president elected to succeed himself. In 1901, having inst entered uDOn hiS Sacond term