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Show VOTERS FORMING A GOOD HABIT Independent Action Is Commended. Tendency for Better Things in Municipal Government. Gov-ernment. National Leagme Views With Satisfaction Satis-faction Evidence of Interest by Citizens. NEW YORK. April 36. The eleventh annual meeting of the National Municipal league ond the twelfth national conference confer-ence for good city government began today to-day In thla city and will continue until Friday night "A Tear of Municipal Advances" was the title of a n-port read b Clifton Rogers Woodruff of Philadelphia, secretary secre-tary of the league, who suld In pari Hubit of Independent Voting. 'Thi; elections of tho past year abundantly abun-dantly d. -mot. si rate- that Mr lirvc-e s most i...i.i Impression that the munlcipu! citizens citi-zens of the country are forming good habits In the matter of Independent voting vot-ing is well founded The American voter ls forming the habit of .IN. rlmlnatlon In tho niutte-r of n, a ,tnd . v.-n State offices nnd h Is Warning to .-yorclne hi? suffrnc;. Independent m r.art lines The rnsi striking Instances were tho election In Chicago of .Ind-o Dunne and the success of tho Democratic Auditor In Cleveland "The year has not hc-en wanting In munii Ipal scandals, but the reassuring feature Of the situation is that theso scandals hai In ITianv Instance,, ),f.cn followed fol-lowed by exposure and punishment of those responsibh for them." Some Notable Examples. The administration of Mayor MoClel-lnn MoClel-lnn wax desei-lhed as bi-ing the uSt Tammany Tam-many or partisan administration New York ever had Th. -work of the Municipal Munici-pal league of Philadelphia, which adjourned ad-journed after providing for the organization organi-zation of ii committee of sevontj, was d's.ribed at length, o.s w.im the administration adminis-tration of Mayor McCorailcb ol tlarrls-burg tlarrls-burg which was pr .noun. e(j .-xcell. nt The Significance of President Kooso-velt's Kooso-velt's declarations In his last annual men-Mge men-Mge was discussed. Mayor Johnson was commended for his consistent upholding of tho merli system hi wat.-r poll. and nr.- ,, . artmouts ( i els nd Chicago n Laboratory of Reform. Chlcngo was deserlberl ns a municipal laboratory when in are he! rig worked out eomo of the mo6t Important and far-reachlng far-reachlng municipal problerris, Tin election elec-tion of Roll. i W'.-lls as Mayor of St I.c,u- Wiih described as n deserved Indorsement of his honest administration The interesting inter-esting experiment being carried on in Galveston, to manage its affairs through the committee of five was described, de-scribed, n- Well nt the work ,,f the S i n Francisco Merchants' association In be-Half be-Half of d.-rent government in thm community. com-munity. The SUCOeSSful use of the re. all in Los Angeles wax also described In di tall. Tendency in Riht Direction "The encouraging feature Is " said Mr v lruff. In conclusion, "thai the ten-dent ten-dent y Is In the right direction, toward to-ward broader nnd deeper interest toward to-ward larger understanding, toward -i recognition of responsibility on the part of tie citizen: toward hetterment In the highest and best sense The following officer o: elected-rrealdent, elected-rrealdent, Charles J. Bonapart," Baltl- y more, secretary, Clinton n Woodruff, Philadelphia; treasurer. George Burnham! Jr . Philadelphia. Among those on thn e.-. utlvo commltteo Is Frank J Symms of San Francisco |