Excerpt: ...co-operation and support the party boss is indebted for his continuance in power. 157 To accomplish these ends it is necessary Pg 217 to give the party an internal organization adapted to its real, though not avowed, purpose. The people must not be allowed to use the party as a means of giving clear and definite expression to public opinion concerning the questions wherein the interests of the general public are opposed to the various private interests which support the party machine. For a strong popular sentiment well organized and unequivocally expressed could not be lightly...