Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1920 — HATS OFF TO MISSOURI [ARTICLE]

HATS OFF TO MISSOURI

The Missouri Democratic state convention held at Joplin a few days ago voted to reject the selection of United States Senator James A. Reed as district delegate to the national convention and to return his name to the Fifth district caucus which nominated him. The vote was three to one on the proposition. “Missouri has suffered long and has been patient, but her hour of vindication has struck,” Frank Curlee of St. Louis said in opening the debate 'for the opposition. He declared that “Senator Reed’s political offenses antedated his opposition to the league of nations covenant,” and asserted that by his course in the senate during the war the senator “equivocated and condoned until he led the country to

wonder whether Missouri was not more pro-German than pro-Ameri-can.” “While I was in the United States army,” he said, “Senator Reed was in Washington opposing the food control act upon which I dependeu for food.” Discussing Senator Reed’s opposition to the league covenant, he declared that “he had only hate fo> the president, hate for England, hate for humanity, hate for every one but the followers of his august per. sonage. “Today,” he said in conclusion, “the dispatches will carry to the far corners of the world the fact that Missouri is pure and patriotic and that her tyrant traducer has been dethroned.”