The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27

ley-corn forces. Some wild scram-
bling to climb into the Spencer band
wagon commenced in st. Louis among
certain unpledged "wet cops" last
Saturday when 1t became generally
known that Republicans in fully forty
"dry" and those of a few wet coun-
ties had endorsed his senatorial record
and there-through stood for his re-
nomination. The break came when
the big Republican stronghold, Usage
county, which is full of very moist
pro- German "gops," had resoluted lit
self into supporting Missouri's "dry"
Senator at the coming primary. Not
Missouri county, so far, as endorsed
the senatorial candidacy of either the
| former railroad lawyer, James l..
MINIS or Colonel Dwight M. Davis,
men who are looked upon with favor
by the cosmos element of the "gop"
party who still hope that Missouri can
lantic ocean. Published minute de-
tails of the costly oriental frolic, with
Bacchus and John Barleycorn seateds
side by side, in full control of the fes-
tivities, and beautiful young society
women CARRIED in costly gowns which
were almost as scant as tradition pic
lures Eve to have been when she was
the queen of paradise, which was pull
ed off in st. Louis before national pro-
hibition went into effect, and which
was sponsored by an individual with
aristocratic and militant Tenderness
and attended by an element which
does not look with favor upon the re-
nomination of Senator Spencer, caused
thousands of clean, moral, intellectual
Republicans out in rural Missouri to
rally around the present Senator's
standard. So far only ten Republican
county conventions have failed to in
dorse Spencer's senatorial record
which includes his wartime "dry"
and national prohibition activities, and
even these counties lean toward his
candidacy through failing to indorse
the policies and doctrines of either of
his opponents. On top of all, out of
six Republican congressional district
conventions held so far, five have gone
on record for the denomination of
Senator Spencer, the sixth sidestep-
ping through lodging the issue en-
tirely.
But the numerous "wet cops" of st.
Louis, Kansas City, st. Joseph and
other Missouri communities over
which John Barleycorn ruled supreme
in the heyday of his power, populari-
ty and prosperity, will even up scores
at the November election. 1t is an
open boast in st. Louis that the rank
and file of the Republican party in
tend to nail Senator Spencer to the
cross, when that eventful day arrives,
through doing to him as they did to
former Governor Joseph w. Folk
when he aspired to be United States
Senator from Missouri at the election
of 1916. Before election day that
year placards bobbed up everywhere
in that big damp burg, bearing the
tell-tale declaration of Goodbye, joe"
and so it turned out to be. This time
the signs will, ominously, read, Good
night, Seldom"
But the "dry" Republicans of rural
Missouri are equally as determined to
give the "wet" pro-German "gops" of
St. Louis big bitter dose to swallow
while they have the opportunity to do
it, not alone through re-nominating
Spencer for Senator, but, also, nam
ing Hyde, the former Progressive
leader who put the city of Trenton
and the county of Grumpy into the To-
cal option column, for Governor, and
Lawyer O'Fallon of Holt county, who,
as speaker of the last House, jammed
through Missouri's ratification of the
Federal Constitutional prohibition
amendment, for Attorney General.