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Fidelity to Party
May 28, 1866 issue

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The article discusses that no one can be more averse to the common subservience of people in the U.S. to party leaders and party spirit. It is a melancholy spectacle to see intelligent and honorable men wink at corruption merely because it seems to benefit their party, or sustain measures which they know to be disastrous to their country simply because their party has adopted them. It is to be desired that the people in the U.S. may grow more and more independent of party, looking not to names and standards, but to principles and the fitness of men to carry them out. Party organizations are machines by means of which great public ends are to be achieved.

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POLITICAL parties; LEADERSHIP; ORGANIZATION; POLITICAL corruption; POLITICAL participation; PUBLIC welfare; UNITED States
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