The sun., 1896-10-31
MISSOURI IS ALMOST WON.
THE STATE IN DOUBT, WITH THE
CHANCES FAVORISG M'KINLET.


Great Iucrense IN the Repatriation OF Buai-
ness Men In 81. Louie and Kansas City
No Laudritdp to Bryan In the Rural
Districts-The EHortA 20 Undo Vest.
KASsAs CITY. Oct. 3O.--Nowhero in the United
states have the business men. regardless of po-
litical party or faction, fought the battle OF
sound money more closely shoulder to shoulder.
or moro intelligently and effectively, than In
Missouri. Chairman Hanna of tho Republican
National Committee estimates to-day that the
State including the Congressman and the Legis-
lature that will elect q United States Senator to
succeed Vest, 10 already won, and that the cleo
toral vote OF the State will be given TO McKin-
ley and Hobart
Mr.. Hanna has every reason to believe that
he has made An accurate estimate. and study
of the situation demonstrates that ne is not
talking without definite knowledge Of politi-
cal conditions as they are. Especially in st.
Louis and Kansas City, tho two large cities OF
the State the campaign waged by the business
mon has been remark X able both In the unanimity
of sentiment and the number OF voters who
have been won over to the sound-money cause.
Missouri 10 one of the States that In the East
have not been looked upon as likely to vote
against Organism, but II Is State worth Keep
ing an eye on. and those who are acquainted
with the work that has been done In the cause
SOUND
vote of the State will be cast against the Popo-
cratic ticket Apparently nothing now stands
in the way Of the triumph of the sound-money
cause in Missouri except the old quarrel In the
Republican party.
Chsuncey I. Filley and Richard L. Kerens arc
still dlsputing who shall be the boss of the Re-
publican party In Missouri. Time and time
again they have fought It out, the last time
during tho Republican Convention In st. Louis
Mr.. Filley is still the Chairman OF the Republl-
can State Central Committee OF Missouri. but
Mr.. Kerens Is the member Of the Republican
National Committee Of the State. so that honors
are about even between them. The struggle be-
tween these two party rivals has left its mark
upon the Repu blican party in Missouri and has
rendered somewhat doubtful tho Issue of tho
campaign in behalf Of sound money. which but
for the Filley- Kerens feud would now be def
nitely settled in the right way. There is no de-
nying tho fact that tho Republican party OF
Missouri is In q bad way. There Is no doubt,
however, that tho Bound-money campaign In
Missouri has been a wonderful piece Of political
work, and that It will result in carrying the
State for Mckinley and Hobart unless Offset by
the deplorable domestic Quarrels.
Missouri has long been turning toward Re-
publcanism. and 1t 10 positively known that the
Democratic ticket is many thousands Of votes
weaker this year on account of the Chicago
platform than ever before. In the Presidential
election of 1892 there were cast in the State
$40. 1858 votes. or this number tho Democrats
cast 26s .396. the Repu blicans 226. 1910. the Pop
elists Al .2l3. and the Prohibitionists 4,331. On
the vote for Governor In the same year the
Republican vote was 235,3s3 and the Demo-
traffic vote 2o5. .o44: the Democratic plurality,
therefore. being 29.661. In the State eiec-
ton of 1894 q great change had taken place
aU1 thA al nf and
Populsts Cthe Populist vote being 23.4e3) was
only 249.010. Tho Republican vote that year
was 22e. GAL. q plurality over the Democrats of
1904. and only 1880 votes in q minority of
the combined Democratic and Populist vote.
Although in 1892 tho combined Democratic
and Populst vote was s2,e95 in excess OF tho
Republican vote, two years later 1t was only
10, 800 in excess. In 1904, moreover. tho DEM
ooratio and Populist vote on ConRressmen was
even less, that the Republicans elected
eleven of tho Congresamen In the State.
1t was with these figures before them that tho
sonnd- money men went to work at thSopenine
OF this campaign to save the commercial inter-
ests of the State by carrying it for sound money
and repudiating Organism ana the teachings of
the Chicago platform from top to bottom.
Handicapped as they were by the disruption of
the Repu blican party that meant a possible loss
of many thousand votes, the business men of
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