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Show BREAKING AWAY FROM THE CORRUPT. The Slandpat papers arc urging the voters to disregard the disgraceful dis-graceful scenes at Chicago and vote the ticket for the good of the part y. "Pay no attention to how it happened, but vote the ticket straight," is their advice. That is what, we presume, Standpatters would call intelligent voting and patriotic service, but it is what wc would term the prostituting prosti-tuting of the right of suffrage to base purpose. No man should throw the weight of his opinion on the side of corruption simply because that side is his party. No one should lend encouragement to trickery and rascality in order to remain steadfast stead-fast to his political group. Tho country already has suffered too much from just such voting, and it is the repeated calls to party prejudice rather than to principle that has made possible the outrages perpetrated perpe-trated by conventions such as that held in Chicago. The unprincipled unprinci-pled leaders have come to believe that they can resort to the very lowest tricks of politics and can to the utmost abuse the trust reposed repos-ed in them, and that all that is necessary, after gaining a mastery of the convention and foisting their creatures upon the party, is to shout, "Hurrah for the party," and then dare any one to prove "traitor" to the cause. No wonder the American people are growing disguested with politics poli-tics of the old school; no wonder they are breaking away from party lines and disting their ballots for men and measures instead of blindly blind-ly following base schemers within their party. |