| Henry Coppée - Literature - 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... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 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.... | |
| David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1897 - 696 pages
...purposes, but "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 ? "9*' In the course of the first fourteen months, the President made only sixteen removals without... | |
| Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1897 - 504 pages
...resisted it, and he declared in a famous utterance that " the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, Is he honest? is he capable ? is he faithful to the Constitution ? " Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams followed in the same practice so faithfully that a joint... | |
| New York State Stenographers' Association - Shorthand - 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... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 460 pages
...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?" Mr. Jefferson here recognizes that these had been the considerations which had usually deter* mined... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 518 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 ? I tender you the homage of my high respect. TO THE GOVERNOR OF THE MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY j.uss. (WILLIAM... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1905 - 644 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... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1905 - 680 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... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 516 pages
...done, return with joy to that state of thing! when the only question concerning a candidate shall I«', 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;... | |
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