BOSSISM • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Bossism

... officialism"—a helpless subordination—in which "the individual if not an officer would only count one!" We cannot appreciate the horror of having more of "a paradise" about officialism than we have in our present corrupt, inconstant, and servile system of political Bossism, even if the individual could only "count one." But Mr. Savage does know, or ought to know, that the very first step of Nationalism is to nationalize our "politics," so as to restore the initiative of political action to the people, and render the abuses to which he refers ...

— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 • Various