The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-04-02
Harmonious
Democracy

Democratic mass meetings were held
in the various townships of St. Fran
co.'s county last Saturday afternoon,
in accordance with the call Of J. j.
Bowman, of Bonne Terre, chairman
of the Democratic County Central
Committee. The meetings are report
! ed to have been generally well at
tended, and utmost harmony was pre-
valent. The indications are that the
Democracy of this county will present
an enthusiastic and solid front to the
enemy at the elections this year, in
which event there can be no other re-
suit than complete and overwhelm'
ing Democratic victory.
The st. Francois township conven-
ton, which met at Flat River, and
which is the largest township in the
county, was unusually largely attend
ed, and complete and perfect harmony
marked the entire proceedings, which
were remarkably brief, absolutely de-
void of speech sking, and without
superflous word injected.
Judge X. c. Tucker called the meet
ing to order, and read the call for the
convention, which was the longest
number on the entire program. He
| then called for nominations for per-
manent chairman of the meeting,
and C. r. Pratt was selected. Mrs.
G. B. Snyder, of Pennington. vas
chosen as secretary. On takjVsj the
chair Mr.. Pratt made a few NJ: ap-
propriate remarks, stating t"'T this
was the first convention @ich he
had ever participated ia which the
women had been permitted their
rightful privilege by having seats in
the convention. He was pleased to
be able to welcome them into party
activities, and only hoped they would
find the new form Of politics, which
he hoped and believed their presence
would be instrumental in creating,
worthy of their efforts and activities.
Nominations for delegates to the
county convention, which will be held
in the circuit court room tomorrow
| Saturday were then called for, the
chairman stating that the women
were entitled to the same representa-
tion as were the men. Jerry B. Burks
was then recognized, and offered the
following list of names for delegates,
composed Of fourteen women and
fourteen men, which lists, he explain
ed, had been prepared and handed to
him for presentation by interested
women, as well as by men;
Women MISUNDERSTANDING r. c.
Tucker, G. B. Snider, Jess Morris,
Jerry B. Burks, Oscar L. Halle, Ed.
Henderson, John Ball, J. U. White,
Lee Johnson, Eta Griffith, James
Webb, 0. H. Dug, ,.ins, G. W. Hoy and
EwilI Howell. ! y
Men delegates-J. H Jones, Geo.
X. Williams, C. A. Tetley, ]. S. Clay,
Rolla Cozean, E. E. Swink, N. A. Zim-
norman, w. A Mitchell, C. R. Pratt,
John Ball, Thos. w. Martin, c. e. Nor
wine, Geo. Langdon and G. C. Vando-
yer
No other nominations were made,
and the lists as above were chosen for
representatives of st. Francois county
in to-morrow's convention Then a
motion was made that the convention
adjourn, which was promptly second
ed and unanimously carried. Thus
closed a convention, which rumor for
while had it, promised some "lively
doings" but everything was as sweet
and harmonious as wedding bells.
The indications are that the county
convention tomorrow will be largely
attended, as there appears to be very
strong desire on the part Of the. great
majority of Democrats workers to
uphold, in every way possible, the
hands of President Wilson, as we'll as
Governor Gardner and the entire
State administration, all of whom had
done so nobly during the entire period
of the world war, and during the sub
sequent troublesome times since