Show I THE INDEPENDENT VOTER Editor Tribune In your issue of Sun TrluneIn editorial day you havo a bright and sneering tonal on the Independent Voter which from tho view P olnt of a political newspaper news-paper exulting over 3 party victory la not only opportune but entirely Justifiable foe tho Independent Voter scorns to hove cut very little flgurq in the lato election But from tho view point of n common citizenwho IH neither an oflJco holder nbt office sepkcr and whpBo only concern Is that ootl 1 and cajiablejncn fchtfll moire and administer the laws that Justice I shall bo dona that taxes shall bo iMiuiiUy adjusted and no higher than necessary nec-essary and that tho public money < hll 1 bo economically and honesty expended bQecondr1Ic l that the Is U a subject congratulation thut Independent 0 voter his a right to bo dlE courn < red al tho result of thoelection cOIr the Independent voteru Nut Die I politician who kicks J and raises n row for poltician uelllsh pUrpoHcs bccauHo things did not Dellah ho waiftpa thorn loin his party CRIUUIK or corivontlon butthj olio whoso vote on election day represents Jib nearly us It lon his own wish and Judgment I his ment Tt can never quite represent Wish 11 I Jmlcment for the voter 13 rc Htrlctctt to tho candidate tho partisan RtrlctCl C conventions have given him to select from lC lotho policies they represent If then wore more of him and If he won moro Insistent In voting only for such I executive offices us he bHIovitl most nearly 1 near-ly OrCCH tho places and for outh I representative offices us rost > nearly rep rcplestltalo oCc rc3nt hlsvlcwa he would soon have bet Ir material to select from For political imrtlcg nominal candidates to bo elected and If they found that Roodmen ran hotter hot-ter than had they would make an eFfort te to nominate that kind And again good and taoible men would not be so reluctant reluc-tant to become candidates If their Lt5O eiuics on the tickets were equally rcspect abk More power to the I Independent votftr say L lie Is I our best hope for improve political conditions Tho preatcst curso oC our polities Is thtj fuel that the majority lJolLes Is I of electors voto the ticket ns It printed electrs Vhloh means that they do not vote their oun judgment or wish at all but only that of the particular clique of their particular party which controlled UK convention that made tho llckot In your editorial you pay Tho hspon of It OUt seems to be that men can do more good by l11 fighting for reform within than without the regular laY Hut id 1 successfully light for reforms But the regular parties tho lighter must wihin at least men IKJ an Independent voter or ICsCncn tally and morally capable of becoming one rho regular party machines do not care for reforms What they want hi l votes and oClh 01 reorsWlmt brl about reforms In the parts the fighter for them must be able to show tho mmuKorrf that morovvotes and offices can be hud by supporting than bv opposing or Ignoring them io do tiint he must convince tho managers that ho and hh kind will hucoms Independent voters If the reforms are not advocated Ol else cominco them that there aro enough hotter citizens than ho that Is fnouRh Independent vjtcrs either In or flU of tho party whose Influence will be trained or lost by i advocating or Ignoring reforms to change tho result of the alec Uon Our practical politicians are C bad lot and politics Is 0 poor trade Candidates arc now nominated because they and their friends want them to have the Job and without reference to qualification They oxroct to be pulled through if the party wins and generally arc Our offices arc Jlllod by men who would never bo selected se-lected by business men for tho places ant this Is largely so I bellcvov because the mass of electors voto the ticket straIghL To be Americans with American ways Is not to bo subservient In anything but politics but for seme reason or other where a political ticket has tho regular poltlcl label on It tho average American who belongs to that party seems to think ho Is in duty bound to swallow It If l it does taste bad If ho could bo mndo to sec that his duty Is I to bo as Independent In political lut would be matters as In others 1 think ho a better American with better American belel B There arc two mistakes In the foregoing fore-going The first Is in assuming that tho politicians are n bad lot the second that the way to cure wrongs Is to get out and shout about them after nominations nomi-nations are made We saw two striking strik-ing examples in the lote campaign Carl Schurz and Bourke Cockran They were disgruntled but what remedy did they propose Why to vote for a man whom four years ago they both denounced de-nounced as dangerous The truth Is that when 0 law that has been proved to be bad Is on the statute books the proper course Is not to Ignore and disobey It but rather to obey while working for Its amendment or 1 t repeal oo me ngiiL timing is iu mvvrc for reforms within rather than without 1 with-out r party The truth of this has been shown bythe results of the past I twentyfive years The strong men who have been Independents have been I once or twice strong enough to make n balance of power and to dictate the President I was so in 1SS1 What did they accomplish The good Independent Is the one who works before and at the primaries and Insists that only good men i shall be nominated f There iswhere the work counts m11 not the protests that fill the air after nominations are made nc nlons |