“I have changed my mind,” he said.  “I am not going away.”

They cried out in amazement, and pointed out to him how sorely in need of relaxation he was.

“I am planning relaxation,” he said, and that was all they could get out of him.

Later in the day a confidential messenger was dispatched to the private printing press of the Chuff Organization, bearing the text of a poster which was found broadcast over the whole country a few days later.  It ran thus: 

AT THE NEXT ELECTION

For Perpetual Souse

VOTE FOR CHUFF

The People’s Friend

The end