The Farmington times., 1919-10-10
By A, 7. Edmonston.

ago to st. LOUIS, the MISSOURI mecca
of all Republicans seeking nomination
on the "gop" State ticket at The pri.
mary of next August, 1920, CLEANED
for his supporters the sad but true in
formation that he would not have the
support there of 10000 pro-German
and $4,000 negro party electors if he
enters the race for Governor. The
conferences this Springfield editor
had with leaders of the powerful
"gop" machine of that city while
convincing that he need nos look for
many votes there next August, de-
veloped the cheerful fact that ne had
not much to fear from the St. Louis
primary result since the "gop' ma
chine, Judging from conditions exist
ing that day, was hopelessly divided on
a gubernatorial candidate, one huge
faction favoring Attorney H. S. Caul-
field for the brilliant record he made
while Excise Commissioner of St.
Louis during the Hadley administra-
tion, and another wing, also Of proper
tions, declaring openly and above
board that Lieutenant Colenel Dwight
Davis was their choice, and still
smaller elements grooming either
Superintendent Of Schools Sam A..
Baker or State Auditor George F..
Hackmann, or Representative S. T..
O'Fallon of Holt county, the Speakers
of the last House, or State Senator
Howard Gray of Jasper county, for
the nomination. Tho indications then
were that the dozen of opposing fac
tions would never unite on one can
diJAte. and fight the final nominee,
for one reason or another, at The No
vember election, to bring about de-
cisivc defeat.
The friends Of Editor McJimsey Of
Springfield, VINO have increased Won
derfully out in the State since it de-
veloped that the st. Louis "gop" ma
chine was opposed to him, have not by
any means given up hope. The fact
that the pro-German and the negro
"gop" machine of st. Louis has elm
mated him from the race is adding to
his strength daily in the regions of the
high grass, and now that the worse
is known has supporters are working
harder than ever to land the guber
material nomination at the August
primary. The next move, it is stated,
will be to issue a statement that Edi-
tor McJimsey is hundred per cent
American and therefore does not care
for the support Of the electors in st.
Louis, Kansas City or anywhere else
in Missouri who are not loyal to their
country. The object is to capture all
full American Republican votes, not
alone in rural Missouri, but, also, that
of the two larger cities, amounting to
probably $4,000, which, added to a
clean sweep of all American Republi-
ian primary votes out in the State, to-
taling, probably, 10000, would give
total at the August pri-
mary of 100000 votes, which are con-
Sidered sufficient to capture the "gop"
nomination.
1t is further pointed out by the sup
porters of Editor McJimsey that the
st. Louis votes Of either Caulfield or
Davis, or both, if the two are per-
suared to enter the race for the Re-
publican nomination for Governor, in
to each other, will have to
come chiefly from pro-German and
negro "gop" electors. This condition,
of the fact that both these
possibilities are native
born and fully hundred per cent
with not the slightest ques-
tion as to their patriotism and loyal
ty existing, will cost dearly out in the
State, and thereby put either, or
both, out of the running long before
primary day.
Election statistics easily prove how
necessary it is for any Republican as
piring to a place on the "gop" ticket
to run we'll uot in the tall timbers to
win. The present strength of the Re-
publican party in Missouri, including
all Americans, native and naturalized
pro- Germans, and 10000 negroes
trom Missouri and elsewhere, and ex-
cepting women electors, Is placed at
325, 900. At the August primary,
1916, the four Republican candidates
for the nomination for Governor polled
a total of 10000 votes. The st.
Louis vote only aggregated $4,000, or
23.4 per cent of what was cast in the
State, leaving 76.6 per cent to repre-
sent the primary strength of the Re-
publican party beyond the borders of
this big negro and pro-German
stronghold, an element which now in
tends, through hook or crook, to name
the next "gop" State ticket, and there
through eliminate any candidate who
is "dry"' or too friendly to the present
League of Nations covenant.
The League of Nations covenant is
the Gibraltar the pro-German portion
of the Missouri Republican party is
attacking and constitutes the issue on
which it will be defeated at the No
vember electiono T 1920. The "gop"
State committee is hopelessly and
divided on this paramount
principle, with the wing which repre-
sents the sections of Missouri.in which
the negroes and the prot German ele-
ments predominate, arrayed against
it, and those who have from the plac-
es in which hundred per cent Ameri-
cans prevail, holding an opinion that
the issue is wholly nonpartisan and
therefore ought to be dealtw ith ac-
,ordingly. '"."'k
The leaders of the pro-German half
IF the "gop" party in st. Louis and
Kansas City and the few Missouri
In which that element is
,trong, have grown SO bitter and fierce
n their denunciations of the League
# Nations that the announcement has