Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-18
MAKING WAR ON VEST
The Young Missouri Democracy Reported
as Against Him.
Candidates for His Seat in the Senate
"A New Generation Not Under
the Senator'S Spell.
Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, October 16. 1894.
One feature OF the forthcoming election
| in Missouri is the bearing 1t will have on
| The choosing of a successor to Senator Vest
| 1t is true, there will be no vacancy until
| 1897, but the state senators voted for next
| month will have a voice in the thirty
eighth general assembly. Mr.. Vest will not
have a walkover There is a growing ele-
| ment in his own party, composed of the
newer generation, which believes that 1t
| would be as well for him to retire on his
| honors.
Mr.. Vest, it is believed by many, made a
mistake sixteen years ago, when he first
became a Senator-elect In snubbing the
kid politicians of the state. These kids"
are now grown men, with whiskers and in
| fiuence, and they do not forget the humil-
| iation they consider he subjected them to
when they were in the adOlescent stage of
development as party workers. The state
Is proud of him. of his standing as a Sem
ator and his loyalty q Missourian, but
some of the people show an inclination to
oppose him, and it would not he surprising
II they were to swap him off for a younger
man OF lesser parts, but with happier krack
OF getting along with the adninistra ton
They argue that the government at WASH
1ngton Is Il three-cOrnered affair, and that
the legislative should work as harmo-
niousy as possible with the executive If
results are TO be expected. The fact that
the results most ardently desired are fed
eral offices does not weaken the force of
their argument.
Already reports are coming in from diff
ferent parts of the state where Vest has
spoken that the Senator has lost much of
his fire. This is not true; The Star CORES
pondent has heard him recently. and he is
as viri1e as ever he was. The fact is. he is
being looked at through another pair ~
spectacles; that is all.
The Senatorial Candidates.
Including the Senator. there Will be three,
POSSIBLY four. candidates In the field The
rev asprants to the honor are all young
men. They We're all decidedly in the kid
class when Mr.. Vest made his successful
and brilliant campaign. in 1S1S-a campaign
that gave him tional fame before he be-
came national official
EX-Gov Francis leads the van. He is in
the forties, bold, sef-reliant and adroit
He is suave, gentemanly and entertaining:
npulent and successful. Men who hear of
ffanclS are generally impressed unfavor-
ably they meet him once, and somehow
begin to think he is good fellow The
second time they assert there is something
IN the man, althoue, h hey is a hail fellow
well met, and fond of the good things of
life. Their third interview they wird up
with mental oath of allegiance His
friends urge that If he we're in the Senate
now. Missourans vino banker after office
would not have to write begging letters to
John VI. Palmer of Illinois, offering as an
excuse the fact that 1t was this state that
started the latter's senatorial boom Con-
gresham Cobb Is his closest friend, and it
Is not unlikely thai If Francis goes to the
Senate he will use his large influence at
some future time to make the twelfth dis
trict man governor.
Champ Clark wishes to go to the Senate
He Will undoubtedly have a ,ha,
the joint session meets to elect
stones Presidential Bee.
The other candidate is a contingent one
Gov. Stone. The figure he will cut depends
on the lustness in 1896 Of his presiden tial
| boom. now in its callow days. The governor
believes himself to be in line for the presi-
dency, and he does not stand alone; neither
! does his boom. 1t is the talk of city, viii
lage, town and country crossroads. 1t is
mentioned at every barbecue and democrat
ic love feast held in the state, and wherever
mentioned the welkin is made to ring with
shouts for ''Shirt-tail Bill" From present
appearances Stone will go into the next
national convention backed by the solid
| Missouri delegation, and a disposition to
| dicker. The very least this delegation will
nope Tor Is vice presidential nomination
| for its favorite. Stone Is an able man and
| student. He is scholarly, and polished,
[ too, despite mis- sobriQuet, suggestive of the
TIME uo"H on the Wnen ne mad
nothing but a shirt to his back. He is a
man of courage, is shown by his relent-
| less war on the A. p. A, which is at pres
| ent potential in Missouri If he loses in the
national convention his prominence there
will give him a prestige with the Legislature
| that may land him in the Senate. In this
event the cry will be set up that this part
| of the state has been neglected, and an eff
| fort viii be made to push Cockrell aside
with Francis. But that is another story,
| four years too young to be strikingly in
| teresting.
| what Republicans Hope For.
! The forthcoming election may result, any,
| how, in readjustment of policies and a
| revision of states. Not since 1872 has a re-
publican been elected to state Office in Mis-
souri,. This year the leaders of that party
are making a desperate effort to pull
| through at least one candidate on their
ticket. They have some hope of landing the
| entire batch. There is talk of Jones, popu-
| list candidate for supreme judge. Withdraw
| Ing at the last moment and throwing his
| strength to Robinson, the republican nomi-
| nee. In this event Robinson's success will
| not be surprising. But it is Joseph Flory,
! candidate for railroad and warehouse COM
Of the
| ductor, and is very solid With the American
Railway Union. His opponent Is a banker.
| and there is already -one banker on the
| board The outgoing member, Hennessy. is
a locomotive engineer The democrats have
| heretofore given one of the three positions
on the commission to, a practical railroad
man, and when they threw Hennessy over
board howl, very lopg and very loud, went
the steam steam ea is E ory Sh make
| ing the most of this. and in a year like the
| present there are signs favorable to him.
| Strange as it may seem, the chamber of
| commerce influence of this city may be ex-
| ercised In his behalf against capt.
talist. The board appoints the chief
| grain inspector for the state. The
| present inspector has -antagonized the ele-
| vator men of st. Louis. who consequently,
| most cordially despise him, They have sue
! ceeded in having him denounced by vote
| of the Merchants Exchange, and 1t is not
| improbable that the opposing power who
! made him may be rebuked at the polls
| Added to this a widespread belief that the
| board should be nOn-partisan, anyway. and
| you have a state of affairs that should make
ante-election life sit easily upon the frame
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