Show INDEPENDENT VOTING Secretary Ser Shaw SI IB Is very much exer eer e e d over the increasing tendency of the he American A merIen voter to cast est his ballot balot exactly as a he pleases regardless of party PE lines Une Tile The secretary declares delares to be a prominent even een a paramount evil e U He says he does not make this assertion merely for party purposes All AU he wants is loyalty to party principles when the voter be believes those principles to be sound sund In Independents Independents dependents Secretary Shaw Shw says are merely individuals who vho wh see e nothing In political parties pate but the personality of f the fhe candidates who vote vole according to the instinct of or the hour instead of according accor to t the principles of or a lifo life lifetime time This ThI Is hardly a fair statement of ot the theras theas ras faS as if Ie there tere were no voters th Ue there re would never be a change changet of If t government It I would never be possible to vote out of ot office the cor corrupt corrupt corrupt rupt rings that occasionally get into control Philadelphia and ad Pennsylva Pennsylvania nia ni would today be in the hands of ot the te political polUca brigands who controlled them thorn for years If It the Independent not come to the rescue Boss Cox and his gang gang Would be In control of Ohio and of Cincinnati Cincinnat Other In Instances Instance Instances stances stance could be cited It I is a a well wol settled fact that an oc occasional cai on nl change of or administration is beneficial to city cit state or nation naton When Wen men have h ve been In office a long time they hey t to regard themselves as mas masters ma masters rather than hap servants s of the peo people people pie They Th y rore roma como to believe beleve that they can o as they like with the public t I funds and they frequently convert them the theto to ta to their own use or to the uses of their friends Independence in local elections has been the salvation of many may a state and many a city The theory that hat a Republican must vote for his hi parts candidate for may mayor mayor mayor or because that candidate believes beleve in a protective tariff or for his candidate for tor county clerk because that candidate believes in retaining the Philippines as asa asa asa a colony has ha long since been exploded Mayors and county clerks s have mighty little to do generall generl speaking with wIt framing national politics The Te Herald Herld believes that In national elections i party pary lines nes should shoula be closely drawn The voter who believes in Democratic principles can afford aford to disregard par providing his party nomi nominees nominee ness nees nee are honest and clean and they the nearly always are But certainly no Republican who finds more principles he likes In the Demo Democratic Democratic cratic than In the Republican plat platform platform form for has any ay business voting the te Re Republican Republican publican ticket Every Ever man ma must be conceded concede the privilege of voting accord according accordIng ing lug to the te dictates of his own con conscience conscIence conscience science regardless of party whips |