Endorsing the view that a fundamental conflict exists between working people and the “nonproducing” classes of society, we should remove any impediments to the ordinary citizen’s opportunities for economic improvement. The inequalities of wealth and power are the direct result of monopoly, favoritism, and special privileges, which make the rich richer and the powerful more potent. Only free competition in an open marketplace will ensure that wealth will be distributed in accordance with each person’s industry, economy, enterprise, and prudence.
Nowhere is the ideal of openness made more concrete than within the theory of rotation in office,the spoils system.
Performance in public office requires no special intelligence or training, and rotation in office would ensure that the federal government does not develop a class of corrupt civil servants set apart from the people, career poiticians with no real talents or trades other than securing enough votes to keep them in office for the rest of their lives. The spoils system on practical political grounds, is in itself a way to reward party loyalists and build a stronger party organization. To the victor belongs the spoils. The spoils system opened government positions to many but the practice is neither as new nor as democratic as it appears.
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