The governor would control the distribution of all those fruits of the administrative and legislative system upon which the machine has lived.

There could be no trafficking in offices, in public contracts, or in legislation; and the man who wished to serve the state unofficially would have to do so from disinterested motives.

Moreover, the professional politician could not only be destroyed, but he would not be needed.

At present he is needed, because of the prodigious amount of business entailed by the multiplicity of elective officials.

Somebody must take charge of this political detail; and it has, as we have already remarked, drifted into the hands of specialists.