The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-09-02

protection OF the rich, Democracy, with
out violating individual rights, will al
ways aim to educate and elevate the
masses of the people.
). Offices should be created only
when clearly demanded by necessary
public business, and such salaries DO
paid as the nature and Importance of
the business require, leaving no just
grounds for complaint or excuse for
peculation.
A policy that leads to orrequires the
multiplication OF Offices is anti-demo-
cratic, unjust and dangerous to freedom
A policy which changes men in Office
for individual profit instead of public
good is a peryersiOn of the principles
of business, ant-democratic, corrupt
ing and perilous to the liberties of the
people.
Official power is a trust for the com
mon good which no public officer has
a right to use for his private benefit,
and whosocyer does So is a greater
scoundrel than he who misappIlcs funds
in his trust, because the official trust is
more sacred aud the wrong more diff
cult to detect and measure.
WhOsoeyer obtains votes under false
prstenses is bascr knaye than he who
obtains goods under false pretenses,
and, on account of the greater difficulty
of detecting and measuring the evil
done, deserves seyerer punishment and
reprobation
Regarding all officers as servants of
the people aud trustees Of power for
the common veal, Democracy favOrs
such modes OF appointment and tenures
Of office as reason and experience show
best calculated to secure good conduct
and efficiency in the public service,
without regard to private interest, pub
lie customs or individual pretensions.
Reason and experience alike condemn
frequent and needless changes Of public
officers, and the generally prevailing
practice of making them for personal
benefit instead of the public good, is
acting in great matters Of the State and
Nation on principle which would
ruin any private business, and, unless
corrected, will bring the administration
of free government into deserved con-
tempt. 1t is essentially opposed to the
principles Of democratic. government,
and it behOves the Democracy of the
United States to make war on the prac-
tiOe, without truce or delay, returning
to the Jeifersonian standard Of official
qualification, sis lie honest, capable and
faithful? ?"
6. The immense increase of Nation
81 Executive patronage, placing upward
OF one hundred thousand offices, besides
numerous minor positions Of emolu-
ment, at their disposal, and the habit
Of changing the incumbents to secure
or reward Executive partisanship, have
become dangerous to the liberties of
the country, and demand prompt and
efiieacious remedy.
That remedy, at least in part, and
numerous important national advan-
tages, may be found by providing that
no President shall be eligible for more
than one term, without joint resolu-
ton of Congress passed by two-thirds
vote in each House previous to the
election declaring the same; and a
further provision that the Presidential
term shall be extended to six years.
T. The Democratic doctrine of sui
frage requires distinct reaflirmation.
Democracy has always held that suf-
frage is not natural right of every
human being, nor Of a particular sex or
race, but political privilege, and who
should exercise it question to be de.
Cided by what will produce "the great
est good to the greatest NUMBER" and
therefore, as far as possible, to be de-
termined locally, where lays the great
body Of the rights Of the people.
But in these local discussions the
Democratic idea fayors a broad rather
than narrow basis of suffrage. 1t is
not unmindful or regardless of the
rights Of women, Of property, and in
ferior races but seeing other effective
and advantageous ways in which these
can have their influence on all Iegisla-
ton efecting their interests, at present
it prefers giving the right of voting to
manhood and qualifications, which will
tend to create bonds of political broth
eThood between the rich and poor,
based on mutual interests, and to avert
conflicts between capital and labor.
The caucus system, invented by the
Democracy az a practical way Of find
ing out who is proper person to be-
voted for where constituency is too
large to know each other personally,
and in spite of its garing imperiections
and corruptions now adopted by all
parties, should be improved by tho
Democracy and carefully regulated by
wise provisions of law
These views | believe to be explicitly
or implicitly held by three-f fourths of
our voting population, and only require
distinct Democratic enunciation to elicit
q substantial response from the people,
who we'll know that neither public
policy based on passions, nor Radical.
ism per Sc can long rule without running
the country, and would be glad TO COM
bine for the public good on grounds
that would restore our State and Ma
tional Administrations to the spirit and
practice Of Democratic Republican SIM