Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-09-13
THE B.svs or THs HBPUsLsC


When men are sought for, and adopted as
candidates for office, 1t is ninety-nino
times in every hundred, because they are
available for the objects of party. Thus
1t Is that selfish or party interest, and not
the public good, becomes the ruling mo-
tive in all political prelerment; and the re-
| suits are the legitimate fruit of the motive.
Out of this motive sprang all the ntrigues,
bargains, sales Of influence aud patronage,
briberies, corruptions, and crookedness
that make our politics a reproach and our
institutions byword among the nations.
We are in the habit of calling our govern
ment popular, and of fancying that we
have good deal to do in the management
of our own affairs but we would like TO
ask those who may chance to read this ar
ticle how much, beyond the casting OF their
votes, they have ever had to do with the
| government or the nation. Have they ever
done more than to vote for those who have
managed to get themselves selected as can
didates for Office, or those who, for party
reasons, determined exclusively by party
leaders-themselves seekers for power or
plunder-have been selected by others It
| is all "ring," and has been for years ;
and we, the people, are called upon to in
dorse and sustain it,
To indorse and sustain the various poll
tical rings is the whole extent, practically
of the political privileges of the people of
the United States. The fact is abominable
and shameful, but it is fact (which no.
body can deny" 1t humiliqtes one to
.,l.. IL
very rarely is any man nominated for high
Office who is so much above reproach and
so manilestly the choice of the people that
his sworn supporters do not feel compelled
TO sustain him by lies and romances and
all sorts of humbuggery. The people are
treated like children. Songs are made for
them to sing. Their eyes are dazzled with
banners and professions, and every possi-
BILE effort is made to induce them to be-
lieve that the candidate is precisely what
ho is not and never was-the candidate of
the people. Our candidates are all the can
didates of the politicians, and never those
of the people. Our choice is a choice be-
tween evils, and 10 this we are forced. Sec
ond and third-rate men, dangerous men,
men devoured by the greed for power and
place, men without experience in states
manshlp, men who have made their pri-
vale pledges of consideration for services
promised, men who have selected them
selves, or who have been selected entirely
because they can be used, are placed before
us Tor our sufirages, and we are compelled
to choice between them. Thus, year after
year, doing the best we seem to be able to
do, we are used in the interest of men and
cliqnes who have no interest to serve but
their own.
Ana all TINS IN the lace OF the patent
truth that an once seeker Is, by the very
vice oil MS nature, character ana position,
,he man VINO ought 10 oe a'oiueu anu
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nonrI,r rosnoc, ,y,,ich a Iiro ~ ,,or,t,,, In
hor NAV have won and hrords tin, no.
man or vrI,or instinct, o,,d vel, o,,,,,,
for wo p,orvoI q, ,,,o oorr,,,,,o,,, ,,aI,
tics but wbv sbonld ,vo norvoI9 II - tho
office seekers who ore in ofice II tho
mon who have sold tbeir manhood for
power that we have assisted 10 nlace there
obeyinp the commands or Welding TO tbe
wishes of our nolitical leaders II ;sno-
torious that our hest men are NOT in noli-
tics. and cannot he ipduced to epter the
fold and tbot orr noli,;o,l rou.ards ora
bonors are bestowed unon those who ,ro
base enouob to ask for them
few of tbo great mo-, ,C tbo r,tion
have. duriup tbo last thirty wars y;oldod
to tbat which was n,e,pos, in ,ho,, anil
como soekers for tho anaust of,ico -, ,,o
nresidoncv Now to yish for = hin,, ,,,,oo
of mower and nsof,Iness is a wor,h,, 81
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those Gins and that culture which ocoords
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y, '"'n'' nav eo',o o"' 'U'n 'n' 'iu'''osS
Vn"se WV" s"I'"e"'s oi"ss,eu' anu rePu'"-
tio' u"in"seu, "nu 'ne 'esso" VI great
''io-'Neu ia''niu'iS o"' "Pon "s own
p'a"e-'oro'er spo''eu' now Huch more
purely would inc names oil "eoster' ana
Clay, and Cass shlne to-day had they never
sought for the highest l''Hco OF power and
NO" INSANE are 'hose great men now iiVlhs
VINO insist o" repeating 'helr mistakes IL
wou'u DC unsracious 10 wri'e the names oi
'nese' anu 1t Is s"u rehec''o', tnat II Is moi
necessary Ihey Use as quickly 10 MIN