I  will  not  withdraw  or  retire  unless  events
hereafter  shall  give  assurance  that  ne
cessary  reform  in  the  civil  service  shall  be
adopted;  assessments  made  upon  office
holders  returned,  and  not  hereafter  exact
ed  ;  boss,  machine,  and  spoils  methods
forever  abandoned;  and  all  our  public
offices,  from  United  States  Senator  to  the
most  unimportant  officials,  shall  be  filled
only  by  honest  and  capable  men,  who  will
represent  the  people,  and  not  attempt  to
dictate  to  or  control  them.
I  shall  go  on  with  the  fight,  asking  the
support  of  all  my  fellow-citizens  who  believe
in  the  principles  of  the  Independent  Re
publican  Convention  of  May  24th.
Yours  truly,

WILLIAM  MCMICHAEL.
To  these  propositions  General  Beaver
and  his  colleagues  replied  in  the  following
communication :

PHILADELPHIA,  July  15th,  1882.
Hon.  Thomas  V.  Cooper,  Chairman  Repub
lican  State  Committee,  Philadelphia,  Pa.
Sir :  We  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge
the  receipt  through  you  of  a  communica
tion  addressed  to  us  by  the  Hon.  John
Stewart,  Colonel  Levi  Bird  Duff,  Major  G.
W.  Merrick,  and  George  Junkin,  Esq.,  in
response  to  certain  propositions  submitted
by  the  Republican  State  Committee,  re
presenting  the  Republican  party  of  Penn
sylvania,  looking  to  an  amicable  and  hon
orable  adjustment  of  whatever  differences
there  may  be  among  the  various  element*
of  the  party.  Without  accepting  any  of
the  propositions  submitted  by  your  com
mittee,  this  communication  asks  us,  as  a
condition  precedent  to  any  recommenda
tion  on  the  part  of  the  writers  thereof,  to
declare  that  in  the  event  of  the  calling  of
a  new  convention,  we  will  severally  forbid
the  Republicans  of  Pennsylvania  to  call
upon  us  for  our  services  as  candidates  for
the  various  positions  to  be  filled  by  the
people  at  the  coming  election.  To  say


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