Show Reforming City Governments The spirit of party reorganization is abroad in the city as well as in the state I would be better if the spirit of change and reform were active in every municipality in the country for all municipal government in this country coun-try is bad The system is wrong and no permanent reform can be accomplished accom-plished until the politics of cities is divorced from the politics of the nation na-tion New York ought to take the lead in this work of municipal reform I is the largest municipality in the country coun-try and it is the city to which all other municipalities naturally look for a warning or an example Thus far it is true its government and its governors gov-ernors have generally illustrated the worst features of city administration but the consequences of its ill deeds and of its elevation of bad men to offices ces of public trust have rather stim pubJc lated the ambitious and sharpened the cunning of bad men in other cities than inspired good men with the zealand zeal-and enthusiasm necessary to the overturning over-turning of the bosses and the destruction Weekly destruc-tion of predatory ringsHarpers |