Party System Should he Preserved. 
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gone to extremes, we exchange our present evils for the greater 
evils of a Prussian bureaucracy, followed by the death of pop¬ 
ular government, we must take care that the party system, 
through which alone the people can exercise an intelligent 
although imperfect control over its own affairs, be not lost to 
us and our posterity. 
Milwaukee , Wis. 
