Iron County register., 1898-09-01
FILLEY HAS BEEN ROLLED.
%hs Republican Machine I'm the Hands OK
New Enginee-PoOr Figure
Cut BY Kerens.

st. Louis, Aug. 26.-The Republican
| state convention has come and gone,
| and Chauncey /. FilIey has been rolled
Incidentally it may be mentioned
| that one B. C. Kerens, national COM
mitteeman, a dear friend of President
Mckinley Eyes, indeed, very dear
| friend), has been knocked in the head
| Old Bill Warner came out of the af-
| fair about eyen-maybe little worse
for wear.
Mayor Ziegenhein's little boom for
| governor was stunted-in fact was
hauled off to the bonepile.
Whatever may be said of Chauncey
/. Filley, his personal reputation is
clean. As he declared before the re-
| cent convention he has no fear of
grand juries or United States courts,
which is more than can be said for
some men who are posing as high re-
publicans in Missouri.
The party platform is weak. 1t
lacks snap and spring, juice and fla
yor. Nat Frank, who was once elect
ed congressman from ST. Louis dis
trict, and who owns a newspaper in
which he chronicles his daily move
ments, was on the platform commit
| tee, and it is said ''he wrote it, By
the way, it was really amusing to read
Mr.. Franks paper during the conven-
tion. about this time Hon. Nathan
Frank made a notion" or "EX-Con-
gresham Frank walked across the
stage arm-in-arm with" ETC., and 9TH
10
press the country delegates that Mr.
Frank is great man.
But Filley was rolled, and a man
named in his place who will rattle
around in the old mans shoes like a
pea in a drum.
Mayor Ziegenhein endeavored to in.
press on the convention that he, too,
is great. He weighs 22O, boasts that
he can drink more beer that Bismarck
ever could, and carries around with
him a perpetual smile. He assured
the country delegates, in his address
of welcome, that he had been reared
and raised in the country" The time
was too short for the mayor to tell
how he used to haul wood with ''Old
Grant," how his grandfather marched
to Moscow with Napoleon, and other
standard stories which he keeps onice
for various occasions.
Webster Davis was here too. Ev-
erybody knows Webster, ex-mayor
of Kansas City. The man, whom it
has been charged, shot a hole in his
hat, and yelled: ''Some one tried to
kill me-"
But Filley has been rolled, and the
smell of whisky is in the air-the
old whisky ring that stole enough to
own newspapers and leave them to
their children, comes to the front.
Col" Il. c. Kerens was present.
He read a long speech, in which he
lauded the administration of McKin-
ley. AS Kerens read the mob
howled-for the convention was moth
ing more than a mob. Imagine we'll
dressed individual, standing on the
platform in a big hall reading from
manuscript, with a drawing voice,
while the thousand delegates and hun
dreds of spectators were shouting:
''Shut it off! Shut it off," That was
the picture Dick Kerens cut at the Re-
publican state convention.
The negro was not in great evidence,
but what there was of him made a
terrible noise. One big black fellow,
who about forty years ago would
have sold for $1,SOO, created such a
rumpus that the ST. Louis delegates
threatened to throw him out ii he
didn't keep still. He quieted down,
knowing full well that when the fell
lows from the river wards go "coon"
hunting they generally get their man.
Nelson Crews, a Kansas City colored
gentleman, raised a big howl about
the humiliation of his race at the
hands of the republican party, and
talked himself into the committee-at-
large, which was evidently the pur-
pos ct his speech. Originally, it
was the intention of the convention
to give but one of these places to
negro, and DR.. J. r. \. Grassland, of
St. Joseph, was named. Then Crews
reclted such n hard-luck story about
how the negroes have been sat upon
by the party that place was made
for him. This encouraged a country
negro to try and make another and
slide Giles Bell, of Galloway county, in
to IT, but the convention felt that the
negroes had received enough, and
Bells boom went into the sewer.
Friends of kerens started a move
ment to present a resolution to the
indorsing him for United
States senator. 1t met with so little
encouragement that it was abandoned.
Ziegenhein tried to have an inborse-
ment of kerens inserted in the plat
form committee, but the proposition
was defeated by vote of IL to 3.
But Filley has been rolled, and the |
old man is happy.
MIR. Filley told the convention that |
ne would look on for two years, and |
everybody understands that this means |
he has washed his hands of all pertain |
ing to the campaign, and will disclaim |
all responsibility for the defeat he
believes awaits the party.
The Kansas City statesmen are very |
sore because the management of the
was not turned over to them, |
and already it is announced that Web |
ster Davis will not exhibit his wound |
Ell hat in this state during the cam
paign- With the Kaw Indians on the |
warPath, Chairman Atkins will find /
MS hands full of trouble right at the
start, and a little later he will have
mountain of trouble with tho KcrDs