The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-07
Drys are Making Toy of Can
didate to Defeat Judge
and Aid Haupt
EFFORT TO SPLIT WET
ANDINDEPENDENT VOTE
Fight For Nomination Will be
Made to Capture Voters Who
Are on Fence

Jackson, Mo-, July 31.-Leaders of
the Republican party in the County
seat have agreed that there is a con-
spiracy among a certain element in
the party to defeat Judge William
Paar for denomination.
According to those who are in a
position to know, the anti-Paar men
are using Henry Kuss as a cats paw.
By pretending to support Mr.. Kuss
the foes of Judge Paar expect to d.
vide the vote of the rank and file in
the party, thus giving the nomination
to the third man, who is Judge Haupt.
Those who have discovered the
scheme Of the Haupt hackers are
planning to induce Mr.. Kuss to with
draw. Whether he Endorses Judge
Paar is not material, but as they have
long been friends, it is beloved he
would favor Judge Paar to Judge
Haupt. But with Mr.. Kuss out Of the
race, it would leave Judge Haupt and
Judge Paar to fight it out.
E. w. Flentge, w. H. Stubblefield
and Judge Hirsch are having circulat-
ed petition which binds Republicans
to vote against Judge Paar at the
primaryn ext Tuesday. 1t is said they
have been circulated among the vot-
ers in this city, Cape Girardeau and
many parts of the county. But only
a few names have been added to them.
These petitions were responsible
for the plans of the Haupt men be-
coming known. One man, who was
circulating theR, and who is well
known in the county, informed a
farmer today that there was con-
certed effort being made to defeat
Judge Paar. The party, who lives in
Cape Gerardeau, said that the men
who have organized to get the scalp
of Judge Paar proposed to defeat Mr.,
Kuss also.
Those circulating the petition say
that he fight is being waged on Paar
because he is opposed to prohibition.
Judge Haupt is making the race as a
dry man, and Kuss is considered wet
The dry element is supporting
Haupt, but the leaders are urging
their friends to vote for Kuss. By their
open opposition to Paar, they expect
to line up the pronounced wet men
for him, and by persuasion they ex-
pect to get the Republicans who ere
neither wet nor dry, to support Kuss.
This would leave the pronounced drys
to cast their full vote for Jl'dge
Haupt. By splitting the Anovn WIT
and theindependent vote, the dry
leaders claim they will poll more than
either Paar or Kuss. This, of course,
would land the norunatiOr eor Mr..
Haupt.
By getting Ku3s to withdraw, tie
fight would be for the support of the
men who are neither wet nor dry. As
Judge Haupt is making the race as II
dry man, he would be certain to poll
the full anti-wet vote.
And as the Haupt leaders have al
ready branded Paar as being opposed
to prohibition, he would naturally get
the support of the vets. The tug of
war would come with those who are
on the fence in the liquor question,
and this is big factor in Cape Cir
ardeau Couty.
In previous campaigns Judge Paar
has captured a heavy Independent
vote. He has been considered the
strongest man in his party. and he
frequently leads his ticket. His yer
sonal friends deny that he has favored
the vets in preference to the drys
They say he has always been fair and
nothing more. But as he has been
seen tn enter saloons, the drys rg.o
declared him unit for Office,
I,. kuas is a man who also =. B.
saloons, and Judge Haupt is proc
nounccd in his views against the
liquor business. Leaders in every sec
ton Of the county are watching the
outcome with unusal interest.