Evening star., 1927-05-29
ANTE-TH|RD-TERM
I. MOVE IS PLANNED
!. AGAINST COOLIDGE
Presidents Opponents to
Form Organization, With
/ Branches in All States.
ENDORSEMENTS WORRY
! LEADERS OF PROJECT
Plans Made to Unite Opposition in
View Of Rapid Strides
for Reelection.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY q. GOULD LINCOLN.
An ''anti-third term" movement
with President Coolidge as its target
is to be launched in New York. accord
ing to word brought here. A league
not dissimilar to that which the late
Senator Henry P. Blair of New Hamp
shire headed in 1912 when Col Theo
dore Roosevelt was seeking the presi
DENTAL nomination, is to be organized
with headquarters in New York, pu'
with branches in all the States.
For several days a leader OF the
movement was in Washington, talking
TO Republcians-and some Democrat:
.presumably-who might be inclined te
oppose the denomination and re-eiec
,tion of President Coolidge. He inter
viewed at least one United States sen
ator who believes that the reelection
of President Coolidge would be viola
tion of the so-calied third-term tradi
Ition, and that violation OF that ira
EDITION would be unfortunate.
| 1t is planned to circulate wldeiy
literature opposing the continuance
ln the White House Of any man De-
yond the eight.year period which con
tstitutes two full presidential terms.
Displeased by Endorsements.
The wide approval voiced in recent
weeks by Republican leaders IN all
lparts of the country OF the suggestion
Ethat President Coolidge be the Repuoii
Ican nominee in 1928 to succeed him'
iself has fallen with a sour note on
the ears of Republicans who are not
anxious to have Mr.. Coolidge in the
tWhite House another four years. 1t
has fallen with an even more sour
note on the ears Of some Republican
presidential possibilities who might
lbe considered for the nomination seri'
lously il Mr.. Coolidge were out OF the
race. The friends of the latter have
mot hesitated to discuss the 'unavali.
liability Of the President and have laid
stress upon the third-term issue 50
called.
Indeed, the third term issue at pres.
ent as,uears to be the sum and SUD-
stance of outward opposition to the
reelection of President Coolidge, II
the disgruntled farmers In the corn
k6elt are excepted.
Immediately after the Presidents
veto of the McNary- Haugen farm re,
lief bill. and Immediately before IT,
there were predictions that the agri'
cultural West would rise against Mr..
Coolidge over a veto. But the reac'
tion to the veto was not UP to expec.
tations. Outside of Iowa. the hotbed
of McNary-Haugenisnn, while there
were mutterings, there was no ioud
toutcry.
Lowden Support Sought.
Former Gov. Frank o. Lowden of
Illinois was persuaded tentatively to
throw his hat in the ring as the
farmers candidate for the presidential
nomination against the President.
I.owden-for-F'esiden clubs have been
formed here and there. There is
headquarters in New York and an Ell
fort to inject the Lowden virus into
fRepublican veins of the East. But
SO far it has not taken" to any
lmarked extent. There is a growing
fsuspicion that perhaps the Presiden.
made as many friends by the veto OF
tahe McNary-Haugen bill as ne maze
foes.
While the talk of a farm revolt
against the President has eased on
1.-THE talk of renominating and re-elect.
ling Mr.. Coolidge has grown more ano
more widespread. So much so that
various tactics have been adopted tc
i"smoke'' out the President to ascer
tain whether he intends to permit his
mamie to go before the Republican ma
tional convention next year. A let
ter. asking him the point blank ques
ton. was transmitted to him through
the Forum, but it brought no re
sponse. Much was made or the SO
called third term issue in that letter
Next a story was published to the
T.. xryhn PTGSi6en1
was a State Senator and RooseVel
was seeking the nomination, he signed
q netition for a constitutional amend
meut barring any person from serV
ing more than two terms or parts OF
two terms. This was the petition cir
culated by the National Anti-Thlrc
Term ague, headed by the late Sen
ator Blair. But the silence about th'
White House regarding this repor'
has been thick enough to cut with
knife.
Hope to Halt Band Wagon.
Unable to get a statement from tn
President regarding his plans or ol
the third term tradition, opponents o
his reelection are about to take tn
hull by the horns and start drive t
arouse sentiment in the countr,
against more than eight years serVic
in the White House for any person
they are singing out this issue a
probably the most effective in their el
fort TO halt the band wagon, whicl
promises to land the Republican nom
1gation in the lap of President Coo
adge a year hence. -.
Whether the new league against
third term will get anywhere remain
TO be seen Many Republican Sens
tors and Representatives in Congress
members of the Republican nations
committee and other Republicans haV
joined in a swelling chorus to the e
feet that the third term tradition doe
not apply in the case Of another teri
for President Coolidge, and that tn
President Is the logical and best choie
OF the party for President in 1928.
Few Republicans Of prominence hay
nermitted themselves to be quoted
6pposition to the denomination
President Coolidge, and those WI
have done so have based their oppos
ton either on the ground or the tnii
Term tradition or on the ground Tn;
he has not been friend OF. the farr
er. or both. DR.. Nicholas Murray Bu
Ter of New York, president OF Coiur
bia University, believes that anoth'
term would be a third term for NJ
Coolidge. But he is more concernt
about the nomination of wet by Il
Republicans than over a third ter
matter. Senator Norris of Nebrask
n leader of the proaressives in the R
: publican party and a dry, has q
clared against the reelection OF II