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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1916
Page
2
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The piece argues that Democratic factions in Missouri push Col. Fred D. Gardner for governor to finance a campaign, aided by James A. Reed and Thomas J. Pendergast, with ties to the Jefferson Hotel and Kansas City politics. It condemns a return of the “old guard” and warns voters to remember Folk’s fight against corrupt governance.
A lengthy political broadside attacks Missouri figures tied to the Pendergast circle. It labels Gardner and Hawes as fronts for old gang control, contrasts Dickey versus Reed for U.S. Senate, and cites Prohibition era crime links, urging farmers to compare protections and free trade impacts while calling out Democratic promises as hollow. The piece also mocks Gardner as a coffin maker and notes rising business failures under Wilson versus Taft as context for claims of prosperity.
A Democratic State Committee circular claims Samuel Gompers, AFL president, endorsed Fred D. Gardner for Missouri governor. The piece questions farmers about backing a governor tied to a labor leader who endorsed a bondsman for two dynamiters and recalls Gompers’ alleged past actions during a nationwide dynamite conspiracy. It argues such ties risk Missouri’s governance.
Carrollton Mo Sept 7 1916 a Republican State Committee letter denounces the Gardner Land Bank Bill as a vast error arguing rural credit is already met by local loans at 5-6% with no commission. It asserts the plan would require 13 million for equal county funding, offers 4.5% rate plus reserve fees, would tax-exempt loans harming farmers, and warns the state could face borrowing to start. It ridicules appointing top state officials to the bank board and predicts swift bankruptcy.
The Gardner bill places land bank management with the same state officials who have run the penitentiary for three years and who attempted to take $334,189.81 from state school funds. Do the people of the state want to loan $40,000,000 under such oversight.
The text asks how many cities in the state would offer inducements to attract Walter 8 Dickey and his business to locate there, and similarly how many would offer for Jim Reed with his hot air supply. It implies limited live community interest and questions competitive incentives. The passage lacks concrete facts or named places.
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