| Show NO MARKED candidates this paper has had bad occasion in the past to criticize the action of certain public who having accepted nomination to office and having goi e through the campaign successfully and been elected have then turned round wind and resigned because as they claim their personal pera Derso onal fial business or profit re quiren that they be freed from the obligations ligat ions of public office it is not necessary here to go over the ground previously traversed in discussing thle this proceeding enough will be said when we assert that not one word caf that criticism is intended now to be withdrawn or to la believed to have been a bit too severe but a certain phase of a very similar question may properly receive con sidera tiou and comment at this time when nominations to office have just been or are about to be presented before the people we take it that no wan man will be knowingly given a nomination whom the conventions or the people have reason to expect contemplates contemplate sending la in bis big resignation before the term of his big office expires we imagine the party managers as a well as an the voters have bad about as much of that kind of treatment so as they are anxious to receive if so they ought to go a stop step still further and demand not only that each nominee shall hall not resign but bat also that if elected he shall perform the duties of the office in other words they should insist that he agree to be some thing more than a figurehead figure head deputies and assistants be may necessarily have to appoint but his constituents have a right to ask that he give to the office to which be reeks peeks election his hie own time attention and direct personal supervision we make these remarks because of expressions frequently heard beard to we the effect that such and such a candidate is willing to help big party ticket along by permitting the use oj his influential name but that his own own fullness is so important and profitable that he could never think of giving it up to attend to the public duties suggested that if elected he be will turn over all the latter to some certain friend or understudy sor this friend is comparatively unknown or without influence hence would be unsuitable as an a candidate belore before the people be is a cheaper man stid aud is willing to do the work for less than the nominal incumbent of the office is entitled to draw iu iti which event the latter gets a share of the pay for doing nothing except having permitted the use of his bis mighty name in either or any ones however we submit that the people have been imposed upon and deceived not dot because me abe work may not cot be done just fust as am well and perhaps better than expected but because the one who performs it was not chosen by them to do it but to is the private appointee of the man of their choice who on his bin own part does nothing lor for them we have said that the extensive duties dutle alaid laid upon many of the public officers require that they should have assistants or deputies this is ie all perfectly understood but it to la a good time now to refuse to support and in deed to strike off from the ticket the name of any man no matter how bow high bis big qualifications or how great his bis pop flarity ul arity who announces announce a in advance that it elected be does not expect to occupy the position more than nomi bally A candidate who announces that he be has bag already selected the actual incumbent of his bis office is ia one who ought to be defeated if only by the substitution of the proposed incur bent on the ticket which the people are to vote men are generally named for office and in independent voting oommen ties generally elected for no other reason than that they are known to have fitness and ability it la Is not only unfair to their supporters eup portera but a piece of gross impertinence as well as a serious risk of injustice to tc themselves to trade ution this deputa tion ion and capacity by hoisting some one else elee into a place to which he wag waa not regularly elected in the he important county and state elections now coming on it in ia only right that the people should know whether in voting their regular ballots they are supporting men who will assume and perform the duties required or whether in supporting some som parts of the ticket they are really voting into office masked and unknown place holders whose names neither the nominating conventions convent loas nor they have been asked to on 0 insider inelder elder |
