The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-03
THE OLD POLITICIAN FADES OUT.

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general epidemic which sweeps the cities and
the rural districts alike
The old timer in politics has become the
back number The halo which formerly was
spread over the brow of the man who Served
the people" has been dimmed and there is an
insistent demand for a change
It is local, state and national demand.
The people are restless and they want some
thing else In Chicago the far heralded won.
derful machine of the Thompson administration
crurbled like house of cards in single cam
paign and scarcely a vestige Of it was left be-
hind. Michigan in six months period jumps
from a rampant Democracy back to conserva-
tive Repubicanism Men who were the heroes
of political life year ago and acknowledged
leaders are today gone back to their homes to
start all over again.
Even in the little undressing elections in
Kenosha the people show that they want
new deal. They may not have a grievance
against the men who have been in office but
they have become tired of seeing them there
and they want some one else.
It's demand for a change rather than a
demand for some definite line Of action 1--WE
want something else" is the call from all over
the country. The agitator and the spreader Of
has developed condition which means
change If it means nothing else.
Possibly the public life Of the nation is to
be improved by this demand for change re-
CARELESS of the path to be followed. Probably
it will result in political chaos.
The hardest task of the Republican party in
seeking to maintain it's prestige in the nation is
to meet this demand for change. The people
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less something is done to stem this tide of un-
rest the demand will be so insistent that it
will be difficult for any political party to
stem it.
Wisconsin is already tired of it's officials
which it elected last November. They are al
ready discredited by many of he men who
were most insistent in urging their election
These men followed slogan rather than a
definite political ideal and they have long
Since found that the feet Of their idols were
clay and mostly clay
The condition is one which drives home the
fact that the man who seeks politics as a bus
mess is not thrifty man The man may win
in politics. but the one best bet is that if he
wins, he will lose later and. that when he loses
he will find it infinitely harder to pick up a
working life again.
sought to build for the future on the idea that
they We're serving the people have found that
changing public sentiment has made them
prophets without honor in their own bali
wick
The new adjustment may bring new blood
and it may bring better blood into the political
life. 1t may root out old political practices, or
prune onto them new ones of even less value
The new deal may for time be something of
interest and even of value to the people, but it
is certain sooner or later to revert to the old
idea of the politician being the one mostly
benefited.
Students of government see in this new,
movement the demand for the hard headed
clear thinking citizen to take more then ever
his full place in the dictation Of the political
life Of the nation. The call must be for conser-
vatlve action by thinking men and women
With the understanding that this insstent call
for change shall not wreck the foundations of
the government and place it on insecure foot
ing. There was a time when the institutions
OF the nation were in so much danger
Men live and die, but the institutions on
which the government is founded and on
which it must be developed, must be preserved.
America has advanced more rapidly than any
other country in the world with the aid of these
institutions, and they must not be cast to the
discard, just because some shiftless people and
some shifty politicians see the value of Great
ing public sentiment in favor of change.
Another marked effect of Prohibition is a
more general and comprehensive knowledge Of
Eantidotes.
An old-timer is one who can remember when
ft was an insult'to call a. man effeminate
Europe will find it much easier to balance
her,budget if she will keen her head level.