...head than when he embodied the cardinal rule for the selection of public officers in these words : " Is he honest? is he capable? is he faithful to the constitution?" Whatever may have been the practice of Jefferson and his immediate successors in this matter of public...

...disqualification. Everybody will call to mind his well-known words to be asked of a candidate or official, " Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ?" He declared he had never removed a man because he was a Federalist, never wished his opponents to...

...would 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 ? ' " The act and the doctrines avowed in its defence were of a nature to command attention. It was...

...The competency of the applicant was to be determined by the affirmative answer to three questions : " Is he honest, is he capable, is he faithful to the Constitution?" Upon assuming the duties of his great office the President makes oath that to the best of his ability...

...I will 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? At another time he said: "That the republicans would consent to a continuation of everything in federal...

...done, return with joy to that state of things where the only question concerning a candidate shall be, ' Is he honest, is he capable, is he faithful to the constitution ?' " In these words Mr. Jefferson recognized that honesty, capacity, and patriotic fidelity had been...

...resisted it, and declared, in his famous phrase, that ' The only question concerning a candidate shall be, Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution? ' Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams followed him so faithfully that the joint Congressional Committee...

...every one diligent to the single end of serving Presidential aspiration. The .Teffersonian rule was, " Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? " But this is now lost in the mightier law, "Is he faithful to rec-lection ? " This failing, all merit fails....

...every one diligent to the single end of serving Presidential aspiration. The Jeffersonian rule was, " Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? " But this is now lost in the mightier law, "Is he faithful to reelection ? " This failing, all merit fails....

...nullities the appointments of the former administration, made after his own election ; second, to ask, " Is he honest ? Is he capable? Is he faithful to the constitution ?" and third, to refrain from appointing relatives. He said: " The public will never be made to believe...