The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-07-07
GOV. HYDE GIVING STATE
JOBS TO WORKERS WHO
AIDED CAMPAIGN
Appoints More cornmittesmen
4 Posts raan .iny Predecessor.

Il Posts raan my Prsdscsssor.
HI Jefferson City, june as.-Gov
Arthur M. Hyde has established al
unparalleled record for the spoil'
system by naming five members Of
the Republican state, committee to the
best paying jobs in the s,a.e as re.
ward for their political activity.
! 1t is learned that the governor pro-
poses still further to coas'npe the
/ policy by naming other committee
men to state positions.
4 The present personnel OF the Re-
publican state committee virtually
was chosen through the Erection of
Governor Hyde. They wers original
Hyde men and now he is rewarding
them with political JOBS.
No other governor iii the history Of
THE state named so many committee
men to state jobs as has the present
Republican executive, who has been
IN office less than six months.
Here are the appointments of COM
mitteeinen by the governor:
!. Matt j. Foster of the Fifth Dis
.trict, to be chairman of the Kansas;
City board of police commissioners at
"a salary of $1,000 year.
! I. !. iledrick of Buckner Firth
district, state warehouse inspector, at
salary of $4,000.
George w. Wagner of Jefiel son
City, Eighth district state food aur
drug commissioner at a salary Of S.
500 year
l.. ii. Breuer of Rolla, Sixteenth
district, secretary of the pubic SER
vice commission at salary of $3.50
a year.
Mrs. Alice Curtis Meyer Wing OF
Greenville. Thirteenth district state
industrial inspector at salary OF s. i
500 year.
In addition to these the governor,
as one of the first acts Of his admit
istration, appointed J. G. Hughes OF
Macon, then chairman OF the state
committee to the position OF state
bank commissioner at salary Of S.
500 year.
Hughes since has resigned from the
craftsmanship of the committee,
though the governor publicly stated
he could sec no reason why he should
resign, and in fact caused Hughes to
withhold his resignation for several
months.
The governor also had the regular
session of the legislature create the
office of state finance commissioner
under the pretense of consolidation
bill in order that Hughes salary
might be increased from $500 tol
5000 Hughes now is drawing the
higher salary.
1t is learned from reliable source
that the governor is considering ap-I
pointing H. D. Evans of Bonnie Terre.
Republican committeeman of the
Thirteenth district. as chairman of
the new eleemosynary board at a SAL
airy Of 5000 a year.
Republican spellbinders pleaded
during the regular session for elm
nation of politics from the manage
ment of the eleemosynary institutions
and, believing they were sincere, Dem
ocratic members voted for the pas
sage of the law creating the new
board to have super.
vision over the state hospitals. t
In his campaign for governor,
Hyde, in nearly every speech he
made. charged that the Democratic
of the past had been
by peanut politics"
He declared that efficiency had been
in the public service and
hat politicians had been rewarded
or political service with public jobs.
He promised to change the system,
md to make efficiency instead of pol
tics the basis for appointments.