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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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Roadster, Touring and Sport Bodies.
We do high grade painting and top
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