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- ... I K.-' ' ' ' ' k- ;: PRESIDENT NOT SEEKINC THIRD TERM IN OFFICE? Washington, March 88.?According to j a person -who is in a position to know President Wilson stands with formei Presidents of the United Htates who were opposed to a third term. It was said today that those closest to the Pres' ident knew that he did not intend to seek a third term or use the power of his office to dictate the nomination of his successor. .? It was declared that a leading member of the Democratic National Committee had stated that President Wilson, who is now in control of the party machinery, would not relinquish it by announcing his intention to retire at the end of his tenu. To do so, it was pointed out, would plunge the party into hit fw waffttrn ?* Flirt San . cIbco convention and prevent the President's friends from dictating the party platform. While it is not the purpose of the President to seek the nomination it is his purpose, it is said, to largely mold a platform and write into it the issues which he thinks the Democratic candidate must support. - . In support of the assertion' that Mr Wilson intends to retire at the end oi his term it is declared that Vance MeCormiek of Pennsylvania, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, satisfied himself on that before he consented to become associated with the campaign of Attorney General Palmer for the Presidential nomination. Mr. McCorroick is regarded as being as close to the President on political matters as any man in the party. The President selected him as manager of the last Presidential campaign, and the friendship that grew up then has eon tinned. Men familiar with the situation believe Mr. Wilson informed Mr. MeCorrfiick of his attitude on a third term before Attorney General Pulmcr en tered the race. Mr. Palmer also is credited witli being familiar with the President's views. In h ieii.erwrui.en on reo. d, mi3, twentyseven days before Mr. Wilson wus inaugurated, the letter wrote Mr. Palmer, then a member of the house, his views on the proposed constitutional amendment limiting the President's tenure to a single term of six years. It was the President's opinion which caused defeat of the amendment in the house. It was adopted by the senate. In February, 1910, when Mr. Wilson was about to seek re-nomination despite the singte terfh plank in the 1912 platform, the letter was made public by Mr. Palmer with the consent of the White House. Several sentences in it show that the President approved of the American tradition against a third term. "Put the present customary limitation of two terms into the Constitution, if you do not trust the people to take care of themselves, but make it two terms (not one, because four years is often too long), and give the President a chance to win the full servilv by proving himself fit for it,' 'said the President. "An things now stand, the people might more likely be cheated than served by further limitations of the President's eligibility," sajd the President. "His flffhtino' nflU'ir in tlmii hilf would be immenHely weakened. No one will fear a President, except those < I whom he can make fear the elections, i We singularly believe our own princi- < plea, by seeking to determine, by Axing 1 Constitutional provision, what the peo- ! pie shall determine for themselves and i are perfectly competent to determine for I themselves. We cast a doubt upon the whole theory of popular government, < "I believe that we should fatally em- i barrnss ourselves if wo make the Con- < stitutional changes. If we want our ? Presidents to fight our battles for us we should gi?e them the means, the i legitimate means, the means their oppo- < nent will always have. Strip them of ( everything else but the right to appeal i to the people, but leave them that; suf- 1 fer them to be leaders; absolutely pre- 1 vent them from being Images. We would ? otherwise appear to be going in two opposite directions. We are seeking in < every way to extend the power of the I people, but in the matter or the Presi- 1 denov we fear and dialrnat !??? ~u?rvl? i o?h, ? ? ' and seek to bind them Imnd and foot < |ja by rigid Constitutional provision. My < W own mind is not agile enough to go l>oth ways." 1 A? indicating that the President ia op- < posed to using the power of his office 1 to determine the nominee at San Fran- i ciseo, those who say the President will ] remain neutral in the race point to this : paragraph in'this letter. i "It is intolerable that any President < should he permitted, to determine who i should succeed him?himself or another i ?oy patronage or coercion, or by any i sort of control of the machinery by | which delegates to the nominating con- I ventions are chosen. There ought never 1 to be* another Presidential nominating i convention, and there need never he an- ] other. ' Several of the states have sue- < ceaafully solved that difficulty in the regard to the choice of their Governors, < and Federal law can solve it the same way with regard to the choice of Presi- < deMts. "The nominations should be made di- i reetly by the people at the polls. Con- < ventions should determine nothing but party platforms, and should he made i up of men who would be expected, if elected, to carry those platforms into effect. It is not necessary to attend to thfl people's business by constitutional I amendment if you will only actually put t!* business into the people's own 11 ^ hands." That Mr. Wilson, twenty-seven days < before he became President, foresaw that the President's office was to be- | come more powerful than in the past i ia seen in another reference in which i ha says: "I must speak with absolute freedom i and candor in this matter or not speak |HHBnMpjg?PPp V:-' - ' "V ' ' ? " "t'' ;Ts -/ftV ; /: ' ? ... - .* ? V ? H ^ . / . SOME COUNTIES SHOW AUTOMAElLE DECREASE Columbia, March 26.?There are more automobiles registered in South Carolina for 1920 than there were for last year by more than three hundred, but in'some of the counties where automobiles are most prolific the registrations have fallen off, especially in Richland, Orangeburg, Charleston and Spartanburg counties. Richland shows the greatest decrease in the number of registered cars and Charleston is a close second in the tardiness. This is according to figures made public Saturday afternoon by the state highway department in Columbia. Oflicials of the highway department tate that they expect the total registrations this year to run to 86,000, as ompared with 70,188 for last year, hough as yet. the total for the state "s only 70,1*92. The officials state that in many of the counties the law retiring current automobile license is :iot enforced properly. There are many :irs being driven with last year license plates. mc louu regisiratwn Vo- the nix ounties of th?* state which have the most automobiles are so far for 1 02i> .is follows: Greenville county 48-10 for 1920, ns ompnred with 4515 for last year, an in rease of 354. Anderson county: 4051) for 1020, as compnred with 4110 Inst year, an in .reuse of 510. Kichlnnd county: 4203 in 1020, as compared with 4070 last year which is a decrease of 710. Spartanburg county: 4043 this year. i?s compared with 4141 for 1919, a derease of 90. Orangeburg county: 3297 for 1920, as umpnred with 3533 for last year, u dorciiHe of 230. Charleston county: 3184 this year, as ompared with 3747 for 1919. a decrease if 50.3. The total nutomobile license fees collected so far ^.liin year are $438,472. The figures for the counties of the state will lie announced March 31. The number of dealers paying the license has decreased in several counties. - mong tinm Richland, Anderson and "harleston. The number of dealers' li''ime# collected in the six largest coun;iea are as follows: Greenville, 82, as compared with 75 last year. Richland, 77, as. compared with 88 last year, a decrease of 11. Anderson, 64, as compared with 00 last year, a decrease of 2. Spartanburg, 02, as compared with 00 ast year. Orangeburg, 50, as compared with 55 last year. Charleston, TO, as compared with 60 last year, a decrease of 12. The decreases in the number of licenses is not taken by the highway officials as meuning a decrease in the number of cars in use or of the number ?f dealers in business, but merely as Failure to enforce the law in some of Die counties. There are 4,084 dealers registered so far for 1920. More Road Machinery for State. Columbia, March 29.?Many thousand dollar* worth of additional road machinery will be available for South 1'nrolina under provision of the new Ivarn act of Congress, according to information just received from the department of agriculture at Washing ton by lie state highway department. The equipment will include nil kinds if road building material, locomotives, ivagons and harness, steam shovels, con rote mixers, rock crushers and dozens if other kinds of road machinery. Capt. Pennell, chief highway engineer, is writing to the various country road ifTicials, asking them what kind of xpiipment they could use out of this issortmcnt. As soon as the needs of [he county authorities nre learned the lighway department will place an orler with Washington. Heretofore this equipment purchased luring the war has come to the states free of charge. The equipment which ins just become available will be sold to the state at twenty per eent of Its Mtimited value, freight charges to be redited to thin cost. South Carolina has already received hundreds of thousands of dollars worth A road building machinery, free of cost, from the government, this Wing equipment originally purchased for war purposes. ?t all; and it seems to me that the present position of the Presidency in our ictual system, as we use it, is quite abnormal and must eventually lead to something very different. He is expected by the nation to be the leader of his party as well as the chief officer of the government, and the country will take no excuses from him. He must play the part, and play it successfully, nr lose the country's confidence. "He must be Prime Minister, as much concerned with the guidance of icgislat ion aa with the just and orderly execution of law, and he is the spokesman of the nation in everything, even the most momentous and delicate deuling* of the Government with foreign nations. Why in such circumstances should he lie responsible to no one for four long years?" Friends %f the administration charge that the anti-third term speech of Representative Humphreys of Mississippi in the house yesterday waa much desired by the Bryan followers. In certain cir. cles it is believed that Mr. Bryan will do what h? can to spread the demand for a statement from the President re- | garding a third term. Administration advisers say the President will have nothing to say about a third term, and t will not permit his administration to he i used to promote the candidacy of any Presidential aspirant. FORT MILL TUflS MI ITERS AND OPERATORS HAYS AGREED ON PRICES New York, March 30.?The scale committee of the bituminous operators and mine workers, in a joint conference here this afternoon agreed to make the monetary provisions contained in the award of the bituminous coal commission, as affirmed by the President, to become effective on April 1, and that the mines continue operation pending the working but of a new agreement. The award provided for a wage increase of 27 per cent. The motion to accept the commission's award wax made by representatives of the mine workers and was adopted by n unanimous vote. All local unions of the United Mine Workers in the central competitive fields will be notified immediately by telegram of the acceptance of the v^age iward, John L. Lewis, international president of the mine workers, announced. Official statements of the proceedings mid action of the conference signed by the international oflieer? also will be sent out by mail. "This action will avoid any necessity for cessation of operations in the bituminous industry," Mr. Lewis said, "and will fully protect the public by ' ontinuing the supply of coal after April 1. pending the negotiation of a new contract. 'I believe the action of the mine workers and the operators in the conference was wise and logical and will he unanimously complied with by the miners throughout the gauntry." SPECIAL NOTICES. FOR SALE?One Sport Runabout Body for Ford machine. Body in good shape and cheap to quick buyer. Osmond Barber. FOUND?Automobile Tire on steel rim and in case. Owner can secure same by identifying property and paying for this ad. S. HT Epps, Jr., Fort Mill,SC. FOR SALE?Two hundred bushels Mexican Mammoth Big Boll Cotton Seed. J1.60 per bushel. Osmond Barber, Wateroak Farm. Ice Cream F We have openei Parlor for the s] mer season and %. ''i j Ironage of the p\ ty of flavors in t delicious Cream wavQ fparlv Fn k The Cand] H. CARRQS, * AT LAS So many car own trying to solve th We want to he problem?we thii certainly had a 1 many different m have reached thii We Stake < on GOOE HaV V Mm We Have Goodyear Hei sT 4 _ * * " ' V .* * ? 8, TOST MILL. 8.0. BICKSTT WILL AID IN CANTON T. X. C. A. EXERCISES I Asheville. N. C.p March 30.?Governor jT. W. biekett, of North Carolina, has accepted the invitation extended him to participate in the dedication exercises to be held during the week of April 20, when the newly completed Y. M. C. A. budding of the Champion Fibre company at Canton is officially opened there. Final toaches are being put to the big structure that contain* a large amtembly room, gymnasium, tile swimming pool, and in every way will present an up-to-dute appearance throughout aa can be found in any "YM building in this section. A program to last every night from April 20 to 25 has been completed with Governor Biekett as the principal speaker during the dedication exercises. Other -poakora of note have been obtained, and the occanion promises to be one of great moment in the community. ?? ^^ FOR SALE?"FORD CARS," New and Rebuilt. Also carry in stock Ford Roadster, Touring and Sport Bodies. We do high grade painting and top building on all makes. PAYNE'S AUTO WORKS, Charlotte's Reliable Car Market, 26 East 6th Street. Charlotte, N. C. JESSE L.HOWIE General Contracting Estimate. ChaarfuPy Clrtn Phone 108 Fort Mill, S. C. DR. A. L.. OTT, DENTIST Office hours, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. (Dr. Spratt'8 office) Belk Building, Fort Mill, S. C. IamIAW CtliUi UpCil d our Ice Cream pring and suminvite the patlblic. A variehe purest, most to be had al e served. 1 Kitchen I Proprietor.' I T! A TIRE iert grope in the dark e tire question. Ip you with the Tire ik we can. 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