...corner of the world kept many a man from his duty by the credence it has won for the preposterous notion that the office should seek the man, and not the man the office. This notion was for some time common, and can hardly yet be said to be uncommon, in the northeastern...

...power of his fellow citizens. However, he belongs to that rapidly diminishing class of men who believe that the office should seek the man and not the man the office, and aside from his service as public prosecutor he has not cared to accept political preferment. However,...

...right men to execute ; and that the right men are usually more surely found by observance of the maxim: "The office should seek the man, and not the man the office." The policy as to quarantining houses, in case yellow fever should ever again appear, should be very...

...present system, the fit candidate is not attracted to the ticket. The law is destructive to the idea "that the office should seek the man, and not the man the office." It has never been an easy task to persuade fit men to run for office. Under the primary system, it...

...subject themselves to the campaigns of newspaper abuse that the law apparently encourages. The old adage that the office should seek the man and not the man the office seems discarded by the primary law. In general it may be said that while the law does not accomplish...

...mentioned for the position." Adams' anonymous letter followed. It opened by noting that the oft-stated rule that "the office should seek the man and not the man the office" was sound but had not been observed much in recent years. The rule implied, the author said, that the...

...apt to show no higher standards than did the men they usually denounced. One of their shibboleths was that the office should seek the man and not the man the office. This is entirely true of certain offices at certain times. It is entirely untrue when the circumstances...

...and see that none but competent, faithful and honest men,' who will unflinchingly stand by the public interests, are nominated for all positions of trust;...should seek the man, and not the man the office'." While the Grange took no part in Elections it did, in later years, advocate certain political principles...

...that none but competent, faithful, and honest y*ien, \vho will unflinchingly stand by our industrial interests, are nominated for all positions of trust...which should always characterize every Patron, that THK OFFICE SHOULD SEEK THE MAN, AND NOT TIIK MANTUB OFFICE. We acknowledge the broad principle, that...

...see that none but competent, faithful and honest men, who will unflinchingly stand by our industrial interests, are nominated for all positions of trust, and to have carried out the principles which should always characterize every grange member; the ofBce should seek the man, and...