Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — FOR THE SIX-YEAR TERM [ARTICLE]

FOR THE SIX-YEAR TERM

Chicago Journal Brings Forward Some Arguments That Appear to Have Weight. The proposed constitutional amendment providing for a six-year term for our presidents, and no re-election, ought to be entitled: “An amendment to restore the dignity of the presidential offioe, and to permit presidents to attend to public business.” If that amendment ever runs the gauntlet of congress and gets to the people of the United States, it will pass. The argument now raised against it, that it will deprive the nation of the services of some proven great men in time of crisis, is too silly to be answered. The proven great man can be useful without being president Washington was not president when he held the fort at Valley Forge. With the exception of Lincoln, the fate pt this country haß never rested on a single man since the constitution was adapted. A single six-year term would have kept Lincoln in office nearly two years after the close of the war. This country is not going to be destroyed by second-term candidates, nor even by third-term candidates. But this country is profoundly disgusted with a situation which a former president 1b making attacks on a present president, and the present president is obliged to drop his real duties to answer and slang back at the former president The single-term amendment will Pans by a big majority if it ever gets to the people.—Chicago Journal,