The sun., 1900-09-25
REPUBLIcAN CHANCES IN MISSOURI.
An ES-Confedcrates Reasons for Believing
Mckinley and Roosevelt VIII Carry the state.

To THE EDiTOR or The Sun Sir. The state
ment In a recent issue Of THE Sun that Missouri
Republicans have hope Of carrying the State In
the coming election may not be understood bv
Missourians who have been out Of the State
some years. A native Of that State whose De-
mocraoy runs back unbroken Tor forty years
and who In the Civil War took up his father :
rusty ri e, which he used when opportunity
permitted 10 bust up the Government" and
whose kin and kith s'il I'm the old State. in a
number Of counties each prosperous in his
business write. this to THE Sun
In a poll OF thirty y-eight voters Of his kin.
thirty-three will vote for Mckinley and Roose-
welt. and Fory. Republican cand date for Gov
ernor Three will vote for BRYAN and Steven
son and two will crawl under their haystacLs.
or hide in the loits Of their barns and -ulk on
election day in the belief that nothing can save
the country until some States rights man OF
the school OF John c. Calhoun shall occupy the
White House
Of the thirty-three who will vote the Republi-
eau national and State ticket, fourteen voted
for Mckinley and Hobart in 1896 thirteen for
Palmer and Buokner. and six for BRYAN and
Sewall. Five went hunting and STAYED out
until week after election
When some OF the kin who went out TO bust
up The Government Ian expression in Mis-
souri, during the Civil War returned TO the
State they lound their property coulsCated
and they werr dtsfrnnchsed. For short time
Missouri was under Republican rule
You may remember. all Mlssouriaus do. that
Nhl u the right I IranChlse was finally rpstOred
to them II was because number OF Republi-
cans known n Liberal Repuh leans united with
the Democrats whO had not been dSfrauchi sed
and n this way the Democratic Uarty returned
To power IN the State.
A. the party fastened its tentaces uDon the
State II became a. IutOlerant a. IL had charged
the Federal- witt having been, and What was
known a. the Confederate element, a majority,
became ne obnoxious to some ~ the Demo-
cratic leaders, VINO went 40 far in lS4O when
some OF the ext Onfcdcratcs sa NJ to vote for
Mckinley ~ To- read 'hem out OF the party.
This was done In several instance. The Demo-
cratic offioohodor- and maung ~ Of whom eN-
Governor Stone. now temporarily In New York,
was one had q UIte a. nuCh cputempt Tor ex-
Confed"rate~ who were for Mckin ey, ~ the
Federals had at the close of the war for the
Johnny Reb. and certainly the provoCation was
not ANYTHING like as great
The ext onfedeTates have not forgotten this.
This f. Only one fact that enters into tss cam
rncn in Mise ouri. There are Others both local
and state, the chief Of tho the conduct Of the
present Governor Of Tho state in connect ion with
the street car strikes and riots in 81 Ouis.
From p canvass NJ the State hv the kin re-
ferred 20 in this letter, and from personal
knowledge. the writer. assures THE SUN, TINT
he Republicans of Missouri will hnve such
allies in he present campaign As to warrant tho
belief Jha' the Republican national and state
ticket will he elected +. II. B.
NEW York, Sept. %.