Crossword-Solution: OFFICEHOLDER 12 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 24

The Cits held office only a couple of years and, knowin' that they would never be in again, each Cit officeholder held on for dear life to every dollar that came his way.

This was natural in the initial stage of the Revolution, when class lines had not had time to reveal themselves, when the aspirations of the so-called united revolutionary front found expression in the diffuse program of a party that was ready to welcome equally the workingman who feared to break away from the peasant; the peasant who was seeking land and liberty; the intellectual attempting to guide both of them; the chinovnik (officeholder) endeavoring to adjust himself to the new regime.

The past exploits of the party are appropriated for future campaigns; conversely, the failure or misbehavior of an officeholder will be pointed out by his political enemies as typical of the party to which the unfortunate man belongs.

The ballot which goes to the people contains, in brief, the objections to the official, and, in some states, also the reply of the accused officeholder.

Douglas was for most of his life an officeholder, so that in one way or another Lincoln would be brought into association with him.