The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-07-20

| DY q large majority OF the members o
Congress to be an intolerable burden
and understandable hindrance to th,
proper discharge of their Legitimate
duties. Ii ought 10 be abolished. HI,
reform should be thorough, radiea
and complete. We should return e
the principles and practice of thu
| founders OF the Government, supply
ing. by legislation, when needed, thai
which was formerly an established
custom. They neither expected or de
sired from the public offices any parti
san service. They meant that public
officers should owe their whole service
TO the Government and TO the people
They meant that the officer should be-
secure in his tenure as long as his per
sonal character remained untarnishe(
and the performance of his duties sat
isfactory. If elected, shall conduc
the administration of the Government
upon these principles, and all consti
tutional powers vested in the execu.
tive will be employed to establish thi,
reform.
The declaration of principles by til.
| Cincinnati Convention makes no an
nouncement in favor of a single Presi-
Dental term. do not assume to add
to that declaration, but, believing that
the restoration of the civil service to
the system established by Washington
and followed by the early Presidents
can be best accomplished by an execu.
tive who is under no temptation to use
the patronage of his Office to promote
his own reelection, desire to per-
hat ! ,,sl I,
ing now my inflexiblc purpose, il
elected, not TO be candidate for
election to Il second term.
On the currency question have fire.
quently expressed my views in public,
and stand by my record on this sub
ject. | regard all the laws of the
United States relating to the payment
OF the public Indebtedness, the legal
tender notes included, as constituting
a pledge and moral obligation of the
Government which must, in good
faith, be kept. 1t is my conviction
that the feeling of uncertainty iusop-
arabic from an irredeemable paper
currency, with its fluctuations of val
ues, is one of the great obstacles TO a
revival of confidence and business, and
to return of prosperity. That UNI
certainty can be ended in but one
way-the resumption of specie pay
ment; but the longer the instability
connected with our present money
system is permitted to continue, the
greater will be the injury inflicted up
on our economical interests and all
classes of society. If elected, | shall
approve every measure to accomplish
the desired end, and shall oppose any
step backward.
The resolution with respect to the
public school system is one which
should receive the hearty support of
the American people Agitation upon
this subject is to be apprehended un-
til, by constitutional amendment. the
schools are placed beyond all danger
of sectarian control or interference.
The Republican party is pledged to
secure such an amendment.
The resolution of the Convention Oh
the subject of the permanent pacifica-
ton of the country, and the complete
protection of all its citizens in the free
enjoyment of all their constitutional
rights, is timely and OF great impor-
lance. The Southern States attract
the attention and command the SYM
pathy of the whole Union in their pro-
gressiye recovery from the effects OF
the war. Their first necessity is an
and honest administration
Of the Government which protects ali
classes of citizens in all their political
and private rights. What the South
most needs is peace, and peace de-
ponds on the supremacy OF the law.
There can be no enduring peace if the
rights of any portion of
the people are habitually disregarded.
y division of political Parties resting
merely upon distinctions of race or
upon sectional lines is always unfor-
tunate, and may be disastrous. The
welfare of the south, alike with
that of every other part of the coun-
try, depends upon the attractions it
,an offer to labor, to immigration and |
10 capital: but laborers will not 90, |
md capital will not be yenturcd. |
where the constitution and the laws |
Ire set at defiance, and distraction, ap-
0rehension and alarm take the place |
IF peace-loving and abiding social |
life. All parts of the constitution are
sacred, and must be sacredly observed |
the parts that are new no less than
he parts that are old. The moral and
Material prosperity of the Southern
States can be most efIectually adj
Tanced by a hearty and generous
ecognition of the rights of all by all,
recognition without reserve or ex-
option. With such recognition fully
ccorded, it will be practicable to pro-
note, by the influence of all legitimate
gencies Of the general Government.
he efforts of the people of those States
o obtain for themselves the blessings
f honest and capable local govern
nents. If elected, shall consider il
ot only my duty, but it win be my
rdent desire to labor for the attain
lent of this end. Let me assure NV
ouEtrymen of the Southern States
hat. if | shall be charged with the
uty of organizing an administration,
will be the one which will regard
nd cherish their truest interests, the
interests of the white and of the col
red people, both and equally, and
7hich will put forth its best efforts in
ehalf of a civil policy which will wipe
ut forever the distinction between
.orth and South in our country, with
civil service organized upon a sys-
EN- which will secure purity, expert
nee, efficiency and economy, a strict
egard for the public welfare solely in
ppointments, and the speedy, thor
ugh and unsparing prosecution and
enlistment of all public officers who
etray their official trust. With a ,
)und currency, with education un- !
ectarian and free to all, with simple :
y and frugality III public and private
Hairs, and with fraternal spirit of
pervading the people of all
,ctions aud classes. we may reason ,
bly, hope that the second century of )
ur existence as a Nation win, by the t
essing of God, be pre-eminent as an
"a of good feeling. and a period of / {