Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-01
THE MISSOURI CAMPAIGN
Looking for Success in Several
Districts
The A. r. A. Opposing Congressman
Bartholdt Sure Of Returning.
Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
ST. LOUIS. September 2s 1894.
The campaign in Missouri has been for.
mally opened by Senator Cockrell who, in
two hours address at Richmond, fur
nished the smaller fry of his party with
ammunition enough in the way of statistics
TO do them until after the election. These
biennial visits OF the Senator TO his con-
stituency are especially grateful to the
adolescent spellbinders, who are always
more or less suspicious of the party hand
book as a rule Of faith and practice but
who would not think of questioning the
precepts of the sage of warrensb-idge.
The handbook Of a necessity is spread out
over the whole country, but Cockrelrs
ideas, seldom as he visits the state. are es-
sentially Missourian and his figures are all
compiled with a view to local application.
The Senator did not come a day too soon,
for II Is conceded on all sides that the
democrats have the fight of their lives on
their hands. While IL is likely that they
will elect their state ticket, the republicans
are already boasting that In several con-
gressional districts they are scared out Of
their boots. As at present constituted, the
Missouri delegation in the lower house
stands fourteen democrats and one republic
can. Richard Bartholdt OF the tenth dis
trict is the lonesome individual Who yearns
republican colleagues would give him.
The fact that there are optimists here in
Missouri who assert that Bartholdts dis
trict is the only one in the state which is
not doubtful this year illustrates to some
extent the sanguine temperament peculiar
to the republicans of 1894.
They are already burning the red fire Of
prescient victory. OF course. their wild
dream OF a clean sweep here in Missouri is
ephemeral, but that they will have three or
four Representatives in the next Congress
Is by no means unlikely.
The Eleventh District.
Bartholdt will, Of course, be returned. his
district being lopsided in its opposition 10
democracy. Then. in the eleventh district.
now represented by John j. O'Nef, there
is sentimental feeling in favor of Charles
F. Joy. Joy, it will be remembered, was
given the certificate OF election two years
ago. but was unseated by the democratic
majority on a technically The district is
democratic, to be sure, the margin being
nearly two thousand, and ii was the A. L.
A. influence alone that gave Mr.. Joy the
ghost of n chance in 1872. Who the DEM
cratic candidate this year will be it is hard
to say.
o'Nen announced some tine ago that he
would not be in the race. but since his re-
turn from Washington he has sidled up 10
more than one politician, and intimated
that he would like TO thrash joys boots of
of him, and that he thinks ne can. He can
probably have the nomination IL he wishes IL.
Joy will undoubtedly be the republican
nominee. In any event, the district may be
set down as doubtful, with the odds in
favor Of the democrats, provided that
party's candidate is a man OF exceptional
personal popularity.
The Fifteenth.
The other district that is not considered
altogether safe is the fifteenth, now repre-
sented by Chas. II. Morgan. Mr. Morgans
plurality two years ago was l,722 He
polled 17,4s9 against a combined opposition
of more than 22Oo0 and unless he can
again scatter the ballots adverse to him he
will, Of course, get the worst OF IL in No
vember. He rel cesents the largest lead
and zinc mining section in the country, IL
not in the world, and the miners are not
SatisneG with the tarIn schedule which af-
fects their industry. Besides this, SOUTH
west Missouri from whence he halls, has
long been the Gibraltar OF republicanism I'm
this state. The section sent as many SOL
diers to the Union army during the war.
according TO Its population, any other
section, perhapc, in the country. Mr.. Nor
gan is today the beneficiary of a gerryman-
der He first went TO Congress in 1874 on
his record a Union soldier, was returned
In '16. staid odt four years, served another
term aid was again furloughed until 1892.
In Tarsney's District.
John c. Tarsney. who represents the fifth
or Kansas City district, had 5.l67 votes to
the good when the ballots were counted
two years ago. but. notwithstanding this
splendid majority, some doubt is expressed
as TO his ability to win a reelection. The
opposition to him is cumulative.
In the first place, Mr.. Tarsney is a very
Independent man, as is shown by his vote
on the tarin bill, and this Independence has
made him many enemies in his own party.
The opposition tried to focus some DEM
ocrat in the convention without success:
then there was some talk of a bolt, but
that did not amount to much. Among Mis-
souri, democrats the bolter is an anathema.
But IL is the post convention opposition
that Mr.. Tars' ey has reason to fear.
The American Protective Association Is
a factor m Missouri politics, and its in
huence viii for some time TO come be po-
tent. The man who cannot see this is pur-
blind. The order elected the present mayor
of Kansas City. a republican although the
town is democratic by several thousand.
Kansas City, Mr.. Tarsneys home, is the
hotbed of the order and no primary has
been held IN that part OF tire state for two
years iE which II did not make its influence
felt. The Congressman is a Catholic, which
might be forgiven even by the A. p. A.
had he not I'm his vigorous and Independent
way denounced the Introduction of religion
into politics.
The Star correspondent is OF the opinion,
after careful investigation OF the situation,
that Mr. Tarsney will be returned 10 Con-
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