The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-21
COMMISSION FORM
 CITY GOVERNMENT
coNrlNoEp FROM PAGE ONE.


 in our political system is the greater ease with which voters can reach the polls under all circumstances of weather, and the practical certainty that the city vote will be more con stant factor in determining the result of elections than that of the rest of the country. Bad weather up the state Is apt to make New York demo- cratic owing to the inability or dis inclination of the republican farmer voters to reach the pols, while the city's vote is apt to be 9 determin- ing factor in cur elections, it Is donb- ly important that the city should have honest government and be freed as far as possible from the control of the boss and the ring,
 "Nomilally belonging either to the republican or the democratic party, the machine is without conscience and works all the time for it's own sell fish ends. which ends are incompat- ble with economical, efficient. honest government in the interests of the 
 practically unavoidable mayor and bi- cameral type of charter. the boss and the machine were sure to be evolved as means of getting things done. The boss, of course was wholly ire sponsible. and he always and inevit- ably represented special interests, either those of his own gang, his own political faction or such other special interests as may have purchased his support. It is through this vicious sys. tenn that public service corporations have been able to throttle our cities, and for song, as far as the public is concerned, obtained franchises of i'm. mense value; and in many cases. to become, apparently, the masters of the city.
 The failure Of the old style charter was inherent In it's composition, and from the fact that no one could be held directly responsible. This latter fact gave the wholly Irresponsible boss, either ia or out of the city gov ernment the opportunity of which he was not slow to avail himself Tho principal object of the commission plan of charter is to eliminate from city government both the boss and the machine.
 Now the boss, as a general rule, owes his success to his possessing better brains than his competitors. He knows what he wants and he general ly pursues his object with marked in- telligence and ability Hence he is always opposed to the commission form of charter. which he knows will put him out of business. The opposi ton is everywhere manifested; some. times, but rarely. openly: generally and preferably by indirection and by apparently helping the people get what they want In this way the machine politicians have completely fooled the people in many states.
 To secure the benefits of ideal con ditions in which the government of the city will be organized and con- ducted. not as a means of securing places for political workers, but for promoting in the highest possible de- grees the public welfare, Virginia must look to her young men who, in. spired by ardent patriotism and un- contaminated by the trickery and knavishness of practical politics, will enter tie fight for the common good. determined to wage bitter and recent less war on the forces of waste and corruption. until our cities shall have won their political freedom and with it the right to frame their charters tn lines which shall place the public welfare ahead of the needs Of any clique of politicians, however sldlful they may be in promoting their selfish ends.
 Young men of the University of Virginia will soon go out into public life. Carrying the highest ideals of service toward the communities in which they live. each of them will have to bear his share of the burden in the heat of this contest May the life and teachings of the great found CT of the University inspire them to continue the fight until the cause of Democracy shall he won, based upon the restoration throughout the states, and especially in the cities, of the in- lerent right of home rule. the funda- mental principle for which was fought the American Revolution!"
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