Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-03
POLITICS and
POLITICIANS.
News and Gossip of the Campaign.
Gathered at the Hotels and
Public Buildings of the
Citv and Elsewhere.

Frank NJ. Bussard. a travelling man out
of a job, who lives in Kansas City, received
the following letter yesterday from Foley
Co., manufacturers of druggists medi-
cines at Chicago, in answer to letter
written to them asking for a situation.
The letter is self-explanatory and is quite
convincing:
''92, 81 and Sc Ohio street.
Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. %, 'ss.
''Mr. Frank NJ. Bussard, Kansas City,
Mo. Dear Strive are in receipt of yours
OF the 9th inst and will say, owing to
the present business uncertainty, We DO
not care to engage any more travelling
men, but If Mckinley is elected We expect
to put out several new travellers and will
send for you to come to Chicago and post
you on our methods of doing business.
If Mr.. Bryan is elected We are going to
reduce our force, as in that event We an
ticipate great business disturbance. Very
truly yours. FOLEY & CO."
Mr.. Bussard lives near Fourteenth and
Harrison streets and has been putting IN
much OF his leisure time of late helping
things along in the neighborhood Of the
Sound Money League on West Ninth street
and is firm believer in McKinley's cleo
ton. Until few weeks ago he Travelled
for the DR.. A. P. Sawyer Medicine Com
pany, of Chicago, and formerly worked
for two drug houses in st. Joseph, MO-,
one OIL WHICH WAS tuc -. ~. SiiiAeh ONNo
Company. He will vote in the Sixth pre-
oinct of the Ninth ward.
g. B. Hough a member OF the lower
house of the council. returned yesterday
from a trip through Illinois. He said, rel
ative to the situation there: IN Decatur,
Springfield and Jacksonville, which were
the principal cities where I stopped,
found that not only the business men were
a unit in their declarations for Mckinley,
but the laboring classes are almost unan-
NOUS for him also. Conservative Republic
ans are claiming 5000 majority for their
candidate for governor, Tanner, and 1S,-
900 majority for Mckinley. I was guest
at the Sangame Club in Jacksonville Sat-
urday night, and witnessed the most plung-
ing bet have heard Of during this cam
paign. One man bet 500 even that McKin-
ley's majority in the electoral college
would be greater than Bryan's total num-
ber of votes in that body. Most of the
witnesses OF this bet seemed to think that
It wasn't at all out OF the way"
Judge James Ellison, Of the Kansas City
court of appeals. who is a candidate for
reelection, is q Democrat Of the most
loyal sort. He is a native Missourian, lived
in Adair county before he moved to Kansas
City, and is first. last and all the time Tor
BRYAN, The other day he was talking
politics, a subject in which he is more than
usually interested at this time, his oppo-
nent being Judge James S. Botsford. He
said: 'I am going to make some predictions
and I want you to note them. predlct
chat Bryan will carry Missouri by 5000;
that the entire Democratic state ticket VIII
be elected by about 10000; that you Re-
publicans will elect but three, possible four,
congressmen and three of the four Will
come from st. Louis city and county; that
you will not elect more than forty MEM
bers to the lower house OF the legislature.
One of the most ludicrous incidents in
the campaign which closed yesterday was
the display in the windows OF the morning
Popocratic organ of small nag purport-
iug to be the remnants of nag burned at
Pleasant Hill by Republicans. and rescued
from the flames by a Democrat. The
charge that Republicans burned the flag
of their country and an anarchistic Popo-
crat rescued II from the flames is one
which could only be made by followers OF
Altgeld and Tillman. The flag remained IN
the window of the morning Popocratic
organ for several hours, and was then
taken down IT occasioned considerable
merriment. not even the Popocrats taking
II seriously.
The statement in the local morning organ
of regulation that its estimate OF the
number of persons in the Popocradc parade
ative one" has been proven to be abso-
luteIy false by at least a score of counts
"Eob" Matherson, day bartender in Frank
Jones' saloon, 1.-THE Grand" made care
full count of every man, woman and child
with the exception of the members Of the
bands, with 6,39S as the result. Every ar
rangement had been previously made II
order that an accurate count could bt
made Mr.. Matherson said that the fig
ures were very '1iberal for the paraders.'
G. 8. Mosher, Of Boston place, Kansa:
CITY, Kas., lifelong Democrat, who cas-
his first vote for Stephen A Douglas fol
president and has never heretofore by voict
or ballot supported Republican candidate
for that office. came home yesterday from
Council Bluffs, Ia. where his business ne
quires his presence for some weeks yet
for the sole purpose Of voting for Ma1o'
Mckinley, whose election at this time MT
Mosher, as a patriotic citizen believes Il
absolutely essential for the continued
progress and prosperity Of the nation.