The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-11-26
Office Seekers.

There are some men who believe that
the highest object for which political
party was created was to give them an
office for the term of their natural lives.
If party fails in this, its mission is end
ed, and a regiment of disappointed ONCE
seekers offer themselves as pioneers IN
an independent party movement. Every
wear we have fresh batch OF these pa
triotic gentlemen. They are willing to
suffer for any new party that can give
them fat offices They are willing to
make an affidavit that they are compe-
tent to fill any office from that of Presl-
dent down. They agree to serve i'll Con-
gress, or would take a Cabinet position,
or even a foreign mission if the party can
do no better by them. For the past
twelve years the Republican party has
been afflicted with these self-constituted
and natural born office-hunters. They
have swarmed around the party wigwam
like flies around a sugar-hogshead, and
to brush them away is to lmperil the
party by driving them out of its ranks
But their absence has not been noticed.
They depart, and are followed by others
who buzz for a season, and, like the hrst,
take their flight when the sweets Of Office
are denied them. So it would be to the
end We shall have our annual deser-
tions of men who think themselves ag-
grieved because the people or the ap-
pointing power fail to recognize their pc
culiar fitness for the high offices to which
they aspire. But the party lives on; its
offices find good men to fill them, and
the places made vacant are filled by 9TH
ers who join the standard of Republican
ism, not to obtain its offices, but to sus-
tain its glorious principles Look over
the field of political aspirants who to day
are clamoring for a new party movement
Aside from those of Democratic faith
who have opposed the Republican party
on general principles and purely party
grounds, who are they? Disappointed
menl Chronic office-seekers who have
failed to sharpen their axes at the Re-
publican grindstone! Tley know that
the party has Weighed them and found
them wanting, and now they labor for
its overthrow in the vain hope of secur-
ing from its ruins the coveted offices de-
MED them in the temple itself. We trust
the time will never come when men, no
matter how high their standing or potent
their influence. shall be kept within the
party by promise or gift of office. If
their attachment to the party is simply a
desire to fill its offices. the sooner they
leave the better Their presence can
give no strength-their departure will
relieve US of burden.
We hold the Republican party to be
the peoples organization for the purpose
of securing good government and an
honest administration of affairs. When
an office is to be filled, either by election
or appointment, the people have a right
to demand the best selection possible for
the place. If men have the merit and
the people desire their services they will
call them to the front. To seek an office
and claim it as right should be regard
ed as the best evidence that the appli-
cant is untitled to hold it. Let the Re.
publicans everywhere bestow the offices
within their gift on the very best men
who will accept them, and we shall have
a party that no combination can break
up, party that will stand through years
to come, as it has through an eventful
past, the true exponent of the popular
will, the acknowledged defense of con
stitutional liberty.