The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-10-20
GOV. HADLEEY GETS TO
PENNINGTON AT LAST
He Delivers a Highly Colored and
Eulogistic Address on His
Administration.

Governor Herbert :. Hadley was
greeted at the Opera House in Farm
iugton last Tuesday afternoon by IA
large crowd that filled the house to
its full capacity. The audience was
composed Of men and women, Re-
publicans aud Democrats, all eager
to see and hear our young Republic
eau Executive. 1t was his first Wis
it to Pennington, although lac had
been billed to appear mere on several
former occasions, but failed to show
up. Thr Governor is II man Of
pleasing and preposscssing person
atty, IA clear and forccful speaker,
but possessing an int"ns" partisan
strabismus of mind that appears to
be unable To- focus itself on any
virtue or good in his political dis
scntcrs and to magnify out Of all
proportions the smallest achieve
mcnts of his own party, and even to
imagir" great deal that has no
existence in reality. This may per
hap, be partly attributed to his po-
litical environment and training
he was brought up in Kansas before
that State saw til" light and began
to iusurge to the enthusiasm
and self-assertivemess Of youth,
which age may either mellow or ag-
grayatn according to the cradle in
which il is nursed.
But Governor Hadley is "A young
man Of intellectual fore" aud law
yer of no mean ability, who with Il
broader view and more coHscicn-
tiousncss might develop into II
statesman and patriot such as La
Follitte, Cummins or Dollivcr, for
it is said ne began to show slight
disposition to insurgc, but was so
overwhelmed by the reactiouary
Federal crowd of his party in Mis-
souri,, that he quietly subsidized. See
ing the bad Odor which Cannonism,
the Payne ldrieh tariff law and the
failure of the Special Interests ele-
ment OF the Republican party in
Congress to keep its campaign prom
Uses, he wanted to conduct the cam
paign in Missouri on State issues,
having an exaggerated idea of what
his administration has accomplished;
hut the standpattcrs couldn't see
anything In that, so they formulated
their platform on different lines.
The Governor was introduced to
his audience here by Congressman
Politt" Elvins, "i'nclr Jo's' pet,
who with the Federal crowd behind
him and rs chairman of tine Repub.
lican platform committee, bestcd the
Governor at the Jefferson City con
Ncntiun in the matter Of arranging
the campaign policy of the party in
this State. IN opening his address
the Governor apologized for his fire.
qucnt failures to fiji former appoint
ments at this place. and then fol-
lowed up his idea %! conducting the
campaign by laudng his administra-
tion and telling what he perhaps be-
licvcs has been accomplished under
his executive direction. To hear
him tell it, Missouri had never had
an honest election until he became
Governor; no development of the
State had been made; no uucultiva-
ted lands had been opened; swamp
reclamation was never thought of /;
cultivation OF the soil was crude
ard Improbable until his experience
as n farmer opened their eyes, al
though Missouri has for 10! these
many years had an Agricultural
College and splendid State Board
of Agriculture built up and encour-
aged by Democratic administrations.
TIL" fact that over forty years ago
, Democratic administrations began
| to wrcstle with an enormous public
debt bcqucathed the State by Re-
publican administrations; that they
had succeeded in paying off that
debt and at the same time lowering
the peoples taxes; that they had
built up and established the state
University, with its agricultural
and mining departments, normal
schools, all our splendid eleemOsyn-
ary institutions aud one of the best
public school systems Of any State
In the Union, cuts no figure; Mis-
souri, was blotch on the map until
az" became Governor, and then "l'
began to do things. Presto, abraca'
dabra carabarabara, what IA meta
morphosis!
Mr.. Hadley said that when he be-
came Governor he inherited deficit
of some millions from his predeccs'
sor's administration, and had sur'
ceeded in placing balance on the
right size of the ledger. He made
IA similar assertion, we remember,
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