Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-31

me at the time of the delivery of your lettel
I have now to say that accept the hig
trust with realizing sense of its RESPONSE
bilities and am profoundly grateful for tn
honor conferred. ! accept the nomination
upon the platform of principles adopted b
the convention, which cordially approve
and accept it quite as much because of M
faith in the wisdom and patriotism of the
GREAT STATESMAN AND SOLDIER
nominated on the same ticket for Presiden
of the United States. His eminent services
to his country; his fidelity to the constitu
ton, Union, and the laws; his clear percep
tion of the correct principles of government
as taught by Jefferson; his scrupulous cart
to keep the military in strict subordinatior
to their regard for civil liberty, persona
rights and rights of property; his acknowl
edged 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, great commander, a wise states
man and pure patriot, but prudent,
painstaking, practical
MAN OF UNouEsTIoNKD HoNEsEY,
entrusted often with important public duties,
faithful to every trust and in the full meri-
dian of ripe and vigorous manhood, he is in
my own Judgment eminently fitted for the
highest Office on earth, the Presidency of
the United States. Not only is he the right
man for the place, but the time has come
when the best interests of the country re-
qaire that the party which has monopolized
the executive department of the general
government for the last twenty years should
be relieved. The continuance of that party
in power four years longer.would not be bene-
hcial to the public, or in accordance with
the spirit of our republican institutions.
Laws of entail have not been favored in our
system of government. The perpetuation of
property or place in one family or set of
men, has never been encouraged in
this country. Our republican
governmentand its traditions wisely.
LIMITED THE TENURE OF OFFICE
of long leases of power. Twenty years of
continuous power is long enough, and has
always led to iniquities and corruptions
which are not likely to be properly exposed
under the same party that perpetuates them.
Besides, it should not be forgotten that the
last four years of power held by that party
we're procured by
DIsCREDITABLE MEANS,
and held in defiance of the wishes of the
majority of the people. 1t was grievous
wrong to every voter, and to our system of
self-government, which should never be for
gotten or forgiven. Many of the men now
in Office were put there because of corrupt
partisan service in thus degrading the fairly
and legally expressed will of the majority,
and the hypocrisy of the profession of that
party in favor of civil service reform, which
was shown by placing such men in Office,
and turning the whole brood of federal
officeholders loose to influence the elections
The
MONEY OF THE PEOPLE,
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 presumed
sanction Of the administration to control
the election, and even the members of the
cabinet are strolling about the country MAX
ing partisan speeches, instead of being in
their departments at Washington discharg-
ing the public duties for which |
they are paid by the people. For with all
their cleverness and ability a discriminating
public will no doubt read, between the lines
of their speeches, that their paramount |
hope and aim is to keep themselves, or their |
four years longer in Office. The
in power of chronic federal |
ofice-holders four years longer will not
benefit the millions of men and women who |
have no Office, but earn their daily
bread by honest industry, is what the |
same discriminating public will no doubt |
fully understand, as they will, also, that it is
because of their own industry and economy,
and Gods bountiful harvests, that the coun- !
Try is comparatively prosperous, not because
Of them, but in spite of them. This contest |
s, in fact, between the people endeavoring |
70 regain the political power which right |
FULLY belongs to them, ana to restore the |
pure, simple, economical and constitutional |
government of our fathers on the one side, |
md 100000 federal Office holders and their |
packers, hampered with place and power |
md determined to retain them at all haz- |
,ards, on the other. Hence the constant as |
sumption of
NEW AND DANGEROUS POWERS
Oy Guo Seuoral SoVoIumoHt uuQeI Gno RUE OF |
he Republican party, the effort to build up
what they call a strong government, the in
reference with home rule and |
with the administration of justice |
n the courts of the several States, the in
reference with the elections through the |
medium of paid partisan federal Office
lolders interested in keeping their party in
power, and caring more for that than fair
ness in elections. In fact. the constant en-
,roachments which have been made by that
party upon the clearly defined rights of the |
people and the States will, if not checked,
Iubvert the liberties of the people and the
government of limited powers created by
he fathers, and end in great
CONCENTRATED 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 continu-
ance of political power in the same hands.
They knew there was tendency in this
direction in all governments and consequent
langer to Republican institutions from this