Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-31
Aancaster fntelllgerlrer.
EVENING. JULY 81, 1890.
The Letters.

disappoint the American people, whose
confidence in his sagacity had been won
by his able state papers when in COM
mand of the department of Louisiana
and Texas. 1t lacks none of their vigor of
thought, conciseness of expression and
high conviction of constitutional
duty. Our country is safe when
its government is administered strict
ly in conformity with the cOnstitu-
ton and the laws. The perils which
beset it have arisen out of departures from
these the restoration of good govern
ment must come and will only come in a
return to them. The Democratic party
was founded 10y those who settled our
free institutions and organized it to pre-
serve them. Their sheet anchor was
the constitution, and the party
has had the power to continue itself amid
all political vicissitudes, to maintain its
organization, its vital principles and its
name because it was, and is and will
continue to be the party of the constitu-
ton, recognizing that the life of the
nation is the preservation, each in its in
tegrity, of the just powers of the gen.
eral government, the rights of the states
and the liberties of the people,
He who thoroughly appreciates this is
a statesman, and he who adheres to it is
apatriot. a Gen. Hancock shows that he
is both. If his military training has
enabled him to express himself with
breyity it is a branch of the soldiers
education that more of our statesmen
ought to have. For he has said
in his half column all that
needs to he said, and he has carefully
avoided what so easily might have
been improperly said. No better elabo-
ration of Democratic principles could he
made and no stronger pledge of his SYM
pathy with them needed to be given than
in these words: "The principles enun-
ciated by the convention are those have
cherished in the past. and shall endeavOr
to maintain in the future" North and
South, East and West recognize a guar
antee for equal protection to all sections
and all interests in the declaration that
g the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth amendments to the constitution
of the United States, embOdying the re-
suits of the war for the Union, are in
violable. If called to the presidency
should deem it my duty to resist with all
my power any attempt to evade the fun
force and effect of the constitution,
which, in every article, section and
amendment is the supreme law of the
land
The proper adjustment of all the func-
tiOns of our government and the intelli-
gent, honest exercise of each is the sim
pie duty of those entrusted with its ad-
ministratiOn This is not Il difficult task
when assigned to honest men, but the
Republican party has shown itself will
ing to disturb the nice balances of power
which the profoundest wisdom'' of
the fathers arranged-wlenever that
party can help itself and continue its
rule by SO doing. 1t will aid the eXecu-
tive power to usurp the legislative, or
the legislative to infringe upon the ex-
ecutive or it will prostitute the judiciary
to unfairly control both if it finds advan.
tage in the subverSiOn. Gen. Hancock
has not only the craftsmanship TO know
the right relation of all these powers,
but he has the determination to main
tain it by enforcing Il free vote, free
ballot and Il fair COUNT by which alone
as he says g the people can rule in fact,
rs required by the theory of our govern
ment.H
For the purilicatiOn of the civil service
he gives ample security in the announce
ment of his faith that ''public Office is
trust. not a bounty bestowed upon the
holder. No incompetent or dishonest
person should ever he intrusted with it,
or, if appointed. they should he promptly
rejected In the work of protecting
our industries and developing our re-
sources, he will be abreast of the hest
thought of the age and in full ac-
cord with that enlightened statemanship
which comprelends that 6 to develop
our vast natural resources and increase
the prosperity and happiness of the peo-
pie" there must be no class legislation
nor the nurture of special interests to
the prejudice of the common veal.
Mr.. English's letter is more lengthy
than that of the head Of the ticket. due
no doubt to his more discursive style
rather than to any greater weight attach
ing to his views. He expresses them,
however, clearly and positively, and they
fully accord with the doctrines of the
party in whose promotion would he has
tened "the development of material
prosperity, the elevation of labor, the ell
largement of human rights: the promo.
ton OF education, morality, religion,
liberty, order and all that would tend to
make us the foremost nation of the earth
in the grand march of human progress y
To the realization of these grand pun
poses Mr.. English can give no more sub
stantial aid than by effecting that which
he pledges to the national committee, a
sweeping Democratic victory in Indiana
at the October battle there.
THE Examiner, which, in its sore dis
tress to whitewash the character of its
candidate, has to publish daily person.
N Iofooco .,f him nv two 1aadipr nop,o