Show partisanship partisanship may be a legitimate adhesion to party or it I 1 nay may simply be an association for selfish lids ands this latter partisanship may become the bane of oc national existence as it Is organized to prate of principle while it is grabbing the spoils As one writer puts it such partisans are bound together by the cohesive power ot of public plunder this perverted partisanship bends I 1 its ts greatest efforts to the control of political situations through organizations masking under the names of social armoral or moral associations under a plea of morality or reform they seek to gain office or power regardless of the greater good of the state or the nation the methods of such partisans may be distinguished easily tey are always the same pledges from candidates falsehood treachery the denial of and corruption of officials either through threats ot of defeat or promises of favors frequently the efforts of such partisans are inspired by zoal zeal but zeal veal 1 in a bad cause may be even a greater evil than that which the zealot ea would try to remedy reform in itself may be desirable but it if the consequences of that reform aro are worse than the evil reformed nothing is gained and progress is hindered partisanship should be regulated by common sense and knowledge |