Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-18
PLAIN FACTS PLAINLY
STATED


party selecting candidates in a primary
sEiil be exhibited to citizens. The states
IRE made, the important nominees have
Already been chosen and thousands Of
Soters, obeying orders. will march to the
'olling places and go through the motions
performing the most sacred public duty
yseving on citizens of the Republic.
pie find some disposition to rebel at
wioisting OH the public of Sheehan, now
INTER of Willis. whose attempt to Sc
,,ter fees and put them into mis- own
wet has aroused the indignation even
nrfn not ordinarily puritanc in their
pEcal perspective. The forcing of this
IS name on the ticket, we are told, is
I treating and disgusting, stencil in
tsnostrils of the people and an insult
cheir intelligence. SO it is, but was
e any reason for any citizen to expect
/ Ihope that Thomas +. Smith, Mayor
philadelphia, whose transactions in the
iding business constitute a public scan
l. would sec anything wrong in the
tort of Mr.. Sheehan to get little extra?
he Mayors business we are told, is not
ious within the meaning of the law,
d it Is Mr.. Sheehan's contention that
hat he wishes to do he will do only il
. letter of the law permits. Wherein
rally is there any difference in the
o men, and if the one is fit to be the
ayor of this great city why is not the
her entitled to hold minor office?
I is not MIR. Sheehan's activity alone
lat should cause good citizens to hold
neir noses. 1t is their own inactivity
heir nostrils, even as so many Of them
we muffed their ears and eyes and now
Hsively acquiesce in a condition of
airs that 10 revolving to all men who |
We faith in democratic government or |
devoted to the principles of liberty |
id freedom on which this nation is
ounded.
The voting tomorrow will be a farce 1t |
aeans nothing. Organization leaders have |
tripped the primary of respectability and |
lothed it in the Sinking garments of |
he loathsome and controlled conven.
on. The apathy OF good Republicans
hey have capitalized and they marshal
heir gangs OF subservient tools and
4rch them to the polls to register what?
", approval of a parcel OF candidates
stand as the nominees of the party
I, which Abraham Lincoln breathed
n breath of life and gave a SOUL To
tch depths has the party organism
lien and in such hands is the keeping
ehe high and noble principles adhered
hirnl
are told by cynical men that there
hope this year for successful oppo.
h to the Organization. We arc in.
ned that apathy is general, that many
Che young men of ideals have gone TO
! army camps, that everything is cut
Ia dried and that the Mayor can pus
%0ss whatever he wants. What matter
police are demoralized, the streets
eean. the garbage uncolected, the
- bound 10 increase, the fares on
Lleys to be raised, the gas reduction to
taken by the politicians and refused
q the people or that certain men grow
M tn office? We must not dare To
ttifize or expose them, for are they not
y living heirs of Lincoln and the proud
nbnents of Republicanism? Are men
nv to be deluded by such talk? These
54ers do not represent Republcanlsm.
~ represent nothing but factional
ickery and political corruption. No
"a moral principle is associated with
z name Of any one of them. The list
Nv be searched in vain to find the name
even one man who stands on both feet
fitting for the public good or speaking
az purposes with sincerity There is
< 6ne who thinks OF politics as any
ing except game poker game-in
2Ich the good buffer can make hi,
anipes large and gain, some popular
Slause into the bargain.
have no sympathy with mollycod.
Hs paace no faith in puny individ. /
Hbo efy that this Is a great city with ,
iefery ana that none should
drth for fear the washing Of ,
~ may attract national atten. :
~ elrty iInsns Il doc. i