Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-12
ENGLISH'S ACCEPTANCE.
WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SHOULD GIVE
WAY TO THE DEMOCRATS.

WAY TO THE DEMOCRATS.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 3O.-Hon. William
II. English transmitted the following
letter Of acceptance of his nomination
as candidate for Vice President, to the
committee of notification to day:
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 80. 1880.
To Hon. JonN w. STEVENSON, President
of the Convention Hon. JOHN p.
STOCKTON, Chairman, and other mem.
bers of the Committee of Notifca.
ton:
GENTLEMEN have now the honor to
reply to your letter of the 18th in.
slant, informing me that was unani.
mously nominated for the office of Vice
President of the United States by the
late Democratic National Convention
which assembled at Cincinnati. As
foreshadowed in the verbal remarks
made by me at the time of the delivery
of your letter, have now 20 say that |
accept the high trust with Q realizing
sense of its responsibility, and am pro.
foundly grateful for the honor confer
red. l accept the nomination upon the
platform OF principles adopted by the
convention, which cordially approve,
and | accept it quite as much because OF
my faith in the wisdom and patriotism
of the great statesman and soldier nom.
mated on the same ticket for President
of the United States. His eminent ser.
vices to his country; his fidelity to the
Constitution, the Union and the laws /;
his clear PERCEPTION of the correct prin.
ciples of government as taught by JEFF.
ferson; his scrupulous care to keep the
military in strict subordination to the
civil authorities; his high regard for
civil liberty, personal rights and the
right OF property; his acknowledged
ability in civil as well as military affairs
and his pure and blameless life all point
to him as q man worthy of the conf.
dence of the people. Not only brave
soldier, a great commander, a wise
statesman and pure patriot, but pru.
dent, painstaking, practical man of un.
questioned honesty, trusted often with
public duties, faithful to
every trust and in the full meridian of
ripe and vigorous manhood, he is, in my
judgment, eminently fitted for the high.
est office on earth-the Presidency of
the United States.
A CHANGE DEMANDED.
Not only is he the right man for the
place, but the time has come when the
best interests of the country require
that the party which has monopolized
the executive department of the Gener-
al 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 system of
government. The perpetuation of prop
erty or place in one family or set of men
has never been encouraged in this
and the great and good men
who formed our republican government
and its traditions wisely limited the
tenure of Office and in many ways show.
ed their disapproval 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 ex.
posed under the same party that perpe-
trated them.
FRAUD MUST NOR be coSDoNED.
Besides it should not be forgotten
that the four last years of power held
by that party were procured by discred.
table means and held in defiance of
the wishes of majority of the people.
1t was a grievous wrong TO every voter
and to our system of selfgovernment
which should never be forgotten or for.
given. Many of the men now in office
were put there because of corrupt parti.
san services in thus defeating the fairly
and legally.expressed will of the major.
ity, and the hypocrisy of the professions
of that party in favor of civil service
reform was shown by placing such men
in Office and turning the whole brood of
Federal office-holders loose to influence
the elections. The money of the peo.
pie taken out OF the public Treasury by
these men for services often poorly per.
or not performed at all is being
used in vast sums, with the knowledge
and presumed sanction of the admins.
trstion, to control the elections, and
even tho members of the cabinet are
strolling about the country making par.
tisan speeches instead of being in their
at Washington discharging
the public duties for which they are
paid by the people. But with all their
cleverness and ability, discriminating
public will no doubt read between the
lines of their speeches that their para
mount hope and aim is TO keep them.
selves or their satellites four years long.
er in Office. 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 dis
cerning public will no doubt fully under
stand, as they will, also, that Il is be.
cause Of their own industry and econo.
my and Gods bountiful harvests that
the country is comparatively prosperous,
and not because Of anything done by
these Federal oflice-holders. The coun.
try is comparatively prosperous, not
because Of them, but In spite OF them.
THE PEOPLE AND THE OFFICE. HOLDERS.