The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-11-11
CINCINNATUS.
The Person Who Made the Discovery That
the Office should Seek the Man.


the Office should Seek the Man.
The first person to inaugurate the
baneful theory that the office should
seek. the man, a theory which has
! caused more unhappiness than any
other ever advanced in the great realm
OF politics, was party called Lucius
Qulntius, or Cincinnatus, because he
wore his hair in eurls. also because he
had at one time resided in Cincinnati.
In the fail of 45S B. c., after long,
dry season and prolonged and futile
bull movement in which Cincinnatus
went forth to summer fallow the west
field, hoping by that process and
judlclous rotation in crops to head of
the chlnch bug and the bears. He was
good deal depressed mentally and
physically. He had been trying 20 break
new pair of wild and fraction 4-year-
old steers, and it had required good
deal OF frmness and perspiration to ac-
complish this. He had not vet fully
succeeded, in fact, for every little while
the steers would light out for tie marsh
at high rate of speed and Cincinnatus
would have to follow them through the
dewberry patch in his bare legs, for
Cincinnatus did not wear pantaloons
winter or summer.
l nave given the reader good view
of Cincinnatus, as remember him, in
the accompanying drawing, which
have made in order that those who wish
may see the features of the most cele-
brated politician of all time. He was
the man who first advanced the doctrine
that the office should seek the man, and
ever since that time it is no uncommon
thing to see man holding on by the
plow-handles and looking over his
| shoulder, expecting that a good office
will climb the fence pretty soon and
kidnap him.
Here, then, is Cincinnatus, the man
who first made this discovery. The
artist has happily caught the expression
of this eminent man just as the office Is
in the act of seeking him. He has re-
solved to sell his life as dearly as pos
sible. He will yield at last, however.
and tear himself away from his preco-
| cious steers.
In the distance too far off in fact to
| work into this issue of the paper, is the
tall pole as flag where he has used
| IL W SlSIt pSiOoo tIC llClo "Hllt Hc
struck out a long furrow To look at
| the furrow few would believe that the
great dictator had intended to strike
out for the flag,
The artist has caught the true idea in
this picture and shows the great states
man and general in the pose of a
thoughtful and philanthropical man who
has fully decided that at the prevailing
price of wheat he would carefully and
prayerfully consider any overtures that
might be made by those having the
good of the people at heart
Cincinnatus was an austere man Of
the patrician style of architecture and
carefully reached his hair, as well as
the tail of his Roman mule. He was
imperious in the extreme and courted an
investigation on whenever the papers
got after him. He was the pioneer in
this line.
The dav came at last when a dark
| horse was needed and the chairman of
| the Roman central committee went to
| CinclnnatuS to seek out the great man.
The chairman is just getting over the
! barbed-wire fence and the eminent Ro-
man agrlculturist has at that moment
| got his eye on him, as our artist rapid
| ly transfers the portrait to canvas.
1t is but the work of a moment to un-
yoke old Brin and Bally and accept the
office of dictator. Putting on his toga,
the great man began to dictate in less
than forty-eight hours. He went to the
house, washed his hands in tin basin
of cistern water, with soft soap, put
some fresh fine-cut in the inside pocket
of his toga, and was drawing a salary
on the following Monday at O'Clock.
The first thing he did was to call for
more troops. He then marched against
the enemy and captured everybody. He
then returned, having been dictator
sixteen days at 81 per day. He drew
his pay and resigned to accept the
portfolio of buckwheater on his own
property.
We have no American to-day who
could accept the command of our regu-
lar army. whip the Apaches, and be
back on the farm in sixteen days.
And yet Cincinnatus conquered a hos
tile nation, paid the public debt, and
| got home in time to do his fall plowing.
If we read the history of Cincinnatus
carefully and look thoughtfullv at his
| equestrian portrait rs it is here present
ed we are forced to admit that he was
either one of the greatest men of whom
we know or that he wrote the matter
! up himself for one of the Roman maya
zlnes.-Bttt Nye, IN Chicago Ne'0S.