Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-12
THE MISSOURI CAMPAIGN.
Republicans Are Apathetic and Democrats
Are Making a Hot Fight

/ AISSoNhI
Republicans Are Apathetic and Democrats
/ Are Making Hot Fight.
| Correspondence Of The Evening Star
KANSAS CITY, NO., October 9, 1892
The Missouri campaign has reached that
stage where results may easily be predicted with
the gratifying assurance that the statements
will be verified in November.
In the present campaign a combination OF
causes will insure the democratic presidential
candidate unprecedented large vote. The
apathy Of the republicans, added to the un-
usual activity of the managers of the demo-
cratic state campaign with the growth Of low
tariff sentiment, will combine to give Cleveland
the greatest vote ever polled in the state. When
Chauncey l. Filley was defeated for republican
national committeeman at Minneapolis a fight
between the ''hoodlums and the silk stock
ings. the two local factions Of the party in the
state was precipitated which will cause a fall
ing off in the republican vote. The "stsy-at-
home" vote Of 1898. which gave to the national
democracy fourteen representatives in Con-
gress from Missouri, has more inducements
now to remain away from the polls
than II had then. The fight between
Filley and Kerns, the leaders of the
opposing factions, is bitter, so bitter, indeed.
that II has subordnated the national fight to 1t
with the positively result of giving the
l democratic national ticket an increased major
I ity in November.
/ Last week the democratic state central COM
rnittee demanded and received the reslgns-
/ tlons Of three Of the presidential electors.
/ Two were candidates for county offices and the
/ third was a national bank director. This pre-
/ caution Was taken that there may be posi-
bic bubble over Missouri casting her seven
teen votes in The electoral college for Cleve-
land. They viii be SO cast and the electors will
enter the electoral college with more votes be-
hind them than ever before.
REPUBLICAN APATHY.
The apathy Of the republican national campaign
in Missouri is most remarkable. William Warner,
the republican candidate for governor, is
making a campaign on state issues solely aud in
his campaign refers but infrequently to Harri-
son and Reid The opposition to the force
bill and the great impetus given tariff reform
within the last two years have combined to rem
der hopeless n campaign in Missouri fought on
the platform of the national republican party.
When Nal. Warner started his canvass be con-
tiuued IL so vigorously that the democrats,
aroused to the possible danger of losing the
state, inaugurated a fight the hottest the party
has ever waged within the state. This will
help the national ticket and will aid in swelling
Cleveland's vote.
IN THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
In the Congress which convenes in November
Missouri will have many newmen. The four
in the last Consre.. will nSs them 60
back. 1t Is probable. too. tbat the list
viii be found two and perhsP s eniee repub-
licans. The disaffection in tbe state over the
congressional gerrymandor u flast winter will
cause heavy falling of in son& of the districts,
| and in others local issues win turn the scale.
There are more than 24O, 900 republican voters
in Missouri, and the effort Of the democratic
general assembly to scatter them 30 that fifteen
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| In some wonderfully shaped districts and "A gem
eral feeling of dissatisfaction, which in two or
| three districts insures a close vote.
OF the old members Charles II. Mansur Of
| the second, II. p. c. Wilson of the fourth.
| Richard II. Norton of the ninth and Sam Byrnes
| Of the tenth were defeated for denomination.
The other cid members were renominated but
not all are sure OF reelection. Vim. III. Hatch
Of the first Alex. NJ. Dockery of the third. ID.
| A DeArmond of the sixth, John T. Heard of
the seventh, Richard p. Bland of the eighth,
Robert W. Fyan of the thirteenth and March
Arnold of the fourteenth will be returned
John ]. ONeil and Seth W. Cobb, the two old
members from the city of ST. Louis, may not be
reelected because Of the changing vote The
vote of two years ago a landslide and the
vote of this year may break into the solid dele
cation In several districts.
Charley Mansur of the second district will be
succeeded by Uriel s. Hall, former president of
the state alliance and an active member Of the
present organization. r. p. c. Wilson of the
fourth district, who seriously dispieased his
constituents by voting for Crisp for Speaker,
will be succeeded by Daniel d. Burnes, son Of
the late Congressman James n. Burnes. Geo
G. Crawther. the republican candidate in this
district, is handicapped by local factionalism
and the fact that he IS making the race iii the
Platte purchase, where the Burnes family has
held sway for years.
John c. Tsrsney Of the Kansas City district
will very likely be returned, but not by the
vote OF two years ago. As the leader Of the
Missouri forces, who succeeded in getting
enough Missourians to vote for Crisp to insure
| his election, he incurred the anger of many OF
his tariff reform constituents, which may be in
. measure smoothed over by the work which
he accomplished for the district. The republi-
| cans have nominated against him Webster Da-
/ Wis. the best orator and the LOST promising
young man in the party within the district.
In the new ninth district, where Richard ii.
Norton was defeated for denomination by
Champ Clark, after the bitterest fight in the
! history Of the district, requiring nearly two
| weeks of balloting. the result Is uncertain The
Norton men are dissatisfied and an open fight
! u raging between the Catholic adherents Of
Norton and the Protestant followers of Clark.
The majority in this district exceeds TOO but
80 strong Is the dissffection that the republican
candidate, Vim. l.. Morsey, has a splendid
fighting chance to win. -Four years ago a dol
lar tossed in the air decided whether Richard
Norton or Elijah Robinson should represent
the district In Congress, and this year two
weeks of balloting and two conventions were
necessary to determine it.
The tenth district. comprising the heavily re-
publican territory adjacent 10 South ST. Louis,
will return a republican unless the shrewd
scheme Of the democrats prevails against the
political belief OF majority Of the voters in
the district. Edward G. Kehr, German demo-
crat was nominated TO catch the German vote
The new fifteenth district will be represented
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two terms IN Congress from the old twelfth dis
trict.
The national situation in the state may be
summed briefly so: Cleveland will receive the
| seventeen electoral voters. certainly twelve and
possibly thirteen democratic Congressman will
be sent to the lower house OF Congress.
! WHY THE CAMPAIGN Has BEEN DULL.