Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-01
Not For The Senate
But For The State
Governor Hadley Makes State
Welfare Paramount Issue.
Urged to Become a Candidate for
Senator He Declines to Quit the
Work for Which the People Sell
ected Him Will Continue TO Uplift
the State ard Let others Take
Care Of National issues.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Jefferson City, August 2o.--Gov-
rrnor HadIey will not quit the work
oi improving the government of Mis-
s'uri to take a hand in National poll
tics. That is the meaning of his de-
CiSion not to become candidate tor
United States Senator.
The Democrats are making the tar
if and National politics paramount in
Missouri this year. Governor Had
ley is making the welfare Of the state
the paramount consideration. He
has drawn the line of battle and is in
the fight. While the Democratic
nominees for congress and candidates
for the senate discuss National issu"s
with the Republican candidates for
congress and the senate Governor
Hadley will appeal to the people to
elect a legislature favorable to the
policies pursued by his administration
favorable to greater and better
Missouri.
And he will give hearty support to
the candidacy OF the party nominees
for congress.
The Governor has been bcSicgcd
on every hand to become candidate
for senator since Mr.. Dickcy de-
Clned. and more eagerly have his
friends urged him to take that step
since Senator Warner announced that
he cannot enter TIE race. That the
opportunity to go to the senate was
before him-that an open door to the
senate was before him---few men con-
vcrsant with political conditions in the
state seriously doubted. !!c himself
felt that he could be elected. But
there was an insurmountable objection
to such course. He was elected in
1908 by the votes of thousands Of
good citizens who joined the Rcpub-
licans in supporting him because they
believed he would give the state a
better administration than his Demo-
cratic opponent. and because they
believed he would carry out the pol
icies outlined in his public addresses.
During the first two years OF his adj
ministration he has justified this cx-
pcctation--this confidence of the
people who supported him for gov
crnor. But he has not been able to
do all he desired to do--to accom-.
plish all that he promised the people
A Democratic State Senate hinder.
cd him in legislation and Democratic
State officials, not in harmony with
him, were elected with him. He was
thus handicapped from the start
The reorganization OF the police and
election boards of the cities was nee,
'essaiy before he could reform election
practices and take the police of the
large municipalities out OF politics
Republicans had not been entrusted
with the government of the state lo
orty years and he found it Difficult
matter to re-orpanizc the various de
partmerts and start new order o
public service with men who hao
known but little of such service. III,
State eleemosynary, educational anC
penal institutions had been unde
Democratic control and some OF then
4. had been badly handled for man,
years. To put them under goot
business management and divorce
them from party politics was diff
cult undertaking. Bur he has accom-