THANKSGIVING QUOTA
Here is a story about the famed Alben Barkley and an ungrateful constituent. The story concerns Farmer Jones, a man Barkley began doing favors for when he started out in 1905 as prosecuting attorney of McCracken County, and continued doing favors for as a judge, and then as a representative, and finally as a senator. Barkley (as he told the story) visited Farmer Jones in a hospital in France in World War I to console him, and he helped him get loans from the Farm Credit Administration. On top of all this, he got Farmer Jones a Federal disaster loan to rebuild his farm after a flood had struck, and he also got Mrs. Jones an appointment as postmaster. Then, 1938, Barkley got into a hot primary fight for his Senate seat with A.B. (Happy) Chandler. But to Barkley’s astonishment, he learned that the man he had so often befriended, Farmer Jones, was going to vote for Chandler. He hurried to see…
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