Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1908 — DO YOU RECOGNIZE HIM? [ARTICLE]

DO YOU RECOGNIZE HIM?

A Type of Political Bosses Who Nhould be Relegated to the Rear. The old political rlngster was dying hard. An accident in the political world, swept to the leadership of a great party by one of those tidal waves of political success that occasionally sweeps over our country, he came to think that he was a modern political Napoleon. After a career that was noted for its arrogance of power, treachery and corruption, his party had tired of him and his methods and deposed him from leadership. With the fatal fatuousness of the degenerate, he failed to recognize the changed condition of affairs and the advent of new men and new issues upon the political field. The party in which he had been a leader was organizing for a great convention, and he was rallying his forces to obtain a place of honor among those chosen as delegates to it.

Despised and rejected by his party, he sought to reinstate himself in power. In hfs desperation he threatened that he would use his influence to defeat the party if his wishes were not respected. He boasted that the men he had subsidized in the past were in his power and must do his bidding regardless of public good.. It had come to this, —to throw his party’s chances of victory to their opponents, if his wishes were thwarted. What a comment upon the political life of our country. That one man devoid of any sense of honor, a relic of the time when money spelled power and success in the political world, that such a man should tfold the political franchise of hundreds of voters in his hand, to use as he pleased An anarchist is dangerous to organized society but such a creature is doubly dangerous to all. Without a binding sense of honor, ready at all times to trade and traffic in votes so that his personal ends may be subserved, there is never any assurance that the wishes of the people may be made manifest at the polls.—Exchange.