The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-08-19
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
A HOtbed of Political Conaict--Athletic
Revival.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 15.-For the first
time in the history of politics in this
State, the headquarters of both the
great parties, as well as the Peoples
party have been established in st.
Louis. The Republicans have the
whole of one story of q hotel on Fourth
street, the Everett house, and the Dem
ocrats have their rooms in the Laclede
hotel. The Peoples party managers
are at the Richelieu hotel. All of these
places are crowded from early morning
to evening with candidates and their
friends; and politicians from all parts
of the State are making the city the
hub of every journey they take through
the counties. Both the Republican and
the Democratic parties intended at first
to establish branch headquarters in
other cities in Missouri, but they aban4
doned the idea, concluding that the
central position of st. Louis made that
unnecessary. Here the managers are
able to obtain close communication with
National headquarters, too, and that is
a thing of importance.
The athletes of the city now see
their way clear to making st. Louis
great athletic center. The Pastimes
! will begin soon to lay out their new
grounds near the electric car lines in
the western part of the city, and Chris.
/ Won der Abe, the baseball manager,
announces that his plans are ready for
his big ball park and athletic field,
which he intends to have in condition
for use next season. Mr.. Won der Abe
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clubs which are not under the Pastime
management, held on his grounds, and
the result win be livelier competition
in matters athletic than the city has
seen for some time. The Pastimes
have no Sunday games, and that is the
point of difference between them and
the other athletic organizations of the
city. Mr.. Won der Abe will open his
grounds with series of ball games
early next season, and the Pastimes
will receive the public on their field
with a contest that will bring athletes
from all over the country to st. Louis
The admirers of Frank p. Blair are
anxious that the ladies having charge
of the womans exhibit for Missouri at
the Worlds Fair shall make the statue
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State pavilion one of that great Mis-
sourian. The ladies have not decided
whose statue they will have there, and
they want to find out first what the
people of the State think about it. The
statue will be of heroic size, and will
be made by st. Louis sculptor, either
Robert Bringhurst or Fred Ruckstohl,
probably. If the statue is to be Blair
the sculptor will take him in pose
different from the one in which, he is
shown by the statue out at the en-
trance of Forest Park.
The postal clerks of the United States
seem to be fond of st. Louis. They
are going to hold another convention
here soon, and finish the work they
began here two years ago. They are
trying to eliminate politics entirely
from the postal service, and make the
civil service rules apply to it from tor
to bottom. The thing they are after
now is to get all the clerks graded, 81
that those who are most efficient may
get the best pay, without regard t.
their influence or party leaning
There will be about three hundred del
egates at the convention.