Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1874-09-05

OFFICE SEEKERS, There are
some men who believe that the high
est object for which political par.
ty was created was to give them an
Office for the term of their natural
lives. II u party fails in this, its
mission is ended, and regiment of
disappointed Office. seekers offer them
selves as pioneers in IN independent
party movement. Every year we
have fresh batch of these patriot,
lc gentlemen. They are willing to
suffer for any new party that can
give them fat Offices. They are will,
ing to make an affidavit that they
are competent tC I'LL any Office from
that Of President down. They
agree to serve in Congress, or wonld
take a Cabinet position, or even for
cign mission if the party can do no
better by them. For the past twelve
years the Republican party has been
afflicted with these selt.constitued
and natural born oilice'hunters.-
They have Vvarmed around the par
ty wigwam like flies around sugar
hOgshead, and to brush them away
is to imperil 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 season, and, like the
first, take their flight when the
sweets of Office are denied them.
So it will be to the end. We
shall have our annual assertions of
men who think themselves aggriev.
ed because the people or the APP
pointing power fail to recognize
their peculiar 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
others who join the standard of Re
publicaniSm, not to obtain it's Offices
but to sustain its glorious principles.
Look over the field of political as
pirants who to-day are clamoring
for new party movement.
Aside from those of Democratic
faith who have opposed the Repub-
lican party on general principles
and purely party grounds, who are
they! Disappointed men! Chron-
ic Office seekers who have failed to
sharpen their axes at the Republi
can grindstone! They know that
the party has weighed them and
tOundthem wanting, and now they
laborfor it's overthrow in the vain
hopeof securing from its ruins the
coveted Offices denied 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 Of
flee. If their attachment to the par
ty is simply 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
De the peoples organization for the
purpose of securing good govern
nent and an honest administration
IF affairs. When an office is to be
Tiled, either by election or appoint
nent, the people have right to de-
nand the best selection possible for
he place. If men have the merit
md the people desire their services
hey will call them to the front. 10
eek an office and claim it as a right
should be regarded as the best evil
(ence that the applicant is untitled
% hold it. Let the Republicans
bestow the Offices with
n their gift on the very best men
Who will except them, and we shall
ave a party that no combination
an break up, a party that will
tand through years to come, as it
as through an eventful past, the
rue exponent of the popular will,
he acknowledged defence of consti-
utional liberty .-RepubAc.