Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — MR. RAYES' LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE. [ARTICLE]

MR. RAYES' LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.

Gotefnor Have* has written hia fbrmal i«tt«r of acceptance of the republican nomination for president; In addition to endorsing the Cincinnati platform in toto, he t-eviews tbs sih or civil service plank at considerable length, and explicitly autos his opposition to the doctrine that to the Victors belong the spoils, lie says that under the operations of this pernicions system, wbioh all parties have adopted iu practice, the appointed oflieea have degenerated into rewards for shrtices to parly leaders, i hereby destroying the independence of tlfe Separate departments of the government, tending to extravagance and incapacity, and becoming a temptation to dishonesty. In short it every way degrades the civil service, and the character of the government. Although the subject was not made an article of faith in the platform, Mr. Hayes announces his conviction that the one presidential term idea is best, every thing considered, and that in case he is elected to the presiden-

lial office it is hia “inflexible purpose not to be a candidate for election to a second term.'* This announcement is extraordinary, and we believe without precedent. With n ambers of voters it will have great weightin deciding their course of action with respect to presiden* tial tickets. It will undoubtedly make many votes for the republican party. He pronounces unreservedly and, unmistakably in favor of “the resumption of specie payments,’* and promises, if elected, to “approve every measure to accomplish the desired end, and oppose any step backward.” There is no shuffling nor dodging the issue here. He meets the question fairly, squarely, and makes a better platform on this issue than the convention did. As a natter of conrse “the condition of the Southern States” comes in for a review. Perhaps all that is necessary to remark in this connection is that Mr, Hayes is in full accord with the most advanced ideas of bis party. He thinks' an amendment to the Constitution will be necessary foplace at rest all discussion of the free school question. Taken altogether this letter of acceptance indicates that Mr. Hayes is not likely to be the mere tool in the hande of others, which democratic journals have-predicted. Ho will estrange no votes, by it.