, 1880-08-09

government, which should never be fOr>
gotten nor forgiven. Many of the men
now in office were put there because Of
their corrupt partisan services in thus
defeating the fairly anG legally expressed
will cf the majority, and the hypocricy
of the professions OF that party in favor
OF civil service referm was shown by
placing such men in office ana turning
the whole brood of federal office holders
loose to influence the elections. The
money of the people, taken ont of the
public treasury by those men tor services
often poorlv performed or not performed
at all, is being used in vast sums with
the knowledge and presumed SANCTION of
the Administration, to control the elec-
tions, and even members of the Cabinet
are strelling about the country making
partisan speeches instead of being in
their Departments at Washington dis
charging the public duties for which they
are paid by the people, but with all their
cleverness and ability discriminating
public will no doubt read by the lines of
their speeches that their paramount hope
and aim is to keep themselves or their
satellites four years longer in Office. The
perpetuating power of the chronic fed
eral office holders four years longer will
not benefit the millions of men and wo>
men who do not hold office but earn their
daily bread by honest industry will no
doubt fully understand as they will, also
and economy and good and bountiful
harvests that the country is comparative
ly prosperous, and not because of any,
thing done by these Federal otficeholders
The country is comparatively prosperous,
not because of them, but in spite of them.
This contest is in fact between people
endeavoring to regain political power
which belongs to them. and to restore
the pure, simple and economical con-
sttutional government of the fathers on
on side, and one hundred thousand Fed-
eral officeholders and their hackers ham
pered with place and power and deter
mined to retain at all hazards, on the
other. Hence the constant assumption
of new and dangerous powers by General
(sro nf un,1or fho ri,l. re tho Pan,l,1ico
party, the effort to build up what they
call "strong government" interference
with home rule and with the administers
ton Of justice in the Courts in several
States
The interference with the election
through the medium of paid partisan
Federal officeholders interested in keep
ing their party in power ana caring more
for that than the fairness in elections. In
fact the constant encroachments which
have been made by that party upon clear
ly reserved rights of the people and the
States will, if not checked, subvert the
liberties of the people of the government
of limited powers created by the fathers
and end in great consolidated, concen>
trated government, strong indeed for
evil and the overthrow of Republican
institutions The wise men who formed
our Constitution knew the evil of strong
government and the long continuance of
political power in the same hands. They
knew there was tendency in this direc>
tion in all governments and the conse-
quent danger to Republican institutions
from that cause and took pains to guard
against it. The machinery Of strong
centralized General Government can be
used to perpetuate some set of men in
power from term to tenn until it ceases
to be a Republic or is such only In name,
and the tendency of the party now in
power in that direction as shown in va
rious wasy, besides the willingness recent
ly manifested by large number of that
party to elect President an unlimited
number of times is quite apparent and
must satisfy the thinking people that the
time has come when it will be safest and
best for that party to be retired. But N
resisting the encroachments of the Gener-
a. Government upon the reserved rights
of the people and the States wish to be
distiac.lY understood as favoring the