Word: partisans
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...left undone, no American critic seriously doubts that President Wilson is striving today, as he has always striven, to advance what he considers to be the best interests of the American people. Therefore for an undergraduate magazine to embark upon an editorial policy so shamelessly bigoted and blindly partisan, dropping as it does to extremes which only George Harvey dare exceed is not exactly well-considered. Frankly, we do not see how the members of the Advocate Board could ever have deliberately agreed on so questionable a policy...
...task of organizing a great military machine is in any case great; in a country possessing no machinery for its accomplishment it is of tremendous difficulty. There have been many mistakes in the war's prosecution, and perhaps not a few of them have been due to partisan causes. But the bulk of the testimony points to an honest endeavor at a fair administration. Appointments of men of the opposite party may be a spectacular appeal to the electorate. Fairmindedness, however, demands recognition for a policy which lays partisanship aside and which substitutes a real consideration for the needs...
...career of David Lloyd George as a war Premier of Great Britain has been a stormy one. Founded upon the ruins of the discarded partisan system, his cabinet, a highly centralized war council representing, in theory at least, all political elements of the nation, has seen a trying period in English development. It has had to face the problems of directing a great war; it has had brought before it internal problems of social and economic reorganization; and it has had to contend with questions of race and empire whose seriousness cannot be overestimated. Under such a condition of affairs...
...power and responsibility. America now has its powerful administration; England long ago created its war council. They both are actuated by the principle that democratic forms must be sacrificed in times of national emergency. They allow for healthy criticism, but they demand a complete freedom from petty interference and partisan dissension. In America and England there have been mistakes and many of them. Human nature is far from infallible, as are political bodies. But the errors of centralization are in no way comparable to those of partisanship. Lloyd George stands as a great figure who has led his country well...
...present tendency of would-be political reformers to eliminate all party feeling from coming elections is no unmixed blessing. There are partisan elements in all elections which we would have permanently discarded, but the party system itself is a source of strength in a democracy and one which should not be tossed aside lightly. If the party system is a bad thing in time of war, it is just as pernicious in time of peace. The character of candidates ought to be a consideration of importance, but it does not mean obliteration of parties. Of course, all platforms will...