Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...States senators. The next move was to establish the recall, so that the people could discharge those officers who proved faithless to their trust. Immediately a Republican legislature, pledged to direct senatorial election, chose a Democratic senator to support that movement. And next, to remove the great danger of corruption at the direct primaries, the people forced the unwilling legislature to pass a genuine corrupt practices act, which is so severe as to prevent further corruption at the polls. Finally, the people decided that they would vote for the candidates for President and Vice-President themselves. Hence the delegates from...
When only seventeen, Mr. Spreckels entered active business in Philadelphia. Here he learned the corrupt methods used by the trusts in dealing with their competitors. While still a young man Mr. Spreckels moved to San Francisco, where he soon became interested in the San Francisco Gas and Electric Co., and, finding it corrupt, succeeded in causing the retirement of the old board of directors and the election of a reform board. He now turned his attention to municipal reform, aided by Freemont Older, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, Francis J. Heney, and William J. Burns. Mr. Spreckels volunteered...
...Spreckels is the son of Claus Spreckels, of San Francisco, and a millionaire in his own name. Shortly after coming of age, he became interested in the gas company of San Francisco. Upon looking into its affairs, he found it corrupt in its relations with the city council and its own shareholders. The latter in answer to an appeal from Mr. Spreckels, threw out the old board of directors and elected his reform ticket. As president of the First National Bank of San Francisco, he saw and studied finance and politics from the inside...
...years later I became interested in the situation in St. Louis, where Mr. Folk was investigating the corruption in the board of aldermen. The aldermen confessed who had bribed them and it was found that they made up the ablest, most courageous, and most enterprising citizens of the city, as had been the case in New York. They were after franchises and grants,--in other words, privileges. Then I went up to Minneapolis and found the condition of corruption the same. Here they had gone still further and criminals were invited to come to the city to do their work...
...going to tackle this question? You say what we want in the first place is good government. That is not what we want. England has good government, but she has class government. Parliament is corrupt just like Congress. We are now passing through the same stages of government that England has passed through. Our democracy is being transformed into an aristocracy. What we want is representative government, government that represents the common interests of the people. That won't be good government for a good many generations. We want more than goodness in representatives. We want loyalty. The problem...