Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-05-19
Hyde is a Serious Joke.

Hyde is Serious Joke.
Editor b. M. Watson of the Colum-
bia Daily Tribune sums up the record
of Governor Hyds's administration as
follows:
"And now comes George Hackmann,
state auditor, and George, by the
grace of the Democrats of Missouri,
is now in the fifth year OF his coming,
and declares that he is doubtful If any
payments can be made this year on
the pension for the blind.
"Right you are, George. Your Re-
publican leader, Governor Arthur M.
Hyde, in three short months, has
proved himself monumentally incapa-
BILE OF understanding the needs of
Missouri; politically he is non compos.
He possesses an abortive sense of
justice. Anything that savors ofrank
partisansLip is justice to him. When
the history of his administration is
| written the entire four years can be
summed up in this brief statement:
He kicked out all Democrats, disre-
garding their qualifications, and re-
placed them with incompetent polit-
ical parasites to pay his political
debts.
Governor Hyde, incapable as he is
and insensible to all save partissnship,
insomuch as his own and the political
future Of his own party is concerned,
deserves to be placed at the head of
the list of blind pensioners. Hyde
might have shown saving grace in
demanding that the pension for the
blind become operative at the first
practicable moment, but instead,
blinded by his obsession to to take
care of his partisans, he has done
nothing but sit by and see the yultures
pick out the sightless orbs of the
blind.
ga commission? Yes, Hyde be-
lieves in commissions. There is
commission which must look after
the pension for the blind. The COM
missioners work without compensa-
tion, but commission must have
clerks and stenographers, cuspidor
cleaners and someone to bring in the
vichy water and ginger ale during the
heated sessions, and the Lilliputian
governor of the great state Of Mis-
souri, will see that there are plenty of
political funkies on hand to help eat
up the money that has been appro-
priated for the deserving sightless of
Missouri. What does it matter to
him II some of the blind must do
without pension il his henchmen
are paid? And probably Arthur
thinks that they might just as well be
in q blind institution provided by the
state. Arthur can quiet his con-
science this way.
"Arthur and his legislative program
in three months time have already
driven many of his own partisans to
the ranks of the Democratic party.
He has been the author Of and recon-
mended to the legislature more nom
sensical legislation than all his prede-
cessors. He went to jefferson City
with an idea that he would revolu-
tionize Missouri. The whole state
watched, and even hoped, that he
would give to this commonwealth
such laws as would make it more
progressive. But all that he has done
has been to create a lot Of useless
political jobs to take care of his
clamoring partisans, and he has not
done this to their satisfaction. The
Republican party was always the
party of destruction; it has never
proved that it cared anything OF con-
struction, and il its greatest leaders,
many Of them men Of intelligence,
cannotresist the temptation to pillage
and loot the treasures Of the states
and the nation, what could be ex-I
pected OF political novice like
Arthur Hyde?
clyde is serious joke that has
been perpetrated on the people Of
Missouri. He is serious only in the
sense that he has been placed in a
position where he can do the most
harm. Id position where the
| powers were Of less magnitude Hyde
would be an object to provoke mirth.
He 10 a man Of less than mediocre
ability; he Is absolutely in the hands
ofmastermindB whose only concern II