The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-04-28
Publicity Bureau
Democratic Notes

If money will buy the Republican
for President, Roosevelt
will be the nominee. But money is
not going to buy the American peo-
pie in the general election this year.
So long as it takes twice as much
money for the Republican machine to
run the city of st. Louis as it does for
the Democratic party to run the gov
eminent of the entire State of Mis-
souri,, it will be useless for Republican
politicians to ask Missouri taxpayers
to vote the Republican State ticket.
He is a mighty poor American who
cannot stand by his country in the
hour of her peril, and who will not up
hold the hands of the President in a
grave national crisis. "My country;
may she always be right-but, right
or wrong, my country. That is the
sentiment of the American people to-
day.
The wet and dry fight is on in the
Republican party. The prohibition
lists are back of Swanger, and the
brewers are back of Lamm. Evident
ly the Republicans think that Missouri
has to be governed either by the Anti
Saloon League or the Liquor Deal
ers' Association. The latter-day Re-
publican leaders are not quite so
smart as Hadley was. Hadley was
wet in the city and dry in the coun-
try, and he caught them going and
coming.
During the last Republican admins
tration in this State, the various State
institutions were constantly torn by
factions and upset by scandals. The
various insane asylums, the peniten-
Ertiary, Lincoln Institute, many of the
normal schools, appeared by turns
upon the first pages of the daily news
papers, and never was such record
| of incompetence and downright mis-
management exhibited in the history
of the State. Now all is changed. All
the States institutions are being eff
fciently managed and at a minimum
of cost-and that is what the taxpay
erS want.
The recent international complica-
lions into, which our country has fallen
through no fault of its own, serve to
bring out without vivid emphasis the
criminal negligence of the Republican
party in failing to provide an adequate
system of national defense. With al
most unbroken power for nearly fiji
ty years, the Republican party did
absolutely nothing but fatten its
henchmen upon the spoils Of office.
And now the crisis has come. Thank
God, it has found Democratic adj
ministration in charge at last, and
the work of defending the country
will not be longer neglected.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat "con-
fidently predicts the overthrow of the
State Democratic administration this
year" No brother, there isn't going
to be any overthrow" The present
Democratic State administration will
expire next January by operation of
law. There will not be any "over-
throw" about it. The administration
will quit because it will have served
out its time under the law. But an
other Democratic State administration
will take it's place, and go right ahead
with the glorious work of building up
the greatest commonwealth in the
American Union.
In view of the promises of candi-
dates to take the eleemosynary and
educational institutions of the State
"out of politics." we do not recall but
one period, in recent years, when
those institutions were ever in politics;
that was during the Hadley admins
tration. Hadley even went so far as
to fire the democratic Niggers" out
Of Lincoln Institute and put good Re-
publican partisans in their places
wherever possible. Indeed, we know
of no other instance in the history of
the State wherein the spoils system
was so ruthlessly applied to an edu-
cational institution. And the same
thing is contemplated again. At least
one of the Republican candidates for
Governor is known to be promising
Lincoln Institute "jobs" to his negro
supporters. But the people Of Mis-
souri, will see to that. That kind of
politics disappeared with Governor
Hadley.
The State Of Missouri owes its en-
tire school system, it's banking system,
it's road system, and practically ev-
erything else that constitutes great
State, solely to the Democratic party.
We have the safest mining inspection
laws in the world, as shown by the
statistics of our mining accidents.
We have more miles of improved roads
than some of our sister Republican
States who have higher tax rate
We have one of the largest permanent
school funds in the world. Our banks
are progressing more rapidly than
those of other States. No State is
making more rapid progress in the
construction of highways. All this
is due to the Democratic party, the
party that believes in popular rule;
the party that believes in a govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people. Have the Republicans
anything better to offer? No, they
left us a debt of forty millions, and
we paid it while reducing the taxes
every wear Thew did nothino for