Show THE MUST GO for once the metropolis of the nation and the metropolis of the youngest state of the nation are making similar efforts to accomplish a common purpose an upright and able administration of the cites affairs through the stewardship of men who prefer the welfare of the whole to the special good of any particular faction there tere be those who are intent upon belittling such ouch efforts showing or rather trying to show that nothing is or can be aft danced by the nonpartisan non partisan plan that cannot as surely as safely and as well be had through the ministrations ministration of those who hold fast to the party lines under all circumstances the news has not denied that there are a md focient number of capable honest men in each party to give the city the ednd of government it needs but it has denied denies now and will colAtI continue nue to deny that such characteristics are the exclusive peculiarity of any particular organization if this position Is ah the e correct one and it Is it then follows that the necessary qualifications belonging to each of the parties in common the distribution of positions should be made accordingly in N new ew york a gallant fight against odds is being made it has always with rare exceptions been complo completely tely party ridden from end to end and from center to circumference I 1 te sway of the boss and the hand of the heeler have been all but undisputed factors in the economy of the municipality and even with a so called reform government now in existence the same state of things obtains the difference being only in degree degreed and not abt much of a degree at that under such freeh circumstances it takes a battle royal to accomplish anything in the desir desired direction and that kind of battle w wie are well assured is the one that is going on john PAlt P altgeld geld late governor of illinois is concededly oneff one of the ablest men on the democratic side of war national polities politics he says nothing that is commonplace and much that Is pro found some of his big sentences sentenced being tipped with an impressive truthful and couched in language of such suchen on cleive forces force as make them his enemies concede coned this lre he nothing idly but aked everything I 1 referable to an occasion and havea have well defined bearing upon it in ol 01 one of his recent speeches he said we have had thirty years of colorless politics in which both of the political parties were simply conveniences for organized greed there was nothing to arouse the deep slumbering patriotism of the masses and a race of politicians came to the front many of whom had no convictions but straddled every proposition and then waited to be seduced they were men who made every promise to the laborer and then betrayed him these men became the instruments through which the corporations worked having learned what vast sums can be extorted from the american people the monopolies used a part of the wealth they got from this source to corrupt the peoples representatives and thua chuo obtain unlimited privileges of plunder until almost every great city in this country is tied and gagged and cannot even enter a protest while being robbed these are words to think over not because in and of themselves they are clear cut and impressive but because they picture and explain a condition of things whose actual existence no one who reads and is fair will attempt to deny why are such affairs continued when all know they are wrong and a majority would end them it if they could only be shown how to do it the remedy is the same in one place as in another what would apply in new york would apply in salt lake if the same conditions prevailed which to some extent at least is the case partisan rule in local affairs may b be e the best that can be had it may be honest capable and determined all these and more but how often Is it so when clansmen clansman clans men obtain dom complete control of a situation which embraces other interests besides their own where is the likelihood that the others will receive the same or as much attention 9 it does not exist as a practical fact which has been tested quite often enough and when it does come it is welcome all the more because a stranger within our ganest the est eat plan to pursue in purely municipal affairs to is to look only to qualifications and to serve then we are very apt to get the very best there is in the market |