Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06

their paramount hope and aim are to keep
themselves or their satellites four years
longer in Office. Perpetuating the power Of
chronic Federal oflcehoders four years longer
Will not benefit the millions of men and women
who hold no office, but earn their daily bread
by honest industry. This the same discrim-
mating public will no doubt iully understand,
as they will also that IL is because Of their
own industry and economy and Gods bounti-
full harvests that the country Is comparatively
prosperous, and not because OF anything done
by these Federal ofiieeholders. The country
is comparatively prosperous, not because OF
them, but in spite OF tuem.
THE CONTEST
is, in fact, between the people endeavoring to
gain the political power which rightfully be-
longs to them and TO restore the pure, sim Pile,
economical Constitutional Government OF our
fathers on the one side, and 100000 Federal
ofiiceholders and their hackers, pampered
with place and power and determined to re-
tain them at all hazards, on the other. Hence
the constant assumption OF new and danger
GUS powers by the Gene al Government
under the Republican party; the effort 70
build up what they call a strong Government;
the interference with home rule and with the
administration of justice in the courts Of the
several States; the interference with the
elections through the medium of paid parti-
san otliceholders interested In keeping their
party in power, and caring more for that than
Harness in electiOns in fact, the constant
encroachments which have been made by
that party upon the clearly rights Of
the people and the States will, If not
checked, subvert the liberties of the people
and the Government of limited powers
created by the fathers, aud end in a great
consolidated, concentrated Government,
strong, indeed, for evil and the overthrow of
republican institutions. The wise men who
framed our Constitution knew the evils Of a
strong Government and the long continuance
Of political power in the same hands. They
knew there was tendency in this direction
In all Governments, and consequent d-rger
in republican institutions from that Cause,
and took pains to guard against 1t. The ma
chinery Of strong centralized General Gov
ernment can be used to perpetuate the same
set Of men in power from term to term until
it ceases to be a Republic, or such only in
name, and the tendency of the party now in
power is in that direction, as shown in vari-
GUS ways. Besides the willingness recently
manifested by large number of that party to
elect President for an unlimited number of
terms is quite apparent, and must satisfy
thinking people that the time has come when
it viii be safest and best for that party to be
retired.
THE RIGHTS AND POWERS OF THE GENERAL
GOVERNMENT.
But in resisting the encroachments Of the
General Government upon the reserved rights
of the people and the States, wish to be dis
timely understood as favoring the proper ex-
ercise by the General Government of the
powers rightfully belonging to it under the
| Constitution. Entertainments upon the Con-
stitutional rights of the General Government,
or interference with the proper exercise of its
powers, must be carefully avoided. The
| Union of the States under the Constitution
must be maintained, and it is well known that
this has always been the position Of both the
candidates on the Democratic Presidential
ticket 1t is acquiesced in everywhere now,
and finally and forever settled as one of the
results of the war. 1t is certain beyond all
question that the legitimate results of the
war for the Union will not be oyerthruwn or
| impaired should the Democratic ticket be
elected. In that event proper protection will
| be given in every legitimate way to every ci.i-
zen, native or adopted, in every section of the
Republic in the enjoyment of all the rights
guaranteed by the Constitution and its
| amendments.
| FINANCIAL-THE INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS
INTERESTS.
A sound currency of honest money, of a
value and purchasing power corresponding
| substantially with the standard recognized by
/ the commercial world, and consisting of gold
and silver, and paper convertible into coin,
| will be maintained.
The labor and manufacturing, commercial
| and business in erests of the country will be
favored and encouraged in every legitimate
| way. The tOiling of our own people will be
| protected from the destructive competition
| of the Chinese, and to that end their immi.
| grafton TO our shores will be properly re-
!
| lously maintained and strengthened by rigid
! economy in public expenditures, and the lib
critics of the people and the property of the
! people will be protected by Government OF
law and order administered strictly in the in.
terests Of all the people, and not Of corpora
| tions and privileged classes.
| CONCLUSION.
do not doubt the discriminating justice
| Of the people and their capacity for intelli
| gent selfgovernment, and therefore, do not
/ doubt the success of the Democratic ticket
Its success would bury beyond resurrection
the sectional iealousies and hatred which
have so long been the chief stock in trade a
| pestiferous demagogues, and in no other way
can this be SO effectually accomplished. 4
would restore harmony and good feeling be
! tween all the sections, and make US in fact
as well as in name, one people. The only
rivalry then would be in the race for the de
yelOpment Of material prosperity, the eleva
| ton of labor, the enlargement of human
rights, the promotion of education, morality
religion, liberty, order, and all that would
tend to make US the foremost Nation of thu
earth in the grand march of human progress
am, with great respect, very truly yours
WILLIAM III, ENGLISH,