The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-09
DEMOCRATIC CANDI-
DATES LINING UP
(By A. T. Edmonston.)

Jefferson City, Mo-, Jan. 1.-The
Democratic preliminary State cam
paign of 1920 opens with harmony and
accord strongly and emphatically ir
evidence all over Missouri. The par
amount and sole intention everywhere
is to make the Democratic victory of
next November the most overwhelm-
ing one the State has ever expert
enced. The most important develop
ment of the new year was the with
drawal of the prominent Democratic
dry leader, Attorney Charles M. Hay,
of Galloway county and st. Louis,
from the race for the United States
Senatorial nomination, he voluntarily
quenching, for the present, his laud-
able ambition for that high berth, to
eliminate any possibility Of the pro-
hibition problem being drawn into the
preliminary skirmsh for the nomina-
tions on the State ticket, an issue
which has already split the Republi-
can party of Missouri into two ir-
reconcilable turbulent factions so bit.
ter in their opposition to each other
that no compromise overture can pos
sibly bring them together, and with
both elements sadly admitting that the
November election will result in the
most decisive defeat the g. o. p. has
ever experienced in Missouri.
Breckenridge Long of st. Louis,
now Third Assistant Secretary Of
State at Washington, D. c., seems to
have entered the Missouri senatorial
contest to stay. While no official
declaration, at this writing, has been
made of that fact, a suite of rooms
from which the campaign is to be con-
Quoted, has been reserved for his fore
es in the Planters Hotel in St. Louis
from January 18 ON. 1t is stated by
those who claim to know, that it was
Breckenridge Long who heavily
financed the deal through which Ru-
fus Hollister of the publicity bureau
of the National Democratic Commit.
tee and also secretary for the late
Senator William j. Stone, acquired
control Of the Jefferson City Capita
News, the intention and object being
it is averred, to give this United
States Senatorial aspirant an int1u
entail newspaper at the State CAPT
tol to further his candidacy. The &C
tual entrance of Breckenridge Long
! into this Missouri contest, which, il
| is believed, will be officially pro
claimed Immediately after Jackson
day, January s, will keep the Russian
Ambassador and former Governor Of
Missouri, David r. Francis, from
throwing his gauntlet into the arena
since he announced three weeks agt
that he would not 60 out after tht
nomination if he had to tilt for it witt
any formidable adversary. 4
The withdrawal of Attorney Ha.
from the senatorial primary eombai
Immediately had the effect Of strength
ening the efforts of the friends 0!
Governor Frederick D. Gardner tt
hand him the nomination with the al
most unanimous endorsement and ap
proval Of Missouri democracy, regard
less Of his repeated declarations tina
he wants to retire from active politics
and return to and resume his place
in the business world. These arden
boomers refuse to allow their activi
ties to be allayed through the refusa
of Missouri's Chief Executive to an
nounce and. are planning a campaign
\ so telling that an affirmative declara
ton will crown their efforts.
Omar Gray, editor of the Sturgeon
Leader and Chief Of the State Petro
lleum Inspection Department, on Sat
urday, January 5, completed . ii:c!iti
cal poll Of the Democratic and Re
publican editors OF the State as X