Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — Would Be No Bar to “Teddy.” [ARTICLE]

Would Be No Bar to “Teddy.”

The Clayton amendment to the Constitution making a president ineligible for re-election would not, as the New York Sun assumes, prevent another attempt upon the presidency by Mr. Roosevelt. His opinion about constitutions and courts and other things that interfere with or limit the will of the people has been frankly expressed. A constitutional prohibition would no more deter him from seeking the office than an unbroken tradition of 116 years. If a majority of the people expressed a preference for him it would be all the warrant he would require, and if he should be elected in defiance of the Constitution would the courts keep him out? He has told us what he thinks about court decisions that do not reflect the latest expressions of the majority.