Word: roosefelt
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...present party system is bad. (a) It results in government for the machine instead of for the people. Goldwin Smith in North Am. Rev. vol. 155, p. 582. Hence (1) Rotation in office; (2) Geographical appointments; (3) Unfit or corrupt officials. Roosefelt: Practical Politics, pp. 11-41. (b) It results in responsibility to the party, not to the people. (c) It gives undue influence to certain sections; Chinese and Silver questions. (d) Strict party government results in a rule by but little over one-quarter of the voters...
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