The Farmington times., 1922-03-24
Party Honors to be Conferred.

At the August primary the two
leading parties will each select a can
didate for United States Senator;
sixteen congressional aspirants; three
possibilities for Supreme Court Judg-
es and three more for the State
Court Of Appeals, one each, the st.
Louis, Kansas City and Springfield
districts; one pedagogist for Super
intendent of Public Schools; seven
teen mortals patriotic enough in case
of election to serve as State Senators
for n mere stipend; enough martyrs
endowed with an unusual amount of
legal knowledge and ability to fill all
expiring circuit court judgeships, and,
last but not least, sufficient staunch
volunteers to accept the sacrificing
glory Of being the nominees for Rep
resentatives and for all county offices
which legally become vacant at the
close of 1922. For all Of these party
honors, high and low, women, old and
young, pretty and otherwise, since
the, advent of state equal suffrage,
are as eligible as men. Get into it,
girls, the political sea is smooth sail
ing save when the water is shallow
and there are reefs ahead.
Gardner will Not Run.
Breckenridge Long, St. Louis law
yer and Assistant Secretary of State
under President Wilson, and the
Democratic nominee for United States
Senator from Missouri two years
ago, has already filed for re-nomina-
ton, Senator James A. Reed, of Kan
sas City, the present incumbent, will
announce definitely what his inten-
tions are early in April. Friends of
former Governor f. d. Gardner of
st. Louis, whose brilliant administra-
tion of the executive affairs of Mis-
Gouri then put the state out of debt
through the payment of an ever
growing deficit of $2,300,000 dating
back ten years, attempted to lure
him into the big senatorial contest,
fully aware that his entree was
equivalent to nomination and election,
but he graciously declined to heed the
call. At this point it may not be i'm
proper and Lntimely to say that this
refusal has but strengthened the
spontaneous widespread movement
which, until then, was only in its in
cipiency, to make this popular ster-
ling Democrat the next Governor of
Missouri.
From Warrensburg comes the in
formation that Circuit Judge Ewing
Cockrell, whose Judicial term expires
with the close of the year, may be in
duced to enter the Democratic tilt for
the big senatorship. He is son of
former United States Senator Cock |
rell who served Missouri brilliantly in
that capacity for thirty years. When |
the question of qualifications and
ability is raised it is merely necessary |
to say for Judge Cockrell that "like
the father, like the son." and the
story is told.
If Senator Reed should in April
decline to seek denomination, many |
of his friends may unite to drag Con-
gresham Harry B. Hawes, of St.
Louis, into the contest. If this event
should come to pass the latter at the
primary would easily carry the larger
cities, namely st. Louis, Kansas City,
St. Joseph, Springfield, Sedalia, Mo-
oerly, Hannibal. st. Charles, jefferson
City and few others, but Breck
Long would run better out in "the
sticks" and thereby make the contest .
1 close one. Long is the man TO be
2cat Il Senator Pccd stays cut and
two or more ambitious Democratic
varhorses file for the nomination. If
Senator Reed enters against "Breck"
With others also running, then Sena-
or Reed is the Democrat who must be
utrun to land the honor:
The only congressional district now
onceded to the "gops" at the Novem-
er election is the Tenth, which takes
n all of st. Louis county and a ma
Or portion of the southern part of St.
.ouis city. The Twelfth, also, in that
Ity, despite its heavy negro vote, will
o Democratic with the aid of the