“Frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me,” Missouri congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver said in an 1899 speech: “I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.” Note to Missouri governor Mike Parson: You’re getting this “Show-Me State” business all wrong. Parson tried to charge Elad Gross, a  candidate for state attorney general,  $3,618 for More

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