The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-06-04
PERTINENT POLITICAL PRATTLE
(By A. T. Edmonston.)

| never were any DIlRHtSI tHdH az Tile
present moment, is the consensus of
opinion expressed by many electors of
the State, regardless of party affilia-
tons, if the Only Reliable Party does
not deviate from its present straight,
open, thoroughly American course
and transgres enough to once more
give certain now discredited, reeking,
odious "gop" leaders a new lease on
their VIGOROUSLY subsidized political
careers.
Not since the days in 1902 and 1908
when former Gov. Joseph W. Folk,
then Circuit Attorney of st. Louis,
unmasked and gave widespread pub
licity to the methods of certain pow
erful public service corporations of
that city to buy for large sums the
grants, rights-o way, franchises and
other privileges they needed from the
"city fathers, chiefly Republicans,
has Missouri been rocked and shaken
by such a far-reaching scandal as the
one which confronts the Republican
party now, growing out of the eff
forts of the national campaign man
ayers Of certain "gop" presidential
possibilities to outbid one another
and capture the thirty-six votes the
State Repubigates will cast at the
Chicago convention next week. 1t is
declared that the exposure, as fin
ishing touch, needs only the evidence
| that one of the gigantic presidential
vote-buying schemes was heavily
financed by the deposed but still
wealthy Kaiser and his militant, au-
tocratic sanguinary barbarians, to
make it one of the most appalling
crimes in the history of the United
States. And it may reach that stage
before the present Senatorial investi-
cation ends.
What Became of the $50,OO0,000 in
German Gold?
1t will be remembered that before
the country entered the world war it
developed that S50,000,O00 in German
gold was used in this country by
Representatives of the then powerful
Teutonic empires for propaganda pur-
poses, and in buying and otherwise ac-
curing and substituting influential
newspapers of the land. The actual
expenditure of only about half of
this vast sum was ever fully traced
and there still exists a doubt as to
what became Of the other half, a
strong suspicion holding sway that it
was distributed and divided between
certain national characters who ever
since have been opposing, handicap
ping and otherwise interfering with
the war and peace policies ana prin-
ciples of President Wilson, and labor
ing increasingly to keep the country
out of the League of Nations.
1t is believed generally, and with
good reasons for such a belief, that
it would well pay the Kaiser and his
cohorts, who took with them when
they abdicated over a billion dollars
in German gold, in their efforts to re-
establish the German empire and
through it return to their "place in
the sun" to use another $4,000, 900 to
; elect President of the United States
adm a Congress firmly bent on keep
ing the country out of the League of
Nations and all similar pacts. Some
one is financing that movement heav-
lily.
Strong Democratic State Ticket Is
Urged.
Leading Democrats of the State, not
petit professional politicians, but men
who are Democratic solely for the
reason that the Democratic party
stands for high ideals, policies, prin-
ciples and doctrines, and for the rule
of the people, caution party electors
on primary day to entirely ignore the
wet and dry problem and all similar
propaganda and only vote for candi-
dates whose records reflect credit on
the party an who stand for issues
predominant enough to attract all in
dependent and fully hundred per cent
American voters to the fall ticket.
1t is we'll known fact that in the
Republican party a bitter struggle
for supremacy is on between the fac
, ton with extreme Bacchanal tenden-
cies and proJGerman proclivities, who
live in the cities which formerly were
: lclassed as being very liberal, and the
+ higher class of Republicans who have
united on Arthur M. Hyde of Trenton,
Grundy county, as their candidate
!, for Governor and Seldom P. Spencer
: for the nomination for United States
r senator. OF DUH ldctlOHS IL 10 ioW
either rule or ruin. There is no
chance of the two elenfents getting
1 together after primary day on the
ticket which is selected, and the pres
' idential slush-fund scandal broadens
n the breach. Urban Republicans are
: measuring their strength against tbs
!, dripping leaders of the cities who
e stand in the lmelight at the present
= moment and having been made the
o custodians of the funds which are
: supposed to be used in delivering the
d thirty-six votes of the Missouri dele.
cation to the "gop" national conven.
d ton to certain candidates. Upstate
It Republicans are proudly referring tc
y themselves as being the real and on
y ly representatives of what was once
g the Grand Old Party, dating back t.
/ the days of Abraham Lincoln, anc
n when the occasion arises that they
e must mention the other wing of theil
IS party they are disdainfully stylet
IS "gops", accused of having pro-Germar
e tendencies, and it is further proclaim
e ed that the majority are owned bod.
II and soul by the brewery-controllet
s. machines of St. Louis and Kansas
City.
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