Show s City Slickers Scream I Claim Missouri Missour Hill Hill-Billies Stole Stoic the Election JEFFERSON CITY Mo Did Did the ridge hound-dog hound raisin raisin rais rais- in tobacco chewin Ozark hillbillies hillbillies hill hill- billies of south Missouri slip a t fast one over the slick machines of boss ex-boss Tom of Kansas City and Mayor Bernard F. F Dickmann of St. St Louis Irate Democrats are accusing the Ozark denizens of Just that as the Missouri legislature starts looking at vote fraud charges that may set a new national high In political buffoonery and election election elec elec- tion skulduggery skulduggery and and j Jerk rk Republican Republican Re Re- publican Forrest Forret C. C Donnell from the governors governor's mansion The accusations range mange from buying votes with Ozark moun mountain tam tain dew and giving receipts to vot ot voters s rs so that they could collect later for tor voting right to herding voters oters over state lines Into MissourI Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- sou-rI sou to vote Republican The boiling gubernatorial row rowIn rowin rowin in Missouri appeared settled after the state supreme court ordered the Democratic-controlled Democratic legIslature legislature leg leg- i lature to seat Donnell and Donnell-and and right now now now- as the first Republican can governor since 1933 1133 But that was only the begin begin- ning No sooner did Donnell ease back in the executive chair chall than his bulky Democratic opponent and Sunday school teacher Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence McDaniel slapped down a a. contest petition larger large than most city elty t telephone directories and containing some of the most amazing charges of pilfer ballot ing ever hurled in this land of the free McDANIEL VOICES DEMOCRATS DE WRATh Equally upsetting were attempts attempts attempts at at- tempts of McDaniel labeled the machine and saloon candidate by his foes to pin the thievery tag upon the Republicans of the Ozark hill counties the fountainhead foun- foun of ot most of the oratorical oratorical orator orator- ical leal skinning given n the then high-flying high machine a couple of ot y years ars ago Democratic wrath spilled over for lor two reasons First Donnell won by only votes while the rest of the G GOP 0 P state and national ticket was sunk by majorities majorities majorities ma ma- ranging up to almost for lor President Roosevelt Second it was mighty Important important tant for the Democratic state organization organization organization or or- and especially the branch bossed by Mayor DIckmann Dickmann DIck DIck- mann of St St. Louis to keep control control control con con- of the gubernatorial gravy bowl a matter of four lour or five thousand jobs DIckmann is running for lor a third term as mayor and If the Democrats lose the St. St Louis city hall ball their state power and Bennett Dennett Champ Clarks Clark's seat in inthe inthe inthe the U. 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S senate win will be gravely menaced Vote-stealing Vote and vot ghost ing was once a thriving sideline sideline sideline side side- line of the political firm but now the city sUckers slickers slick sUck ers ems shout that the clod hoppers make them look like an eighth grade class In good government Steamed a Kansas City statesman statesman statesman states states- man and pool room oracle Say the title of that McDaniel petition petition petition peti peti- tion ought to be When its it's Vote- Vote Stealing Time in the Ozarks Ill I'll Be Paying Off Oft to You The G GO GOP 0 P brethren down in those parts and in the legislature arent aren't angry about the Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- pointing the finger of shame Angry is too gentle an ad ad- They are madder than a wet hen and in Missouri that is about as wrought up as you can get getA A chief spokesman for the heated hill-billies hill is Buford Skaggs an angular Republican legislator from deep in the Ozarks with a voice olce made for tor hog Says Skaggs 1 II Sure were we're hillbillies hill a ar proud of it and no gol gol-durn bunch of city dudes who stol l the votes in Kansas City ai at plenty of em cm in St. St Louis J Ing ins to smear us with stinking 11 ii and get away with it I Down in howell County hon of Skaggs and Republican Sta Ste Chairman Charles s Democrats charge the GO unlawfully established h hea a quarters only 25 feet from a aing avo vo Ing booth marched voters rIg into the polls and paid them c with cash and whisky themi ij Republicans there set up super service for a p pat a t Ii hot o t i voters oters by carrying ballots I citizens too tired or too bus busy l i get to the polls charge ug Till THE CITY SUCKERS I Some r real 81 business w n r down in Wight County the Democrats say a n Negro v vote tf after casting one straight fO G GO GOP 0 P F asked Wheres my myTr r boss so I can f voting like they told me to toJU Christian county would make the Kelly Kelly-Haju Tammany brand of vote-coun vote ing look as outmoded as a hon hOir brew set McDaniel insists Christian county he said th thu let them vote then l let t move the ballots from the be and change them to suit iW Lu t tC C GOP 0 P. P 1 Democrats also fumed abo tho the accommodations In som the polling places Take Tant Tane county for instance in the h hea J i of the Shepherd of the HUh hub country McDaniel avers U e were WE're no polling booths and thi thu I Republican spellbinders whoop it up for tor their candidates m lz side the voting place in ane fort to snatch erring brothe who cast sheep's eyes at D Dej Den Dei names on the ballot allot H Douglas count county v cs real set the Democrats afire B. B In Ui th stronghold of ot Republicans Des De Deri charge egg crates ie we stacked up to be used as poll polli booths that an officer of the la Ia a handed ballots to voters voter a at watched them marked and th thone thone hi one Republican judge count counti the ballots without benefit of of Democrat watcher as aa provid by bylaw law K I Not satisfied with such un unco co activities ics les G GO GOP 0 P t sta sti warts in some counties CJ up willing workers in Kania KanSal o Oklahoma k I a h 0 m a and Ark an ana a marched them aTo across the line Une ar ai voted them for Donnell Ut Democrats charge I m D Backlashes ac k 1 ash s from the M Daniel cry of corruption are no pouring pO in as a legislative cO con car mittel starts Its iu investigation White H it T T. Floyd I Andrew count county insisted that U house expunge from its It re j the names of at those accused fraud in his county with the pI that Ive known those forty years and they AI aj crooked and no Democrat say they are I A SEW NEW TECHNIQUE FOR HArLOT BALLOT BOX HOX STUFFING Some Democratic county conr objected to the Mci MI M Daniel petition as it applied their counties insisting the co cotry coutry cou try folks would have no pi part crooked election business A few anti machIne Desa Dem cratic legislative leaders bug the investigation and Insist Donnell had been elected fa lais and squarely square They said trump rum 1 up charges against Donn DonnS 4 would hurt their party p Now that McDanIels McDanIel's cards MM on the table however many W lIeve he holds an ace or two f when it comes to ch char of 01 buying votes on credit i carrying on Interstate commeTt t tIn in Iii vote snatching iV What the boys In m the back i really want to know however 1 whether the playing fiddle 9 growers have developed a t tc that will revolutionize tJ tH th ancient art of box ballot-box Jt ling fing in the bright light district |