If public officials were dependent upon citizens for official position and its rewards, their personal interests would coincide with those of people at large--at least of industrious and property-owning persons.
Dewey emphasizes the alignment of public officials' interests with those of the citizens they serve.
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Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.
In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.
There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.
In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.