Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-04-20

The prayers Of the nation seemed to
- surely needed by its president, that
~ may he preserved from the fierce
K s1uslaught of the Office seekers. The
say that he looks worn
&Not, and the editors are recommending
Mn to take rest. But the senators and
Representatives, seeking places for their
{ seonstituents, surround him too closely
~ let him escape. We have a pathetic
tequest for mercy reported to us as ad-
Atlse@sei by him to a representative.
1tnators and representatives appear to
stliink, he says, that he has nothing to do
hut TO fill the Offices but he thinks that
e1here are other duties pertaining to his
high Office, and he seems to consider that
he should know something Of what he is
Going when he makes appointments.
( He Gays !. / do not propose to disre-
nArd the interests Of the party managers,
but that will be attended to In proper
time, but 1t cannot he done within
week, or even month. II il my pur-
pose to secure the hest men for the places
'of trust, and l will examine all their
papers with view 10 that end. IL is,
therefore, 10 the interest of the men
who manage the political affairs Of the
party to bear this in mind. IL II GER
I tainly more agreeable to make selections
nom those whom they recommend, if
they are good people but selected solely
on political considerations, without at
tendant ability TO perform the duties
expected of them-that cannot he"
These are very good sentiments, and
h IL not surprising that a president who
undertakes 10 maintain them against the
greed of this Republican partisan for
Oliice, looks pale and haggard after
1ew weeks struggle with the senators
and representatives, who are the inter-
nlesliaries between the hungry horde
sand the head stable boss.
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, deep
- is his iniquity and long and steady
- has been his experience in Office
hunting and providing, has fed in dis
may from the onset Of his office seeking
\ friends. He declares that they are
crazy.
But they are simply helpless. The
Republican seems to he naturally a
dependent creature, inclined Ia seek
spoinething to hold him up and averse to
undertaking the arduous performance
\ himself He loves the idea Of an office,
where his duties will be light and his
pay regular. There are loads Of people
who would rather beg any day than
work; and that the most Of them are
Republican in their politics can he dem
Onstrated by count, and is shown by the
\ }pFesent experience Of the national exec
stive. There was plenty of pressure Of
such creatures upon Cleveland, hu, it
was light compared with the present
< avalanche.
Ofiice-seekers of the kind who hiss
their representatives on 10 beg place for
them, when they are able bodied to earn
living, cannot he considered a very re-
spectacle or even decent class OF people.
IL they would stop TO think Of what they
are doing, the most of them perhaps
would not do NJ. But when they see an
Office open and other people going for IT,
they fall into the race, thinking they
are as good as anybody, and may as
well have IL ; and that il must he good
or 10 many would not he chasing it.
But the real fact Is that very few offices
ere worth the taking, much less the
seeking and scrambling for, of any man
Of fair ability and stamina. II affords
brief shelter perhaps from the storms of
life and may liz acceptable as resting
place but II offers no reward Of energy
or satisfaction Of independence or
rromise Of permanence. The Office
holder Is about as miserable creature
generally rs the footstool holds and To
miserable creatures the labor of seeking
soiics should be left. The self-respect-
ing, independent, full sized man should
wait for the Office 10 seek him and then
incline to spurn il.