Author: J. A. Garfield

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-17

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781528474535

Excerpt from Our Presidential Candidates and Political Compendium: Also Containing Lives of the Candidates for Vice-President-the Proceedings of the Three National Conventions-the Three Platforms and the Three Letters of Acceptance We are on the eve of another Presidential Election and the passions, prejudices, favoritism and enthusiasm of the masses, are beginning to be exercised and exhibited in a thousand forms. This is natural, and perhaps not to be condemned if properly controlled, kept within reasonable bounds, and exercised in a just and honorable nianner. Every citizen should act honestly and conscientiously after having thoroughly examined the subject matter, in every possible light, and from different standpoints. There are three political parties in our country, and each at its National Convention nominated a candi date for the Presidency. Every party has its great and good men, and he who does the most for the preservation and welfare of his country, should be considered the great est and best. Men make positions; positions don't make men. Honorable, enterprising, intelligent and resolute persons, out of fragments and bits of opportunities, will oftimes march onward to honor and renown. As political parties, we are fortunate in having now in nomination for the highest office in the gift of the people the three most popular men of their respective parties, and we ma); say their recognized leaders men, all of whom have carved, with their own swords, their name imperish ably on the facade of the republic men, whose military and political careers have been distinguished by marked ability, political sagacity and executive force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.