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Show WHAT IS WANTED. The i;avni( oJjOUI for av-iilable can- ' .li.latCH lor Hie lii'h.Mt .)!.-; intlu gii'i of ih-J i)JOI'i r'f' ,liC t,;;J nuitinucd wiih an inferos, wliiuli wii: . mcrca-c umil tlm p-irty no'iiinaiiorr, nr. iii:i'lo. Ati 1 in th-' name-, Lr.ju.iihl bcibre til-- public arc many prominent ami honor.-'l oi:.m, which t ho ponplu ro.p-'ct, li:ivin lull ej:ilid'.-:t": in Ll;dr ubl'.ily ai.'lhlaU'Mu:ii)-Iii. Vet i'-r the j position of Jlii-;f lUis! rat of tlv; country,' for every p).si:bn uflnU in the ftiil of (.lio puopli.1, oho indi-pen.ablc j qualification for tlic fid th fid fulfillment of tho trn.it reposed h scarcely j ipokciuif incorruptible h-uie.sly. Ihe ' s.s-mmplion fieciiH to be that if a man lias attained eminence in a military, i legislative or judicial capacity, lie U fitted to 1)0 a candidal, an 1 he mus' Mil)-ctihe Iodic full p'al'oiin rf uparly hi.-1 ore it will coiWTiLf.o hiuomination, even if he nhould iMuro' hO:ne of il i'.tiiroa minifiliiilflif ni'lO.T elec tion. Jlut a prominent man is not always al-ways an honest man, nora true patriot, nor oven nn unswerving partisan. And honesty and patriotism urn of nioro ; worth in a public servant than parti-sanHhip. parti-sanHhip. What is wantoJ in tho President of tho United .States, is the purest patriotism and tho most sterling ster-ling honesty. He should bo a man who would sternly enforce re form in every department ol government; govern-ment; who would set himself deteruiin- ' cdly against tho corruptions of great I monopolies and their firaspinjr after j public property, and who would eon- tent himself with a republican simplic-1 ity of Btylo commensurate with tho ; dignity of a great and free peoplo that j tako pride in democratic-republican i institutions. With this ?hou!d he com- j bincd tho hiheut qualities of statesmanship states-manship that cm be found in a truly honest man; and if such a candidate did not subscribe to every plank in a parly plat form, his power is sorcatricted by tho constitution and the co-ordiuato branches of government, that his want of unanimity with a majority of congress con-gress could not bo productive of t'ui ovils which a le-s honest man would incvitibly inflict upon the country. |