Show ABOLISH PARTY LINES IN CITIES A constitutional amendment which aou would id revolutionize municipal govern ment lias has been proposed to the new york constitutional convention by the non lion seth low at the request ot of the mayors conference of the state no national or state political party shall nominate municipal officers or endorse or promote their candidacy Is the way it reads some specific things this amendment would prohibit are the use of party primaries to nominate candidates the public endorsement of any candidate by a political party the use of party funds to secure the nomination or election of any person and the printing of the name and the emblem of any political party on the official ballot in new york and many other states municipal iuni cipal elections have already been bee divorced arom state state elections for the express purpose of keeping partisan politics out of city elections fusion or citizens tickets have become a feature in municipal elect elections electron lon s when ever the leopie have revolted against the corruption of the party in power nonpartisan non partisan administrations are sometimes elected but the nonpartisan non partisan issue is complicated because it represents on attack upon one or more political parties and there are thousands of voters who are held in line by party loyalty mr air lows amendment would do away with the partisan factor altogether it if the voter stops for a moments thought there is nothing about state political issues and even less jess about the great national questions separating political parties that has any direct bearing upon the problem of good city government the spectacle of every little incorporated village electing its few officers on strictly party lines makes the absurdity of the party habit laughable local bosses of all parties will fight the reform but this will be one of the evidences that good municipal government lies along this path lesliea Le |