Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...loses himself in a party politics. He could not lose himself in a worse place. It would be an appalling sight if all our party politicians for the past ten years could be gathered into one mass. We could then witness the roughest, the toughest, the most corrupt heap of humanity that mortal man has ever seen. Politics everywhere is moaning beneath such men, to whom government is a thing of the past, and equity of the right sort unknown. Blindly fighting for party rights, they forget their country's welfare. We cannot look to our party for political purity...
...Therefore, the character of the party determines the condition of the whole political system. Thus, if the party organization is corrupt, the evil is felt throughout the whole body politic...
...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...
...followed for the negative. He referred at length to Hill's connection with Tammany, and the record of that organization. He said that Hill's election would be setting a bad example to those who only god is success, as they would be led to follow Hill's corrupt methods...
...Hutchinson '93, then spoke on the negative. The campaign of 1884 has shown that the road to the White House is not smooth. Republics rise, grow, flourish, become corrupt and perish. Men must be nominated whose careers are of the highest order and whose characters are spotless. This speaker based the greater part of his arguments upon the charge that Mr. Blaine once prostituted his office for money, when he was the owner of certain railroad bonds...