Show ttoi LINE IOLITICH Communicate 1 I Iheodoio Itoosovelt into Republican candidate for tho position of Mayor of Now York City has an able and interesting inter-esting article in tho Century for Novem ber on Machine Politics in New York City It is a brief but comprehensive description of one of the most thorough organized and powerful instrumentalities in tho world in its relation to tho two great parties of the countr And what is more machine politics will continue to prevail in Now York ml other great cities so long as universal suffrage Is the rule Iohticil Mipromaev in Now York City In whitever iarty obtained iii a most potent factor in tho decision of national polities and of part suprennc at Vashin0ton vS hilo i tho great bosses of both or all 111 tieR I run tho mai bine largely with direct ref I I trenco to the gigantic paitisan and mtr cellar interests connected with tho mu I mcipal government of thin metropolis I iI i their indirect influence upon nation I affairs and 1rcsidcnti elections can hardly bo measured Oeneial Logan in II late public utterances has proved him solfa far sighted statosmin in forecast Ing the growing political significance of j I I I municipal elections In our largo 1 cities and especially in Iow York Mr Hooscnelt says V iamm my Stato senator openl unnounced in a public speech tint it was of vastly moio importance to Tamilian to IlIle one of her own lien Mayor of New York thin I It was to have a Democratic President of i the United States No intelligent nun j will question the perfection of detail in that powerful political ot0inuation or I I tho immense influence It wields Jin city State and national elections I That tho machine will continue to colt must be conceded it only remain to I nnpiout UN protest b IH f 10 14 If J I1 h 1tl < ZL and I to lefoim its ojicratois There is i I good mateiial enough in over political jiutv If made available to smash1 Tweed muliines of all sorts and lo replace I I re-place them with fairly reputablo oper jitois timid icsults There must be I bos cs after a fashion in all working I political organisations If tho ma s of I well moaning voter instead of wasting I their breath III son elcss denunciations of irofcHsional pohliciins will Insist that hcso necessary sappeis and miners of I ho otlngarni shall bo lopulablo men and not thieves we can ottly nay of 1 nacluno m politics as Peeks bad boy cud w lun the molas os keg sprung a leak lot l her run |