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"When we consider the patronage of this great office, the allurements of power, the temptation to retain public place once gained, and, more than all, the availability a party finds in an incumbent whom a horde of officeholders, with a zeal born of benefits received and fostered by the hope of favors yet to come, stand ready to aid with money and trained political service, we recognize in the eligibliity of the President for re-election a most serious danger to that calm, deliberate, and intelligent action which must characterize government for the people." - President Cleveland's Letter of Acceptance, 1884.

My friends, you will never have any genuine reform in the Civil Service until you adopt the one-term principle in reference to the Presidency. So long as the incumbent can hope for a second term, he will use the immense patronage of the Government to procure his renomination and secure his re-election." -Allen G. Thurman, 1872.

"We are confronted with the Democratic party, very hungry, and, as you may well believe, very thirsty; a party without a single definite principle; a party without any distinct national policy which it dares to present t the country; a party which fell from power as a conspiracy against human rights, and now attemps to sneak back to power as a conspiracy for plunder and spoils." -George William Curtis, 1884.

"When is the auction to close? When are we to see the last and final bid, a service pension to every man who served in the Federal Army during the war? The proposition comes here now to pay a pension of one cent a day for the term of service. . . . I say here, now, that I hope it may die the death in the other branch of the national Congress, and if not there, at the hands of the Executive."' -Senator George Vest, 1888.

"What is labor? . . . Labor is as much a commodity, selling in the market, as the materials to be worked up." -Representative William D. Bynum, 1888.

These four words pauper labor of Europe' have cost the tax-payers of the United States hundreds of millions of dollars. I believe in the doctrine that we should be permitted to hire where we can hire cheapest. I am not in favor of prohibiting the immigration of contract labor." - Representative John J. Hemphill, 1888.

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"The more work there is to do in this country, higher the wages that will be paid for doing it. That pol which secures the largest amount of work to be done at ho is the policy which will secure to our laboring men stea employment at the best wages. A policy which will trans work from our mines and factories to foreign mines a foreign factories inevitably tends to the depression of wag here." -Benjamin Harrison, 1888.

"The Protectionist claims that his theory of revenue p serves the newer nations from being devoured by the old and offers to human labor a shield against the exactions capital." -James G. Blaine, 18S4.

"It is better to trust those who are tried, than those w pretend." -John A. Logan, 1878.

"Labor has that in it which cannot be bought and sol The labor of man is civilization; it is advancement; it is th upward trend of humanity. In whatever field labor mayb exercised, it is, and must be, the grandest material huma force."-Senator 0. H. Platt, 1888.

"I believe in the old Bible doctrine that he who pro videth not for his own household is worse than an infidel." -Representative Nathan Goff, 1888.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1888,

By GEORGE FRANCIS DAWSON,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.

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