The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-08-05
SOME VERY PLAIN ENGLISH.

SOME VERY PLAIN ENGLISH.
The Letter of Acceptance of the Demo-
cratic Candidate for Vice-President.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 80.
The Hon. VIM. II. English transmitted
the following letter of acceptance of the
nomination Of candidate for Vice-Presi-
dent to the committee of notification to-
day:
To Hon. John ". Stevenson, President Of Con-
vention, Hon. John III. Stockton, Chairman
aud other Members Of the Committee Of No.
tifcation:
INDIANAPOLIS, July 30.
Gentlemen I have now the homer to
reply to your letter Of the 18th instant
informing me that I was unanimously
nominated for Vice-President OF the
United States by the late Democratic
National Convention which assembled at
Cincinnati. AS foreshadowed in verbal re-
marks made by me at the time OF the
delivery of your letter, / have now TO
say that accept the high trust, with a
realizing sense of its responsibility, and
am profoundly grateful for the honor
conferred. I accept the nomination upon
the platform of principles adopted by the
Convention, which I cordially approve,
and accept it quite as much because OF
NV faith in tho wisdom and patriotism
f>the great statesman and soldier noml-
mated on the same ticket for Presl-
dent of the United States. His eminent
services to his country, his fidelity to the
Constitution, the Union and the laws,
his clear perception of correct principles
of government as taught by Jefferson /;
his scrupulous care to keep the military
in strict subordination to the civil au-
thorities; his high regard for civil lib
erty. personal rights and the rights OF
property; his acknowledged ability in
civil as we'll as military affairs, and his
pure and blameless life, all point to him
as a man worthy of the confidence OF the
people, as not only brave soldier, great
Commander, wise statesman and pure
patriot, but a prudent, painstaking,
practical man Of unquestioned honesty.
Trusted often with important public du-
ties, faithful to every trust and in the
full meridian of ripe and vigorous
manhood, he is, in my judgment, emf
nently fitted for the highest position on
earth-the Presidency of the 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 has monopolized the
execntiye department of the General
Government For the last twenty years
should be retired. The continuance OF
that party in power four years longer
would not be beneficial to the public, or
in accordance with the spirit of our re-
publican institutions. Laws of entail
have not been favored in our system OF
government. The perpetuation OF prop
erty or place in one family or set OF men
has never been encouraged in this coun-
try, and the great and good men who,
founded our Republican government
and it's traditions, wisely limited the
tenure Of Office, and in many ways show.
ed their disapproval Of long leases OF
power.
TWENTY YEARS
of continuous power is long enough, and
has already led to irregularities and cor
ruptions which are not likely to be prop
" exposed under the same party that
perpetrated them.
It should not be forgotten that the tour
last years of power held by that party
were procured by discreditable means,
and held in defiance of the wishes OF the
majority of the people. It was grlev-
Gus wrong to every voter and our system
of self.government which should never
be forgotten or forgiven. Many. of the
men now in Office were put there because
of corrupt partisan services in thus de,
feating the fairly and legally expressed
will of the majority, and the hypocrisy
of the professions Of that party in favor
of civil service reform was shown by
placing such men in Office and turning
the whole brood Of Federal of6ce-holders
loose to influence elections, The money
of the people taken out of the public
treasury by these men for services OF ten
poorly performed or not reformed at all
being used in vast sums with the knowl-
edge and presumed sanction of the ad.
ministration to control elections, and
even members of the Cabinet are stroll
ing about the country making partisan
speeches, instead of being in their de-
partments at Washington discharging the
public duties for 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 hope and
aim is to keep themselves or their satal-
ties four years longer in office. That
PERPETUATING THE POWERS
of chronic Federal officeholders four
years longer will not benefit the millions
of men and women who hold no office,
but earn their daily bread by honest tindus.
try is what the 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 bountiful
harvests, that the country is compare.
lively prosperous, and not because OF
anything done by these Federal office
holders. The country is comparatively
prosperous, not because of them, but in
spite of them. This contest is III fact
between the people endeavoring to retain
the political power which rightfuliy be-
longs to them, and to restore the pure,
simple; economical, constitutional gov
ernnont of our fathers on the one side,
and hundred thousand Federal office.
holders and their hackers, pampered
retain them at all hazards, on the other.
Hence the constant assumption of new
and dangerous powers by the general
, government under the rule of the Repub-
| lican party, the effort, to build up what
they call strong Government, the in
terference with home rule and the ad-
ministration of justice in the courts ol
the several States, the interference with
elections through the medium of paid
partisan Federal of1iceholders interested
in keeping their party in power, and
caring more for that than for fairness in
elections. In fact the constant encroach-
ments which have been made by that
party upon the clearly reserved rights OF
The people and States will, if not checked,
subyert the liberties of The people and the
Government of limited: powers created
by the fathers, and end in great consoli-
dated central Government, strong in
deed for evil and the overthrow of Re.
publican institutions.
The wise men who founded our Consti-
tuition knew the
EVILS OF STRONG GovEnSMENr
and the long continuance of political
power in the same hands. They knew
there was tendency in this direction in
all governments, and consequent danger
to Republicap institutions from that
cause, and took paiGs to guard against it.