 | Frederick Elizur Goodrich - 1884 - 524 pages
...the same spirit : "BUFFALO, Oct. 7, 1882. ''Hon. Thomas CE Ecdesine, Chairman, etc. "DEAn SIR : I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, informing...controlling the popular wish should not be tolerated. taincd for their efficiency, and not because they may be used to accomplish partisan ends. The people... | |
 | Pendleton King - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 250 pages
...their own hands to the machinery of government, and in this place should be found the manifestation of the popular will. When by fraud, intimidation,...should not be tolerated. " Subordinates in public places should be selected and retained for their efficiency, and not because they may be used to accomplish... | |
 | Pendleton King - Presidents - 1884 - 254 pages
...their own hands to the machinery of government, and in this place should be found the manifestation of the popular will. When by fraud, intimidation,...should not be tolerated. " Subordinates in public places should be selected and retained for thejr efficiency, and not because they may be used to accomplish... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Biography & Autobiography - 1888 - 304 pages
...the nomination. The latter was as follows : " BUFFALO, October 7, 1882. "Hon. Thomas C. Ecclcsinc, Chairman, etc. " DEAR SIR : I beg to acknowledge the...should not be tolerated. " Subordinates in public places should be selected and retained for their efficiency, and not because they may be used to accomplish... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Norton - Cabinet officers - 1888 - 294 pages
...convention, lately held at the city of Syracuse. I accept the nomination thus tendered to me, and trust thafj while I am gratefully sensible of the honor conferred,...wish, should not be tolerated. Subordinates in public place should be selected and retained for their efficiency, and not because they may be used to accomplish... | |
 | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - Campaign literature - 1888 - 676 pages
...I. FROM THE LETTER ACCEPTING THE NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, OCTOBER 7, 1882. Public officers are the servants and agents of the...interference of officials of any degree, and whether state or ftderal, for the purpose of thwarting or controlling the popular, wish should not be tolerated. Subordinates... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...duties of a public officer, as set forth in the above, saying, among other things of like character: "Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made, and within the limits of a Constitution which they have established.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - American literature - 1890 - 708 pages
...Letter of Acceptance: a» Candidate for Governor, 7 October, 1882. Public officers are the servants nud agents of the people to execute laws which the people...limits of a constitution which they have established. GROVER CLEVELAND. 1837-. From the Address upon the Owning of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, 24 May,... | |
 | Grover Cleveland - New York (State) - 1892 - 618 pages
...free and uncontrolled action. Here the people themselves are supposed to speak; here they put their hands to the machinery of government, and in this...wish, should not be tolerated. Subordinates in public place should be selected and retained for their efficiency, and not because they may be used to accomplish... | |
 | Grover Cleveland - New York (State) - 1892 - 634 pages
...will upon them, and the benefits and purposes of a truly representative government will be attained. execute laws which the people have made, and within...wish, should not be tolerated. Subordinates in public place should be selected and retained for their efficiency, and not because they may be used to accomplish... | |
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... of the popular will. When by fraud, intimidation, or any other questionable practice, the voice of the people is here smothered, a direct blow is aimed at a most precious right, and one which the law should be swift to protect. If the primary election... 
