Show Reforming City Governments The spirit of party reorganization is I abroad in the city as well as in the state I would be better if the spirit of change and reform were active in I 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 ib I 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 i deeds and of its elevation of bad men to offices ces of public trust have rather stimulated stim-ulated 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 I over-turning of the bosses and the destruction Weekly destruc-tion of predatory rings Harpers |