The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-09-01
PERTINENT political pRATTLE
(By A. t. Edmonston.)

next General Assembly, the one which
convenes Wednesday, January 8, 1928,
will be as overwhelmingly Democratic
as the last one was Republican if a
full party vote is cast at the coming
November election. 1t is therefore the
duty of every Democratic voter in the
state, regardless of sex, to go to the
polls that day and vote the ticket
straight from top to bottom to restore
normally in the states financial af-
fairs, to insure reduction Of the pres
ent entirely unnecessary high taxa
ton, to curb the awful waste Of state
funds which has now been in progress
for year and half through COM
mission form of government, and to
bring back real prosperity to the land.
1t is presaged that fully $1,000 Re-
publicans will vote the Democratic
ticket at the fall election, a condition
which will cause not less than ninety
counties to send Democratic repre-
sentatives OF the coming General AS
sembly, converting that body into a
hostile camp. two to one in opposition
to the present extravaganza Republi-
can administration. OF the seventeen
state senators to be elected fully
thirteen, if not fourteen, will be DEM
Ocratic if the huge party vote is cast,
giving that branch of the legislature
to the party by three votes.
That the Democratic United States
Senatorial nominee, James "A. Reed,
will carry st. Louis by not less than
twenty thousand is admitted by Re-
publicans who are familiar with the
existing conditions there Wards in
the southern part of the city which
have not gone Democratic since 1904
when Joseph W. Folk, the Democratic
nominee for Governor, swept them,
will repeat that historic and almost
impossible performance next Novem-
Der, if Democratic men and women do
their share by turning out to vote.
Organized Labor Democratic.
1t is predicted that the only union
railroad man who will vote the Re-
publican ticket next fall is William
Turbett of Jefferson City and he is
bound to vote that way for the reason
| that he is the Republican nominee for
the legislature in Cole county, this
empty glory having again been forced
upon him owing to the fact that no one
else could be found there willing to
make costly, losing race. This coun-
ty will easily go Democratic this time
with Senator Reed who carried the
bailiwick on primary day over Long
in excess Of 500, leading the "only re-
liable party" ticket by fully 500.
The state senatorial nominees who
are certain of election in November if
full party vote is cast are: Ernest
r. James Of st. Joseph in the second
district; Senator Walter Brownlee Of
Brookfeld in the sixth district; for
mer Lieut.. Governor VIM. r. Painter
of Carrollton, in the eighth district;
Attorney N. T. Gave, of Fulton, in the
tenth district; Wesley M. McMurry,
of Rutledge, in the twelfth district;
David Bagby, of Fayete, in the four
teenth district; Samuel L. ySnodgrass,
of Eldorado Springs, in the sixteenth
district; David M. Dabbs, Of Rocky
Comfort. in the eighteenth district;
w. w. Hamlin, of Springfield, in the
twentieth district; S. A. Cunningham,
of Cabool, in the twenty-second dis
trict, to succeed himself; Frank Far
ris, of Rolla, in the twenty-fourth dis
trict, and A. L. McCawley, of Car
thage, in the twenty eighth district.
While the three st. Louis senatorial
districts, the thirteenth, khirty-sec-
ond and he thirty-fourh, are classed
as doubtful, Senator Reed may, in his
landslide in that city, carry them with
him. 1t is almost a certainty that
James T. 0'Brien, the Democratic
senatorial nominee in the thirty
fourth, will easily. carry that district
over the present Republican nominee,
Peter Anderson, who is candidate to
succeed himself. Anderson is splen-
did fellow personally and has many
friends there but this time he is on
the wrong ticket.
No "Gop" Candidate There.
Senator Brownlee, the Brookfield,
Linn county banker, who is running to
succeed himself; former State Senator
Farris of Rolla and McMurry of Rut-
ledge, have no Republican opponents
for the reason that members Of that
party cannot be found in these dis
tricts with courage enough to make a
hopeless race. The Republican sena-
torial committees searched high and
low for available timber to fill the va
cancies but, so far. have met with
failure when the empty glory was ten
dered to any member of their badly
shattered party. 1t is prophesied
that it will be easy sailing in the
twenty-eighth district for Attorney
McCawley over Republican Senator
Howard Gray, also Carthage lawyer,
who is aspiring to succeed himself.
Senator Gray was not anxious to make
the race this time but was forced in
to the running by friends. He fully
realized that Jasper county, which
alone comprises the district, will go
Democratic by safe margin in No
vember. 1t is a certainty also that
this same county will send three DEM
ocratic representatives to the next
General Assembly, something it has
not done for many years. The last
Democratic Senator from there was
| the late and much lamented William
H. Phelps.
I, Newberger for Chairman
While on the subject Of Jasper
county it can be mentioned that it
has a strong candidate for chairman
of the next State Democratic Com
mittee to offer at the party powpow at
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