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Show B LEADERSHIP AND BOSSISM. BB Since the local campaign opened BB much has been said about "bosses" BB .and "leadeis" who they were In the BB past, who they aie at present, who BBj they will be in the future, and as to BB their methods, etc. The two words BB are used as though fiey are mere BBj synonyms, and there arc not a few w ho BBj intellectually have become so asphyx- BBj i lated by the foul political ntmos- BBJ phcre they breathe that they can't see BBj the distinction and these misguided BBJ individuals are not contlncd to any BBJ..., I particular party, much as we should BBJ like to believe otherwise. Wo are a BBJ. 'firm believer In Republican doctrlno BBJ-, and methods as a whole, but first of BBJ .all we arc for the greatest clean 1- BBJ ncss and purity In politics, and wo BBjk feel morally certain that American BBBh J citizens can not serve their country BBBfr best, their party best, nor their own BBBm-i Interests best until they can sec clear- BBBBJl . y the very great difference that DOES BBBBBBmto?n,fr'.w,f ''"'V ' mjmgi, .fflsafc-iuy exist between a "leader" and a "boss" Leadership Is one thing, and boss-Ism boss-Ism Is a distinct thing. Leader is that kind of ascendancy inherent in a man that by ordination of nature constitutes him to be a guiding guid-ing inspiration to men of shorter provision pro-vision and Inferior personality. It Is by the administration of such leaders lead-ers that the world has ever been able to forge forward Into better days and along better highways. Leadership in such senses of the term, is a tribute both to the man who leads and to the man who Is led. It is the best that is in the leader appealing to the best that Is in the led. If you now spell "leader" trickster and sne'll "led" "plaything" you will have bosslsm. A man may dignify himself by consenting con-senting to be led, but he always stul-tltles stul-tltles himself by consenting to be bossed. boss-ed. A man who is letting himself be bossed is a human ass kneeling down to let his driver buckle the pack to his back. Leading makes smaller men bigger; bosslsm shrivels Into a still dryer apology what little they already have and don't know enough to keep. You may apologi7o for bosslsm all you like, and gloss it over with euphemisms euphem-isms the most plausible that can be devised, It still remains true that bosslsm boss-lsm is an ugly cancer on the lody of true Americanism, and an Intending boss is a deep-djed traitor to all that Is best in our history and dearest to a heait that is genuinely American. |