{"id":39,"date":"2010-03-09T19:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=39"},"modified":"2010-03-09T19:52:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:52:12","slug":"another-fight-at-the-house-of-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Another Fight at the House of Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/4421498686\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A political cartoon about the House of Lords\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2688\/4421498686_24f3e482fa.jpg\" alt=\"A political cartoon about the House of Lords\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Criticism in ink of Joplin&#39;s Democratic boss Gilbert Barbee, owner of the House of Lords<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This image is taken from a 1906 issue of the <em>Joplin News-Herald<\/em>.\u00a0 It depicts a scene from Joplin&#8217;s famed House of Lords.\u00a0 The House of Lords was a world reknowned saloon, brothel, and political watering hole.\u00a0 Gilbert Barbee, who was Jasper County&#8217;s Democratic political boss (when he wasn&#8217;t sharing the title with William Phelps of Carthage), bought an interest in the <em>Joplin Globe <\/em>in 1899.\u00a0 From that point forward, Barbee used the Globe as a cudgel against his Republican opponents, who often took their own swipes at Barbee. Barbee, who built a walkway between his office at the Globe and the House of Lords, was intimately associated with the saloon.\u00a0 This cartoon is the <em>News-Herald<\/em>&#8216;s attempt to link Barbee to the brawls and violence of the House of Lords, a cunning parallel to the political battles he often fought against rivals and opponents at the state and local levels.\u00a0\u00a0 Despite his politically combative demeanor, Barbee left $100,000 to the poor in the city of Joplin upon his death.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: Joplin News Herald<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image is taken from a 1906 issue of the Joplin News-Herald.\u00a0 It depicts a scene from Joplin&#8217;s famed House of Lords.\u00a0 The House of Lords was a world reknowned saloon, brothel, and political watering hole.\u00a0 Gilbert Barbee, who was Jasper County&#8217;s Democratic political boss (when he wasn&#8217;t sharing the title with William Phelps of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[125,130,129,131,32,124,52,66,127,132,128,126,11,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}