| Show SSUT1MI Till IlUlLl When the 1I0nrorUnn movement 1 began to crjsta In title city he promote round themselves Carl flouted with to alternatives They mut toke the reronlhlllty ot Iu Ing it call for Irlmarl and a Convention con-vention or they m1 Ink a similar responsibility and I dispense with those t gatherings Which course should they take The question was discussed fully and answered deliberately So far as the right to act wits concerned con-cerned they had I ns good a rlzlit to do one thing ns tln > other Biippusu they had Issued a call for primaries The politicians would have disputed their right to do that an vehemently as they now dispute their right to frame a ticket It would have bren tald that the call for primaries did not orno front the eaters but front a elf I coEStltutd committee and the name cof the I of the tIor IHOnlv would have been InvoKxd la enunciation of the leaders In the nonPastisan movement just the nnme us it Ifl I now The movement move-ment for reform had for Its chief objects ob-jects the ilrcuinventlns of the politicians and the elimination ot their power and Influence from municipal control nnd no matter what details of procedure It might adopt It was certain to encounter the bitter oppu rlUolIot those mhose or eutnUon II Bought to abolish Jn city affairs A wnnl primary Is a ward politicians politici-ans enlden opi > ortunjt > Take from him this opening forgetting la Ills work nnd he Is halt defeated In advance of the election U Is wry difficult for him to effect the dial bargains and card t1n tl j M aO nations I by whleh the will I ot the pi it pie la I thwarted load eruption becomes I be-comes triumphant It III tire unnnl made tentlnuny of nil who have written writ-ten upon the subject of corruption In file goVerhmnl or AmerIcan cttp that the foundation of It la laid In the primary Preparatory to the holding of this meeting the ward politicians organize or-ganize their forces and It Corruption Is I to be forestalled 1 the decent Miters must organize too nut any high minded citizen feels reluctant to Join a cabal for the purpose of controllng a primary for by so doing he subjects himself to n certain extent tu the Pro in c chargm lie makes against the heelers I nnd rounders lather 1 than da this oil the one hand or bo defeated on the other lie stays away from the primary Every taxpayer knows the sequel Had the nonpartisan committee called lal MR ties who noull have 1 conducted them More Important still who would have secured control of them 1 Might ther not have been ftO mnnlpu late 1 ni O to frorerse the pur Mae toW hlch they were called I and make teforin Impossible Itlght her Is J the chief obstacle with whlrh retoM11 and nonpartisan movement In Arnerlrnn cities have to contend Abolish the primary nnd nt the same time abnllah Its corruption and the aced pation of the ward politician Cut the Qordlan knot nt one told strong omhe This is I what the nonpartisan committee has lone nnd It sufficiently sufficient-ly I accounts for the howling ot the Politicians who find themselves tattled and thwarted Tb New confesses Its admIra lion for the at rewdricn courage and Iolomnnhlp which the nonpartisan Committee has displayed In Us conduct con-duct thus far of the campaign It has undertaken Its members have exposed themselves to the accusations and abuse of the politicians and to every possible misconstruction of their mo five i a thing that n cowardly man under the circumstances would not be I likely to do and when the people understand thorouilblv all the phases or file situation they will Indleot the committee and Its methods bo allot tile News believes I Whether the nonpartisan policy will h 10 to Permanently abolish the rule of he rounders the News a I this lima Is I unable tu say We sincerely hoin so and know that to be the Intention ot he lesent leaders There are several bridges yet ithead or the reform move merit nhlch U will cross as It ccmes to them Just now the matter that should receive attention and loemonl rm till concerned Is I the triumph of the inpartisan ticket |
