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Show I Freedom or Galling Chains THE recent New York city campaign furnished a aad commentary on the low estate of machine ma-chine politics. In no particular did it reveal a new note in sordid machinations of anything-to-win politicians, but it took a forthright man to voice a wholesome sentiment turning a brighter light, perhaps, on the chief cause of wasteful, costly and inefficient municipal government. John Haynes Holmes, famous pastor of the Community church in New York, set out to run for the New York city council. But he dropped out of the race, he explained the other day, because be-cause he discovered that ha could not remain candidate and preserve hii Independence. "It waa not until 24 hours after I began campaigning," he said, "that I discovered I would have to find a chairman for my committee, that I would have to find committee members and that I would have to ask for signatures. I knew that in a month I would have to ask people to vote for me. The idea waa intolerable. I never gave such allegiance to a political party before, be-fore, and I could not do so now." Every candidate for office makes the same sort of discovery. Few are so frank about it, or so quick to prefer freedom of action to political success, as Dr. Holmes. |