Evening journal., 1912-04-03
JUDGES, NOT
AUDIENCE,FOR
THIRD TERM
Crowd AppIaudS Ingenuity Of
Speakers In Dover Church
Debate
PReEIBITIONISTS
DECIDE THE QUESTION

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del. April 3.-Hundreds OF
persons crowded the assembly room in
The Peoples Church here last night.
Drawing a terrific rain and windstorm
TO hear the question: Resolved. That
it would be Lnwise TO elect to third
Presidential term"
II was debated by two Democratic
lawyers and two progressive Repub-
licans. Roosevelt, though not mem
toned during the evening. was in the
hands of his two best friends in Del
aware. and he won.
The five judges. Prohibitionists,
passed on the merits of the debate
alone. They gave the decision to the
negative. The judges We're: Louis w
Brosius and Henry Thompson. Of
Wilmington; John Heyd, of FELTON,.
and William Denney and James H.
Hazel. of Dover. They admitted. how
ever, that on first ballot they. were
divided. two 70 three.
Robert G. Houston, of Georgetown,
and Senator Louis A. Drexler, Of
Bethany Beach. championed the third
terms. James H. Hughes and John b
Hutton. OF Dover, opened and closed
against it. When the large audience
had to wait some time for the reap
pearance of the judges. Senator DreX-
Ter made this motioni
Il move that as the Prohibition party
cannot reach decision on this ques-
ton, we send a stand-pat committee
after the judges"
r This and other frequent thrusts of
the evening caused the audience to
laugh heartily.
Houston debated vigorously and
without notes. It evidently had been
decided to debate the question as an
abstract one without any reference TO
the present campaign. The audience
noted this with suspense, as it be-
lieved the heated" debaters could not
adhere TO any such a covenant. tlnai,
" Houston put long Hypothetical
question TO the judges II was;
III a man. selected by graa
popular uprising, should take the
presidency and get the Government
away from aristocratic tendencies ant
inaugurate certain progressive poll
, cies TO build up and maintain the na
tion and its resources, should retir
from Office, recommending to the peo
ple a fit successor, and If that sue
cessor should not follow those poll
cies but should trample upon them
has he not the right to deem 1t 10
the great public good that he ste
in and intervene?'
The crowd applauded the ingenuit
of the speaker, but showed It's OF
position to the third term principle
Hughes cited the declarations o
prominent Americans against thir
terms in the Presidency, from tn
Constitutional debates to the presen
dav. He said man wit
100000 appointments to make. wit
the army and navy TO command an
with his influence over House, Senat
and the Judiciary. could make o
himself a monarch. That, he salC
was the experience Of all republic
that had heightened the terms 9
executives. He recalled that Wee
Louis Napoleons term as Presider
of France was heightened to ten year
the second year found him proclaim
ing himself emperor.
Mr.. Hutton said no man is bi
enough to set aside what has been
precious precedent in this countr
for more than l15 years. A toui
year term and eternal vigilance is III
price Of liberty in this country b
said.
"No doubt the Greeks thougl
Greece would live on forever. but t
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