“But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.”

“Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.”

“...anyone wishing to hold office will be disqualified from being a candidate based on his desire to hold office.”

“...it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it... for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office.”

“When a bill was put before the state legislature in Jefferson City that would have prohibited anyone who owned a saloon from holding elective office and reporters asked what he thought of it, Alderman Jim said probably the bill was intended as a way of improving the reputation of saloonkeepers.”

“The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.”