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questions that you have propounded. 1 have my own pre-
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pared answers, and if you would like to hear those ond
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then ask ne at the end of each one any other thing you want
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to ask me, I will be glad to give you my answer.
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JUDGE ADKINS: I think that is an excellent
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way to proceed.
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MAYOR McKELDIN: The first question that was
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submitted to me is, Should the restriction limiting a
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governor to two consecutive terms be continued? I don't
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know if I could give a definite answer to that. I remem-
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ber when we enacted that, I talked with Governor Dewey
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in New York at the time. He said, Why in the world would
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you pass such a law as that? If you have a good man, you
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want to keep him, don't you? If you have a bad man, you
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can get rid of him. Why would you want to get rid of him
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at the end of two terms? Well, I said, We feel that maybe
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there will be a dynasty if one man stays for fifteen years
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or sixteen years as Governor Ritchie for fifteen years,
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and he will build up such an organization that it probably
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would be very difficult to get rid of him, even though late
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on he turned out not to be as good as he was in the begin-
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