Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...verbally, it implies that lynching is the only possibility; that the said resident has no way open to him of improving the legal and police administration of his city save that of defying both. This is, of course, conceivable. The electorate, and, consequently, the administration, being hopelessly corrupt, a small but determined band of citizens might possibly feel that there was no alternative to taking upon itself the execution of justice, and proudly abiding the consequences. But does Mr. Rosenblatt really think so badly of Omaha's administration, or see in a herd of men that yelp themselves into blood...
With the superiority or the air uncertain, we can ill afford these delays. Violent methods to remedy them, such as the prospective criminal prosecution, must be resorted to. We shall have no adequate aircraft production until the men whose corrupt power has caused the failure of the program have completely been rooted...
...these political reformers turn their attention more to the abolition of corrupt practices, of the factors which all thinking men would like to see removed from elections. The men who have the confidence of the people will be kept in office. It approaches fanaticism for oracular persons to tell the inhabitants of a nation which has thrived under a party system to disguise their feelings temporarily and admit that their whole form of government is unequal to emergencies...
...represented in government. What our anti-suffragist friends have failed to see is that elections are always expressions of opinions as to interests, both public and private, rather than an actual recording of such interests. If elections always determined the real interests of the majority we should never see corrupt and inefficient public officials, bad laws, and bad governments and disastrous policies. And if the vote were always the true recording of the individual's real interest, parties would be made up entirely of classes; and single groups, social economic and political, would always vote as units since their interests...
...columns of your paper in behalf of a campaign that is being waged for cleaner government here in Cambridge? For years Cambridge has been controlled by a corrupt Democratic "ring" and has gained the reputation of being one of the worst governed cities, in the country. This year a more determined effort than ever before is being made to defeat this "ring" and conditions appear to be favorable. The Citizens Party is planning to make a personal canvass of a certain portion of the voters the nights before election, Monday, March 8. To do this it will need help...