 | American Historical Association - 1886 - 500 sivua
...hopes " to 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 ? " ' It was doubtless from these considerations that he yielded somewhat to the advice of Governor... | |
 | Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1886 - 148 sivua
...hopes " to 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 ? " ' It was doubtless from these considerations that he yielded somewhat to the advice of Governor... | |
 | 1886 - 562 sivua
...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... | |
 | Charles A. O'Neil - 1887 - 308 sivua
...prompter corrections ; and when equity has been done, then the only questions concerning a candidate shall be : Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ?" ' In the sphere of diplomacy, the negotiations with Napoleon, which ended in the withdrawal of French... | |
 | Charles A. O'Neil - 1887 - 316 sivua
...prompter corrections ; and when equity has been done, then the only questions concerning a candidate shall be : Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ?" ' In the sphere of diplomacy, the negotiations with Napoleon, which ended in the withdrawal of French... | |
 | William Lyne Wilson - 1888 - 676 sivua
...that 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 ? " Notwithstanding this extreme moderation of Jefferson, he was assailed, as President Cleveland has... | |
 | Anthony Banning Norton - 1888 - 494 sivua
...for all this. The good old Jeffersonian interrogatories have not been put to those seeking office. " Is he honest — is he capable, is he faithful .to the Constitution" — have not been asked, but a new rule has been adopted. " Is he boisterous at the polls — is he... | |
 | Anthony Banning Norton - 1888 - 490 sivua
...for all this. The good old Jeffersonian interrogatories have not been put to those seeking office. " Is he honest — is he capable, is he faithful to the Constitution" — have not been asked, but a new rule has been adopted. " Is he boisterous at the polls— is he... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 468 sivua
...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?" With a degree of deference to his critics which was perhaps unnecessary, and was certainly unfortunate,... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 sivua
...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?" With a degree of deference to his critics which was perhaps unnecessary, and was certainly unfortunate,... | |
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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. 
