Why can we not move, and strongly, for preferential voting?
For some plan by which it shall be the public purse only which secures the necessary printing and circularizing for required information, and no personal differences in wealth shall have any weight in the listing of names on the ballot?
To have a law by which any legally named number of voters (a sufficient number to keep out lonely cranks, but not a sufficient number to suppress considerable minorities) should indicate by petition desire for a chance to vote for a specific representative of their political ideals?
The legal requirement that such persons so named should have a place on the official ballot and that all voting citizens should be able to indicate their graded preference for all candidates thus officially listed, would give the people of a democracy a chance to really choose the kind of legislators they want and the kind of executives they think they need.

In the present situation the independent mind and conscientious purpose often has a choice only between "necessary evils" or the refuge of the political "woods." =Proportional Representation.=--The adoption of some form of preferential voting can alone give the voters a chance for proportional representation of their ideals and aims in legislative bodies.

We are seeing that the limits of useful partisanship in politics are narrower than was once thought.

No sane and sensible person really believes that all of goodness and of wisdom is contained in his party and that its success is a valid reason for "turning out the rascals" of the other party.

No sane and sensible person believes that there is such a thing as "Democratic" economy, or "Republican" justice, or "Socialistic" efficiency, or "Labor Party" good government.