The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-09-19
"G0P" GUBERNATORIAL
CANDIDATES INCREASING

souri, for four years for the insig-
niticant sum of $4,000 per annum, are
increasing in number as the close Of
the year approaches. Somewhere and
somehow scores of Missouri "gops"
with political ambitions and yearn-
ings have possessed themselves with
the idea that Republican wave will
sweep the State in 1920, and nothing
can convince these misinfcrmed in
dividuals to the contrary.
And the more numerous the "gop"
gubernatorial candidates become the
fiercer will be the contest for the NOM
l nation. Mud-slinging and muck-rak-
ing promises to commence as soon as
a bakers dozen of aspirants have filed
their declarations and it is known to
a certainty who are all in the race.
1t is to be fight to the finish, with
signs, at present, that some gore will
be spilled and much fur scattered to
the four winds before the primary de-
cides the issue.
The high victory hopes of the
"gops" are chiefly based on the erro-
neous belief that every Missouri Dem
ocratic elector of German Extraction
will forget his Americanism, love of
fair-play and freedom, and otherwise
be disloyal to every fundamental prin-
cipe held high and dear and vote the
Republican ticket out of chagrin due
to the overthrow in Europe with
American aid of military autocracy.
Then there is the belief of certain de-
signing political "gop" State leaders
that the Chicago race riot of two
months ago increased the negro pop |
ulation of the State, and especially of
St. Louis, sufficiently through an
other influx of Etheopians from Hi
nos to add 5000 more votes to the
10000 cast in the State by black men |
in 1918. "Gop" leaders readily. recall
that the East st. Louis race riots IN |
the summer Of 1916 augmented ST.
Louis negro population sufficiently to
increase their voting strength there
from $4,000 to $4,000. The returns Of
4 the full election of that year for that
city indicated a gain for the Republic
can party of 1000 negro voters. These |
Illinois negroes voted in Missouri then
and their votes were counted over the |
Democrats protest that they were not
Illegal St. Louis voters, not having lived |
in the State the length of time requir-
ed of all lawful electors--one year
Loyal Americans to Rebel Against
Sop" Program
Sight. however, is lost by "gop'
leaders of the fact that for every
pro German vote the Democratic par
ty loses two will be acquired from the
Republican ranks, all electors hun
dred per cent American who have
made the alarming discovery that all
| is not right with that party. One de-
vclopment is that certain "gop' ma
tional leaders, to more firmly nail
down their seats at the Washington
pie counter, stand ready to sacrifice
the welfare and honor of the country
in the selfish intention of putting over
disloyal program. That the same
accusations fit certain "gops" State
leaders who are playing openly and
boldly to secure pro-Germans support
to land a State victory and there |
through gain political jobs, is also
well known to thousands of Missou- +;
ri Republicans who trace back their
party affiliations to the doctrines and
principles of Abraham Lincoln. This
mighty host promises to register its
disapproval against this disloyalty at
the next election.
Substantial Recognition Demanded by
Negro Republicans
That substantial recognition on the
Republican State ticket of 1920 must
be given to the powerful negro wing, s
is a well-known but embarrassing fact
to those who claim to control the des- '
tiny of the party in Missouri. With ;
the negro vote at the fall election of
1918 representing fifth of the Re- .
publican votes cast in the State, it is
asserted by leading negroes that their
people are entitled to at least twenty {
per cent of all State, Congressional, :
and State Senatorial nominations, not
considering the judiciary portion of
the "gop" ticket, or nominations for
the House of Representatives. But
conservative Etheopians, it is an
nounced by "gop" leaders who know,
are willing to compromise their po-
itical claims with the nomination of
negro for Lieutenant Governor, an
other for State Auditor, one for State
Senator anywhere in Missouri, and
two or three for lower House berths in
the st. Louis districts, and one for
Congressional honors in the Twelfth
district. Such places on the "gop"
ticket would give the negro faction
recognition worth whilS negro cleo
tors declare, and keep them firmly at
tached and pledged to the ticket for
the 1920 fall election.
1t is figured by politicians familiar
with the situation there that two
thirds of the "gop" voters of the
Twelfth Congressional district, which
together with the Eleventh, and most
of the Tenth, is within the boundary
lines of ST. Louis, are negroes. 1t is
held it is therefore an easy PROPOSE
ton for the negroes of the Twelfth
district to agree upon one of their
race for the Republican Congressional
nomination there and put their choice
over on primary day. 1t will then be
up to their white partisan brothers to
vote straight on election day, or be
dsloyal to their party and scratch the
ticket and there through help send a
Democrat to Congress.
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