The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-11-28
JEFFERSON CITY LETTER
lRv A. T. Edmonston.l

by A. T. Edmonston.)
jefferson City, Mo-, Nov. 24,-From
Kansas City and st. Louis comes the
information that the liberal element
of the State, regardless of political
affiliations, have launched boom for
T. Speed Mosby of this city, State
Beverage Inspector, editor Of Mosby's
Missouri Messenger, lawyer, author,
scholar and statesman, for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor. In
the movement, besides Democrats, are
said to be hundreds of broad-minded
Republicans who promise to throw
aside partisan affiliation at the pri-
mary of next August and vote for
| Mosby and other Democratic candi-
dates, if Mosby can only be persuad-
ed to enter the race for first honors
on the party ticket. o.7.
State Rights the Salient Plank
States rights is to be the salient
plank of the next Democratic State
platform, it is said, if Mosby listens
to the call of the liberal voters of
Missouri, gets into the contest, and,
the main thing, lands the nomination.
Other planks of the platform of the
liberal electors of Missouri who are
anxious to draft Mosby, will advocate
an initiative and referendum amend
ment to the Federal Constitution to
enable vbters Of the country to vote
for or against all vital national is
sues; limitation of all future immi-
grafton; provision for the forfeit
ure of citizenship and the deporta-
ton of naturalized aliens who violate
the laws of the land; reform in the
present taxation system of the State;
and one limiting the powers of the
present State Public Service Commits
sion. Some of the liberal voters who
are anxious for Mosby to become
Governor of Missouri favor a law or
constitutional amendment which
will give st. Louis and Kansas City
home rule in police affairs and the
naming of their own election, excise
and all similar commissions.
Sprung by Joe Goldman
Several days ago the Democratic
Tribune, one Of the leading Democrat
c papers of Cole county, came out in
a strong editorial two columns wide,
upholding the right Of all States to
pass final judgment, through electors,
on all important national issues such
as prohibition, to have full supervi-
sion over and control Of all purely
domestic corporations and intrastate
public service companies, and for the
abolition of rule through federal in
junction. Then came a statement
from some of the voters who want
Moshy to be the next Governor of
Missouri that the editorial had been
instigated by friends who are anx-
spector enter the contest for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
But Mosby Only Smiled
When approached on the subject of
whether he will allow his friends and
the liberal voters of Missouri to draft
him to make the race for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor, State
Beverage Inspector Mosby announced
with broad smile that he is not an
aspirant for the honor and, at pres
ent, had no intention of making the
race. 1t is a well known fact here
that the warmest and closest friend
the former State Beer Inspector has,
Joseph Goldman, editor of the Demo-
Tribune, was the first individual
to divulge the information that many
liberal voters of the big cities of the
State, and especially st. Louis, were
enthusiastic Mosby boomers. Ever
since this Jefferson City newspaper
man has been busy proclaiming to hisu
acquaintance far and wide that now
is the time to get into the Mosby
bandwagon and cinch a >1at close 10
the driver. A week ago several Dem /
ocratic leaders of the Eighth Con-
gressional District started to draft
Beverage Inspector Mosby to make the
race for the Democratic nomination.
for Congressman from this district
but now that the movement to Der,
suade that State official to enter the,
contes for the nomination for Gov
ernor has assumed proportions, the
congressional boosters are falling in
line for this proposition.