 Public officers are the servants and agents of the people to execute laws which the people have made, and within the limits of a constitution which they have established. Hence the interference of officials of any degree, and whether state or federal,...  Life and Public Services of Grover Cleveland - Page 105by Pendleton King - 1884 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Eugene Tyler Chamberlain, Thomas W. Handford - 1884 - 564 pages
...their own hands to the machinery of government, and in this place should be found the manifestations of the popular will. When by fraud, intimidation or...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... | |
 | Frederick Elizur Goodrich - 1884 - 524 pages
...their own hands to the machinery of government ; and in this place should be found the manifestations of the popular will. When by fraud, intimidation,...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... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Norton - Cabinet officers - 1888 - 294 pages
...their own hands to the machinery of government, and in this place should be found the manifestations of the popular will. When by fraud, intimidation,...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 - 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... | |
 | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - Campaign literature - 1892 - 330 pages
...accepting the nomination for Governor of New York, he said : The interference of officials of any degree, whether State or Federal, for the purpose of ~ thwarting...controlling the popular wish should not be tolerated. * * * I believe in the intelligence of the people when left to an honest freedom of their choice. *... | |
 | Noah Brooks - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 386 pages
...services in the cause of good government. As a matter of record some of these are herewith appended : " Public officers are the servants and agents of the...limits of a constitution which they have established." " Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Presidents - 1894 - 696 pages
...republican state convention at Saratoga. In his letter accepting this nomination Mr. Cleveland wrote: "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.... | |
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