The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-11-14
DEMOCRATIC HARMONY
BRINGS GOOD RESULTS
"a. 7. Edmonston.)

week ago IN new JERSEY anu 4h"iS
land, indicative of what can be ac-
complshed with high class nominees
and sound party issues and an en-
thusiastic, harmonious united pull to-
gether. has thoroughly aroused Dem
ocrats in the doubtful and Republican
counties of Missouri and wonderfully
increased the determination Of cleo
tors to bring out full party vote 1T
the election of November, 1920, say
party leaders, lawyers and business
men who have visited the State Cap
itol during the last two or three days.
The old worn out trick of the &. o. ?.
press and the bosses and dictators ot
that party to claim victory for their
candidates and partisan issues on the
fact of the first returns from their
strongholds, to stampede the people
of the country into believing and ac-
cepting that such a thing has really
happened. knowing that the revela-
tions of the official and final count
which occurs from week to a month
later, are generally proclaimed IN
small type on an inside page of most
newspapers, ard therefore will not be
seen by many readers, no longer fools
the voters Of the high grass and tall
timber regions, declare Independent
rural citizens, and many add to this
declaration that to emphatically show
that they are a hundred per cent
American each such eector intends to
support the Democratic National and
State ticket at the election Of 1920.
Rural Democrats further contend
A.. r,,ff;o;ap+ raorons exist for re-
garding the results of the recent cleo
ton in five States as huge party
victory, since three out of five States,
New Jersey, Maryland and Mississip-
ri, chose Democrats to the highest po-
sitions they had to bestow. Addition
al attention is called to the assertion
that two of the five States, Massa-
chusetts and New Jersey, are always
claimed before each general election
by g. o. p. leaders as belonging to
their column, and two others, Mary
land and Kentucky, have lately always
been cassed as doubtful by the same
authorities, and only one, Mississippi,
has been freely and without question
given to the Democratic party. More
over, to again emphasize that the
election was Democratic victory,
liberal electors say that Massachu-
. sets goes Democratic about as often
| as Mississippi climbs into the Repu5-
: lican band-wagon, and that New Jer-
sey is as rarely found in the Demo-
cratic column as Missouri is carried
| by Republicans. There are those who
; state, and without fear of contradlc-
ton, that in Massachusetts this time
) it really was no contest between the
/ two parties but solely whether law
: and order should triumph over riots
} and mob-rule. Hundreds of Demo
5 Gratis, the information from there is
5 for the time being forgot party doc
!, trines and political principles and sup.
3 ported the Republican nominee fol
Governor to assert to the world thai
s law enforcement was the only real IS
d sue which was at stake.
{ The heavy gains the Democratic
r ticket made in Mississippi are credited
e by Independent voters of Missouri a!
being due to the high class and sub
o stantial national and state issues thu
0 nominees espoused and represented.
h 1t is firmly believed all over Mis-
J. souri, that thousands of independen
t and dissatisfied Republican voter!
a have already fully determined to vot'
:. next November to uphold the patriot
n ic policies and doctrines of Presiden
: Wilson, it being fully realized by sucl
: electors that only high class men will
s be selected as the Democratic nomi
e nees at the primary of next August
S The efficiency, integrity and econom.
of the present State administration
i it is stated, is known in every nool
It and corner of Missouri, and accom-
: panying this asrseton is the opinion
t that any Democratic official of tn
h present regime who asks for furthe
d political honors at the hands OF tn
d majority of Missouri's electors will no
alone be re-nominated at the primar
= but be reelected with very substan
Vt tial lead.
l. The we'll known intention of tn
:. "very moist" st. Louis G. o. p. ma
= chine to nominate the whole Repubii
i, can ticket at the August primary
ID from United States Senator and Gov
ID ernor down to and including Con
ID gressmen and State Senators an
lie county Representatives to make it Ger
D tain that only men acceptable to tn
John Barleycorn forces of St. Louis
h Kansas City, St. Joseph and othe
is wet cities of Missouri, and the pre-
m German voters of Franklin, Osag'
ID Warren, Gasconade, st. Louis, s.
Or Charles, Perry, Ste. Genevieve, Coli
lie Cape Girardeau. Caldwell, Jefferso
Of and two or three other counties, wi
be the party candidates, has it sprea
,e all over the State, but has only ha
ne the effect Of strengthening the deter
r. mination Of dry republicans to put tn
IS wet element out of the G. o. p. cor
Mt troll forever in Missouri through vot
Id ing the Democratic ticket boldly an
nd solidly next November.
Id 1t further is promised by indepeni
a ent and dry Republican voters of tn
be close and doubtful counties, such 6
w Atchison, Barry, Bollinger, Butte
n Caldwell, Camden, Carroll, Carte
H. Cedar, Clark, Cole, Cooper, Crawfor,
2, Dade, Daviess, Dekalb, Jefferson, L;
u clede, Lafayette, Monitean, Montgon
cry, Morgan, Washington, Wayne ar
ad Webster, that their votes will
Oh numerous enough next November I
X swing these counties in substanti'
a. manner into Democratic ranks, Their
at through giving the National and Sta