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The Duty Of The Young Voter

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
November
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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I There is oue point, however, which caunot be passed over in discussing the duty of attending tlie primary caucas. In order to go lo i primary 3'ou must belong to a party, and therefore the question oL attending the primarles opens up the larger question of political parties. By balancing one party against another the genuiney independent vote lias of ten a great effect, but in the long run that man is most useiul who allies hiinself with one party or the other,and s thns able to do liis duty and exert his influence as an American citizen to the fullest extent. The man who does this not only makes himself feit in deciding between candidatea at the ballotbox, but also has his say as to who those candidates shall be, and as to how the great party machine shall be run. I am not counselling a blind partisanship. Any one of us may be a strong party man and yet be obliged to break with his party if the organization abandons the great principies on which it rests. My proposition simply is that, as, under our system, our governinent is to be conducted by political parties, the most effective and useful citizen is he who belongs to one of these tvo governing organizations. The highest duty of every American citizen is to vote ; the next highest duty is to go to the primary and take part in the governinent of the organization which is to govern the state or country.- Harper's Round Table.

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Ann Arbor Courier