Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1909 — TOO POOR TO RETAIN TOGA [ARTICLE]

TOO POOR TO RETAIN TOGA

Senator Flint of California Says He Can’t Afford Re-Election. Los Angeles, Oct. 12.—Senator Flint says that when his present term of service expires in 1911 he will not be a candidate for re-election. "If I were a rich man,” he declares. "I would like nothing better than to remain in the senate all my life. But I feel I owe it to my family to get out of politics. I can retire now from the senate and pick up a good living, but if I waited until the end of another term I would probably be too old.”