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him on primary day, has proven cost
| ly to his cause in all rural sections
where dry Republicans are in absolute
control. Such disappointed dry Re-
publicans are said now to be whoop-
ing things up for Speaker O'Fallon
McJimsey was his strongest in the rus
tic portions Of Missouri two months
ago, after his first pilgrimage to st:
Leuis, when his followers gave out
that tie wet leaders of that city had
turned him down for the reason that
so many prohibition Republicans were
hot and heavy for him, 1t was then
believed that the st. Louis party
sheiks would see to it that his votes
on primary day in that burg would be
| few and far between. Dry leaders
then were determined to recompense
that g. o. p. warhorse for his loss of
votes in st. Louis by giving him SOL
id 100000 from the prairies and hills,
glens and dales and bottom lands Of
Missouri.
1t was the belief then, it is averred
now, that dry Republicans all over
Missouri saw in McJimsey a gladiat-
or who could win the nomination
through their united effort, and one
who would, if elected Governor, adj
vance the cause of prohibition. Each
day then saw an increase in the nvm-
Der Of unsophisticated dry Republ-
can McJimsey boomers. His cand-
dacy quickly became so formidable
that several wise st. Louis g. o. p.
leaders, concluding that the inevita-
bic was ahead, wildly climbed into the
bandwagon and DANGEROUSLY added to
what was then entirely one-sided
gubernatorial din. Dry Republicans
now contend that overlooking the Ne
Jimsey elephant with st. Louis ward
leaders and healers known to be as
wet as the Atlantic ocean," convinced
them that he was not the candidate
they wanted and wholesale assertions.
of support in the dry counties of Mis-
souri, took all the vigor out of the
boom where once it was strong.
Unfortunately for the McJimsey
candidacy while he and his boosters
were busy in st. Louis corralling sup
port, regardless of whether the re-
cruits were wet or dry, the fertile
field Of Kansas City was entirely for
gotten. Meanwhile, way up in Tren-
ton, Grundy county, there was another
staunch Republican, Arthur NJ. Hyde,
a lawyer who took active part in the
1912 progressive party movement in
Missouri, who was also looking upon
the g. o. p. gubernatorial nomination
with an anxious, covetoGs feeling.
His friends made overtures to the Re-
publican leaders Of Kansas City and
st, Joseph, and especially, to the
bunch who want Walter S. Dickey, the
millionaire mud mixer of the Kaw,"
nOminater to succeed Senator Spen-
,er, with the ultimate result that this
powerful faction swing into position
for Hyde under the belief that he is
the only one of the many candidates
for first honors on the State ticket
who can bring the wet and dry fac
lions together for the election, if he
IS nominated. The Hyde boom gained
further strength in western Missouri
when word came from St. Louis that
IN element of the g. o. p. machine
there still antagonistic to McJimsey
had decided to cast their lot with the
Grundy county Progressive Republi-
can. Overlooking the Hyde boom in
Kansas City, St. Louis and st. Joseph
with too many "moist" politicians, as
was the case with the candidacy of
in st. Louis, brought about
an exodus of the soft beverage men
who declare they will not stand for
McJimsey or Hyde, but want either
O'Fallon Gray, or Baker. 1t really
took the Moberly party pow-wow Of
two weeks ago to convince dry Re-
publicans that all offers of compro-
mise from the Republican barley-corn
forces of Missouri must be looked up
on with suspicion, and that to gain
in this State for the prohi-
bition cause, it is necessary to nomi-
nate prohibition Republicans, not alone
for United States Senator, but also
for Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
Attorney General and all Supreme
Court Judges. Spencer's negative
vote in teh Senate on lifting the war
time lid has convinced dry Republicans
that he is with them on this impor-
tant issue.