Show EDMUNDS ON THE POLITICAL DRIFT EX EDMUNDS of vermont has an article in the forum for february under the suggestive title of perils perile of our national Eloot elections ions PP he maintains that practices practice that were rare or unknown in our early history are becoming more and more common whereby injustice and advantages are sought and gained IJ he predicts that if the point shall be reached when those these practices of chicanery in politics shall have poisoned the communities of the majority or even a less lea number of the states there will be an end of the liberties of the people he ool contends tends that true liberty is opposed to fraud and injustice as truth to is to falsehood of course ourse everybody ought to know that but some people are not impressed by a self evident truth unless it is in as sorted by some person who has become notable the astute statesman throws himself loose as he contemplates the national political drill arh and says substantially that when that point of degradation to which he be refers to is reached the vota ries of such methods as those defined by him should throw off all disguise or pretense to rectitude and join in an open helter race after office power and spoils the article deals with the control exercised by bosses and syndicates and efforts to avert the threatened calamity the wrong ought to be righted now it should be done with the greater zeal when it to is remembered that such governments in states constituted as republics have been usually more corrupt and tyrannical than those of a monarchical character ten masters master are ten times dolse worse that than one the ex senators theory to Is all right |