Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1916 — PRES. KURRIE FAVORS LONGER TERM [ARTICLE]

PRES. KURRIE FAVORS LONGER TERM

President of Monon Thinks President Should Be Elected For One Term of From 6 to 8 Years. The New York World has been conducting an inquiry among business men and railroad presidents, lawyers and as to whether their sentiment is favorable to longer terms for president, an< make their successful candidate ineligible for immediate re-election and lengthening the terms of congressmen from two to three years. Among the railroad presidents, fourteen favored the change and only one opposed it. President H. R. Kurrie, of the Monon »ailroad, says: “I believe the term of the president should be extended to six or eight years, and that he should not be qualified to succeed himself. Often efforts of the presit dent to accomplish something for the general good are defeated or greatly weakened through a feeling that his motive is political. We have a very striking illustration in the recent effort which led to the enactment of the Adamson law. However sincere the president may have been in his efforts a great many people hold the view that the prompting motive was political. «. “I think this high office should be placed on a plane as to avoid any question of motive except the welfare of the whole people, and this will be accomplished Jto a large extent by making him ineligible to succeed himself. “Any extension of the terms of office of the members of the house of representatives is desirable. There is no particular occasion, as things go now, for the disturbance of conditions that we have through election every two years.”