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Editorials

October 29, 1930 issue

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The general run of political candidates for public offices has been noticeably declining in quality. Most of the men and women asking to be sent to the U.S. Congress or to be placed in high State offices at the coming elections show no deviation from this general downward tendency. Studying the current list of more than a thousand candidates is enough to make honest men break down and weep. Here and there are outstanding exceptions, candidates of independence and courage, of genuinely liberal tendencies, but these exceptions are few in number.

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