The Farmington times., 1922-03-24
CAPITOL NEWS LETTER

Washington, D. c., March 90
Winning Missouri back to the Demo
cratic party is a task upon which
Cordell Hull, chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, has set his
heart and he is convinced it will be
done. Confidential advices received at
national headquarters in the Bond
Bldg, Washington, are that there has
been marked change in sentiment
throughout Missouri and that, unless
all signs fail, the majority of con-
gressmen from that state, after the
fourth of next March, will be Demo-
Gratis.
1t is reported here that the slogan,
Harding times and HYDE taxes", orig
mated by some keen witted Missouri
Democrat has the Republicans
throughout the state explaining tear
fully that President Harding shouldn't
be held responsible for unemployment
and low prices of farm products and
that Governor Hyde doesn't assess the
taxes. Meanwhile, of course, the man
with the message has delivered it to
twenty or thirty others.
AS the Missouri delegation in the
House now stnds only two of the six
teen congressman are Democrats.
These are: Rep. VIM. w. Rucker of
the Second, and Rep. Harry B. Hawes
of the Eleventh district. No doubt
is entertained but that both of these
men can and will be returned. In ad-
dition there is every reason that ten,
and possibly twelve districts, will re-
turn to the Democratic fold.
The Republicans themselves expect
to lose heavily among their House
members from Missouri but profess
to believe this may be counter-bal-
anced by gaining a senatorship. They
are bouyed up in this hope by re-
ports which their party scouts have
brought back, telling of the division
alleged to exist among the Demo-
Gratis. Naturally, these reports have
lost nothing in the telling but the sa-
gacious ones among the Republicans
give them very little credence. 1t is
pointed out that however much oppo-
sition to Senator Reed there may have
been among old line Democrats in his
state Immediately after his successful
| fight against the League of Nations
that time must have softened this
rancor considerably. He is stump
speaker unequalled in the state and
may be expected to avail himself of
this advantage to the limit. Then,
too, Republicans feel that as Reed
comes from the Western end of the
state, where the heaviest Democratic
vote is located, his friends undoubted-
ly will capitalize this in the party pri-
mary.
There is no gainsaying that the Re-
publican leaders would like to see
Senator Reed retired from the Senate.
No more independent man occupies
seat in that body today than he
and scarcely a day passes but that
with his shafts of ridicule or irony
he punctures some pet measure of an
administration senator.
A bill authorizing Missouri to util-
ize the $55,000, remaining in the state
treasury out of a federal appropria-
tion of 100000 to reimburse the
state for recruiting volunteers during
the Spanish-American war, in the
erection Of memorial to soldiers and
sailors of that war, has been intro
duced by Rep. Sidney c. Roach. The
memorial, if the bill passes, will be
erected on the grounds of the state
capitol.
Fred Evans has been endorsed for
postmaster at Armstrong and Ed
Nicholson at Green Ridge.
Gen. John j. Pershing, Missouri's
most distinguished son, was enter
tanned Saturday by the Missouri So
ciety of Washington. General Per-
shing, who holds the highest position
in the army possiblef or Congress to
confer, told of his boyhood, spent in
Missuri, and complimented the state
for it's achievements both in peace and
war.
Despite the absence last week of |
President Harding, several presiden- |
tial postmasters for Missouri were
their names being for
warded to Washington by special mes
senger. They were: Edward Early,
Barring; James L. Creason, Camden;
Fred L. Mills, Commerce; Albert G.
Reeves, Lucerne; Clarice H. Lloyd,
Valley Park; and Thompson F. Wom-
ack, Fair Grove.
The allotment of funds to Missouri
Turing the last week by the War FL
nance corporation was $5S,0O0. This
represented the loans on live stock
md farm products which banks of
hat state offered for rediscount.
Announcement is made by the Civil
Service Commission that on Anril 3
t will hold examinations to select
postmaster eligibles for the following
owns: Bucklin, Clifton Hill, Eureka,
lerculaneum, Kimmswick, Monticello,
Iormany, Portageville and Richards.
The fight to increase the annual ap- .
ropriation for river and harbor i'm
rovement from $27,S0O,0O0 to $42,-
10000, the sum recommended by the
'hief of Engineers, had the united
lpport of all members of the House
rom Missouri, irrespective of party
nes.
The post office at Boylers Mill,
Iorgan county, will be discontinued
-arch 81.