The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-04-30
PERTINENT POLITICAL PRATTLE
(By A. T. Edmonston.)

for their State convention, is the wet
and dry problem, chiefly due to the
extremely dripping characteristics OF
the majority of the huge delegation
the irrepressible oasis, st. Louis, mas
selected to represent it at that mo-
mentous party event. With plugging
hin pockets indicative that the invad-
ing John Baarleycorn bunch is fully
prepared to withstand a drought OF
two days duration, if the city on the
Kaw is as arid as national prohibi-
tion intends it to be, the st. LOUIS
"gops", after each has imbibed
good-sized shot to supply the necee;s-
sary stamina, will proceed to loudly
exploit their opposition to the renom-
nation of United States Senator Sci
den P. Spencer, and to the selection
at the August primary OF the former
progressive leader, Arthur, M. hyde,
of Trenton, as the gubernatorlal
standard bearer. Bacchanal dlsclpies
from Kansas City, st. Joseph, Seda-
lila, Springfield, st. Charles, Ste. Gene
We've, Hermann, Washington, Cape
Girardeau, Jefferson City, Joplin and
other Missouri cities, firm in the be-
lief that the joy was taken out Of HE
the day the Federal lid was tightly
clamped down, will join in the hue
and cry that the convention must en-
phatically go on record in opposition
to prohibition and that only faithful
deyotees of Gambrinus should be in
dorsed for places on the State ticket
to be named primary day. Pro-Ger-
man delegates from Franklin, Gas
conade, Usage, Cole, jefferson, War
rer. Perry, St. Charles and st. Louis
counties. with a chuckle of glee will
insist that the steam roller which is
to be used on Spencer and Hyde for
their prohibition proclivities and &C
tivities, be well oiled before it is
brought into use so that there will be
no hitch or flaw in the job, and also
that the convention platform include
a plank so waterlogged that the mere
reading of it will produce exhilera-
ton.
"Wet" Calliope to be damned @
Suffice for the Kansas City con-
vention program of the parched
"gops" from St. Louis and other for
mer "wet" Missouri Republican
strongholds. All would be well for
the anti-prohibitionist of that party
if they were in the majority and could
readily suppress all opposition, but
being hopelessly in the minority in
the State as a whole at the ratio OF
two to one, there still remains to be
related the other side of what really
will happen at this coming partisan
gathering. Republican delegates from
ninety of the one hundred and four
teen counties of Missouri, both men
and women, who will attend the Kan
sas City conference, stand absolutely
for Federal prohibition and are never
backward in promulgating this fact tt
the world when the occasion requires
This mighty dry army, to be slight!
augmented through few scattering
prohibitionists who managed some
how to get on the delegations whicl
represent the "wet" spots of the State
in full feathers and warpaint, will ere
ate a tremendous din when the Johl
Barleycorn forces of the big cities ar
put to rout, the inebriant plank badl.
splintered and a monkey-wrench toss
ed into the noise producing portion o
the "wet" calliope.
Dry Republicans Behind Spencer
and hyde.
If the Statewide primary was he'll
tomorrow the heavy dry Republica
majority of rural Missouri would cas-
ily nominate both Senator Spence
and Lawyer Hyde for the honors the
seek on the party ticket. Each woul
carry at least ninety counties by NOR
than enough to overcome the lead tn
SWEETS" will give their opponents !
the large cities. Students Of polit
cal conditions already concede tina
Spencer will lose no strength betwee
now and the August primary and wi
not on that day. The party vote h
is bound to corral in st. Louis, Kar
sas City, st. Joseph and other Miss
souri, cities with damp excuses
their population, will help to swell HI
majority over his two opponents. IN
advantage he has over Hyde who seek
to become the Republican nominee fe
Governor. is that two senatorial al
pirants will split the opposing "wet
vote between them. But his nomin;
ton at the coming primary is cel
tainty even If one of the other tw
contestants is taken suddenly with
chill and withdrawn. The way 1t lool
now, Col Dwight M. Davis of s
Louis, who saw some actual servi'
in France during the war and won
laurel or two, will run second in Il
coming "gop" senatorial sweepstake
chiefly for the reason that the 1--WE
Republicans of st. Louis and Kans'
City look with favor on his candidac
But his brilliant army record will 10
him more Republican votes than 1t W
gain. The pro-German element of Il
party, which is by no means a smi
faction, remembering that he actus
ly and materially aided in putting t
auietus on one-armed Willie Hohenz'
lern, will not support him. An Meth
will these Teutonic Republicans raj
to the standard Of Senator Spenc'
recalling that he is strongly oppos
to restoring to power the brewery .
tocrat prohibition dethroned, XII
IA Gambrinus of ancient Flemish myt
ology. And, again, the Republic
Huns have not forgotten the very
trioticm and highly appropriate
dress Senator Spencer delivered .
July 4, last, at fredericksburg, Y
in course Of which he chastised Ct
many and the Kaiser and Teutol