 I shall correct the procedure ; but that done, return with joy to that state of things, when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? I tender you the homage of my high respect.  Outlook and Independent - Page 4741901Full view - About this book
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1895 - 352 pages
...afterward became so famous, " that state of things when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, is he honest ? is he capable ? is he faithful to the Constitution ?" However virtuously Mr. Jefferson might write, he in fact made not a few removals upon partisan grounds.... | |
 | John Bigelow - 1895 - 496 pages
...done, return with joy to that state of things when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? " I tender you the homage of my high respect. "THOMAS JEFFERSON. " This was not all of Mr. Jefferson's... | |
 | National Civil Service Reform League (U.S.) - 1895 - 756 pages
...tests to be applied to a candidate for public office shall be those laid down by Jefferson, namely : " Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution?" In this way, and only in this way, can we make our government republican and worthy of the high destiny... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 460 pages
...President ever had closer regard to Jefferson's primary requirements in regard to candidates for off1ce: "Is he honest? Is he capable? Is he faithful to the Constitution?" Upon entering on his second term, in March, 1865, Lincoln, in his inaugural address, reviewed in a... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1896 - 546 pages
...own perilous efforts helped to establish. He did not, like some of his successors, profess to ask, " Is he honest, is he capable, is he faithful to the Constitution ?" He appointed men that were so. He displaced no man for the expression of his opinions, even in the... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1897 - 694 pages
...gladly return '' to that state of things when the only questions respecting a candidate would be : " Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? " li49 In the course of the first fourteen months, the President made only sixteen removals without... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1897 - 322 pages
...shall return with joy to that state of things when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? " Adams was promptly rebuked by the removal of twentyfour persons appointed in the two months previous.... | |
 | New York State Stenographers' Association - 1897 - 900 pages
...office, and Jefferson declaring that his one test, in considering a removal or an appointment was, -"Is he honest? Is he capable? Is he faithful to the Constitution?" — the criticism is easily answered; and we easily demonstrate, by those two citations and almost... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - 1897 - 504 pages
...done, return with joy to that state of things when the only question concerning a candidate shall be, Is he honest ? Is he capable? Is he faithful to the Constitution?" Mr. Jefferson here recognizes that these had been the considerations which had usually determined appointments... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1899 - 614 pages
...he had made that division he said that he should ask only three questions respecting an applicant : "Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? " If the answer was " Yes," that was enough. When Jackson became President he began, as we have seen,... | |
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