The Taney County republican., 1910-07-07

to shelter their hands. They are going
to drill all over the tract and if sufficient
mineral is found shafts will be sunk and
mills erected. We will soon know
more about the mineral resources oi
Taney county, at least in the territory
around Melva.
OF course I talked some politics on
the train AID while at Springfield. !
met men from Stone, Christian and
Douglas counties. Among them were
farmers, merchants, travelling salesmen,
tie buyers, stock buyers, lawyers and
bankers, and there were Democrats as
well as Republicans. The object of
greatest interest was the race for circuit
Judge. And every one to whom I
talked thought that Judge John T.
Moore would wit, the only question be-
ing as to the size of his majority. 1t
looks like Judge Moore is going to
carry every county in the circuit. It
is harder for me to believe that he will
carry Douglas than any other county,
as that is the home of Judge Burkhead,
and an outside man has to be exceed
ingly strong to carry county over a
home man. But travelling salesman
who makes every town in that county
and who takes great interest in and is
a close observer of politics told me he
would bet that Judge Moore carried
Douglas. Of course he will carry
Christian, not even his enemies deny
that, the only question being as to
the per cent of the vote he will get,
the estimate running from IS to o5 per
cent. He will also carry Ozark county
by good majority, and Taney the
same way. That brings US to Stone.
Two years ago, Renfro, Tromley, Bent
ly & Co. carried the primaries in Stone
by good majorities. If this race for
citcuit judge had taken place then,
there is no doubt but what Renfro
would have carried Stone by the same
majority. But from the best reports
I can get, not only is Renfro going to
lose Stone this year, but Tromley and
Bently, who are candidates for county
Offices, are going to be badly beaten.
Here is the way Democrat from Stone
county put the proposition up to me.
I'VE Democrats in Stone county didn't
have any chance to elect ticket and
as we couldn't elect ticket of our own
we voted two years ago in the Repub-
lican primary with the idea of selecting
the best Republican ticket and we all
voted for Renfro, Tromley & Co. be-
cause we thought they were the best
Republican candidates. They were
making their race on reform, anti-ring
platform and that sounded good to US.
With our help they won out. AS to
reform, I haven't seen any and rs to
rings we have the closest ring that evrr
existed in Stone county. They grab
everything in sight and you couldn't
get them to prosecute their friends no
matter what their friends did. This
year we Democrats can't vote in the
Republican primary if we would and if
we could we wouldn't vote for Renfro,
Tromley & Co. And whole lot of
Republicans who two years ago thought
that crowd were little tin angels now
see their error and are going to vote
against them. In my estimation from
ley and Bentley are going to be beaten
and Judge Moore will carry Stone by a
good majority" And I get the same
kind of report about Stone comfy
from other places. So to sum up,
Judge Moore will carry Christian county
by 1000, Ozark by 200 and Taney by
800. I am not going to claim Doug
las county although as I have said be-
fore, we'll posted men say he will carry
it. In the counties outside of Stone
he will have majority of 1,500 over
Burkhead and Renfro will not get 500
votes in those counties. In Stone he
will get good majority over Renfro
and Burkhead will get only few scat
tering votes, In the whole circuit he