The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-08-05

bers of the 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 the people. But with all their clever
ness ness, and ability, discriminating public will no
that their paramount hope and aim is to keep
themselves their satellites four years longer in
oftiee. That perpetuating the power of chronic
Federal office 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, as they
viii also that it is because of their own indus
Try and economy, and Gods bountiful harvest,
shaI shs bssaass / asss sses Rss P
The country i oopr.s.aiysly ropt ttOus not
because of them but u spite q tRen. The
contest is IN fact between the people endeavor-
ing to regain the political power which right
fully belongs to them, and to restore the pure,
simple, economical, constitutional government
of our fathers on the one side, and 100, 900
Federal Office holders and their hackers, pam
pered with place and power, and determined to
retain them at all hazards, on the other. Hence
the constant assumption of new and dangerous
powers BY the general government under the
rule rof~the- Republican party. The efforf to
build up what they call a strong government,
the interference with home rule and with the
administration of justice in the courts of the
several States the interference with the election
through the medium of paid partisan Federal
Office holders, interested In keeping their party
In power, and caring more for that than fair
ness in the elections; in fact, the constant en-
croachments which have been made by that
party upon the clearly rsseryed. rights Of the
III IS III Sssrsil I'll so Of a. 1sosis Is Ia the govern
R(nt9o3 ne. N3tek spoE rs, 0eated by the
fathers, and end N . great consolidated central
government, strong; indeed, for evil and the
overthrow of republican institutions.
The wise men who framed our Constitution
knew the evils of strong government and the
long continuance of political power in the
same hards. They knew there was tendency
in this direction in all governments and conse-
quent danger to republican institutions from
that course, and took pains to guard against
it. The machinery of a strong, centralized gener-
lgoyernrent can be used to perpetuate the same
set of men in power from term to term, un-
til it ceases to be a republic or is such only in
name, and the tendency of the party now in
power il ia that drectbn, es shown AZ xeziolsl
tested BY large number of that part {x Vt
a President an unlimited number Of terms, ID
quite apparent, and must satisfy thinking peo-
pie that the time has come whenit will be safest
and best for that party to be retired.
But in resisting the encroachments of the
General Government upon the reserved right
Of the people and the States, / wish to be dis
tinctly understood as favoring the proper, ex-
erGse by the QenTal Government of theRpw-
/ ss,seging inf to- s1Ssss s5s jCss Con- 8 !;
rights of the General Government, or inter
ference with the proper exercise Of its powers
mueE be carefully ayoid6dsE7he Union of the
I{Bf5<s 4aG GtheY Ocnltitutioh must be main
fs$z19df md 1t zisse1 l116En that this has
always been the position of both the candidates
on the Democratic Presidential ticket.
30 arouiaccad IN avayvrbero roxv and fins IN
and forever settled as one of the results of the
| war. It is certain beyond all question that tht
legitimate results of the war for the Union VII
aosbs hrotgH q g1ssss osiSPa4irsd ERgla tg Den
| protection will be given insevery legitimate way
to every citizen native or adopted, in every SEQ
| ton of the Republic, in the enjoyment of al
the rights guaranteed by the Constitution ani
| its amendments.
| A sound currency of honest money, of vain.
And purchasing power corresponding Blb
4 stantially With the standard rdcuknized hy fht
| commercial world, and consisting of gold ant
silver and paper convertible into coin, will b
| maintained; the labor and manufacturing, com
| mercial and business interests of the countr,
| will be favored and encouraged in every legiti
mate way; the toiling millions of our own peo
| pie will be protected from the destructive com
i petition of the Chinese, and to that end thei
| immigration to our shores will be properly re
| stricted; the public credit will be scrupulousl,
maintained and strengthed by rigid econom,
in public expenditures, and the liberties of tn
people and the property of the people will b.
protected by government of law and order
I administered in the interest Of al the people
and nqspf ccppe5oes and PrEHeged slssaes
the people, and their capacity for intelligen
self-government, and therefore do not doub
1.-The success. OF the Democratie Ticket It's sue
sesss would hurry beyond resurrection, the sec
stiouM jealeusies and hatredsk which have 8
Tong been the stock in Ntrsde ofpestiferou
demagogues, and in no other way can this b
4 80 Effectively accomplished. It would re
ali the the ssections ana make Us in fac
as wen as lin name, one people. TIL
only rivalry would then be in the race for tn
development Of national prosperity, the eleva
| ton Of labor, the enlargement of human rights
the promotion of education, morality, religion
liberty, order, and all that would tend to max
ust the foremost nstion ofthe EARTH in the gran
march of human progress.
lam, with great respect, very truly yours,
I -..ga ! ssIsu. 80 eWM1LAM r., ,ENaLIsH.s