The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-04
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 4, 1922
PENROSE THE REVOLUTIONIST.

Senator penrose was fortunately born He was scholar but had the advantage of university education The university provides for those who w double education in and one in books.
 deeply lore men, and it handler of gained the greatest distinction The written the tale of political agement showing the skeleton and details of the political suc which erected during the political period in which Penrose has been powerful Lord Bryce, Engshman mifted an unpleasan look into conditions when he wrote his American Commonwealth. But the full story has been told.
 The basis of this system was the concept y stomach and that want him to do something for political way, must do something for him. This doc of the golden rule. do unto others you would wish them to do unto you
 The method sordid often resulted in sordid things in debauched and by parties Will n reformers. almost revouonst They and their disciples made the tariff enc the plain people, There followed the revolt the influence New York England Pennsylvania and Delaware att Washington.
 Legislative already dscred of Penrose They swarmed with lobbyists and open dis gused corruption This corruption extended to the electorate Connecticut distinguished of wealth. position and political proclaimed the doctrine that had the right sell his vote to rich and that the rich had right to buy Nevertheless the thoughtful multiplication of the against election bribery and the custom waned
 More revolutionary things began to happen The people, trusting their legislatures their they had before began to seek They began to take the nominating into their hands, through such agencies direct primaries and direct nominations They sought the recall of judges though the of all American ns ntions least tainted with conmerciaism They made constitutions which included initiative and the the the first which the make their at the ballot the which they might their egislatures which might discharge unsatisfactory public servant in the midst of his term and replace him with else
 Thus there into being by that slow when against all me fast when considered life of the nation what neither cal revoluon slow but certain substitution pure for the representative system which the had been founded.
 This pure democracy did not resemble that of Athens which all the voters assembled at place. in town meet only occasionally that the people take directly to themselves, veto which legislature has made they recall public officer, nevertheless her and the representatives execute the voters will rather than his that interest which is friendly to him.
 It necessary that like Penrose should from casionally Middle years school, but the usually fight carried into the House the Senate Washington the Senator Nebrry whose supporters resorng to election methods of the type ticians.
 The and the better method is approaching n Connecticut state which reluctantly abandons it's customs.
 The movement for improved form of city government is part of the democratic method which statesmen of their methods provoked compelled pro Bridgeport typical of the plan everywhere The by this plan the initiative the recall They propose their statutes by their and they discharge of whose works they do not approve.
 The order of the world makes for progress operate bad outworn system often unwittngy certainly compellers of than the very progress peculiar champions.