The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-06
Republican Leaders and Defeated
Candidates Are DiSplea>cd
With the Outlook.
NO REPORT FROM COMMITTEE.
Action Must BE Taken by Next
Monday Night or Efforts TO
disclose Alleged Frauds
VIII BE Dropped.

| After All til" talk of a contest by the Re-
! publican candidates defeated al the recent
| election, ;horc Is a probability that III,
! matter will. in Il few; days be dropped and
no effort made TO disclose the frauds al
| legged to have been perpetrated.
| At least. far the Republican City
Central Committee is concerned. the ques
J tinn OF contest Will not be OF much con-
| sii"ration after next Monday. Il the COM
| mite" does not get some line on what is
| going on in the way of arranging for con-
| tests.
The City Committee appears 10 lie some
what dissusted with the way things
| being carried on. At the meeting of the
committee last Friday resolutions We're
adopted pedgng the committees support
and financial aid. ii necessary. TO the CHI
| zens' Committee. which. it was repre-
Ssntei To the City Committed. had fun
| charg" Of the contest suits.
At this meeting Chairman Rlake appoint
| ed subcommittee. with Instructions 10
meet with the Citizens Committee. ascer-
| tain the plans upon which the special com
mit;er was working. and report this infor-
| nation back to the city Committee at
meeting which was held last night at the
committee headquarters in the Temple
building.
Contrary to expectations. the slibcomnlit-
tee at last nights meeting reported that
all efforts 10 locate the CitiZens' Committee
had been frUitless. Being unable to learn
who comprised the Citizens Committee, the
| members decided to give up the search. The
committee had no information TO !mpart
to the City Committee.
CHAIRMAN BLAKE DISPLEASED
Chairman Blake expressed himself indg-
nantly at the actions of the Citizens Com
| mittee.
1T looks to me- said Mr.. Blake. that
the support of the City Committee was not
desired. We adjourned until next Monday
night, and If by that time We have not
been able TO locate the Citizeny' Commit
tee. We will drop the matter.
When L was up in Wisconsin 7 was led
to believe that 5000 had been raised to
prosecute the contest cases. but now l find
that il Is impossible to obtain any infUrma-
ton whatever to what is being done In
the matter. No one appears to know who
the Citizens Committee is or anything else.
"One thing Is certain. and that IS they
will have to come out by next Thursday.
for II they do not. IL will be too late TO
institute proceedings. The City Committee
will wait until Monday night 10 hear from
the Citizens Committee. and then. II we get
no further information than We have now,
! shall drop the matter
shortly after election, when the matter Of
contest was first mentioned. ii was an
nounced that Citizens Committee had
been appointed TO look after contest pro-
ceedngs. particularly in the Twelfth Con-
gress!onal District. But that appears to
have been the last heard of this committee.
Who appointed the Citizens Committee.
and who were appointed on the committee
appears to have never been made public
II was a mysterious affair from the start.
A few weeks ago the defeated Republican
candidates met and appointed commit
tee TO take charge of the proposed contests.
The names OF the members Of that commit
tee were also kept secret.
The mystery becomes darker when it fs
recalled that, though some weeks have
elapsed since the appointment Of these COM
mittees. no reports have been made and no
one appears to have the slightest knowledge
Of what arrangements have been made, or
whether any steps at all have been taken
toward contestiDg the election.
1t was learned last night that the de-
feated candidates are becoming discouraged
and several have already notified their
friends that they have practically given up
the idea of contest.