Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-01
WILSON TO SEEK
ANOTHER TERM
IN WHITE HOUSE
Authoritative Report He viii
Stand for Reelection in 1916.
Bryan His Supporter.

WASHINGTON. Sept. president
Wilson will be a candidate for a Sec
ond presidential term.
Definite information that Mr.. Will
son has expressed himself as believing
1t the duty of a chief executive to sub
init his administration to the people
of the country so that they may ex-
press their approval or disapproval of
it came yesterday from an authorita-
tive source to the New York Sun.
1t was before Mrs. Wilson'S death
that the President expressed himself
to a friend on the subject of a second
term Since then some persons in
touch with the administration have
feared that disheartened by the death
of his wife and by the drain upon his
strength made by the ever increasing
round of official duties. he might pre-
fer quieter scenes and less strenuous
life at the end of his term.
Those who are in the Presidents
confidence, however, are convinced
that he will stand by the views ex-
pressed by him with regard to Sec
ond term. They are convinced now
that If by the time of the nominating
primaries and conventions of 1916 Mr..
Wilson is in anything like normal
health he will go before the people and
ask them to pass verdict on his ad-
ministration.
Political leaders, both within and
without the Democratic party, con-
cede that II Mr.. Wilson is a candidate
for the Democratic nomination he
will not be seriously opposed. From
an authoritative source 1t has been
learned that not long ago Secretary
of State Bryan expressed the view
that If the Wilson administration
was a success Mr.. Wilson could have
the Democratic nomination for the
asking, and that if the administra-
tion did not measure up to public ex-
pectations the nomination would not
De worth having for enybody else
The President and Secretary Bryan
nave absolutely no agreement of any
sort in regard to Mr.. Wilson's future
ambitions. When Mr.. Bryan accept
ed the state portfolio a report was
circulated that the two men had ex-
changed views upon the subject of
second term and that an understand
ing existed that Mr.. Wilson would
not be candidate in the way of Mr.
Bryan in the next national contest
This report has bobbed up anew from
Tune to time, but it is learned def
inltely now that Mr.. Wilson and Mr..
bryan never have discussed between
themselves the second-te term plank of
the Democratic national platform.
The plank of the Baltimore plat
form with reference to the term of
the President is as follows
we favor single presidential
term, and to that end we urge the
adoption of an amendment IN the
constitution to make the President ne
the United States ineligible for re-
election, and we pledge the candidate
OF TINS convention to this principle"
Inis plank has been variously con-
Strued. In some quarters 1t is regard
ed as committing the candidate of
the convention which framed the
platform only to an effort to secure
an amendment to the Constitution
making the President ineligible to a
second term. The plank should not
apply to Mr.. Wilson, according to
TINS view, inasmuch as the consti-
tutional amendment could not legally
apply to him. even though it were rat
flied during his term.
On the other hand. Secretary Bryan
at various times has been credited
with placing the opposite construction
upon the commitment. 1t has been
stated that Mr.. Bryan, who headed
the platform committee of the Balti-
more convention, wrote this second
term plank with the idea of prevent
ing the candidate of that convention
from standing In the way or the COM
moner's own presidential ambitions
four years thereafter.
Some time after the Baltimore con-
vention an effort led by Democrats
was made to enact a resolution sub
hitting the constitutional inhibition
to a second term to a vote of the
States. The resolution. which was
known as the "Rucker resolution"
passed the Senate. The measure was
blocked in the House, then controlled
by a strong Democratic majority.
The blocking was confidently ascribed
to the influence which Mr.. Wilson ex-
erted through his friends. Close
friends of the President are known to
have led the cloakroom fight which
choked off favorable action upon the
measure. to which some Democrats
viewed themselves as committed by
their party platform