Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-16
THE KANSAS CAMPAIGN.
Everything Indicates That Ii IL IN
z Good shape From Il RePuh-
Iirau Standpoint.

Topeka, Kas.. Sept. 15.-(Special) The
boil being taken by the Republican state
central committee is progressing sausiac-
torily and as rapidly as could be expected.
The committee has not. nor will not, give
out any figures. but there is a general air.
of cheerfulness about the headquarters
which bears out Chairman Simpsons dec
laration that the campaign is in fine shape
and that the disaffection over the silver
question is far less than the noise earlier
In the season seemed 10 indicate.
This is particularly true in Western KAN
eas. where II was supposed the greatest
trouble would be discovered 1t is there
fa,at calamity may be found brooding at
the farmers 'corstep. and II anywhere IN
the world men might be expected 10 attrio-
nte their personal misfortunes 10 govern
mental finance il would be upon the crop
less prairies west of the sixth principal mer-
idian. But so far from convincing Ihe
sturdy farmers of Western Kansas thas
free silver contains magic WMch VIII
sweep their calamities away, the Popocrat
campaigners there have run up against a
Very Gibraltar Of sound money sentiment.
Chairman Simpson says majority or the
western counties report gains instead or
losses. This conclusion is sustained by
men who come down out of the West with
knowledge better than may be gathered
from a hasty poll Mike Sutton, of Dodge
City. said to the Journal correspondent to-
day:
khe West, and all we ask of you Eastern
fellows is to hold your present strength.
You people down here have vastly ovsresti-
mated the free silver bolt in the West.
You read in the silver papers that Bryan
club was formed in this or that Western
town and that so-and-so. who are always
described as prominent Republicans lad
Joined. As a usual thing, the men who
are described as prominent Republicans
have been voting the Pop ticket for six
years. and are dragging their Republican,
ism out of an exceedingly remote antiquity.
] am particularly confident that We will
win the legislature in both branches"
Harry Bone, of Clark county, who has
just been renominated for the legislature,
said to the correspondent this afternoon:
'Western Kansas is all right. In the coun-
ties around me We have gained instead of
1ost In Clark county, just four Republic
ans have gone astray on the silver queS-
: tion, and we can count more than enough
Democrats to take their places. A num-
the western counties. They do not an
nounce their coming. The first thing We
know of 1t they are standing on the stree
corners of Saturday arguing for sound
money with the silver fellows. Several such
cases have come under my personal OBJ
servation. We also have Populsts out in
Western Kansas who are SO badly dis
gruntled over the turning down of Watson
by the Abilene convention that they de-
clare they will not vote on president at all
Chet Long is stronger and Jerry Simpson
is weaker than two years ago. Jerry's
weakness lies in the fact that he is not for
free silver, which everybody knows He is
fiat greenbacker. and his speeches along
that line are too fresh to be easily forgot.
ten"