The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-24

parents of school children. Farmer
Taylor is equally as oatspoken and
enthusiastic in behalf of the candi-
dacy of Senator McGruder. To please
the farmers and organized labor,
democratic leaders say it will be dip
lomatic to support him.
Observation-Disclosures Gov
crnor
| Missourians with sporting proclivi-
ties can get even money by betting
on the success of cithor Carter M.
Buford of Ellington Reynolds coun-
| ty, or Robert S. McClintic OF Monroe
City, Monroe county, north-central
Missouri, for the democratic nomina-
tion for lieutenant-governor. Both
are state senators and lawyers, and
hail from rural Missouri. Senator
Buford is the only aspirant for
state honor on the party ticket from
the southeast portion of the Ozark
regions, a section of Missouri which
clamoring for representation on the
party state ticket.
In rural Missouri it will be a neck
snd-neck race between the two state
senators for the nomination of lieu
tenant governor, both reaching the
cities of the state, and. especially,
Kansas City, st. Joseph and st. Louis,
probably not more than 1000 votes
apart. II such proves to be the case,
and the present aspect of the contest
warrants the assertion that it will.
the writer can pick the winner. but
he will not do it here, leaving that
prognostication to those who want TO
bet on this event, and to the high
salaried officials of the anti-saloon
league who have dragged the prohi-
bition problem into contests where 1t
does not belong. Both senators voted
in the senate to ratify federal prohi-
bition and for equal suffrage for both
sexes.
Prominent Democrats Want Soldier
Nominee
Leading democrats are urging rural
democratic electors on primary day
to vote to get at least one ex-service
man on the ticket, and to distribute
the other nominations to give each
section OF Missouri equal representa-
ton. 1t is announced that if this Is
done the selected ticket will have not
over one candidate from southeast
| Missouri; one nominee from central
| Missouri, south of the Missouri river;
one nominee from th-central Mis-
souri,, north of the Missouri river; one
nominee from southwest Missouri;
one nominee from northeast Missouri;
Judge williamson whose candidacy
for Supreme Court Judgeship is un-
disputed, is from Kansas City.
st. Louis is in the democratic lime
light enough through having two can
son and r. II. Merryman. and four
for United States Senator, II. S.
Priest, Breck Long, John c. Higdon
and Charles NJ. Hay, one OF whom
will be nominated. There is also one
for state auditor, DIR. j. p. Dougherty.
Kansas City, in addition to supply
ing one nominee for supreme court
judge, has a candidate for governor,
Col r. d. Garrett, and one for state
auditor, John T. Fitzpatrick. st. JOS
eph, is gaining a large share of dem
ocratic publicity through being the
home of Judge Charles Holt Mayer.
one of the three leading aspirants for
governor. The successful candidate
for this high place must defeat Judge
Mayer to pull down that plum. Judge
| Williams, who will be on the next
democratic ticket as one of three
nominees for supreme court judges
Genes from Joplin, Jasper county;
/ Judge Ragland, the third supreme
court nominee, comes from northern
central Missouri The other two can
didates for state auditor, geographi-
cally placed, are Robert e. L. Marrs,
Carthage, southwest Missouri, and
George H. Middelkamp. Hawk Point,
Lincoln county, northeast Missouri.