The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1902-01-31
THE DISSATISFIED DEMOCRAT
On Tenure In Office.


many moons; possibly the people
had perfect confidence in him
when he first come out for Office
and he may have been elected on
his own popularity but In the
scramble for pie he has overlooked
some points in the game that
would have been valuable to him.
That is too say he brought on a
high market and the invisible sup
ply IL increasing enough every
day to make the market drop sew
cral points n day. He now looks
as II he had bought lard and II
made his pathway too greasy for
him. Anyway he has slipped up
and landed in an ungraccful po-
sition. He experimental with his
skates too much. Into his Office
he came and for awhile he was
model of industry but In a short
tim. he found that his money came
easy and an insatiatc desire to
pcrpctuate himself In this easy
and sure manner of living comes
to him and he builds up n machine
for that purpose. In the mean
time those friends who started
him out have commenced to in
quirc "Upon what meat does this
our Ceasar iced that he has grown
so grcat2"
That Is the first part of the come-
dy and now we must figure little.
Figures generally are tircsomc but
these figures are more interesting
than the Dockcry-Allcn-Ncw
York expert exhibit. Let US figure
ON every man living In our county
attaining the age Of three score
years and ten. We will count
four thousand voters In the county
with an average Of forty-ninc
years to man In which each one
Is eligible to hold an onlcc. Say
that there are sixteen oficcs In the
county and that the allotted time
for any man to hold any office Is
four years. We will then see that
in the eligible period OF the aver
age lifetime only II Il mon could
hold the same onicc In succession.
Or in the eligible period of n life
time only 1895 men would hold ohicc
less than five per cent of the yot-
crs OF the county. Under the pre-
sent system Of tenure in onice the
percentage Ii even smaller than
that. That system virtually re-
solves into this ~ per cent of the
voters OF the county foot the bills
to enable 3 per cent OF their num-
bcr To grow fat without great
amount OF labor. have Just given
you the results aud my object is
to get you to figure II out for your
self because whenever n man fig
CURES he thinks-hc is compelled
to think, especially when he
makes his own figures.
My point is this, is 1t just. that 3
per cent should have more than
one term in office to the exclusion
OF the 81 per cent who are footing
the bills? The fact that 3 per cent
may be capable cuts no figure In
the case because at least 10 per cent
OF the 81 per cent are also capable,
now some one will say that old
fool that wrote that hasn't any of
his data correct and as soon as you
hear that just say to him that this
| old fool will take the exact data
and will induct or deduct him ac-
knowlcdging the coin or backing
| down. The Gods of Greece and
Rome were supreme yet each one
had human streak in their make
up. Nearly every democrat is
happy in his convictions yet they
are now all willing to listen to
reason and when the reason Is
dosed up right IL generally cures
the disease. A certain Doctor in
this county once said that while he
was not at heart free silver man
he had to be allied with the free
silver forces to hold his practice.
The lesson he learned would I'll n
book. The point ! make here is
that man does not gain any
thing by falling into the band wa
gon against his judgement when h,
has the figures on his side. You
see it illustrated by the way the
boys are selling free silver stock
and making goo-goo eyes at the
gold bugs.
Well now want all OF you to
figure on this thing and get ready
for some more problems in tn,
future. My mission will be to offe
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