The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-24
LAMM,S FRIENDS
TO AID HIM, But
NOT help DICKEY.
Steam Roller Divides Party
Into Two Factions,
Leaders Believe.
ST. LOUIS FRIENDS
CONDUCT LAMM CLUB
Will Ignore State Committee
Which is AntagnOstic to
Candidate for Governor.

Jefferson City, Aug. 23.-The hui
initiation of Judge Henry Lamm, Re
publican nominee for Governor, by the
Republican State Committee, bossed
by Walter S. Dickey Of Kansas City
Republican nominee for United States
! Senator, resulted in a revolt by the
Lamm supporters in the State Com
mittee yesterday afternoon and the
immediate inauguration of plans to
conduct separate campaign in the in
terest of Judge Lamm.
Judge Lamm, who won his nOmina-
tion in the primary election in the face
of the opposition of the Dickey-con-
troled State Committee, made a per-
sOnal plea to Dickey and to members
of the new State Committee for a
state chairman who was at least
friendly to him, but Dickey was mex
orable and refused to recognize that
Judge Lamm had any right whatever
to friendly state organization. He
forced the reelection of T. w. Hulk
riede of Warrenton, after Judge Lamm
at the request of Jeptha Howe had
withdrawn Howe as a candidate, and
after Lamm had also suggested as
chairman his lifelong friend, John H.
Boutwell, of Sedalia.
The Lamm supporters charged that
Dickey was not satisfied with being
nominated for United States Senator,
but that he wanted to be the absolute
party boss. Otto f. Stifel of st. Louis
resigned from the State, Committee
declaring that he did not wish to be a
member of body that would deliber-
ately humiliate its party's candidate
Governor, and Boutwell,, Mark Dodd,
Republican Committeeman from the
Tenth District, and DR.. J. H. BartO,
Republican nominee for Congress in
the Eleventh District, holding the
proxy of the two members from that
district, walked out of the meeting of
the State Committee and refused to
participate in the proceedings when
Hukriede was elected.
Nearly all Republican leaders here
agree that Judge Lamm will be $4,000
votes stronger in the November cleo
ton than Dickey, and that it would
have been good politics for Dickey to
have yielded to Judge Lamm.
When both Howe and Boutwell, were
turned down by Dickey, Judge Lamm
felt the humiliation very keenly, and
stated that he had gone to the peo-
pie for his nomination and would go
again to the people for his election.
The Lamm headquarters in st. Louis
have never been closed, and they will
conduct his campaign for election.
The convention completed its work
this afternoon by the adoption of a
platform which contained ringing de-
nunciation of the present Democratic
administration in Missouri. Nearly
every department under Major was
criticised. The Democrats were charg-
ed with bringing the state to a condi-
| ton of almost bankruptcy with great
extravaganza, with looseness in finan-
eial affairs by the overappropriaton of
state revenues by millions of dollars
/ and of using the police and Election
Boards of some of the cities for par
tisan advantage,
On national issues the platform con-
tains an Endorsement of the national
platform, declares in favor "an Amer
ican citizenship which shall be uncon-
ditionally loyal to those principles of
individual lberty and representative
government upon which the republic
was founded" for a protective tariff;
for 4 foreign policy that will protect
the rights of American citizens at
home and abroad; for dignifed and
firm foreign policy, and for the pro-
lection of American lives and rights in
Mexico.
Taking up state issues, the platform
declares that "our State Government is
in the hands of selfish political ma
chine which cares nothing for the