The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-12-29

The party caucus the cay peIore
the next General Assembly convenes
will definitely decide the issue as to
Representative who will be the next
Speaker IN the House. Out of 100
members Of the House 83 are DEM
ocrats, 65 Republicans, and two seats
contested.
Other House Honors
From Maries county comes the in
formation that e. w. Allison Is seek
ing the honor of being Speaker pro
tenn of the next House. D. L. Bales,
popular Democratic printer-farner |
Eof Shannon county, who is coming |
back to serve fourth term, is being |
boosted for the strenuous task OF be- |
ing the next party floor leader, Six
years of active and hard service in the |
House as Representative from Shan |
non county gives him the necessary |
experience and parliamentary ability.
A woman seeks to become a chap
lain of the House. She is Mrs. Edw.
James of Holden. Another announced
candidate for that place is Rev. q. A.
Hoffman of Bloomfield.
| It is believed that Frank Arm
strong, q we'll known and influential
Cass county newspaper man who was
at the head Of the Democratic State
Publicity Bureau during the campaign
of 1920, will be made official reporter
of the Senate.
w. Rufus Hollister, editor, publish
er and chief owner of the Jefferson
City Capital News and the Missouri
State journal, two of the leading
democrats newspapers Of the state,
Iis being suggested for Secretary OF
the Senate. For years he was prom
inent in national democracy as sec
Eretary for the late UHited States Sem
ator, William j. Stone. In 1920 as
secretary of the Executive Commit
tee of the Democratic National Com
mittee he acquired further pronii-
inence. That position put him in close
touch with former President Wood
row Wilson, and James A. Cox, the
1920 Democratic presidential nominee.
Early in 1922 Hollister was campaign
manager for Breckenridge Long, OF
ST. Louis, in his race for the Demo
cratic nomination for United States
Senator. Hollister, being a staunch
and sterling Democrat, as soon as 1t
, became known that Senator Reed had
been renoninated declared for the
party ticket from top to bottom and
from then on his two papers as heart
, ily supported Senator Reed for re-
r. election as it had favored Long for the
Democratic nomination before the
primary.
II Marrs Also Candidate
r. e. L. Marrs, former chief clerk
: of the House and Secretary of the
Senate in 1917, is again candidate
for secretary of the Senate. lie is q
= prominent and influential Democrat
in Southwest Missouri. In 1921 nc
: made the race for the Democratic
: nomination for State Auditor, only tc
{ be defeated by Geo. A. Middlecamp
formerly State Treasurer, who is now
i Kansas City banker.
+ Several other important and many
= minor positions in both the House anc
u the Senate will be carefully doleC
:. out by the Democratic majority. On'
!. desirable but trying place is the off
= cial reporter of the House with sal
, ary of 81 attached to make it wortl
y while. A chief clerk is also to 'b'
- elected. The other berths pay from
= $3.50 to So a day. The high cost o
:, living has greatly reduced the mum
y Der of applicants for the places whicl
= pay the smaller Sums. An army o
!. stenographers and clerks will be need
u ed and both branches of the Genera
Assembly will have many pages to ap
point. Secretaries of committees ar
n also to be chosen.
lie Tim Birmingham of st. James VIII
S. was Missouri's Fish and Game Com
y, missioner under Gov. Fred d. Gard
R. ner, is candidate for Sergeant-at
e. Arms in the Senate. William Hick'
t. Kansas City real estate man, VIII
n served six terms of two years eac
o. in the House as representative frol
e. jackson county, seeks the same bertl
re jackson L. Benson and Robert A. Vo
he ker of Jefferson City are anon
those slated for clerical appointment
cd in either the House Of the Senat
X Miss Victoria Walker Of Californi
is Mo-, and Miss Eta Lou Carter /
a Jefferson City, it is said, will also I
IS, given positions. Volker is a we
to known Western Union telegraph u
be orator.
lly Contest for Official Printing
70 A warm contest is on between I'll
.eN Wy two Democratic dailies of Jefferst
W City, the Democrat Tribune and ii
Capital News, to print the daily pr
ceedings of the House and Senat
ho m The successful paper does the prin
~ ne ing gratis but furnishes $50 copi
~ ~ of each daily issue for the use of Il
~ members and officials of the Gener
W ve' Assembly at cost of $35 per diel
90 During the recent primary campai,
- the Democrat Tribune, owned and G
,ao ,ae tied by Joseph A. Goldman, was +
W. James A. Reed for United States Sc
T. Il ator, carrying Jefferson City and Ct
NC county for that candidate by 6(
~ The Capital News espoused the eau
!, of Long. After the primary the tN
- papers united on the Democratic tic
y, ct. The result was that Senator Re
.in .nd carried Cole county by over 1900, a
~. ,saa the remainder of the state ticket r
va close behind.
1T. is stated that the contest for
ts-ii official printing will be compromis
ac- by giving the Senate portion to \
rds Democrat Tribune and the House E
tih- to the Capital News. Editor 20
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