The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-08-23
Gov. CEEVEsAND's LulTEIl.
Honest Government For The People.

Honest Government For The People.
straightforward Declarations, With
But One Meaning, Which Everybody
Can Understand. The Rights of
Labor and of the Individual Citizen
---Givil Service Reform.
ALBANY, August 10.
Tho following was received to-day
by Colonel Lamont, secretary to Gov
ernor Cleveland, who is at Upper
Saranac Lake, with instructions to
make it public on its receipt:
ALBANY, N. Y. August IS 1884.
| GENTLEMN; ] have received your
communication, dated July g., 1884,
informing me of my nomination to.
the Office of President of the United
States by the National pemqerntip,
Convention lately assembled at qhiqa-
so. ] accept the the nominatiqn with
q grateful appreciation Of tho supreme
1 s Il
honor conferred and q soluuun sense
of the responsibility which in its &c
ceptanco l assume. l have carefully
considered the platform adopted by
the convention and cordially approve
the same. So plain statement of
Democratic faith and the principles
upon which that party appeals to the
suffrages of the people needs no sup
plement or explanation.
1t should be remembered that the
office Of President is essentially execu-
tive in its nature. The laws enacted
by the legislative branch of the gov
ernment the Chief Executive is bound
faithfully TO enforce, and when the
wisdom of the political party which
selects one of its members as a nomi-
nee for that Office has outlined its poll
cy and declared its principles, itseems
to me that nothing in the character Of
the Office Or the necessities Of the case
requires more from the candidate ac-
cepting such nomination than the
suggestion OF certain well known
truths, so absolutely vital TO the safety
Land welfare OF the nation that they
cannot be too often recalled or too Sc
riously enforced.
WHEN THE PEOPLE GOVERN.
We proudly call ours a government
by the people. 1t is not such when a
class is tolerated which arrogates to
itself the management Of public affairs
seeking to control the people instead
81 representing them. Parties arc the
: necessary outgrowth OF our institu-
} tons but governments not by the
. people when one party iastens its con
troll upon the country and peIpotuates
power by cajoling and botlHying the
people instead Of serving them. A
} government is not by the people when
c Il result which should represent the
j Intelligent will OF free and thinking
mon is, or can be, determined by
the shameless corruption OF thtir SUI
o frages.
y When an election to Office shall be
y the selection by the voters Of one o
c their number 10 assume iOr = time {
d public trust, instead Of Lis dedication
u to the profession OF politics, when thC
4 holders Of the ballot quickoned by
II sense of duty, shall aycngc truth be
! trayed and pledges broken, and whei
Y the suffrage shall be altogether FREE
and uncorrupteds the full realization
OF u governmental By the people will b
ut hand. And OF the means to thi
end not ono wopld, in my judgment
be more effective than an amendmcn
Z to the Constitution disquNlifying tn
" President from reelection. When W
consider the patronage of this grea
office, the allurements OF power, tn
= temptation to retain public place
, once gained and, ainore than all, tn
@, availability paftyfinds in an incun
fi bent whom2a horde of otiice-holder
= with zeal born of benefits receive
, and fostered by the hope Of favors "
to come, stand ready to aid with MOI
IS ey and trained political service, W
recognize in the eligibility OF the Pre-
No ident for reelection most serioU
danger to that calm, deliberate and il
telligent political action which mus
:" characterize government by tn
people.
lg TIE INTERESTS OF LABOR.
4 true American sentiment recoI
= nizes the dignity Of labor, and the fax
that honor lea !. honest, contented i
Dor isan clement Of national prosperit
tn Ability TO work constitutes the capt.
in and the wage .! labor the income
a vast number Of our population, an
this interest should be jealousy pr
no tected. Our workingmon are not as
III ing unreasonable indulgence; but,
intelligent and mainly citizens, thu
en- seek the same consideration whiC
Of those demand who. have other int