The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-09
"GOP" WHITE ELEPHANT

hands, metaphorlcally abiding, IN the
person of Senator Seldom p. Spencer,
and no jungle in sight into which he
can safely be led, tied, blindfolded,
gagged and then forgotten, the erst-
while "grand old party" of Missouri
is awakening sadly to the fact that the
defeat the State ticket of their choos-
ing will encounter next November will
be the most overwhelming in the po-
litical annals of the commonwealth.
The very electors of st. Louis, Kansas
City, St. Joseph, Springfield, Sedalia,
Joplin, St. Charles, Cape Girardeau,
Jefferson City, who through their
votes in November, 1918, sent Spencer
to the United States Senate in pref
erence to former Governor Joseph W.
Folk, are the ones who are now so in
tently bent on putting the former St.
Louis circuit judge out of Republican
politics forever by scratching his name
and those Of other "dry" nominees
from their ballots at the coming gen
eral election. o.,
But the more the "wet cops" of the
moist cities of Missouri oppose the
denomination of Senator Spencer the
fiercer grows the determination of the
high class rural wing of the party to
again tender him the same honor at
the Statewide primary of next Aug
ust, and to nominate other prohibit
tioniSts for the other places. All S.
o. S. signals of the st. Louis and Kan
sas City Republican leaders to the dry
faction of the party, pleading, for the
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vember, to forsake the junior United
States Senator and select standard
bearer from a coterie consisting of
former Wabash railroad counselor
James A. Minis of Carrollton and st.
Louis; W. S. Dickey, millionaire mud
mixer of the Kaw; former Lieutenant
Governor John c. Mckinley of I'm
ionville; Colonel Dwight Davis Of st.
Louis; Judge Henry Lamm of Soda
liza; former Supreme Court Judge
John Kennish of Kansas City; Mayor
Henry Kiel of St. Louis, are allowed
to pass overhead entirely unheeded.
1--WE want Senator Spencer, and we
want what we want when we want it,,
is the sole reply to all compromise
overture.
The stock of Editor f. E. E. McJim-
sey of Springfield, the Republican as
pirant for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton is no longer as high in st. Louis
as it was before the discovery three
weeks ago that, like the former G. y.
p. bolter and Progressive party leader,
Arthur NJ. Hyde of Grundy county, he
has a "dry past. Years ago while
running paper in Maryville, Noda-
way county, it is asserted, McJimsey
actively assisted in turning that boom
ing burg, which was then bloom
ing oasis, into a place as arid as the
Sahara desert. A few days ago an
other effort was made by certain
prominent st. Louis "gops' with
"swampy" tendencies to again lure
former Supreme Court Judge Henry
Lamm of Sedalia into the race for the
Republican nomination for Governor.
The promise was held out to close
friends that the high honor would be
cinched for him through indorsing his
candidacy at preferential conven-
ton of "gop" bosses, dictators, brew
cry owners, saloon keepers, negro sa-
loon porters and other active repre-
sentatives of the wet element Of the
party, to be held in early spring some
time before the August primary. 1t
was asserted by this "gop" faction
that such a move would entirely
eliminate Editor McJimsey, the for
mer progressive Hyde, Attorney
Reaves of Kansas City, State Senator
Gray of Joplin, and all other RepuD-
licans with an ambitious eye on the
party gubernatorial nomination.
1t developed Saturday, January 3,
that Judge Lamm had been selected
by the Wood-for- President Republi-
cans of Missouri, composed chiefly of
former progressive party leaders and
Roosevelt boosters, with the Kansas
City Star Times as the backbone of
the movement, as the head of a State
wide league which will endeavor to
swing the Missouri delegation into
line for that National army officer at
the Republican National Convention
in Chicago next June. The Republican
faction of Kansas City, mainly form
err Roosevelt rustlers and therefore
g. o. p. boilers of 1912, who started
the Wood presidential boom in Mis-
souri,, are for Arthur M. Hyde of
Grundy county for the party nominal
ton for Governor. The acceptance on
the part of Judge Lamm of the leader
ship of the Wood forces, it is pointed
out by the Hyde advocates, indirectly
swing him into the lineup for this
Grundy county gubernatorial candi-
date. On the very day that it was
proclaimed far and wide in Missouri
that Judge Lamm would lead the
Wood for president forces Of Missou-
ri, the former Republican Supreme
Judge gave out an interview in Soda
liza that he would under no conditions
seek a place on the 1920 G. o. p. State
ticket, but would confine his efforts to
the Missouri Republican
for Wood.
Here is a portion of the Kansas City
Republican 1920 State ticket slate to
be forced across, first, at the prefer
entail conference Of the bosses and
then at the August primary: For
President, General Wood; for United
State Senator, Walter S. Dickey; for
Governor, Arthur M. Hyde; for At
torney General, Representative s. F.
O'Fallon of Holt county, the Repubh-
can Speaker and dry leader of the
last house; and for Secretary of State,
Editor G.. M. Harrison of Sedalia.
While Senator Spencer is eliminat-