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liim. If he prefers some one else, let him cast his vote accord- 

 ingly. With none of these administrative positions should 

 "politics" have anything to do. Their incumbents are 

 employed by the public to perform certain duties laid down in 

 the law. Sometimes they have opportunities to steal, and do 

 so. Usually they discharge their duties honestly. It is in the 

 legislative positions connected with state and local govern- 

 ments that there is most danger of corruption, and the voter 

 has his greatest safeguard against dishonesty in these, when he 

 knows whose money is spent to elect the candidate. 



