Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-31

eminently fitted for the highest office ON
earth, the presidency of the United States.
Not only is he the righp man for the
place, but the time has come when the best
interests of the country require that the
party which has mOnOpOlized the execu-
tive 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 nor in accordance with the
spirit OF our republican institutions. Laws
Of entail have not been favored in our sys-
tenn of government. The perpetuation of
OF place i'll one family or set OF
men has never been encouraged in this
country, and the great and good men who
formed our republican government and
its traditions wisely limited the tenure OF
office, and in many ways showed their dis
approval of long leases of power. Twenty
years OF continuous power is long enough
and has already led to irregularities and
corruptiOns which are not likely to be
properly exposed under the same party
that perpctrated them.
Besides, it should not be forgotten that
the last four years of power held by that
party were procured by discreditable
iiISsthS slul INltt ia uSAlttuSC IA IhS
Of a majority of the people. 1t Was Il
gricvOus wrong to every voter and to our
system of self-gOvernment which should
never be forgotten or forgiven. Many of
the men pow in Office were put there be-
cause of corrupt partisan services in thus
defeatin. the fairly and legally expressed
will of the majority, and the hypocrisy of
the professions of that party i'll favor OF
civil Shnyrr Inv ,l11rJnO
such men in Office and turning the whole
brood of federal office holders loose Oinflu-
ence the elections. The money of the pco-
pie taken out of the public treasury by these
men for services often poorly performed Or
not performed at all, is being used in vast
sums with the knowledge and present
sanction of the administration to control
the elections, and even the members Ofthe
cabinet are strolling about the country
making partisan speeches instead of being
in their departments at Washington, dis
charging the public duties for which they
are paid by tie people.
But with all their clcverncss and ability
4 discriminating public will no doubt read
between the lines of their speeches that
their paramount hope and aim is to keep
themselves or their satellites four years
longer in Office. That perpetuating the
power of chronic otlice-holders four years
longer will not benefit the millions of men
and women who hold no Office but earn
their daily bread by honest industry is
what the same discerning public will no
doubt fully understand, rs they will also
that it is because of their own industry
and economy and Coils bountiful harvests
that the country is comparatively pros
porous, and not because of anything done
by these federal Office-holtlers. The coun-
try is comparatively prosperous not be-
cause of them but in spite of them.
This contest is in fact between the peo-
pie endeavoring to regain the political
power which rightfully belongs to them.
and to restore the pure, simple, econOmi-
cal constitutional government OF our
fathers on the one side, and a hundred
thousand federal Office-hOlders and their
hackers, pampercd with place and power,
and determined to retain them at all haz-
ards on the other. Hence the constant
assumption of new AMI dangerous powers
by the general government under
the rule of the Republican party the
effort to build up what they call Il "strOng
government the interference with home
rule, and with the administration Of JUS
ticc in the courts Of the several states, the
interference with the elections through the
medium of the paid partisan O!iicc-holders,
interested in keeping their party in power,
and c,rin" more for that than fairncssS in
the elections.
In fact the constant encrOachmentS
which have been made by that party upon
the clearly reserved rights of the people
and the states, will, If not checked, sub
vert the liberties Of the people and the gov
ernmcnt of limited powers created by the
fathers and end in Il great consolidated
central government, ''strong,' indeed, for
evil and the overthrow of republican in
stitutiOns. The wise Incn who formed our
constitution knew the evils OF a strong
government and the long continuance of
political power in the same hands. They
knew there WIS 4 tendency i'll this dircc-
ton in all governments and consequently
danger to the republican institutions from
that cause and tool, pains to guard against
it. The machinery of !. strong centralized
general government can be used to perpet-
uatc the same set of men in power from
term to term until it ceases to bc u repub-
lie only in name, and the tendency of
the party now in power i'll that direction as
shown in various ways besides the will
lingness recently manifested by a large
number Of that party to elect a ''presi-
dent an unlimited number Of times. is
quite apparent and must satisfy thinking
people that the time has come when it will
be the safest and best for the party to he
retired.
But in resisting the entertainments of
the general government upon the reserved
rights of the people and the states l wish
to be distinctly understood as fayOrins
the proper exercise by the general govern
ment of the powers rishtfully belonging to
it under the constitution. Encroachments
upo:: the constitutional rights of the gen
eral government or interference with the
proper exercise of its powers must be caro-
fully avoided. The union of the states
under the constitution must he nlaintaint d
and it is well known that this has always
been the position of both the candidates
on the presidential ticket. 1t is acquiescCd
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 ovcrthrown or impaired should
the Democratic ticket be elected. In that
event proper protection will be given in
every legitimate way to every citizen,
native or adopted, in every section of the
republic in the enjoyment of all the rights
guaranteed by the constitution and its
amendments; sound currency of honest
money OF value and purchasing power
corresponding substantially with the
standard recognized by the commercial
world and consisting Of gold and silver and
nannr convcrt;hln ;,,.o ,.nin will Inc MAIN