To promote and maintain the principle of the Republican Party; to foster within the Republican Party and make practical in the service of the municipality, state and nation, the idealism characteristic of youth, to correct in our own party that tendency all parties to make organization an end rather than a means; to develop sound principle and public spirit in party politics; to promote honest and fair electoral methods, to the end that expression the popular will by whatever party or body, shall be as free, untrammeled and equal as possible; to resist and expose political corruption; to advocate merit rather than partisan service as entitling to public office; to watch legislation and to encourage public attention to and efficiently criticize government.
