...conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment, and have placed...continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands. In the performance of a task thus generally delineated, I shall endeavor to select men whose diligence...

...conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment, and have placed...continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands. lu the performance of a task thus generally delineated, I shall endeavor to select men whose diligence...

...influencing of elections by governmental patronage should cease, and " those causes which have disturbed ' the rightful course of appointment, and have placed...continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands," be counteracted. 1 "To-day we have had Ihe inauguration. A monstrous crowd of people is in the city....

...of reform," "the correction of abuses," and "the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment, and have placed...continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands?" They \vere not long in discovering what these phrases meant. They meant a clean sweep, or, as the new...

...conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment, and have placed...continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands." EXTRACT FROM MR. JEFFERSON'S CIRCULAR, PUBLISHED AND ADDRESSED TO THE VARIOUS OFFICERS OF THE GOVERNMENT...

...conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment and have placed...continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands. In the performance of a task thus generally delineated I shall endeavor to select men whose diligence...

...conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment and have placed...continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands. In the performance of a 'task thus generally delineated I shall endeavor to select men whose diligence...

...conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment and have placed...continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands. In the performance of a task thus generally delineated I shall endeavor to select men whose diligence...

...conflict with the freedom of elections, and tho counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment and have placed or continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands."4 Having discovered tho need of reform and the conflict between patronage and freedom of elections,...

...conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment, and have placed...continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands." At the close of this address the oath of office was administered by the venerable Chief Justice. Out...