I would call your attention to a change that it seems to me should be made
in the method of selecting U.S. Senators and Supreme Judges. Heretofore it
has been noticeable that the men who carried the longest pole knocked down
the senatorial persimmons. In the matter of the election of Judges of the
Supreme Court, it has been the practice to secure men for those places at
an enormous salary, when other men would be willing to do the work and
board themselves. The suggestion I would make is that you pass a law
letting the offices of United States Senator and Judges of the Supreme
Court to the lowest bidder. This method will be economical and will secure
to the state men who can legislate and judge things well enough for all
practical purposes. The way times are now we must get things at panic
prices or go without.