Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-07-31

peri c:u!ion Of property or plGce in ono family
or Get OF men hes never been encouraged IL this
county, aud the great and good men who
iorncd our republican government and lis ira
dltiols wisely limited tho tenure Of office, and
in many ways showed their disapprova of long
leases of power. Twenty years of continuous
power is long enough. ard has already led to
irregularities ard o1rruplions which are not
likely to be properly exposed usder tho same
party that perpetrated them.
Besides, it should not be forgotten that The
four las: years Of power held by that party
we're procured by discreditablo neaue and held
10 deiauca OF tho wishes Of majority Of the
people. 1t was grevJus wrong to every voter
aud to our system of self-goverumeut, which
| should never to FORGOTTEN or forgiven. Many
OF the moa now il Office were put there be.
oiuso OF corrupt partisan services 10 thus de-
teatlng the fairly and legally expressed will CT
the majority, aad the hypocrisy of tho profess
soos OF that party 10 favor of civil s,rsiue re-
form VAS showa by placing such men 10 office
| AID turning The whole brood Of federal office.
holders Loose to i, 6lerc, the elections. The
| money Ct the people, taken out Of the public
treasury by these men for services often poorly
performed or co. performed ct all, is being used
10 vast SUES With the knowledge snd presumed
Saaotioa ct sho administration, 10 conhol tho
elections, ADD even the members of the cabinet
arc str0lng about the couotry making partisan
spoechcs, Instead Of being in their departments
at Washington discharsiog tho public duties for
which they arc raid by the people. But With
all their c.cVarncss and ability. disctimi.
mating public will 20 doubt read between the
lines ct their speeches that their paramount
hope aed aim is to keep themselves or their
| satellites four years longer 10 Office.
mat perpetuatinG tho power Of chronic
federal oiiccholders four years longer will not
benefit the millions OF men ard women who
hold 40 cti'e, but earn their daily bread by
honest Industry, IS what tho same discerning
public will no doubt fully understand, as tboy
will also that it is because of their own indus
| try and economy and Gods bountiful hsrvcsts
that tho couatry is comparatively prosperous,
and not because Of anything done by these
fedora! oficohoders. The country is compare.
lively prosperous. cot because of them, but 10
srte Of them. This contest is, 10 fac, between
the people cndeavorius to regain tho political
poEe: which rightfuly belongs to them, and
to restore tho pure, simple, economical consti-
!utlona government of our fathers, Oh the one
side, ard hundred thousand federal Office.
holders and their hackers. pampered With place
and power, and determined to retain them at
oil hazards on the other.
Hcaoe, tho constant assumption of uew and
dangerous powers by the general government
Under the rule OF The republican rarty. The
effort to build up what they call srorg gov.
crnntn., tho Interference With home rule and
With the administration Of Justice 10 the courts
ct tho several States, tho Interference With the
eecllous through the medium of paid partisan
federal othoehoders Interested 10 keeping their
party 10 power, and caring moro for that than
harness In The elecsious-in fact, tho constant
ctc'oGchments which have been made By that
party upon tho clearly reserved rights of the
people and tho S:atcs-Bill, if not checked,
subvert the liberties of the people to the gov.
ernmont or llniled powers created by tho faith.
era, snd eDd 10 great consolidated central gov.
eminent, strong indeed for evil aud tho over.
throw OF republican institutions.
The wise men who framed the constitution
knew the evils Of strong government and the
long continuance OF political power in tho same
hands. They knew there wss a tendency in
this direction IN all governments, aud consa-
quont danger TO republican institutions from
that cause and took the pains to gusrd against it.
Tho machinery of strong centralized general
government c IN be used to parpetuste the
ssmo Get CT men in power from term TO term
until il ceases 10 be republic or i, such only
in nsIo; and the tendency Of the party now in
power IN that direction, as shown in various
wsy5 besides tho willingness recently manifest.
ed by large number of that party to elect
President sn unlimited number Of terms. is quite
apparent and must satisfy thinking people that
The time has come whom it will be safest and best
for that psrty to be retired
But in resisting tho encrorchments of the
general government upon the reserved rights If
the people and the States wish to be distinctly
urderstood as tAvoring the proper exercise by
INIT ~ fbn ;okk I,,ll-
belonging To 1t and under the constitution. I'm.
croschmenls upon the constitutional rights of
tho general government, or interference with the
proper exercise Of its powors, must BIO carefully
avoided. The union of the States under the con.
stltullon must be maintained, and it is we'll
Known thst this has always been the position of
both the candidates on the democratic presiden-
ral Icket. 1t is acqulesced 10 every whero nov,
and finally and forever settled as one OF the re-
suits Cf the war.
1t is cor!sin beyond all question TIM. the
legitimate results Of the war for the Union will
not G oVerthroWn or impaired should the dem.
ocraslc ticket be elected. In that event proper
protec,ion will DO given IN every legitimate
WY to every citizen. native or adopted in eyery
section of tho republic, in the enjoyment of all
the rights guaranteed by the constitution and
us amencmentS. sound currency of honest
money, OF value and purchasing powe. CORES.
pondlng substantially with the standard recog-
nlzed by the commercial world, and consisting
OF GOLD and silver and paper convertible into
com, viii DO maintained. The labor and manu-.
featuring, commercial and business interests of
the country will be favored and encouraged in
every legitimate way: The toing millions of
our own people will be protected from the de-.
s.ructive competition Of the Chinese, and to that
end their immigration to our shores will be
properly restricted. The public credit will be
scrnpulousiy maintained and strengthened by
rigid economy in public expenditures and the
lloeries OF the people and the property OF the
people will be protected by government of law
and order, administered strictly in the interests
OF ali the people. and not of Corporations and
privileged classes.
u do not doubt the discriminating Justice of
tho people and their capacity for intelligent self
government, and therefore do not doubt the
success Ssis CT the democratic ticket. Its success
would ousy, beyond resurrection, the sectional
} ealousies and hstreds which have 30 long been
the Chief stock ia trade of peslf ,rous demsgog.
ues, and IN no other way can this be so etFectu.
any accom- plished. 1t would restore harmony
aud good feeling between sill the sections. and
M axe ue In fact, as in name, one people.