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Tron County Register Published Every Thursday.
VOLUME LXIV. NUMBER 28.
IRONTON, MO., NOV. 27, 1930.
The dawn is visible in darkest Africa. Kansas elected a United States Senator and Governor this year.
The Anti-Saloon League wants a fund of $5,000,000 with which to finance the next campaign for the "noble experiment."
More than one hundred banks in Missouri and adjoining states closed their doors the past week. And it wasn't much of a week for bank closing under Hoover prosperity rule, at that.
The First National Bank of Caruthersville closed its doors Tuesday after a ten days' run on the bank had depleted its cash reserves and deposits of $100,000. The banks are tumbling like ten pins these days.
Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, former attorney general, pronounced dry and very active in the Hoover campaign, has gone "wet." This is the charge made against her by the dry leaders since she has accepted employment from the wine producers of California.
If you have any such false idea in your cranium as that prohibition is prohibiting make it a point to attend one of the big football games or any other place where there are large assemblies. There was never anything like it in the days when the traffic was licensed.
The dry leaders fear that President Hoover is going to turn turtle on prohibition and threaten. if he does, to put a third candidate in the presidential race. It would be refreshing if some positive declaration was made from the White House. There has been nothing of the kind since the present incumbent's occupancy almost two years now.
The Hoover Democrats faded into obscurity in Alabama where Senator Heflin attempted to succeed himself as an independent against the regular Democratic nominee, John H. Bankhead. The supporters of Bankhead campaigned with home-made verse such as this: "Hoover blows the whistle. DePriest rings the bell. Heflin cries "All Aboard.' And business goes to hell!"
Politicians, or some of them. at least, certainly prey on the credulity of the masses. In the closing days of the recent campaign practically every Republican paper in this district, supporting Congressman Kiefner for reelection, stressed the fact of how very important and essential it was that we have a Congressman who believed in protection. This, in face of the disastrous and miserable conditions in the district today, with a tariff about as excessive as you can conceive.
From the News columns of the Eastern Press: "Missouri leads the list of those States which lose representation in the House, with a total reduetion of hree seats." Absolutely correct. And come to pass after ten years of "splendid Republican rule.' In the days when Democracy was triumphant in Missouri we stood fifth in the galaxy of states. Now we are tenth. To quote the St. Louis Globe-Democrat of long years ago, then rabidly Republican, "Poor Old Missouri!"