Evening star., 1927-05-30
ANT|-TH|RD-TERM
LEAGUE IS FORMED
Letters Sent to Republicans
in Opposition to Coolidge
From New York.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

An Anti-Third Term League. with
avowed purpose to prevent the re-
nomination of President Coolidge, the
organization of which has been ru
mored and expected for some time,
made it's formal bow to the public
yesterday in New York.
Ten thousand letters, 1t was an
nounced at the new leagues headquar-
ters. SO Park Row, have been sent to
as many representative Republicans
throughout the country. urging them
to join. The letters assert that IL
President Coolidge is renominated the
third term" will become the predomi-
nant issue in the next campaign, and
will lead inevitably to defeat for the
Republican party"
Henry W. Salant, d lawyer and for
mer Bull Mooser. is president of the
Anti-Third Term League. and the vice
president is Mrs. Henry Hersey An
drew. whose husband was personal
friend of the late Col. Theodore Roose
welt and selected as delegate to the
Bull Moose convention in 1912, al
though he did not serve, according
to reports from New York. Col. An
drew is the son of John Andrew Gov
ernor of Massachusetts during the
Civil War. Mrs. Andrews connection
with the new league, therefore. gives
it a Bay State touch.
Signed by Two Others.
The letters sent out also are signed
by John Oakman and Adam King.
The last is described as a wealthy
resident of Scarsdale and is treasurer
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George Henry Payne, according to the
New York World, has also been active
in the preliminary work of organizing
the league. Payne was a Bull Mooser
in 1912, too, and candidate for the
senatorial nomination in 1912 against
former Senator James w. Wads-
worth, jr. He was Eastern man.
ager for Senator Hiram johnson
of California in 1920 and 1924, when
the Californian, one-time running mate
for Roosevelt on the Bull Moose
ticket, was a candidate for the Repub.
lican nomination for President.
Republicans supporting President
Coolidge for denomination to succeed
himself were asking today how these
Bull Moosers, who campaigned so
earnestly for election Of Col. Roose.
welt as President in 1912, can consist
emily foster the so-called anti-thir,l-
term movement for Mr.. Coolidge at
this time. Col. Roosevelt had served
one full elective term and three and
half years of the Mckinley second
term before he was a candidate in
1912 for the presidency again, while
Mr.. Coolidge next year will have
served but one elective term and 10
months of the Harding term,
Difference Pointed Out.
1t is true, of course, that four years
the Taft administration-had elapsed
between Col. Roosevelt's retirement
from the White House and his effort
to return to the office of Chief Execu-
tive in 1912. In this his case differed
from that of President Coolidge. But,
on the other hand, the Roosevelt serv-
ice of the Mckinley term was practi-
cally full presidential term, and was
so recognized by Col. Roosevelt him.
self in a statement Immediately fol-
lowing his election in 1904, while the
Coolidge service of the Harding term
could not by the widest stretch of the
imagination be construed as a full
term, according to the Presidents sup.
porters.
The new Anti-Third Term League,
Whlch hopes to establish branches
throughout the country, in it's let
ter to Republicans, sets forth the
names of a large number of prom
inent Republicans, any one of whom,
it suggests. might make an accept
able President of the United States.
In the list are conservatives. Pro-
gressives, drys and vets. In fact,
the list is suc' that any Republican,
who could be won over by the anti
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