The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-09-22

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establish clearly that nepotlsm was
in flower during the reign of Herbert
S. Hadley, the first Republican Gov
ernor of Missouri in a generation, and
that this practice was in vogue then
to a burdensome limit, it is only nee
essary to examine closely the chap
tiers in the State Blue Books for l9O9-
10 and 1911-12 which deal with the APP
pointments made in those four years
by the States Chief Executive and
the salary each appointee inherited
through being the favorite nephew"
of some Republican State official,
Before beginning this interesting
CHAPTER on Republican nepotism it IS
probably well to state that when
Governor Elliott w. Major was in
augurated in January, 1913, his gltC
from the Hadley administration was
a neat prize in form of deficit OF
S476,000, forming a State indebted
ness incurred in four years of Re
publican misrule, which the taxpay-
ers since have met to save the credit
of a great commonwealth.
Judge Henry Lamm, the present
Republican selection for Governor,
then was on the Supreme Court bench
through the entire Hadley reign, and
now one of his favorite cam
paign themes is nepotism, but, 10
and behold, the two blue books re-
ferred to as authority for what was
in flower then, disclose that his son,
Donald Henry, was on the State pay
roll as his private stenographer, at
$1,000 per annum. Then take the
State Public School department, UNI
der the guidance of Republican State
Superintendent William p. Evans, the
name of his sister-in-law appears,
rated at 81 900 year, among his APP
pointees. In addition some Of the
extra work of this department was
then done by the wives and other rel
atives of high salaried attaches.
State Labor Commissioner, Austin
w. Biggs, first carried his son, A. W.
Biggs, Jr., in the position of a stem
ographer at 5000 year, but during
the pious reign of the Kansas Govern
or of Missouri, Biggs' salary was first
boosted to $S5 month and then tc
S125. Extra work in this depart
ment was passed out gratefully tc
the wife of another high price EN-
ploye at the modest sum of S75 q
month.
VIM. W. Wilder, very nice gen.
tleman, Republican in sentiment, anc
beer inspector by appointment, fount
it expedient to carry his son, VIM
Russell Wilder, on the payroll of tina
department as clerk with the mod
est sum of 81 800 as an inducemen
for the young man to remain in to.
service of the State. Sherman L
Gresham, Republican supervisor o.
the Bureau of Building and Loans
found use for his wife as a stenog
rapher and bookkeeper in his depart
ment at SIS month.
In the department of the Stat
Game Warden, where Jesse l.. Toller
ton held sway, "son" Tollerton wa
one of his appointees at 5000 a year
An $1,000 position in the ST. Loui
State Warehouse and Grain lnspec
ton Department would have beel
seeking an applicant had not Franz
A. Wightman, Republican member o
the Board of Railroad Commission
ers, appointed his brother, l. M
Wightman, to his much desired job a
$3.50 a month.
Quite unwillingly one of the oil,
blue books brings into lime ligh
Henry Andrae, former Republican
warden of the penitentiary, for prac
ticing nepotism because he was i'm
prudent enough to give his brother
in-law, Adolph Meyer, entire charg