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Ogden Sun | 1905-12-12 | Page 4 | Organization in Politics

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Date 1905-12-12
Paper Ogden Sun
Language eng
City Ogden
County Weber
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Article Title Organization in Politics
Type article
Date 1905-12-12
Paper Ogden Sun
Language eng
City Ogden
County Weber
Page 4
OCR Text organization IN POLITICS recent make it plain that president roosevelt who during the greater part of his political career has bees a supporter of organization in politics Is fired of bossism in new tori aits respecting the chairmanship 0 the state clearly indicates his vish to establish tho cs ot new york in hands less strong than duflos recent under and it Is barely possibly pos that the president who 18 not averse 10 playing a leading band himself would prefer kiich an arrangement as might tend own power la the oi his home state and possibly ible is the motive conscious 0 of his of a and therefore B party therace the tace of things the president stands in opposition to and Is only fair to assume that one so habitually outspoken means precisely what ha says the problem of political organization and management Is as old a foil bics tics itself it is almost as gojii as organized society no way has ever yet been found for continuous periods to make men vigilant in matters of civic government unless they shall have some direct advantage in con with these matters in other words men wont attend to tho busl 1 noss of politics continually from sheer patriotism and from tho broader motives resting upon civil government somebody has got to do the labors of politics in every system ot government under privileged terns political labors like political responsibility center in the court our system presumes the existence of political parties and puts upon these parties a very considerable burden ot duties the original idea of party organization was that every member of the party should have a fair voice in alio management of its affairs but however effective this may hava been in the day of the town meeting it is not practice able under modern conditions when most members vit the political parties prefer to employ their time and their efforts in private ways and to leave the business of con i ducting party affairs in special party management like every other human activity has become in these later days an expert service which can best bo done by men having taste tor tho work and experience in it in this connection there arises the question of how to give to party managers a sufficient degree of authority to employ the party forces promptly and effectively and at th aade time to restrain biem from treating the party as their awn private properly 0 o ie handled from the standpoint of individual motives hake the system of management weak and effective men will fly crom it make it ever strong and tho party becomes the personal instrument of its managers in which those who to its membership have no influence or share the difficulty ia to so maintain the balance that the party shall be an effective and disciplined force vwe at the same time it shall maintain its integrity of sentiment and spirit with the rights of its individual members As matters stand in this country the best interest ot politics we believe lies in a fairly developed centralize tion and strength in party ton observation sustains the theory eliat the faults of political weakness are more serious than the faults of political strength A strong system of party management while unquestionably tion ably to abuse will commonly yield better results than a system so broadly democratic as to raise up internal factions and to match them against each other A strong party authority will sometimes carry with a high hand but abo ultimate of every such situation Is the destruction of the arbitrary offenders no matter bow strong a particular party ad ministration may be t inevitably I 1 comes to its waterloo if it falls to pursue courses in accord with the common sentiment of party membership the atmosphere of american political life will not permit an arbitrary party authority to long carry itself and unchecked the best political judgment of the country accepts this principle and sup a strong system of party organization and management and thia is the explanation of situations in new boik and elsewhere which sometimes got beyond general party control the president himself has been and still remains what la called an organization man and it it be true that he has turned against the eld regime in new york it Is unquestionably 1 less because he condemns tho principle of organization than because he mcants the particular and exaggerated tion of it plait and odell in now york
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