Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — ENDS THIRD-TERM TALK. [ARTICLE]

ENDS THIRD-TERM TALK.

President McK|nley Is Oat with An Official Statement. The following statement has been given out at the White House: “I regret that the suggestion of a third term has been made. 1 doubt whether I ani called upon to give it •notice. But there are how questions of the gravest importance before the administration and the country, and their just consideration should not be prejudiced in the public mine! by even the suspicion of the thought of a third term. In view, therefore, of the reiteration of the suggestion of it, I will say now, once for all, expressing a long-settled conviction that I not only am not and will not l?e a candidate for a third term, but would not accept a nomination for it if it were tendered me. My only ambition is to serve through my second term tp the acceptance of my countrymen, whose generous confidence I so deeply appreciate, and then with them do my duty in the ranks of private citizenship. “WILLIAM M’KINLEY. “Executive Mansion, Washington June 10. 1901.”