Our Political Degradation Being Several Short Essays Setting Forth Certain Fact
The book Our Political Degradation Being Several Short Essays Setting Forth Certain Fact was written by author Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher), 1831-1920 Here you can read free online of Our Political Degradation Being Several Short Essays Setting Forth Certain Fact book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Our Political Degradation Being Several Short Essays Setting Forth Certain Fact a good or bad book?
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" If, after careful exami- nation, his spinal column is found to consist of a material out of which a jelly fish might be made, he is permitted to receive some sort of a nomination. Sometimes he is elected, but whether he is or not, the quantity of financial blood drawn is about the same. If elected he has but one course to pursue ; he must turn demagogue if he would succeed, and abjectly, without question, do the bidding of his immediate "Boss. " Otherwise his political life will be short and ...his official end- ing unsatisfactory and inglorious. Often these recruits from the ranks of private life make themselves so willingly useful, that they are not only re-elected but promoted. 128 OUK POLITICAL DEGRADATION There have been several notable instances of success among this class. Generally the staying in or going out of office, of the person of the layman class, who cares for honors and not spoils, turns upon the question of promotion. If he makes himself very useful to the immediate "Boss, " and is willing to remain upon the plane stepped upon when he entered the political arena he may stay; but if he is ambitious and demands promotion, which to his " Boss " may seem unreasonable, he is without the least hesitation ejected from the hive of party workers never again to taste the honied sweets of office.
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