Evening journal., 1917-01-15
POLITICS NOT Clean.
DR.. RANDOLPH Learns
Urges Young Men TO Lift
National Life TO Higher
Moral Plane
SAYS BALLOT CAN
FORCE CLEAN STREETS

1T is important that men should
enter politics in order that the nation
may become more of a power for
good. according to the Rev. DR.. Her
bert f. Randolph. pastor Of Grace NJ.
e. Church, who addressed crowded
church last night
only through such sacrifices as
the business, professional and leisure
class OF this country may make in or
der to purify political conditions can
any result for the botterment Of the
city, State and national conditions be
expected" DR.. Randolph said.
The sermon-talk was the second in
a series DR. Randolph is delivering
on Sunday evenings Of this month
and February. The address last
night was based on answers to $50
letters he had sent out to men prDmin-
ent IN public life of this city and
State the question being whether it
was possible for man 10 enter into
politics and lead "A clean life. The
question, DR.. Randolph said was an
swered in the affirmative by most of
those asked although the answer was
qualified by many who responded.
Dr.. Randolph devoted a large part
of his sermon TO an appeal TO the
voters TO devote their lives to politics
in order that the city, State and ma
| ton eventually might benefit through
clean men and pure methods being
I instlled into the body polite.
Dr. Randolph referred TO the separa-
tion of the church and state, and as
serted that men were agreed that there
should he a separation.
DIR. Randolph told of the more than
H., L.I ..r.as.fr-n1 from I h0
$50 letters he had sent out. They were
diversified from the man who said that
politics was a game that no one with
! a clean name and reputation would care
: to dabble in and that all politicians who
4 succeeded were Crooks" TO the man
who with optimism said that he had
been in politics all his life and had not
/ been corrupted
'I received an answer from man
who said that # was possible fol a
man to enter politics and be clean.
said DR. Randolph. But he did not
stop there. He continued and quail
fed his answer as TO what kind of a
man he must be TO keep clean and of
conditions that existed in the politics
of that section. Another man answer.
ed in big letters impossible
But I received an answer from a
man whose answer was truly original
He wrote, 1 don't believe a man can
keep clean and keep out of politics.
There's fine philosophy In that an
swer and l take off my hat to that
man. And here is where ! want tC
give you my own impression.
Unless we men get into politics
and make il clean we will our own
selves be besmirched. Il IS TO b'
noted that in all OF these answers
from the one that said all politics
and politicians are crooked to my op
timistic friend the same answer Is
received that politics today are un
clean. There is not one OF my cor
/ respondents who says politics is g
clean game.
''l want TO say to you now, that
never said that all politicians We're un
clean. There are some men in the gami
who are clean. / am told that the "a
son politics is unclean is because it ha
not been put upon the high level thai
the professions I have named have beer
elevated TO. People refuse to ente
politics because it is soiled. It is lik
wise true that politics today has fallei
into the hands of those of the base
type. Now what's the answer.
- IL utNdu>t You luN Ntlr ana uoc
tors and business men and the clergy
have neglected politics and left it to th
class of men who 90 into it solely TO
what they can get out of itf"
Il believe young men must enter
politics. Go into it clean The time
has arrived when we men must gel
into this great maelstrOm and heir
clean up the land.
% I'VE are not armed as the young
men of some European countries are
from the time they are old enough &c
hold gun and bayonet We are
armed with a little piece of paper
the ballot-that is as sacred as a Leaf
from this old Bible.
Armed with that ballot we can de-
mand clean streets and get them
Armed with the ballot, we can go "a
the primary and demand the nomina-
tion of clean men. and = we are in a
sacrificial mood can get them"