The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-31

| tion with the assistance Of tho Democrats
| sherman Will not discuss this contingency
/ 1t Is the other faction that Is being wor-
ried with night sweats-
! C2 Democrats. Public Ownership men ana
| / ProhlbitiOnist. II will be seen that the
| Democrats are in such i helpless minority
| that all they get will be that much clear
velvet" Then, too. 1t will be Il decided
party advantage II they can lend q hand
| to the under dog in the Republican faction
| al fight. | have received Il large number OF
| letters from prominent Democrats during
| the last ten days on this subject. and they
are all of the same tenor. One from Judge
James NJ. Rountree Of Nashville is Il fair
sample Of the other.
DEMOCRATS TO HELP SHERMAN?
Il have been looking over the ground. ',
the Democratic members Of the Legislature
to do the party any good. and lind mem
very slim. But 1t occurs TO me II the Dan
oCrats can make an arrangeine with lle
nnti-Yafes element of the Republican party
whereby the latter Will keep out OF inc
House and senatorial caucuses for speaker
and United States Senator. that the DEM
ocrats could join with them ana heip 'Iect
their Speaker and Senator. Il would not
do our party any harm and might be pro-
Eut Sherman says he is a Republican and
will be elected. if at all. by RepuDhcan
votes; He scouts at The idea that that he W VIII III
to be the only salvation for tb" anti ate
crowd in illinois. If Miller is elected
sPeaKeif 81 nifed si"tes senat0r 90 will follow as
matter of course. After that event four
men will cross legs under the mahosany IN
the Executive Mansion in Springfield ana
fix the .sckedule for 1901. TEgse four men
are Richard Yates. william Lori:ner, a. ).
Hopkins and G.. w. IiinTnan. Whatt yer
er-to-be Joseph g. Cannon. practically tne
entire congressional dtlesatlon IRON il!i-
uois ana Lieutenant Governor N0rthcott.
Secretary of state James y: Rose mas
ambitions He wants 80 be the GoEeTnc.
Of the State. and the programme OF the
four leader n?ay ne; PC, Eltn. H., hG l5
but has some standing oT the OUTSIDE, ana
probably would figure that he could slide
into the executive nomination IS cJIl-
promise candidate. He might 90 Il. too lie
has been prcdiGai in his expression, OF ad-
miration for Joseph W. Fifer who Is anti
Yates II is a foreSoro conclusion that the
pig -Four would not center their affections
upon Rose although they are under many
obligations to him for favorS during tne
last year. But Rose might win as a coih-
1t is probably fact that Lorimer.. Jamie
son and Magerstadt at the dinner gwen by
Hamer H Green in Bloomington several
weeks ago. fgurativeiy tossed Govern
Yates out of the balloon: They wanted two
votes for Miller and distinctly dlsav9"eSf 30
any desire or inclination. it - claimed: OF
nominating Yates for Governor in 1901 They
are reported to have stated that ne was an
accidental experiment and his adminlstra-
on course. this is all "tommyrot." Yates
is the keystone of the combnat tion; and NO mo-
hody knows II better than Lorimer anu
Jamieeon and their crowd.
WORK FOR YATES.
The Governor will have considerable work
to GO in gathering the various threads pc
tween his fingers. He will be eXpecte1 per
sonaIIy to sanction the pledges made bg ms
agents for the distribution of a lot OF state
patronage in return for votes for Miller
Tor Speaker. He also likely will make some
Inquiries regarding the stories current here
about haipp tossed nv I.Orimer and the
Cook County end OF the combination.
Representative Church of Chicago is On
the ground. He Is against Hopkins Tor
Senator and is striving for Cook County
after refusing to permit the use OF his name.
has seen a new light. and now Is said TO
be willing to stand for the honor Former
Congressman George E. Adams, also OF
Cook will be in the running before the end
comes But the candidate the anti-Hopi1ins
element hope to center upon and elect. IL
possible is Judge T. S. Grosscup of the
Federal bench. who lives in Chicago.
II Miller is elected Speaker of the House
they may save their time and wind And
don't believe they can beat Miller. There
refuse to enter the Republican House eau
Gus and will vote for Sherman or Rinaker
or Bundy, or any other first-class man on
Democrats will join them.
There are precedents for this. Mr.. Lori
mer and his House assets in the last Legis-
lature furnished a notable one when. by his
order David Shanahan. ''Gus'' None,
Charles Kopf and nine or ten other House
Republicans refused to enter the Republican
caucus on the apportionment bHis and OPEN
them on the floor of the House. and when
they came up for passage they actually did
bolt the caucus and defeat the bills.
The ShermaDites or anti-Yates faction.
may give the Lorimerites a taste of the
same medicine this time. The bolt of
shanahan and Nohe and their colleagues did