Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1910-04-06
None Are Fit.

cratic exchanges from the Thir'
teenth Congressional district. moi
one Of the gentlemen who have
come forward for the nomination
of that party for Congress is en-.
titled to it, or even worthy of the
confidence of the people. As each
has successively offered himself
one or more of his party papers in
the district has given what is helc
as good and sufficient reasons fol
consigning him to eternal politicaI
oblivion, and we are ready to take
their words for 1t, for our readers
may rest assured our Democratic
friends know their own men best.
There is Edward Robb of Perry
vile, who withaIl appears the
most presentable of the whole out
fit, is denounced as political para.
site, who wants to spend his whole
life at the public teat. This is q
pretty serious objection where SC
many Democrats hunger after q
pull at that nourishing appendage.
Then there are John l.. Bradley
and Walter L. Hensley of St.
Francois county, what of them
Bradley is approached by some OF
our Democratic contemporaries with
clothespins on their noses because
of u transaction he is alleged to
have been involved iD some years
ago when he represented his coun-
ty in the Legislature, the odor of
which is still said to be fierce in his
vicinity. No, none of Bradley
AS for Hensley, the objection TO
him, principally, is that as attor'
ney for Editor Page Of the Bonne
Terre Star, whom he advised to
stand on his constitutional rights
and refrain from tcstifying against
himself as to where he got u GER
tain $1,000 bill at the same session
of the legislature above referred
to, while Page was in JEFF. City
running an alleged news bureau
and Illuminating through it about
the lawful corruption" of the Re-
publicans, be was trying to keep
the people from getting scent of
Bradley. Besides that, HensIey is
further condemned by his party
press as being in the pay of one of
the large lead mining corporations
operating in his county-a corper-
alton attorney. Next comes Geo.
L. Lee of Carter county, whom
our own neighbor, the esteemed
Independent, just positively cannot
endure because be Lee) ulso has a
legislative record that makes a
clothespin come handy when that
record is investigated. The lnde-
pendent even goes 80 far as to in
innate that in scratch as to which
has the worst public record, Lee
or Senator Farris of Crawford
county, Lee would have nothing
"on" Farris, and the people are
pretty familiar with the record of
Farris.
Now, none of this criticism of
these candidates for Democratic
preferment to high political honors
comes from the Republican press,
mind you; what we are repeating
above is what we see in Democrat
ic papers, yet in those same papers
the Republicans are continually
denounced as unfit to hold Office
because of their unfaithfulness to
the interests of the people. Moth
ing that has appeared in our Dem
ocratic exchanges against Con-
gressman Elvins, however, is as
bad as they are putting forth
against the Democrats who want to
succeed him, beside whom, if their
own party organs state the truth,
and it may confidently be assumed
they do, Elvins is a little emblem
of political purity.
Nor or the congressional candi-
dates the only ones who come in
for this newspaper odium. There
is the Hon. Sam Byrns of Jeffer'
son county, who wants the Demo
cratic nomination for circuit Judge,
and who, rs the 1ronton Register
intimates, has party record as
straight as dogs hind leg. Like
wise this may be said of 'Ou1
Dave" Francis also, who thinks be
ought to be strong favorite OF
his party for Senatorial honors,
Yes, yes, they are indeed an unfit
| lot.