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Bradley Talcott, a young Midwestern farmer, leaves humble beginnings to pursue schooling and a political career amid the Grange, Alliance, and populist ferment of his region. The story traces his ascent from local activism to congressional life, showing how patronage, party machines, and the compromises of office shape his ideals and relationships. Scenes move from prairie picnics and schoolroom struggles to conventions and the capital, and the personal costs of ambition culminate in a moral reckoning that suggests a return to principled public engagement and renewed personal purpose.

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Transcriber's Notes


Introduction

Welcome to Project Gutenberg's edition of A Spoil of Office by Hamlin Garland. A scanned copy of this book is available on Hathitrust courtesy of Cornell University. For background on the themes of this novel, such as the Grange and the People's Party, please see The Agrarian Crusade by Solon Buck, a volume from the Chronicles of America series produced by Yale University in the public domain.

We have made the following emendations to the text:

Contents:

The Chapter Title at the beginning of each chapter should match the chapter title in the table of contents. What likely happened was that the chapter titles were updated, but not the table of contents. In any event, this was the assumption that was made. Therefore, the following chapter titles were emended in the table of contents:
Ch 2: Change oak to oaks in
The dinner under the oaks.
Ch 4: Add Bradley's to
Bradley's Trials at school.
Ch 8: Change attacks to offends in
Bradley offends Nettie's father.
Ch 14: Change his politics to
Bradley changes his political views.
Ch 18: Add quotes to
"Don't blow out the gas."
Ch 30: Change The great round-up at Chiquita to
The great round up.
Ch 32: Remove Washington again from
Conclusion.


Chapter 1

Page 10: In the paragraph beginning with You may talk about legislative corruption, these are several double quotes inside of double quotes. These were changed to single quotes, just like a similarly-structured paragraph on page 61:

  • "Now you're getting at it,"
  • "That's right,"
  • "That's a fact."


Chapter 5

Page 61: Remove double quote after ('Oh, go roam the wild wood.')


Chapter 7:

Page 88: The call has a lead quote in the body of the message and no ending quote. One way to resolve is to use quotes similar to the way Ida's first letter to Bradley is presented, on Page 157. Another way is to remove the leading quote and present the letter like Bradley's letter to Ida on Page 308. The latter solution seemed like the way to go.

Page 88: Change All the samee to All the same.

Page 90: Change to Contrary minds, "No! It's a vote." The speaker is contrary minds, and what is spoken is surrounded by matched quotes. The original text had a single quote instead of a double quote before No, and did not have a comma.


Chapter 10:

Page 111: Add missing period after career.


Chapter 15:

Page 170: Change period to question mark in How's Mrs. Brown. In the short story Lucretia Burns from Prarie Folks and Other Main Traveled Roads, Garland wrote How is Mrs. Burns! where a question mark seemed appropriate. When the short story first appeared in the earlier edition of Prarie Folks, there was a question mark after Burns. Garland changed the punctuation for the later release of Prarie Folks. The implication is that the tone of the speaker may override what is said in determining the punctuation. Or maybe Garland just made an error, both there and here. We treated the period on Page 170 as errata and changed the text.


Chapter 16:

Page 189: Text has a space between campaign 'll, and this was retained.

Page 194: Change or to of in and the question or reducing the surplus in the treasury.

Page 194: there is space for an apostrophe between we ll in the sentence If he does, all is we ll have to build a party up to his principle, for he'll be right, Colonel; there's no two ways about that. We put in the apostrophe.


Chapter 21:

Page 245: Remove closing quote after replied in "... Paris," she replied.


Chapter 24:

Page 278: Change your're to you're in And so your're a congressman, Talcott?


Chapter 28:

Page 322: Text has a space between Lord 'll, and this was retained.