Gasconade County Republican views on Nazi politics

The Gasconade County Republican in October of 1936 was speaking on the importance of the upcoming election. Clearly, its political affiliations were known, as it presides in the name. Very anti-Roosevelt and anti-new deal, the writer goes out of his way to compare a vote for Roosevelt as a vote for Hitler. Granted, I can neither confirm nor deny whether this author was of German descent or had any German sympathies, but Gasconade is a heavily German county, and clearly most of his audience would have some connection to the German sympathy. This seems to imply that it was a commonly held opinion in Gasconade that Hitler was a bad choice to lead Germany, and seemingly there were next to no Nazi sympathizers in this area.