 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
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 978 pages
...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 ? ' " The act and the doctrines avowed in its defence were of a nature to command attention. It was... | |
 | 1881 - 1114 pages
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 | 1882 - 280 pages
...return with joy to that state of things where the only question concerning a candidate shall be, ' Is he honest, is he capable, is he faithful to the constitution ?' " In these words Mr. Jefferson recognized that honesty, capacity, and patriotic fidelity had been... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1882 - 832 pages
...resisted it, and declared, in his famous phrase, that ' The only question concerning a candidate shall be, Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution? ' Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams followed him so faithfully that the joint Congressional Committee... | |
 | Frank Gaylord Cook - 1882 - 474 pages
...will 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? At another time he said: "That the republicans would consent to a continuation of everything in federal... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1883 - 612 pages
...nullities the appointments of the former administration, made after his own election ; second, to ask, " Is he honest ? Is he capable? Is he faithful to the constitution ?" and third, to refrain from appointing relatives. He said: " The public will never be made to believe... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1883 - 426 pages
...every one diligent to the single end of serving Presidential aspiration. The Jeffersonian rule was, " Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? " But this is now lost in the mightier law, "Is he faithful to reelection ? " This failing, all merit... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1884 - 902 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 ? " This is worthy of notice as the first announcement by a President of a civil service method to... | |
 | 1884 - 900 pages
...he uttered his famous sentence, to be able to inquire, as to the person to be appointed to office, ' Is he honest, is he capable, is he faithful to the Constitution? ' " I will have the letter of Mr. Lincoln, Attorney-General of the United States under Mr. Jefferson,... | |
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