Article May 10, 1930 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Frank B. Dunkley, W. T. Hailes, Borah, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George C. Cell, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, J. F. Fedders

[President Hoover, as quoted in the Boston Post, Massachusetts]

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties. We maintain party government not to promote intolerant partisanship, but because opportunity must be given for expression of the popular will, and organization provided for the execution of its mandates and for accountability of government to the people.

It follows that the government, both in the executive and the legislative branches, must carry out in good faith the platform upon which the party was intrusted with power. But the government is that of the whole people; the party is the instrument through which policies are determined and men chosen to bring them into being. The animosities of elections should have no place in our government, for government must concern itself alone with the common weal.

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