The Farmington times., 1922-09-22
PERTINENT POLITICAL pRATTLE
fBy A. 4. Edmonston.l !

| JtHeTSUn NlLy, MO-, sept. IT,
Women with aspirations for political
glory were given more courteous rec
ognition by Democratic electors at
the August primary than was accord
ed to the Republicans of the sex who
were seeking nominations at the
hands of their partisan brethren. The
! "0nly Reliable Party" as substan-
tial acknowledgment that equal suf-
frage is in the land, not alone to stay,
but also to play an active part in the
affairs of future Democracy, nominat-
ed Mrs. st. Clair Moss of Columbia
for Congress in the Eighth Congress
sional District, and Sarah Lucille
Turner of Kansas City for Repre-
sentative in the Sixth District of
jackson county, and Mary J. Cowen
of St. Louis for one of the two rep
resentatives from the Fifth Legisla-
tive District of that city. The off
cial publication of Secretary of State
Becker which promulgates the re-
suits of the recent primary and lists
the party nominees for the November
elections, fails to disclose that a sin
! gle Republican woman was nominat-
ed anywhere in Missouri on what is
classed as the "state ticket, unless
"Myrt" A, Rollins, given the empty
and useless honor of running for rep
resentative in the Fifth Legislative
District of st. Louis is woman, and
the given name of this candidate,
"Myrt", is an abbreviation of Myrtle.
The st. Louis City Directory disclos-
es that "Myrt" A. Rolline is Success
or to James M. Rollins, Lawyer" in
the Title Guaranty building, that
city, but yields no further informa-
tion. James M. Rollins, now suppos-
edly in the "happy hunting grounds"
years ago was Republican state sem
ator for one term from st. Louis. He
was son of State Senator James S.
Rollins, who served two terms in that
body, representing what was then
old Ninth Senatorial District, in the
Reconstruction days." following the
! Civil War, before Missouri again be-
came Democratic.
Negro Representative RenOminated
Twice as many Republican women
sought nominations from that party
as did Democratic members of the
sex from their party. 1t still remains
to be shown that enough courtesy ex-
listed on primary day among the
"gops" to honor one of their political
sisters through party nominatin on
the state ticket. 7 emphatically i'm
press upon the minds of Republican
women of St. Louis that they must
not run for office and were only
needed on election day to vote, Wal
thall M. Moore, the negro representa-
tive of two years ago was renominat-
ed to again make the race in the
Third Legislative District of that
city. The yearning aspirations of
Martha j. Hackett of st. Louis to
sit in the same body in 1928 as a Re-
publican legislator from the Fourth
district, were nipped in the bud there
primary day through decisive de-
feat. She only received 3,540 votes
to the S,948 which were given to the
successful Ethiopian Legislative nom
inee. In fact Moore received mora
votes at that decisive event than were
given to thirty-nine white Republi-
can candidates, successful and unsuc-
cessful, seeking the same "gop" re-
ward in that city. Only four Repub-
lican candidates for representative,
out of total field of forty-four who
raced that day in st. Louis, received
more votes than Negro Moore. They
are: Richard Goodenough, DR.. Heine
Marks, "Myrt" A. Rollins and Chas.
Straub, and at that their leads over
the negro were not large enough to
gloat over or exploit as a party
achievement. The day of the "dingy"
politician in St. Louis, which arrived
two years ago when Moore was given
the high honor of being the first ne
gro member of a Missouri Legisla-
ture, seems to be still at its height
there. Probably this is why the
"Grand Old Party" which Abraham
Lincoln knew, first retrograded into
"G.O.P.", then to "g.o.p." and, final
ly, deteriorated into the "gops."
Democratic Victory, st. Louis.
| st. Louis City, which now consists
of five Legislative districts, is en-
titled to nineteen Representatives in
the next general assembly, as COM
pared to six districts in 1920 but on
ly sixteen representatives. Seven
teen Democrat legislative candidates
were nominated on primary day to
make the race in November The
Democratic City Committee will fill
the existing two vacancies before the
close of September. With Senator
James A. Reed sweeping the city on
election day, settled fact, it is pres
aged that from twelve to fifteen of
the Democratic candidates for the
lower House will win. 1t is a certain
ty that Moore, the negro candidate
for reelection, will go down in de-
feat before his Democratic adversar-
les. White women of both parties in
that st. Louis district having already
agreed not to vote for him in retail
alton for the defeat of the martyr to
equal suffrage, J. Martha Hackett,
running for similar Republican
nomination, who only received $500
votes to the S,94S given Moore.
Other Republican Women Defeated
Besides Martha ]. Hackett, other
st. Louis Republican women who
were refused the party nomination
they were seeking, were Adeline P.
Wagner and Anne M. Evans, both
possessed, before primary day, with