The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-10-20

ness man WHO has spent uto NhNiO hlO
in working out problems of efficiency,
economy and development in the every
day affairs of a growing business be-
set with fierce competition and CON
stantly changing business conditions.
What we want to apply to present day
questions in Missouri is not logic and
theory, but rather reason and expert
ence.
There is another difference between
the Republican nominee for Governor
and myself, and that is that he stands
for the policy of Republication, and
| stand for the doctrine of Democ-
racy. He believes in the principles
enunciated by Alexander Hamilton, |
believe in the philosophy of Thomas
jefferson. He is committed to the
fault finding, criticising campaign of
Judge Hughes and / stand for the con-
structive, statesmanlike administers
ton of Woodrow Wilson.
He stands for the stand pat, reac-
tionary special privilege, trust incu-
batting Payne-Aldrich tariff-as the
best method of raising revenues for
the national government. | stand for
the Underwood tariff, an income tax,
an inheritance tax, and tax on war
supplies. The difference Is that his
method Of raising taxes would place
the burden on the consumer, ours on
accumulated wealth, where it can be
more easily borne.
He must stand sponsor for the Re-
publican financial legislation which
turned the nations affairs over to a
half dozen men in Wall street, enabling
al
they chose through the so-called
commercial panics. stand for the
federal service act which has forever
done away with such an unbearable
and unjust condition. Just imagine
the opportunities the European war
would have given Wall street to ere
ate financial panics had not the fed
eral reserve act stared them in the
face.
He must stand for the utter failure
of his party to enact during their long
tenure of office progressive laws to
help and assist the farmer and the
| laboring man. / endorse each and
every one of the splendid and numer-
GUS measures which have been recent
ly enacted to promote and assist agri-
culture and to help and dignity labor.
His party proceeds upon the theory
that federal courts are infallible and
| for years, while in power, refused to
abolish government of employees by
! injunction, while my party, upon COM
| ing into power, abolished government
| by Injunction and provided that all
employees charged with being in con-
| tempt of a federal court in an equity
proceeding involving labor disputes
should be entitled to a trial by a jury
of his peers. His party regarded hui
man labor as a commodity, while my
party has decreed that the labor OF a
human being is neither commodity
nor an article of commerce.
He must say why his party refused
! to give the people the parcel post
system and always operated the post
office department at loss, whereas
under our administration millions of
dollars Of surplus have been turned
back into the treasury.
Judge Lamm seems to mistrust the
people. Before and since the primary,
in his speeches throughout the state,
he has denounced the present state
primary law, claiming that it breaks
down the moral stamina of candidates
/
to bid for votes by making all kinds
of promises.
Judge Lamm ought to know, and
probably does know, by this time, that
if there had been no state primary law
he could not have been nominated for
Governor.
But when Judge Lamm submitted
his cause to the voters of st, Louis
he received 1880 votes to 10,454 cast
for his principal opponent. 1t was this
vote that gave him the nomination
vote that he never could have got
ten in a convention.
As for me, stand for the present
state primary law. l have an abiding
faith in the Judgment of the people
They will not be misled by false prom
ises. They are quick to detect the
, lack of stamina in any candidate. The
; people may occasionally make mis-
take, but / hope the day may never
come when the citizens composing the
political parties in Missouri will be
denied the right to name their owl
|. candidates. ! favor any method fol
safeguarding the purity of the ballot
either at the primary or any othei
, election.
The Republican state platform de
clares for the merit system in public
office. Yet in their convention hell
the same day, the city press reports
the faction that was able to contro
! affairs used the promise of spoils t.
! accomplish their ends 1t is also nc
Z torious that the Republican organiza
| ton of st. Louis is in open rebellion
! and defiance of the merit system o
: the new city charter. Governor Had
{ ley's axe fell on the head of the mos
! experienced and efficient public SCI
r wants And yet with their past an
: present record and future promise o
) spoils our Republican friends CT
Merit System"
: Is my opponent willing to say to tn
' people of Missouri that in the even
5 of his election he will remove fo
Q cause only present public servants
3 and make new appointments only VI
i der the merit system, or examinatio
g plan, without regard to the polite
! Of the applicant? This is what tn
t merit system means-nothing shol
}. Of that whatever.
r Party Record.
) In the. state of Missouri the trad
+ tons and history of the past so year