 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.  New Outlook - Page 4741901Full view - About this book
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 583 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?" Before he could reach that millennium, he removed or replaced 109 civil officials, or about one third... | |
 | 1906
...because he was a Christian, or chiefly because of his Christian character. Thomas Jefferson's questions, "Is he honest? Is he capable? Is he faithful to the Constitution?" furnish the practical standard of most men who do not first ask, "Is he loyal to the party?" and, "Will... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1906 - 314 pages
...of the public afterwards. The merit system reverses this. It applies the simple Jeffersonian test, "Is he honest? Is he capable? Is he faithful to the Constitution?" If he is, he will be retained, and he will not need to run to Congressmen or political committeemen... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - 1908
...because he has secured a party nomination, or shall we again recur to the test of Thomas Jefferson : ''Is he honest, is he capable, is he faithful to the...sovereignty is preserved in all of its pristine purity. If this be an average APPENDIX. 607 Southern audience, more than ninety-nine per cent, of my hearers... | |
 | 1860
...power, the slave oligarchy has applied a test for office very different from that of Jefferson : " Is he honest ? Is he capable? Is he faithful to the Constitution?" -These things are all forgotten now in the single question, which signalizes the great change which... | |
 | Percy Lewis Kaye - 1910 - 535 pages
...to "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?" It is needless to say that this happy "state of things" was never realized even by Mr. Jefferson himself.... | |
 | Edna Henry Lee Turpin - 1911 - 478 pages
..." 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 ? ' " Ohio admitted to Union [1803]. — While Jefferson was president, Ohio, the first state formed... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1913
...shall 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? I invite the modern Democrat to contemplate in a spirit of candor and soberness, and perhaps with some... | |
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