The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-08-13
PERTINENT POLITICAL PRATTLE
(By A. 7. Edmonston,)

Jefferson City, Mo-, Aug. To-
Rough sailing in the turbulent, fac
tional political sea is ahead for the
Republican candidates who became
the nominees on the party State tick
ct as a result of the general primary
of Tuesday, August 3. Hundreds of
PROF. German "wet" Republicans of the
city of st. Louis and Kansas City and
St. Charles, Warren, Caldwell, Frank
lin, Cooper, Jackson, Usage, Gascon
deau and st. Louis counties, thor
oughly incensed and indignant over
the denomination of wabbly and I'M
certain Seldom P. Spencer of st. Louis
as the United States Senatorial stand
ard bearer, and the selection of the
extremely arid prohibition candidate,
Arthur M. Hyde of Trenton, Grundy
county, as the party gladiator in the
November melee for the governor
ship of Missouri, are announcing they
will bolt this portion of the ticket and
support the "wet" Socialistic party
aspirants for these two berths.
The communities and counties just
enumerated, at the election Of 1916
returned a Republican vote totaling
l54,SS0, or 7,146 more than tWo-tifths
of the entire vote cast at that mo-
mentous event for Hughes, the "gop"
nominee for President. The revolt
ing Republicans with socialistic ten
denotes who are declaring against and
will not accept Spencer and Hyde as
the heads of their party ticket, repre-
sent q third of the Republican voting
strength of that portion of Missouri,
or about 81 900 electors, say those who
are leading insurrection.
Want Their Daily Beer and Wine
The boiling "gops" Of the "wet"
Republican strongholds are firmly pos
sessed with the opinion that beer and
wine are as necessary and essential
as a part of their daily menu as are
bread and meat and potatoes, and
they cannot possibly see return of
these bacchanal joys through accept
ing a party state platform as arid
and parched and scorched as the one
Hyde and Spencer will force through
at the conference and convention OF
the newly elected Republican State
Committee and the nominees on the
second Tuesday in September.
Pro-German Republicans Of the
eastern-central portion of the state
have other scores to settle with Spen
Ger beside the fact that his activities
in the United States Senate during
the two years that he has been Mis-
souri's junior representative, were
chiefly bent toward bringing on nation
wide prohibition. Cop Huns assert
he is so wabbly on the huge League
of Nations issue that his best friends
cannot tell from day to day just what
his next attitude on this paramount
political proposition will be. 1t is al
so we'll remembered by the strong
Teutonic wing of the Republican par
ty that on July 4, 1919, at Fredericks-
town, Virginia, at a patriotic celebra-
ton where Senator Spencer was the
orator of the day, that he delivered
thoroughly American address, appro-
pirate to the occasion, in which he
asserted that in the World War Ger
many prostituted it's enlightenment
and culture to militarism and Kaiser
ism, and its civilization to barbarism
to drive terror deeply into the hearts
and minds of it's enemies. The late
and badly missed st. Louis Republic,
then the daily champion of Missouri
democracy, patriotism and American
ism, reproduced column of excerpts
from Senator Spencer's now famous
and never-to -be-forgotten timely, pa
triotic German TRADE, which article
was copied and favorably commented
upon by newspapers all over Missouri
as compliment to the loyalty and
fearlessness of the states junior toga
wearer.
Teutonic Cop Voters Never Forget
But the Teutonic wing Of the Re-
publican party of Missouri, with the
love of fatherland still in their
hearts, took strong exceptions to the
ringing, scoring Frederickstown an
ti-German harangue, and when pri-
mary day, August 3, rolled around
with Senator Spencer as one of the
three aspirants for the Republican
United States Senatorial plum, they
had not forgotten. With the burn
ing words of the Fourth of July Vir-
ginia dissertation against Germany