The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-05-18
THE NEW POLITICAL SAL
WALTON.
THE PEOPLE SUPREME.
All Power Belongs to Them,
Including the Power to
Name all their Public
Servants, City,
County, State,
National.

Inc knoxville hcpuDllcan--a leading
Republican organ-publishes the follow
ing, which embodies some principles
that we fully endorse;
The United States of America is a
Nation. The sovereignty Of this Nation
is in the People. The People, in the
exercise Of this sovereignty, have recog-
nized or created the States as subdivi-
sions Of the National domain. The Ma
ton is not Of the States but the States
are Of the Nation.
All Power belongs to the People of
the Nation. Every officer, State and
National, is Il servant Of the People.
All National Officers, including Presi-
dents, Nice-Prcsdents, Senators, SUI
prcmc, Circuit and District Judges, Col
lectors Of Custom and Of Internal Rev
cnuc, District Attorneys, Clerks OF
Courts, Marshala, and Postmasters,
should be elected directly by the People
of their jurisdiction, without any cir
cumlocution. All State officers, inclu-
ding ComptrolIers, Treasures, Sccrcta,
ries Of State, and superintendent OF
Public instruction, should be elected dl,
rectly by the People Of the State. All
: County Officers, including Chairmen OF
the County Court and Superintendent
Of Public instruction, should be elected
by the People Of the County.
The Power Of Appointment, whether
vested in the President, Governor, Leg
islature, Heads Of Departments OF
Courts, is un-Amcrican, un-Democratic
and un-Rcpubican: such Power is Il
prcrogative Of royalty, and incompati
bic with the sovereignty Of the People
The People Of each jurisdiction
whether National, State or County
whether Legislative, Executive or Judi
cial should select the officers of that ju
rsdiction. When anybody else name
these officers, that is II usarpation o
power, an Infringement Of the people
rights and an act Of kingship,
Each locality, however small or how
ever large, should name all the officer
OF that locality-Corporation, County
State and National. When this is dom
the People will be supreme until it i
done, Royal Power will continue il
America disguised under other names
1t is estimated that lao, 900 Federal off
GERS, and 100000 State, County AM
Corporation ofIictrs are appointed with
out the consent Of the People. Hereil
is the secret Of the Ring Power that
robbing the People Of their rights, AM
building up monopolies of money-lord
and monopolics Of ofice-lords all owe
the Land.
The People of the United States an,
the People Of Tennessee will never b'
trul y free 50 long as they are bossed by
Office-holders' rings, Railroad Rings
Corporation Kings, and Monopol,
Rings and the People will continue t.
be lordcd over and enslaved by thcs
Rings as long as 100000 officers
County, Corporation, State and Nation
al-are put in office by one or more o
these Rings, and without the consent o
the People.
The Power of the People is leakin!
through their fingers, and is being gath
cred into the hands of aristocrats. The
Land is filled by officers appointed tt
rule over the People without their con
sent. According to the dictionaries
this is Political Slavery. One hundred
years ago our heroic and frccdom-loving
ancestors went through blood and fire
and famine tc escape from this sort OF
Political Slavery. Are the Americans
of to-day less brave, less fond Of free
dom, less jealous Of their rights, thar
those who lived in the days Of Wash
ington and Jefferson?