The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-09-03

ner of Kirkwood; Sam b. Cook OF Jef-
ferson City; and rank B. Warner and
Michael Kinney Of the city of st.
Louis. OF the seventeen Senators
whose terms regularly expire at the
close Of 1920, fourteen are Demo-
Gratis, and only three, Warner of the
city of St. Louis, Gardner of st.
Louis county and Bronson of Ozark,
are Republicans. These are four year
terms. The eighteenth senatorship is
for short term of two years.
Election of Browning a Certainty
The necessity for electing eighteen
state senators, instead of the seven
teen regularly chosen every two years
is occasioned by vacancy in the Six
teenth district, due to the recent
death of the Republican Senator,
Clark Wix of Butler, elected for four
years in 1918, with two years of the
term still remaining unserved after
December 81, 1920. 1t is already
freely predicted that Louis +. Brown
ing of Lowry City, st. Clair county,
the Democratic nominee, will easily
defeat Albert Chambers of Eldorado
Springs, because of the intense Amer
| icansm of the electors of that sena-
torial district. Information from
there is that enough Republicans
have already declared for Cox, Long,
Atkinson and the remainder Of the
"Only Reliable Party" ticket in the
district to insure an overwhelming
victory there in November for De-
mocracy.
The Senators who are candidates
for reelection and will undoubtedly
be returned are Kinney, Brogan, Ca
sey, Greene and Warner. The Repub-
lican Senator, A. E. L. Gardner Of
Kirkwood, was defeated for re-nomi-
nation by Richard F. Ralph of Valley
Park, after bitter contest which
split the Grand Old Porch" party in
St. Louis county into two turbulent
factions and the antagonism still ex-
lists there with the outlook that the
"Only Reliable Party" candidate still
to be named by the Democratic coun-
ty committee to fill an existing va
cancy, may slip in, Here's hoping to
his success.
Mark A. McGruder of Sedalia. one
Of the retiring Senators, ran for At
to.rey General on the Democratic
ticket and was defeated after a cp,en-
DID and holly fought contest, Nv VIII
lis II. Meredith Of Poplar Bluff.
r. S. McClintic Of Monroe City,
another 1ctring Senator, made the
race for Lieutenant Governor, only to
be defeated after a very interesting
political melee by Senator Garter NJ.
Buford Of Reynolds county.
Farris Will Succeed Buford
The elevation of Senator Buford to
Lieutenant Governor, after the No
vember election, will create another
state senatorial short term vacancy,
this one in the Twenty fourth District,
comprising the real Ozark counties
in south central Missouri, Phelps,
Crawford, Washington, Dent, Iron
and Reynolds, which will be filled by
a special election the latter part OF
December. Representative Frank "A
Farris of Phelps county who made
such a brilliant and spectacular race
for the Democratic nomination fol-
Governor, is slated by general con-
sent for the berth. The plan OF his
friends is for the Phelps county Dem
ocratic committee to first name him
as the Democratic candidate for rep
resentative from that county, step
which is equivalent to election, and
when Senator Buford resigns, after he
is elected LieutenAnt Governor, it
will be an easy matter to name Far
ris as the Democratic candidate for
senator and then elect him. At the
same special election another Phelps
county representative can be chosen.
Farris has some very important
legislation to offer for the considera-
ton of the Fifty-First General AS
sembly, and it is absolutely necessary
that he be a member of that body,
either as representative from
Phelps county, or as State Senator
from the Ozark uplift to insure the
passage of the proposed measures.
The overwhelming vote with which
Farris carried the Sixteenth Congress
sional District in the recent guberna-
torial contest, over Atkinson, Mayer
and Merryman combined, insures his
nomination for state senator as the
democratic candidate, and, finally,
his election. 1t is probable that the
Republicans realizing the hopeless
ness of such combat, will not enter
man in opposition to Farirs, but
will endorse his candidacy and then
vote to elect him.
Coming Democratic Victory
1t is already admitted by Repub-
licans familiar with the situation that
the Democrats will elect 16 of the IL
new members of the Fifty-first Sen
ate, leaving two such plums for the
Republicans, Warner in the north end
of st. Louis city where pro-Germans
are very numerous and are all spon-
sors and supporters of the grand
old porch" candidate. and probably
Julius M. Leavitt of Bolivar, repre-.
lsenting portion Of southwest Mis-
souri, where the Civil War still wages
and the bloody shirt remains the
"gop" emblem.
1t must, however, be said that
Charles E. Reid, the Democratic nom-
inee in the Nineteenth Senatorial Dis.
trict, is a live wire campaigner and
will give Leavitt the race of his life
information from there is that fully
500 thorough American Republicans
of Dallas, Webster, Douglas, Stone
fancy and Ozark counties, which