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celebration in Boston, a newspaper told how the returning sons of Boston were
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No man should be a judge in his own case,
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The ballot a responsibility,
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Patriotism above party,
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Measures, not men,
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A public office is a public trust,
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What is the Constitution between friends? expresses their point of view. In their eyes, an election is not the decision of a great, impartial jury, but a struggle between the
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and the
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Those who vote the same way are
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To scratch or to bolt is to
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Places and contracts are
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The official's first duty is to find berths for his supporters. Not fitness, but party work, is one's title to a place on the municipal pay-roll. The city employee is to serve his party rather than the public that pays his salary. Even the justice of courts is to become a matter of
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The Germans want to know which candidate is better qualified for the office. Among the Irish I have never heard such a consideration mentioned. They ask, 'Who wants this candidate?' 'Who is behind him?' I have lined up a good many Irish in support of Good Government men, but never by setting forth the merits of a matter or a candidate. I approach my Irish friends with the personal appeal, 'Do this for me!' Nearly all the Irish who support our cause do it on a personal loyalty basis. The best of the Irish in this city have often done as much harm to the cause of Good Government as the worst. Mayor C., a high-minded Irishman desiring to do the best he could for the city, gave us as bad a government as Mayor F., who thought of nothing but feathering his own nest. Mayor C. 'stood by his friends.'