A STEP BACK WARD. 
‘i these days of ours, legislative control is largely in 
the hands of great corporate interests that domi- 
ate the State, and while personal selection of legislative 
candidates is nominally left to local district leaders, 
yet his after official acts are carefully outlined and the 
exigencies of a future occasion provided against during 
the future legislator’s incumbency of the office. To be 
sure a little suasion—moral or immoral—is often used. 
Like actors on the mimic stage these actors in the real 
life drama are selected for a certain part which require 
their attention and all else they view with indifference. 
To stand firmly in senatorial contests it often becomes 
necessary for the successful man of the pinnacle to re- 
member a relative or close friend of the legislator who 
had stood loyally by himself in the scramble, with an 
after federal office of some kind, and through the 
courtesy and good offices of a friendly president, his 
wishes are respected. On occasions where the legisla- 
tor defies the wishes of his constituents in the matter of 
senatorial choice or of some particular measure, then a 
federal or some state position is awarded the unrecon- 
ciled legislator in lieu of a lost constituency. 
It is said men with a single aim are more successful 
than those who try to do too many things in an aimless 
