is why Grover Cleveland said that a public office is a public trust.
And a political party is the medium between the people and the elected
government, and any party that should nominate a man in violation of
the third term tradition does no longer deserve to be a party entrusted
by the people. This third termer could have been of more value to the
country had he lent his advice and honest opinion to his party and our
president who eagerly sought his advice, for a man's honest advice is
his ideas and convictions but with man's ideas it is like digging a pan
of sand from a river from the gold regions, the sand must be sifted and
filtered, there might be one or more grains of gold found in it. A
man's ideas must pass through the brains of other men, to be sifted and
filtered and every grain of gold found will be appreciated, but a man
who claims that he knows it all better, is equal to saying that his pan
of sand is all gold. The third termer claims that it is not a third
term, if not followed by two consecutive terms, then a second term
would not be a second, if given to man 8 years after his first, I
wonder what to call such term, after a while he will tell us that a
monarchy in this country is not a monarchy if the monarch is a native
born; let it be established now and forever that it is a man's third
term if he has twice been in office and if each time only twenty-four
hours after taking oath and if third term is given to him or he seeks
it twenty years after the second. If the third termer thought that the
republican party whom he hailed from needed chastisement because she
refused to violate tradition in his favor, he had the right to create a
third party, nominate all officials for same and be the very soul and
power behind the throne, but when it became evident that the whole
party movement was only enacted to give him a third term, he had
forfeited his citizenship and his life. Anybody who finances a third
term movement should be expatriated and his wealth confiscated. It is
ridiculous to say that if he is defeated in November it is also a
verdict of the people to uphold the third term tradition, as we may as
well say it is the verdict of the people to abolish the third term if
he wins in November, the third term tradition has never been before the
people as an issue to vote and for this reason it should never be put
before them. It is almost a certainty, that if voted upon last year,
the people would have declare