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mediately into some high political position with very little previous training or preparation for the work other than a liberal education. Examples of this class are found in the United States senate in LeRoy Percy of Mississippi Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana, Thomas B. Turley of Tennessee and James E. Martine of New Jersey, who have held no political office before taking their place in the senate. 
If politics is a game, it is one which has no permanent standards of value, and no set rules of procedure. The presidency of the United States is admittedly the highest goal; the vice presidency offers little inducement except as a possible step to the presidency and the estimates of the other high political offices vary at different times and with different people. J.R.Oglesby resigned the

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4 mediately into some high political position with very little previous training or preparation for the work other than a liberal education. Examples of this class are found in the United States senate in LeRoy Percy of Mississippi Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana, Thomas B. Turley of Tennessee and James E. Martine of New Jersey, who have held no political office before taking their place in the senate. If politics is a game, it is one which has no permanent standards of value, and no set rules of procedure. The presidency of the United States is admittedly the highest goal; the vice presidency offers little inducement except as a possible step to the presidency and the estimates of the other high political offices vary at different times and with different people. J.R.Oglesby resigned the