Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21
GEN. GARFIELD ACCEPTS.
THE NEXT PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES Hi

THE PRESIDENT ANNOC Ills
METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION
MENTaR, Ohio, July l5.--4eaeral
Garfield has forwarded to Senator
Hoar the following lette" of acceptance
of the nomination rendered him by the
Republican National Convention:
MENTOR, July 10-Dear SIR: On
the evening of the Sth Of June last 1
had the honor to receive from you, in
presence of the committee Of which you
were chairman, the official announce
ment that the Republican National
Convention, at Chicago, had that day
nominated me for their candidate for
President Of the United Staial. acS
cept the nomination with gratitude for
the confidence it implies, and with
deep sense of the responsibilities it
imposes. | cordially endorse the prin-
ciples set forth in the platform adopted
by the convention on nearly all the
subjects of which it treats. Ny Gpia.
ions are on record among the published
proceedings of Congress. / venture,
however, to make special mention of
scme of the principal topics which are
likely to become subjects of discussion,
without renewing the controversies
which have been settled during the
last twenty years aid with ~ purpose
or wish to revive the passions Of the
late war.
A SOUND PLATFORM.
1t should be said that while Rcpub-
licans fully recognize and will strenu-
ously defend all the rights retained by
the people and all the rights reserved
to the States, they reject the pernicious
doctrine of State supremacy which so
long crippled the functions of the Ma
tional Government and at one time
brought the Union very near to des-
truction. They insist that the United
States ia nation with ample power
of self preservation; that its constitu-
ton and laws made in pursuance
thereof are the supreme law of the
land; that the right of the nation to
determine the method by which its
own legislature shall be created cannot
be surrendered without abdlcating
one of the fundamental powers OF the
Government; that the National laws
relating to the election of representa-
tves in Congress shall neither be
violated nor evaded; that every cleo
tor shall be permitted freely and with
out intimidation to cast his lawful bal
lot at such election and have it hon
estly counted, and that the potency of
his vote shall not be destroyed by the
fraudulent vote of any other person.
The best thoughts and energies of our
people should be directed to those
great questions of national well being
in which all have a common interest.
Such efforts will soonest restore per-
feet peace to those who were lately in
arms against each other, for justice
and goodwill will outlast passion
but it is certain that the wounds of the
war cannot be completely healed and
the spirit of brotherhood cannot fully
pervade the whole country until every
citizen, rich or poor, white or black,
is secure in the free and equal enjoy
ment of every civil and political right
guaranteed by the Constitution and
the laws. Wherever the free and
equal enjoyment of this right is not as
sured discomfort will prevail, immigra-
ton will cease and the social and in
dustrial forces will continue to be dis
turbed by the migration Of laborers
and diminution of prosperity. The
National Government should exercise
all its constitutional authority to put |
an end to these evils, for all the peo-
pie and all the States are members of
one body, and no member can suffer
without injury to all.
THE SOUTHERN TROUBLES.
The most serious evils which now
afflict the south, arise from the fact |