The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1910-09-15

progressiveness and stand pat'' and
vote for that multi-millionaire stock
gambler, David r Francis. For that
is Why Clarence was nominated and
why such strenuous efforts are being
made to elect him as I will show later
on. This year the u. S. census is
being taken and upon the next legisla-
ture will devolve the duty of redistrict-
ing the state into state senatorial dis
uicts. Would Clarence rise above
party and vote to have the legislature
perform this important junction? No,
he won't do that either. You see the
state constitution provides that if the
Legislature upon which falls the duty of
redistricting the state does not per-
form that duty then the duty devolves
upon the Governor, Secretarv cf State
and Attorney General. The Legislature
never has performed this function. al
ways leaving it TO those officers and
the result is that while there are as
many Republicans as Democrats in
Missouri, the state senate is two to one
Democratic IF the next legislature
doesn't redistrict the state that duty
will fail upon Governor Hadley, Attor-
ney General Major and Secretary Of
State Roach, and what Roach and Ma
jor will do has already been foretold.
A short time since the Governor and
his friends drew up q map of the state
showing proposed new districts and the
people of the state pstitioned to be al
lowed 10 vote on it under the initiative
and referendum. but Major and Roach
and the Democratic Supreme Court
arbitrarily refused to allow the people
that privilege.
Should Clarence be elected would
he rise above party and vote to put
Taney into a Congressional district
that was somewhere near compact" as
we'll as contiguous? I opine not.
The chances are that he would vote
for continuation OF the present ar
rangemept whereby our district begins
within two counties of the Kansas line
and runs clear to the Mississippi river.
I say that Clarence will vote along
these lines because it is presumed that
he will act with his party and he has
not signifed his intention of doing
otherwise.
Further than this the election of
Clarence would be the preversion of
the very principle upon which his cleo
ton is urged -progressiveness. Her
bert Hadley has been the most pro-
gressive Governor Missouri ever had.
He has devoted his energies to build
ing up the state, not machine. He
has done more for the Czarks than all
the rest of NIissouri's Governors COM
bined. And what shall Taney's answer
10 the progressive Hadley be? Send
a Democrat to the legislature to harass
him and help tie his hands fer the rest
of his administration? That would be
progressiveness with vengeance!
Don't get the :dea that this rise
above party idea IS peculiar to fancy
county. The same cry is being made
in all the Republican countless Ii Is
state wide and concerted and the
sinews Of war are being furnished by
the man who made the Worlds Fair
famous. But in the Democratic coun-
ties they are yelling it makes me mad
every time see a Republican Cover
nor in the Mansion House in Jefferson
City-vote er straight
Any Republican in fancy county
has right to vote for Clarence if he
wants to, but he should do so with his
eyes open and understandingly. A
vote for Clarence means a vote for
Dave Francis or possibly jim Reed for
United States Senator. The only diff
ference between the two is that Fran
els owns corporations while corpora
tions own Reed. A vote for, Clarence
is vote for continuation OF the pre-
sent gerrymander whereby one Demo
crat counts as much as two Republi-
cans when it comes to electing state