The Butler weekly times., 1897-04-29


Nowhere in Missouri is the war
between the followers of Filley and
Kerens raging more furiously than
in the Sixth District, if reports which
reach st. Louis are to be believed.
At no place is Filleyism more AFRO
CANT and tyrannical than in this dis
trict. The Filleyites gripped firmly
the party machinery there years ago
and have held on to it with tenacity
betokenipg the greatest faith in the
ultimate triumph of "de Ole Man"
over the exultsnt hosts now follow
ing the Kerens standard. OF course,
patronage is the cause of the dissen
sions down in Sixth. Matters have
fallen into a sad muddle. Charges
of corruption in Endorsements are
flying about thick. It leaks out that
Frank v. Hamilton of Bates, who
stood for Congress against Con.
gressman DeArmond last fall. has
been formally deposed from the
position of chief dispenser of pat
ronage. Hamilton, it will bs remem-
bered, was not nominated in the
regular way, but when the misguided
Robert Edgar Lewis. the convention
nominee, resigned that empty honor
to accept still moro empty one as
leader of the republican forlorn hope
for Governor, the Congressional
Committee was hastily called togeth-
er and chose Hamilton in his stead
chiefly because it was thought the
Bates County statesman would be a
plant tool in the hands of those who
named him.
The election of Mckinley, how
ever, opened up new vistas to the
thrifty Bates County merchant.
Publicly it was declared he would
stand by the machine and do its
bidding. But little grains of gossip
soon grew to a hugo scandal, even
involving one Congressional Com.
mitt teeman. Charges of yenality were
rife. At recent meeting of the
committee at Harrisonville there was
an open rupture. One member was
fired bodily and a resolution was
adopted, it is said, denouncing Mr..
Hamilton and disowning his acts
This was speedily transmitted to
Major William Warner, who was
then in Washington. and so well did
he use it that word comes back that
certain high official of the Post
Office Department has remarked that
''any man having Hamilton's indorse-
ment on his application IS blanked
unlueky"
Then Hamilton hied to Wasbiug-
ton in the desperate hope of retriev.
ing his fortunes. And on quite a
different mission followed S. w.
Jurden of Holden. He was sum-
moned, rumor says, to be sort of
referee. Jurden has fought on both
sides. Chosen last summer as an
anti Kerens delegate to the National
Convention, he was strongly sus.
pected of casting a kerens ballot in
that memorable contest for National
committeeman and so roundly cursed
was he for his alleged treachery thai
he has spared no pains to reinstate
himself IN the favor of the diatric,
machine. Kerens is said to feel kindl,
towards him, and the Filleyite,
would doubtless let bygones be by
cones in order that he might be the
agent of their salvation. The newl
that Your Uncle Chauncey himsel
is to go to Washington has createe
a still greater futter in Sixth Dis
trict Filleydom Things are so beau
tifully mixed down there that tn,
Filleyites feel with touching conf
dencs that if the erstwhile big bos
is ones permitted to glue his lips t,
the Presidential esr for q bare fv,
minutes the terrible load of depres
sion which has been weighing dow
their spirits for the past two or thre
months will be lifted and ssvera
large slices of pie in the shape O
post offices will come their way.
We publish tho above as a matte
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