The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-08-14

Every Live American Ensitlsd 20 Ne =
Partisan

Every Live American Entitled 20 Ne
Partisan
The masses Of the American people do not
want once. They prefer 20 be farmers. NOR
chants. lawyers. editors. mechanics OF follow
ers Of almost any other honest vocation 20
holding once. Nor do they care whether
their postmaster fs Republican or Demo
GRAFT hut they do want and mean 70 have
the spoils system. with MI IL rascality. It's
diversions OF oficial energy into partisan
channels. it, periodical overturning OF busi-
ness. its dcmoralizing influence on the civil
services OF the country. swept way -Rochesfer
Herald.
The masses Of the American people
do want Office. The average man
wants it for himself. or IL not for himself
for his brother. his cousin or his uncle.
He certainly does not object to Office
and to possession of the influence that
Office controls. He has rs much right
to Office and its duties and its influence
and IT, salary n anybody else. unice
was created for his benefit But for his
interest in Office. little and big not
necessarily for the sake Of the emolu-
ments OF Office, but perhaps for the rea-
son that he can hold office well and for
the benefit OF his fellow-citizcns he
would lose the interest in politics which
u the groundwork of this system Of
Government We are political peo-
pie. and when the people become indif-
ferent to politics il will DC time
to change the system and adopt
the old proposition that the few
are capable to Gil Office and the
many are not It follows naturally
that they do care whether their post
master Is Republican or Democrat
Every live American Is a partisan. as
he should be. Every man proposes that
bis party shall get all that belongs to
it. Let Us even admit II is due to party
organization that this should be the
case--for the fact that q man IL an Of
ficc-holder ought not to make him a
political or any other kind Of monde
script: but, beyond that. II Is due 10 the
personal qualification Of the partisan
whose principles have won in = fair con-
test. II does not follow, Of course. that
the Office will be badly administered
There are just rs good men IN one par
ty as IN the other II Is the tangible evil
dence Of party success which Is the due
OF every voter. and with the idea up
permost that the administration Of the
Office must be honest and able Il would
be exceedingly improper to withhold Il.
! There 10 proportionately as much inter-
est in the small post-oflice Is In the
larger one and in the still greater
Office, and IL will be sorry day for
this country when that interest ceases.
Beyond this. il Is honorable to be a
partisan or politician; and. melan
choly as il may be to the believer in .
| political millennium. il u just that the
party which wins should assume The
financial reward as well as the partisan
glory.
What does our esteemed contcm.
porary mean by 1.-The spoils SYSTEM
II We admit that office-holding \
spoils-holding we adopt term that L
meant to BE- Objectionable. and argue
that ofiice-holding, or perhaps w
should say Office getting, Is bad. Well
II il Is bad for one partisan Il IS bat
for another partisan. Are we to adop
the proposition that ofiicc-kecping i
honorable and oilice-gctting i not
u there not. moreover. as much rascal
ity in the effort 70 keep In rs In the 81
fort to get In. and Is it not ~ hard Z
circumvcnt the one ~ 70 destroy IN
other? The Rochester Herald woul'