Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — KURRIE FOR LONGER TERM [ARTICLE]

KURRIE FOR LONGER TERM

Thinks President Should Hold Office for Six or Eight Years. The New York World is conducting an inquiry among business men and railroad presidents, lawyers and manufacturers as to whether there is a sentiment favorable to longer terms for President, and making the successful candidate ineligible for immediate reelection, and lengthening the terms of congressmen from two years to three years. Among the railroad presidents fourteen favored the change and only one opposed it. President H. R. Kurrie of the Mpnon railroad 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 President 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. ‘‘l think this high office should be placed on such a plane as to avoid any question of motive except the welfare of the whole people, and this will be accomplished to 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.”