| Show TiE Ca Itt s. lE OP Ol lx FX ln Are ive 1 righting for fur Decent People A t alu-t allt Crookedness I Samuel Mr Morwin in Success q Maga- Maga I zinc sIne 10 Folk lt started c the magazine crusade He lie proved In the courts that I SL St St Louis was honeycombed with whIm I graft HP He le drove a n few Cew respectable citizens out of the state stale nn and tIme the 1 I people with wih an un Inspiring InspirinG disregard for politics and precedents voted him into th the governors governor's Ko chair La Last LaRt i fallIn fall fail in In N New w York Bo BoSton on Philadelphia Chicago Tol Toledo do Cleveland Clone Cincin nati nat Newark wherever In fact tact th the plain citizen had a chance to lo vote vole against corporation machine bosses and for honest men men om or even for fOI menI men I I who looked they honest they made their votes overwhelmingly f felt fell l. l It I was a widespread campaign for common on deI decency de do- I In municipal and state stale affairs The fight is progressing today Anti And Anc the magazines S f f S Senator Lodge will willbe willbe be so good as to n accuse then cuse them will wi j I gladly plead guilty as parties parte to this I I movement for a n new sort of oC politics s. s That Is what magazines have ha e been and are arc lighting fighting for for for-a or-a or a new sort of oC politics fhe They wont won't get et It just yet yN but iUt hu the they are fighting hard hare for I It and the u usually polite grafters have lately done them the tle honor of oC emItting fierce cries In their direction How ow much I j they have actually accomplished it I Is too Carl early to sn say sai but lut il it I amounts to a great gret deal deal Mr Mi Ir Hughes attributes a acon con considerable part o of his success to the fact act that public opinion a was firm behind be behind be- be 1 hind him Who tho ho aroused that public imbue would HU hs have opinion Heal Really Hughes I been possible without tho the preliminary work o of La oil Lawson on And as to how much the lie resent present Jn Inspiring movement for Cor moderately hon honest homiest st moderately savory ol a government O the tho long bug long laborious I Work orl orlof of Lincoln Steffens there can be beCI beV bevery V very CI I little doubt The few rew frenzied years seem lo to te be 10 I p past t. t From now no noon on the sort of thing will wi be carried on omi In a somewhat hat quieter quiet quIet- But will Never er el manner mannel It wi not nol stop evel mind the time motives of ot th the publishers I ot are arc nrc alwa always s 's mixed even in lii the I senate Let us center our Interest t on the results Senator Lod Lodge e and anel F. F Hopkinson on Smith seeing the filth fth would woul let it i lie le It I has been and I is is the policy of live lve magazines to stir up the filth and I muck nut and throw it I out out If I those senators IenI semi sen IenI Ien- I I atm's and congressmen anti and newspaper correspondents who taut talk tale so o easily I I about what hat the people want could see the letters leters which have hac been ben and andare andare are still sti pouring Into th the ho offices ollices of tho lie n magazines the they would un understand more inure clearly what I men mean Give us tho the facts soy say these earnest citizens so that thal we ie may know what to do Th magazines ng working often ofen In tho the dark often oren misled and anti hauled by liars lars high bight and amid liars low struggling through h ha a tangle angie lc o of corporation and amid legislative blind roads which can Can hardly be bl in Imagined Imag Imag- ag- ag limed ined or cm described making blunders but bul keeping at al 11 have it-have t ha have done their best to set th the lie before the plain citizens The Time rest Iest of or if it It the result resul of It I al all Is in the hands of or time the the voter for settlement n And when ihen the voter understanding un un- finally filially acts the time result resul promises lo to be a rather In inspiring spec talie lalle 0 |
