The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-31

United States. Not only is he the
right man for the place, but the
time has come when the best interests
of the country require that the party
which Here occurs break in the
dispatch, which the reader must fill.
should never be forgotten or forgiven.
Many of the men now in Office were
put there because of their corrupt |
partisan services in thus defeating
the fairly and legally expressed will
of the majority, and the hyprocricy
of the professions of that party in
favor OF civil service reform was shown
by placing such men in Office and
turning q whole brood of federal
office holders loose to influence the
election. The money of the people
is taken on! of the public treasury by |
these men for services often poorly |
performed, or not performed at sill;
is being used in vast sums with the
knowledge and presumed sanction OF
the Administration, to control the
elections, and even members OF the
cabinet are strollipg about the country
making partisan speeches, instead
OF being 10 their departments at
Washington dischsrgiDg the public
duties tor which they are paid by the
people; but with all their cleverness
and ability a discriminating public
will no doubt read between the lines
OF their speeches that their paramount
nope and aim is to keep themselves
or their satellites four years longer in
office. The perpetuatIng In power
|of chronic FEDERAL officeholders
Tor four years. will not benefit the
millions Of men and women who do
not hold Office, but earn their daily
bread by honest industry, as that
same discerning public will no doubt
fully understand; as they will also
that it is because OF their own indus.
try and economy and Gods bountiiul
harvest. that the. country is COM
paratiYely prosperous, and not be-
cause of anything done by these
federal omceholderz.
The country is comparatively pros
porous, not because OF them but In
spite OF them. This contest is in fact
between q people endeavoring to re.
gain political power which rightfully
belongs to them, and to restore the
pune, simple, economical and con-
stitutionsl government of our fathers
on the one side, and a hundred
thousand federal ofHceholders and
their hackers, tempered with place
and power, and determined to retain
them at all hazards, on the other.
Hence the constant assumption oil
new and dangerous powers by General
Grant under the rule oil the Tepubll'
( can party, hence the effort to build
t up what they call a strong govern
} ment; the interference with home
| rule and with administration OF judges
in the courts in the several states, and
) the interference with elections through
| the medium OF paid partisan fedora
/ ohicenolders interested in keeping
| their party ID power and caring more
q for that than fairness in the elections
3 In fact, the constant encroschmentl
: which have been made by that party
upon the clearly reserved rights of thu
, people and OF the states will, il no
! checked, subyert tbs liberties OF The
!: people aud OF government of tbs
j limited poRers created by the fathers
q and end in q great consolidated, con
y centrated government. strong indeed
/ for evil and the overthrow c
2 republican institutions. The wist
r men who framed our Constitution
9 knew the evil of strong government
q and 8 long continuance of powe
Il IN the same hands. They knew ther,
r was tendency in this direction il
O all governments and consequen
!. danger to republican institution
a from that cause, and took pains &
guard against it. The machinery o
t a strong centralized general govern
. ment can be used to perpetu&te tn
4 came set of men in power from tern
4 to term until it ceases to be republic
9 or is such only in name; and tn
# tendency OF the party now in powe
: is in that direction, as shown
9 in various ways; besides, tn
d willingness recently manifested by
large lumber of that party to elect {
president an unlimited number o
if terms is quite apparent, and mus
q satisfy the thinking people that tn
time has come when it will be ga es
A and best for that party to be retired
4 But in resisting the encreechment
/ of the general government upon tht
reserved rights OF the people and o
/ states, l wish to be distinctly under
t stool as iavorlDg a proper exercise b.
n the general government OF power,
' rightfully belonging to it under th'
. Constitution. Encroachments upor
n the constitutional rights of the gen
. eral government, or interference will
/ the proper exercise of Its powers
a must be carefully avoided. The unior
+. of the states under the Constitution
i must be maintained, and it is known
, that this has always been the position
? Of both candidates on the democratic
/ presidential ticket. It is acquiesceC
in everywhere now, and finally anC
forever settled as one OF the results o
/ the War.
It is certain, beyond all question:,
that the legitimate results of the war
for union will not be overthroWn OIL
impaired should the democratic
ticket be elected. In that event, she
proper protection will be given IL
every legitimate way to every citi-
zen, native or adopted, in every
sectionf OF the republic, in the
enjoyment OF oil the rights
guaranteed by the Consultation and
its Amendments. A sound currency
of honest money, OF value and pur-
chasing power corr esponding sub
stsntislly with the standard recog-
nized by the commercial world, and
consisting of gold and silver and paper
convertible into coin, will be mair
tanned; the labor and manufacturing
and commercial and business of the
country will be favored and encour-
aged in every legitimate way; the
telling OF cur own people will be
protected from the destructive COM
petition of Chinese. and to that end
their immigration to our shores will
u