The New York Herald

General Taylor and the Office Beggars.-

Now that the election of General Taylor to the Presidency of the United States has been reduced to a certainty, we would not be at all surprised to hear of the numerous hordes of greedy office-seekers who have attached themselves, fungus-like, to the independent masses who nominated and elected the old hero, running down in batches of twos, threes, and dozens, to Baton Rouge, to press their claims for a portion of the spoils. We trust that General Taylor, in answer to their entreaties, will quietly take from his desk the pledges which he gave in regard to removals from office before his election. New York contains many cliques of this description of politicians; and men who have belonged to all political parties in their day, will rush on him, and swear by their beards that, without their support, he would not have been elected. We trust he will turn a deaf ear to their entreaties. This will be an excellent plan to adopt, and it will give them and the rest of their class, to understand that he is determined to carry on the government in the independent manner which he chalked out in the event of his election, and which the people of the country at large expect him to adopt. The conduct of previous administrations in respect to removals from office, has been a disgrace to the country, and has, we are confident, entailed a great deal of injury on the public interests. It is full time that a reform in this particular were effected, and we much mistake General Taylor if he do not apply a corrective.