| Show STATE AND CITY some of the voters in this state believe that the legislature ought to offer bounties for the encouragement of industries while others are very much opposed to such a proposition A similar difference of opinion exists in relation to other features of the policy that ought to be pursued by the government of the state as a sovereignty these conflicts of views necessarily give rise to party organizations the thing is inevitable men who believe alike naturally come together and organize tor for the purpose of carrying into practical effect their views and wishes hence the machinery of political combinations the news recognizes the fact that in state and national affairs we must have political parties that it is wholly chimerical to advocate otherwise and that it would be folly for any public man or journal to undertake to show that under conditions now existing in this republic and its several component plates there is any practicability whatever in the proposition to abolish party organizations in the government of the nation or even of a state but there are broad and sharply drawn distinctions between the government of a state and the management of the affairs of a municipal corporation po ration one Is necessarily a political matter the other is merely a bustness business proposition it to Is scarcely possible for any of the questions that divide voters in respect to s tate state and national concerns to arise in connection with the affairs of a city political parties in the state and nation must exist and the news is not contending otherwise neither has this journal ever advocated or justl fled lack of fidelity to the party in which a voter has enlisted bad faith and vacillation are as detestable among members of a political party as in other relations of life but we are opposed to witnessing a slavish to party bosses who seek to lead the voters in wrong and harmful directions and party 7 fealty ought not to be so strong pvn ae t to impel the vot r to endorse what his judgment and conscience condemn to give a political character to a purely business matter to is a violation of truth and reason and all such violations to involve penalties this Is why a city government should be kept out of politics what would be thought of a railroad corporation that appoints its officers on political lines how many voters of this city would like to see our magnificent school system become the spoils of politics and the superintendent in and teachers appointed in response to political pulls r every reason for excluding politics from a railroad corporation an 1 from the schools applies in favor of its exclusion from purely municipal affairs not that non is an absolute specific the cure ef cf the evils under which american cities so commonly suffer for the possibility remains that incompetent or dishonest men may work themselves into power on a nonpartisan non partisan ticket but there is much less danger of that sort of thing and a much surer cure for it when it does happen under a nonpolitical non political system than under the rule of party machines |
