| Show NE ESS DR c ORGANIZATION ORG 1 IZ rION BY RICHARD CROKER Organization Ot in politics is just justas as essen essex essential essential tint to the moral m welfare of the ih com corn community community as organization orga on in religion It If there were no political organization there would be no government Anarchy w would uld ensue In an autocratic country where the people have no rights and no voice In iQ Inthe inthe the government there re is no need of polio political political cal organization but bat Q It where there th re Is any thing approaching popular government there ther must of oC necessity be parties and it thoro there are parties prUe there must be funda lunda fundamental mental organization Theorists and a certain certain certaIn tain class of ot newspapers newspaper are perpetually crying out against the organization and leaders lea lS practical man and the truly thoughtful citizen takes no part In Inthis Inthis inthis this clamor He Knows that the organization Is the true representative or the people good or bad as they choose to tomake tomaKe make snake it It And right here let Jet me say there can be no bad organization tor any nay length of time Let it be shown that the organization whether it be Democratic Republican or what you willIs willis will willis is corrupt and It will wm be overthrown so quickly and completely that the most rabid organization man tuna must be satisfied The people are never misled for tor any or Os time And on the other hand they the are not to be fooled into a condemnation condemnation nation of organization by the absurd clamor of theorists nor yet et by the chicanery of or the people on the other side I know of no better illustration of ot this than we have hav had in New York Tam Tammany Tammany many hall hail has been the subject of ot investigation ti atlon and attack from a dozen quay All sorts of efforts clIents were made to prove provo that there was corruption There was a great throwing of dust bu the eyes of the people remained wide open They could see nothing of the bugaboo raised by the opposition and rind by the men and the publications who are against the organization on general gener l principles who want to tear down but have hav nothing bet bot better botter better ter that they can build up Well Vell then in inthe Inthe inthe the face of all this clamor the great body of the people remained cool and critical When election time came the time when the question went before the jury of voters ticket was elected by byan byan byan an overwhelming majority Now that would have been Impossible as absolutely impossible as a flight to the moon If It the organization had been corrupt No poli poll politician politician on earth no set sat of politicians can Influence the great gr at body bod of people on a avital avital vital issue When Such issues rise the people do their own thinking and they do their own voting t all the time A bad or organization organization i n l is certain of ed death and a annihilation l l lation How many organizations that were not truly representative have come and gone in New York rork Those things reg regulate regulate themselves just as certainly as the tides regulate the rise and fall fail of the buoys that mark the shoal places in iii our harbors It is a mere e matter of detail The great i Me Medi di underlying u b principle I t the necessity for or organization organization is not disturbed nor affected by b the coming and going of any particular political no matter what is jS its name Nor Is the principle of true popular representation representation representation affected On the contrary the passing g away of a political body merely mere I proves praves pr ves this principle for It is only when it ceases to be representative that an or organization dies duOs I And as for the leader leadOr lead r he cannot live an hour after he n ceases to be truly representative representative representative after he ceases to act for or the whole body of the people represented by b his or organization Such power as he wields Is dependent entirely on his hl hi representative qualities If a man Is elected or appointed to an ordinary political office his tenure t Is absolute his status fixed He cannot be disturbed no matter what he does as long loner as W he obeys the law and performs the duties of his office But the political leader or boss If f you will in holds by an Intangible power He must represent his people or r they the put v t him out at once Lot t thim him cease to be acceptable to his organization and he ceases cea es to live lIe politically Gladstone was a Beaconsfield was wasa a boss As they represented the desires of their people they remained In power When they no longer ronger represented presented rt public sentiment they went out of power So It Itis Itis itis is with us here Our Olin leaders amount to something just as long longas as they represent the peoples wishes When they dont the people J O kill them off I This being so th political organization and the political leader represent In the i most concentrated form the great nody or people What would become of ot our political cal freedom it we did away with wit party varty organization or HoW would we maintain popular government nt What machinery m could we substitute for our present or organization organization They are tho the foundation of our entire sj The thing for good citizens to do is is to clamor against or organizations but td tO become part of them The scheme Is thoroughly equitable and nd under our primary laws the machinery of the organization may be controlled absolutely absolutely by the people Every good citizen ought to in be a politician Without the politician affairs with us would soon soan de develop Into a woeful condition Chaos would result if dIP the politicians would droo dron out nil all of a sudden Nothing more serious could possibly happen Just im imagine agine If you can the result The starts the tho whole machinery of the franchise Blot out the organization and there thOro would be no primaries no convert conven conventions no nominations no elections The Utopian of when the people are to make their nominations and hold their elections direct without the or organization Is about as remote as any anything anything thing well can be |
