Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-05-18
THE GUSHING PROCESS.

We still fail to see any consistency
in the policy of ousting a good and
tried man out of Office, as is being
tried in the case of Congressman Has
kins, for the sake Of satisfying the
ambitions of some other man, no
matter how popular he may be. The
act seems unwarranted. 1t is harmful
to the state, disrespectful to the man
in Office, and wholly out of harmony
with the ethics of true politics. Not
one rational argument can be advanced
in it's favor. There is littleness
about it that almost savors of con-
tempt. That cracked slogan, HE has
had the Office long enough-glve
another man a chance" is as frail as
the holes in rusted out skinner.
Common sense teaches us there is no
argument in such statement. The
adoption of the plan robs man OF
the rewards of the faithfulness to office.
1t is death to promotion. 1t produces
a retrograding effect sets the man
back who should be advanced; handi-
caps him, and gives the wisdom OF
politics a kind of black eye. Politi-
clans cannot see this, or will they see
it. because all are looking for place.
But the conservative voter should see
it, and, with the freedom OF vote which
is his indisputable right, should stand
bv the man whom he has already
upheld, and against whom no crltl-
cism can be found.
We do not slur the ambitions Of the
Hon. Frank Plumley for aspiring to
congressional honors. provided Colonel
Haskins of his own account withdraws
from the field. But we do denounce
the ambition that tends to GUST good
man out of office for the sake of
crowding another in. Neither can we
see how any rational voter, not preJu-
diced or bound by family ties, can be
influenced by such course.
Congressman Haskins as yet may
not have reached the high standard or
pinnacle of other congressman before
him. He may not be without minutes
imal faults like all men. Nevertheless
he has been of sufficient calibre to be
reelected to the office of congressman
several times. has continued to I'M
prove in the service, and is certainly
better qualified than any green hand
to continue in it. All efforts to
discredit his work have fallen as flat
as a modern aeroplane attempting to
fly. Every voter must see this because
his record of eight years stands out IN
an unclouded light. 1t is like picture
upon canvas, clear and defined, and
of such a superior character that all
criticism against it falls to the ground.
This being the case, why should he
be ousted out of his office for the sake
of new and untried man.? Wherein
will it improve public affairs? How
will it benefit the state or the nation
at large? What can it do but crafty
the ambition of one man and his coterie
of followers. These ambitions should
not be the governor by which the
trolled. A deeper, underlying sense
of honor, conservative thought, of bust
ness principles should rest behind it.
Always places are opening to admit
intelligent and ambitious men without
soiling the way with the sullied marks
of usurpation. To GUST Haskins out
for the sake of putting Plumley in does
SAVIOR of usurpation. and the voters
of Vermont cannot fail but see it in
this light.
We stand by Haskins because he has
He is neither senile nor superan-
nuated adverse to labor or unfit;
lacking in intelligence or a Simple
figurehead in his place. The congress
sional or senatorial Offices are not
honorary ones wherein figureheads
can be introduced and snapped around
without deleterious effects. It needs
powerful magnets to knit and hold the
nation together. Men of intellect, of
power, of practical knowledge of
service, of all the essentials that go
to the making of leaders in public
affairs. When such men have been
introduced and have worked themselves
up to the point of par excellence, or,
in other words, so they are really
useful in their sphere, they should not
be retired without some cause more
justifable than the mere fact that it is
to satisfy the ambitions of another
man. Express & Standard.
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