Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24


The prevention Of bIackmail and cor
ruption, the repression of crime and
violence safeguarding of life and
property, securing honest elections and
rewardlng efficient and Furnishing in
efficient police service are not and can
not properly be made questions of
party differences.--Prosid Roosevelt.
There are plenty Of scoundreIs al
ways ready to belittle reform move
fnents or to bolster UP existing inIaui-
ties IN the name Of Americanism.-
President Roosevelt
AT times a man must cut loose from
his associates and stand alone for a
great cause.-Theodore Roosevelt.
feel that 1 would not be fulfilling
my duty did 1 not call upon you to go
into politics. Now and then | hear
men observe that our best citizens do
not take an interest In politics. That
is not the proper view to take. He
is not one of our best citizens who does
not take any interest in politics; he is
one of our worst men, and the richer
and more influential he may be, the
worse he Is,
will tell you the hope of our country
ties are taking more interest in the
kingdom of God, though they may not
call it so, than they are i'm the victories
of party politics. 1t Is that Democrats,
such as Folk and Jerome, and Repub-
licans like Roosevelt and Taft are
working to bring about honesty and
square influences in party politics,
peace and accord between races and
classes, and universally diffused well
fare through out the nations
When man is doing that, whether
1T be by his vote at the ballot box, at
the primary or in the Legislature. or as
governor or president, he is doing re-
ligious work.-Rev DR.. Lyman Abbott.
The legal profession is necessarily the
keystone of the republican arch of gov
ernment. Weaken the keystone by al
lowing II to be Increasingly subject to
the corroding and demoralizing infiu-
ence Of those who are controlled by
graft, greed and gain. or other unworthy
motives, and sooner or later the arch
must fall. 1t follows that the future
of the republic depends upon our main
tenance of the shrine Of justice pure and
nsullied-Committee on code of pro-
feesional ethics, American Bar associ-
alton.
1t is my profound conviction that a
national parties from Decentralization
inevitably consequent upon municipal
spoilation. and as a Republican, zeal
Gus for the welfare and reputation of
my party. 1 advocate the foundation of
non-partisan civic movement.-Elihu
Root, secretary of state.
If we had no indenendence we should
always he rL ming the risk of the most
degraded kind of despotisn. the despot-
ism of the party boss and the party
machine. The party man who offers
his allegiance to party as an excuse
for blindly following his party, right
or wrong. commits crime against the
country.-Theodore Roosevelt.
The kicker is the only means by
which an American party is kept in
order. l am speaking of the citizens
who call themselves independents, but
who are called kickers. The best de-
votion to party is shown by the man
who will refuse to follow it away from
the beaten path of rieht.-Charles J.
Bonaparte, secretary of the navy.
The power secured by the boss and
his assistants under the machine has
undoubtedly Injured to their pecuniary
benefit. and it is seen in the large for
tunes which they now have. How their
closed. If 1 were able. as I fear I
shall not be. because public duty calls
me elsewhere, to cast my vote in Gin
cinnat at the coming election, should
cast it against the municipal ticket
nominated by the Republican organi-
zation.-William H. Taft, secretary of
war.
The people will name it by it's ap-
propriate name, "The Grafters' Ticket"
and it will be the grafters' ticket,
though they had secured the counten-
ance of the best citizens of Phladel-
phia, 1t is not the candidates which
give character to the ticket; it is the
men who make the ticket: the men
whom the ticket represents. and from
this day forth until the close of the
polls, those who speak truthfully of it
will call it the grafters' ticket.-Wayne
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