The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-04-21
Publicity Bureau
Democratic Notes

long time before taking the advice Of
the band Of political brigands who
have been looting st. Louis in the
name of the Republican party.
The Republicans carried Kansas
City and Immediately charged fraud
in the Kansas City election. This is
a degree of frankness wholly unex-
pected. But perhaps the fraud charg-
es were framed up in advance of the
election, in anticipation of Republican
defeat.
There are very few Democrats, we
hope, who feel that any good purpose
can be accomplished by fomenting
fractional differences within the ranks
of the Democratic party. To all such
persons, the Kansas City election re-
turns should afford an impressive les
son. Kansas City is now a Republican
city solely because of a quarrel among
Democrats. But the people of Kansas
Clay are not Republicans at heart,
and jackson county, it is confidently
believed, will show up with her old
time Democratic majority in Novem-
Der.
The Progressive party has come out
for prohibition and woman suffrage.
But the prohibitionists and woman suf-
frageists are not going to get very far
if they rely on the Progressive party
to pull them through.
The papers say that Hadley "sat
on the platform" at the Excelsior
Springs convention. But Hadley does
not always sit on the platform. Some
times he crawls under it.
While Roosevelt raves and bowls,
President Wilson proceeds quietly at
his noble work of keeping the United
States at peace with the warning ma
tons. Of these two, posterity will not
have to decide which was the greater
and the better man. The verdict is
already in, and will be re-echoed at the
polls next November. Roosevelt is
not only an enemy of peace, but he
is false to every righteous principle
Moreover, with all his buster, he is
an arrant coward, self-convicted, and
self-confessed, and, although he is
clamoring for war with Germany, il
he ever kills a German he will shoot
him in the back, just as he did that
fleeing Spaniard at San Juan Hill.
If the Republicans govern Kansas
City like they have governed ST
Louis, the people like the Kaw's
mouth will be sorry they made the
change.
st. Joseph, too, went Republican be-
cause Of Democratic factiona
fight. Remember, boys-the Repub'
licans can't win anything in Missouri
without Democratic support.
The only trouble with Gov. Hadley''
"key-note" speech at Excelsiol
Springs was the fact that the key wal
lost and the notes were out of tune.
Whenever there is fight between
Democrats, there is always Repub
lican lurking in the background. Re
member this, you Democrats who fee
disposed to quarrel. 1t doesn't pay
1t doesn't win. Whenever Democrats
fight each other, the Republicans gain
the victory. No Democrat can win
anything, either for himself or fol
his party, by abusing other Demo
Gratis.
The machine slate won at the Re
publican State convention. Nothin,
surprising about that. The averag
Republican convention is sort o
cut and dried affair, where the dele
gates meet merely to carry out tn
will of the bosses.
Governor Major has very properl
called attention to the fact that tn
resolutions passed by the Republica
State convention are but rehash 0
the resolutions which the Republican
always pass every two years. TIL
whole Republican platform is but
meaningless criticism of Democrats
AS the Governor demonstrates in hi
timely statement, the Democratic &C
ministration, even in the last foul
year period, has done more for tn
improvement of the State Government
than the Republican party accomT
lished in its entire history.
Sam Gompers, president of tn
American Federation of Labor, ough
! to be an authority on the condition Q
. the workingmen of this country. Tes
! tifying before a congressional con
} mittee at Washington few days agt
he stated that "the wages, hours G
employment and conditions Of labo
have improved in the United State
} beyond any other period of any pee
pie in the history Of the world" TIL
, Republican calamity howlers ma
) howl all they please, but old ma
: Gompers knows. It's his business
know.
IL the people of st. Louis want
!, reduce their taxes by lowering the
assessed valuation they have the rigl
to do so, and we think they shout
Something should be done to abate IL
:, extravaganza ofthe st. Louis Repul
! lican machine. But this does not q
2 ford any reason for increasing Il
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