Show r I CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES The officehunters and place seekeis are flocking to Washington ia hordes all in the hope of getting some of the positions that Congress will fill next month The Senate being Republican and the House Democratic the applicants are from both parties while there is a sprinkling of Mahoneites who hope through the influence of their chief apostle to pick up some of the crumbs Greenbackers do not appear ap-pear to any appreciable extent that party having practically gone out of existence holding neither a balance of power nor a balance of good sense Already on the lists there are said to be more than a score of applicants ap-plicants for every place to be filled and each one has greater or less claim upon the party or some alleged influential member of it It will thus be seen that more than nineteen twentieths of these poor I fellows will be disappointed and be out whatever money it has cost them to go to the capital and solicit Congressional alms It strikes us that about the worst investment that a sane fullgrown man can make of his time money and brains is to seek office in Washington Very few of the places are really worth striving for and after one gets an office there is no certainty of retaining it for if an influential person should happen to desire it for somebody else the first fellow will be kicked out Threatened starva tion might excuse a man for applying apply-ing for an office but in a country where a man can earn a geod living by honest labor and be independent of politicians he had better stay at home with the certainty and freedom free-dom In this connection it may be stated that THE HERALD probably with every other newspaper in the country Las been asked two or three timas to say a good word for one Charles P Button who is an applicant for the position of Sergeant Ser-geant atarms of the House of Representatives From a sheet of extracts that Mr Button kindly forwards it appears that he has visited not less than half a hundred newspaper offices in Pennsylvania Indiana Michigan New Jersey Missouri Wisconsin Tennessee Ohio Illinois Georgia New York Alabama South Carolina and Iowa and informed the editors that he is a distinguished visitor cousin and private secretary of the late Stephen A Douglas a prominent prom-inent Democrat of ability and courage an old and experienced campaigner afire a-fire specimen of the American gentleman gen-tleman one of the editorial fraternity fra-ternity a good organizer and a good many other things too numerous numer-ous to mention Whatever the gentlemans canvass may have been among Congressmen it seems to have been thorough with the newspapers news-papers which proves that Mr Button But-ton knows where to apply for assistance Now THE HERALD has no vote in Congress and as it didnt elect any Representative we fear that nothing we can say or do in behalf be-half of Mr Button will avail him much If it will do him any gool we can repeat what some of the newspapers have said concerning concern-ing him Here is an extract taken at random from columns similar intone in-tone J He is a gentleman splendid presence possessing a great knowledge of national affairs and should his methods be adopted by the mangers of the next Presidential campaign great results mutt follow All we know of the gentleman personally is that he enjoys a name suggestive of domesticity and usefulness use-fulness We know of no reason why he would not make a capable sergeant atarms though it strikes us that a person of such superior abilities eminent connections and grand record is entirely too modest in seeking only the honor of carrying carry-ing the mace when there are sen atorships that will be vacant and a White House that must be occupied However if his ambition soars no higher he can use THE HERALD endorsement for whatever he deems it worth and when John G Thompson Thomp-son is chosen Speaker Mr Button I will not have it to say that his own I failure was due to the lack of our support |