Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — Why Not Apply the One Term to County Offices Also? [ARTICLE]

Why Not Apply the One Term to County Offices Also?

The idea of limiting presidential terms to six years and making the president ineligible to re-election, is a good one, except that the term should be four years instead of Six. And it ought to apply to state and county offices as well. A part of our county offices are now four year offices and part two years, but the officers are eligible to reelection for another term. That is, they are all two term offices. AU should be made four year offices and one term only. Then the officer would be unhampered, and would not put in his first term—as now—in laying plans for re-elec-tion. ( 1 If one term is a good thing for president—and Indiana and several other states already have one term for governor and township trustee —why would it not be equally good applied to county offices?