Show communicated ED THE QUESTION OP OF THE daya one of the hackneyed phrases of american political life is that to the victors belong the spoils the expression savors more of buccaneering bucca and brigandage than it does of thoughtful honorable citizenship and that civilization which lauds itself as being on the lead and destined to prevail might makes right is a relic of savage and barbarous conditions and is in no way congenial with that liberty which is a great deal talked about and so little comprehended or understood A so called business man was once heard to say in this city that when a customer entered his store he always got all he could out of him for he never expected to see him again now this might answer in new york where there is a teeming transient population yet even there such a course had limits as it surely had in the smaller place it has been suggested elsewhere that men in political positions should be retained because an or new comer always had bad to feather his nest therefore it was really less expensive to continue in public service the one who had already done so but there may be less in all these assertions or assumptions than their continued reiteration would imply surely there is some honor and patriotism in the ranks of citizenship surely there are those whose love of country state county or city is not bounded by what they can make out of one or the other surely position is not always sought for its emoluments or because of possible pickings and st lings or has it come to this that into the so called filthy pool of polities politics clean men honest men will not enter lest they be defiled has there not been a shrinkage from official position and responsibility rather than submit to the domination and exactions of 0 the ward heeler and those whose only thought Is that to the victor belong the spoils have not 1 some 1 0 me been pressed into office irrespective of character or qualification and have they riot paid for political support through dispensing that patronage which inured to position W without phout wishing to disparage colv conventions en pus large or si small hall where nominations are made have they not often been co con n trolled strolled by those who had everything to gain and nothing to lose and that these have been the most vociferous and aggressive even to the carrying of the nominee who was without the qualifications which make elected men conservative and as careful and vigilant in the manipulation of public funds as they would be in the service of a private individual where malfeasance or extravagance would subject them to unceremonious discharge if these queries are not to the point why seek to disturb the old or present conditions if honor honesty economy and all standard business principles have been in the ascendancy why desire a change if political parties as such have not been tried in the balance and found wanting why not continue the old routine if con editions in new york and elsewhere are not the protest of a long longsuffering suffering g and plundered people what on earth does this uprising mean if in out our loved city there is not something rotten why discard the old parties and inaugurate a new one a party of i self defense goaded to this unwonted action by the realization of burtrens bur too heavy to be borne T years ago we argued that politics as such were of comparatively no moment in a municipality that no evidence was reachable which de ter mined that a mayor councilman justice policeman or school trustee 3 was necessarily better fitted for these fc or any other position simply because bt bf v k his proclivities toward either of the old or present political parties that in fact an official might be quite as efficient as diligent and devoted to 4 the interest and progress of the city rf without political bias as the most mast I 1 rabid and noisy possibly could be 3 this standpoint is still invulnerable and therefore the proposition tp to eliminate factious rule and factious in 1 teresta from our municipal contes contests 4 4 and government Is a step in the 1 direction the action of the corana comi noaT 1 I sense and thoughtful men and it it has needed past experience to f this conclusion the education white ex pensive expensive will prove eventually tot to be i worth all it cost that is provided tt ft could not be otherwise had there is but one objection to the movement if it can be called ST icly s and that comes from a humble suffer 3 ers standpoint it is that the leas lead 1 ers thereof are all persons of reputed 3 means which is legitimate but there hare are numbers of intelligent men who are s not so yet they feel the pinch ot of ex ek 1 trava gant public expenditure and sye j tar far less able to bear even tn in a corn com para tive sense their share of taxation f than are the understood well to A AO 6 and it if the popular pulse is to le be tt touched and a nonpartisan non partisan ticket hiis bained this class should find represent tation somewhere and they will work as energetically as persistently azid fc as bo honestly nestly tor for public redemption a a they have worked for subsistence ws and independence in a narrower because aa aa individual sphere success to nonpartisan non partisan non pollyl cal rule in this city pick the best 3 broadest businesslike business like men men be I 1 yond the reach of bribery and corrns tion not place hunters or position 7 seekers but such as will study the tl public weal conservative yet progressive i aiming to make this city attric i tive and desirable by reason of its peace good d order and subservience to law with its affairs economically ad ai ministered and the officers worthy rf 09 confidence and h aon az orally elected and faithful servants servant y those whose suf frages placed them positions of responsibility and trust OCCASION occasional AI I 1 |