Show THE VOTERS' VOTERS REVOLT IN N A BIG WAY revolt on the the part art of vot voters rs came onto the American political scene in inthe inthe m the elections of 1932 In a bigger way it was manifest this year from front shore to shore Unmistakably Unmistakably 8 there waS was wa a larger vote cast against t tin in the thc country this year than ever before The people wanted a change They want wanted the ins put out This is a hopeful sign It Itis is hopeful because i it reveals ev als a new political consciousness consciousness par particularly y in city elections Municipal 1 g government govern govern- vern- vern m ment nt has been gO going fr from m bad to worse for a long time Municipal debts have hae grown to toi i mountainous inous pr proportions portions Taxes have be been n increased increased in in- cr creased ased out of all reason and reason and yet schoolteachers school schoolteachers te teachers chers policemen and other public servants have gone without their salaries because purely pure pure- ly 11 political spending received first tion fion on It was the sign of f a growing corruption in il city government It has taken a long time to rouse the electorate to action but this year yea voters o ers waged furious battle with their ballots The most wh wholesome thing about it all is that the revolution was not parti partisan an It was wasa a cleanup campaign De Despite pite Jim F Parleys Farley's personal personal per Bonal ii influence the LaGuardia victory over Tammany was dramatic l I It was not McKee so much who vas was voted against as it was the II misrule of the political ring Pittsburgh Cleve land Bridgeport and Detroit voters effected a turnover while the crashing defeat of the Vare machine in n Philadelphia becomes a political landmark k f p If this signalizes the beginning of sweeping l' l reform form of municipal government the country over over and nd the substitution of business management manage manage- ment for Tor cities instead o of management for the a wholesome change is about to take tako place ce over the entire nation The influence of f this awakening on the part of th the voters is bound to be felt feltin in state and national elections Pa Party ty banners may come to 10 mean less and less and nd men and issues increasingly more |