If the President is discontented with his pay, why doesn’t he throw up his job?
I know several fellows who will take it at the present price.
There is W. J. B., for instance.
I haven’t the faintest doubt that he would be willing to quit editing The Commoner and assume Presidential burdens at $50,000 per year. It would be easier work, don’t you know, than making twenty-two speeches a day for a candidate like Parker, a platform like that of St. Louis 1904, and a National Chairman like Tom Taggart—the gambling-hell man of Indiana.
Governor Folk, of Missouri, was elected to stop boodling, banish bribery and otherwise purify the political atmosphere.
A bill was promptly introduced into the Legislature to make it possible to convict and punish bribery.
The Senate promptly killed the bill.
Folk is still Governor, however.