The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-04-02

the will of Democratic voters, the pri-
mary of August 8. John H. Stone,
Treasurer of Bates county, filed for
the same party berth two months ago
and has been very active in behalf OF
his candidacy ever since. Lawyer Fo-
gle is possessed with the laudable am
bition of being Missouri's next Attor-
lney-General and fully realizes that
landing the Democratic nomination
means election to that exalted place.
But by no means, however, has he the
field to himself, for in Central Mis-
souri, there is State Senator Mark A.
McGruder of Sedalia, Pettis county,
who is endeavoring to land the same
nomination, and, so far, has not been
slow in his movements. He was DEM
ocratic floor leader of the last State
Senate and therefore has a State
wide acquaintance which he is MAX
| ing full use of, day and night, to land
the coveted prize. He filed on jackson
day, January 8, and has been in the
running ever since.
Then there is Lawyer VIM. H. Mere
dith of Popular Bluff, Butler county,
Southeast Missouri, a hustling ster-
ling Democratic attorney who gained
a reputation for law and order while
Prosecuting Attorney of Butler coun-
ty through putting out of business
several vicious resorts which for years
had defied the authorities of that end
of the State. 1t also must not be ov-
erlooked that in Springfield, South
west Missouri, there is Charles J..
Wright, an active, well known and
very popular lawyer who has an
nounced for the same goal and who is
backed by the Bar Association of the
Ozark portion of the State. He was
representative from Greene county in
the Missouri Legislature several
times, and seriously threatens on pri-
mary day to split the Democratic vote
of South Missouri with Lawyer Mere
dith.
Young Fogle had the additional hon.
or of being selected as a delegate to
the Joplin State Convention, heaped
upon him by the Schuyler county
Democratic Convention. A few years
ago his father was in the Legislature
from there. The candidacy of Edw.
F. Goltra of St. Louis to succeed him
self as member from Missouri on the
National Democratic Committee, was
also Endorsed by the Schuyler county
convention.
Dent County for Wilson, Gardner
and Farris.
Democrats of Dent county in the
convention to select delegates to the
coming Joplin State gathering nailed
to the mast Endorsements praising the
administration of President Wilson,
and the wise, careful and efficient
manner with which Governor Gard
ner has guarded the affairs. of
Missouri during the three years he
has been at the executive helm. Amid
wild enthusiasm the county conven-
ton then went on record, without a
dissenting vote, favoring the guber-
Material aspirations and candidacy Of
former State Senator Frank H. Far
ris of Phelps county, its next-door
neighbor. Speakers declared it was
the first time in a quarter of CEN
fury that the Democrats of the real
Ozark counties of Missouri had asked
any big recognition from Missouri
Democracy, and that it is the intention
Of the Democrats of the Sixteenth
| Congressional District to show that
lthey are in earnest when they Offer a
favorite son for the Democratic nom
nation for Governor through giving
him nearly every one of the $1,000
Democratic votes Of that portion Of