Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-05-09 | Page 10 | Party Politics

i I Party Politics I IBy By DR FRANK CRANE II j I There Ther h has be been been n a recent movement mo b by prominent I I men mn of both parties to 10 Increase Interest In party Ill government gO I I It UH It object as stated Is Ie To aid RId in checking the I growing Browing indifference of our citizens to the value vahe and necessity of party government Also AIllo leo to Impress upon them the vital nd ned and amI constant need of their duty as citizens If the principles underlying our j Institutions are to b be maintained d and progress progress' gaIned Rained toward vard better and more efficient government govern govern- ment According to th the figures given party larty government go seems fleema to be rather a failure if we can test it by bythe bythe bythe the number of votes It sets IB to the election of 19 1924 I It Is III stated that thirty million qualified Am American voters voter did dIet not vote and Anel the theory exp expressed ed is i. that this may destroy party government gO in the United States It may result reull Inthe in inthe inthe the substitution of the group and thereby Imperil the party system of American government Leading me men n of both parties including the ex- ex I presidential candidate John W. W Davis l Elihu Root I also Iso ex Candidate Alton B. B Parker are re taking part partIn In n this movement It H is a curious thing that they all seem eem to b be united In the opinion that parties r ar are necessary I for tor American government Where here they get the notion it is la hard to say 88 The American n government was wall not formed b by by- I parties partes and did not under George Goorge Washington lon contemplate contemplate con on template parties Indeed parties partie were looked upon the lb as the greatest danger langer to republic The facts ha have worked out Just this wit way Party government has excited the lively Inter interest st of a f few w th the profound Indifference rence of the man many Party go government nt has haM succeeded in selecting a avery avery avery very inferior quality of officials for the government Sto It would seem that It Is 18 about time for lor thinking people to cast cat about for some other way in running the affairs of the nation A book recently published b by Justice Clarke rk indicates hull indi cates catl'S how this can be done It is Isery very ery simple It ItIs Itis Itis is to revert re to the orI original method of voting yoUng which has hall nothing to do with parties From a long record of failure party government Jo has proved wo Itself incompetent It is strange how many men who otherwise se lI seem em cr very intelligent can an continue to believe belle in it It only shows hows the terrific hold of and tradition Copyright 1923 1925 b by McClure Newspaper Newspaper- Syndicate