The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-06-27
He Expects "Vindication" by
Means of Republican Sen
atorial Nomination.
LOBBY AGREEMENT TO BE KEPT.
Convention Only Fight for
PatrOnage-Federal Office
holders Ruled Both
Faction.

I
City has not installed any hope of success
at the fall elections in the mind of any mai
who attended. The evident success of tn
Phelps-Kerens combination In staving off
senatorial nomination until the meeting o
the General Assembly, even though oI
every other point it was inglcriously de
feated was not dulled by the platform ex
preston on the lobby question
Friends of the National Committeeman
announced openly before the delegates me
IN convention that the lobby could ne con
oemned from Dan to Beersheba in the
platform and they would heartily concur
Ihey held that it was enough if they cou;t
| prevent the nomination of a candidate fol
the senatorship by the convention.
| lhey claim that they will be able to con.
| uol the Republican members of the Genera
Assembly. though nominations have been
| made in only few districts Already il is
/ said that "comprOmises'' and agreements
looking to harmony" are on foot. An in
stance Is cited here in St LOUIS. where
men who lined up with Atkins in the Elev-
| enth District are arranging trades whereby
| the legislative candidates will be selected by
| 'he herens-Ziegenhein push in this city
kerens Has Lost Prestige.
| Otherwise. the convention was a sad pro-
ceedlng for the National Committeeman.
About 100 of the 104O delegates were strictly
antl-herenS. On every ron call in which Inc.
Akins- -kerens fight was the issue the Ma
uonai Committeeman was compelled TO see
The biun which he had made in organizing
the convenuon called by the forces OF the
State chairman
Cndouoteuly kerens played his cards for
all they were worth. one delegate remarked
1t Is very evident that none of Akins's
friends Is d poker payer The NOMINATION
TIr
the convention 10y the members OF me state
Committee was Qone after IL F. kinsoiymg
canGioate for Congress in the Fourteemtn
I'N uict, hau taken TO the high brush
AT every point where the Aklns and the
kerens strength was anywhere near
equally drviued the National Commit
win; I'm case of doubt. pick Ker.
ems. became almost trite saying of the
delegates lie converted Dick Dalton in
the Committee on Resolutions Rs can
tured the Tenth CongressionalNDtstric after
anti-kerens delegations had been seated.
Aklns mad absolutely no policital organi-
delegates TO have sent the National COM
nitteeman home on the first train Some
oi the older politicians commented upon
the difference between the power exerted
oy AkIns and that which Chauncey l. Fill
ley would have exerted If he had the man
asement OF such body of friends. The
Akins delegates were. for the greater part,
rural men. who were not accustomed to at
tending conventions. Many of them were
fooled fooled into voting, against propositions
through the superior manipulation of Ker-
ems. Main strength and awkwardness char
sc'efized every Atkins movement.
An Akins Committee.
To-day kerens is undoubtedly weaker
Committee is irrevocably against him
Al the outside he has no more than four
Teen OF the forty-two State Committeeman,
majority of two to one, against him.
Ihis means that the provision Of the lobby
agreement whereby Kerens w ; to name
three of the five members of a.. Executive
Carthage for vice chairman has been abro-
gated. presumably for the sake of saving
me senatorial nomination until the General
Colonel D. P. Dyer. the idol of the coun-
Try oelegates. and who received the great
est ovation of the convention. Las resigned
as member of the State Committee The
IoiIowlng letter was given out for publica-
tton yesterday:
siTm sGan STATE state Committee St Louis. Mo. Dear
eednss Of the State TeP0Tf IT Of the pro
ing ing papers that after had left Jefferson I City
elected nember-at-iarge Of the Stsie GSn
nIttee mi, | need not say how deeply grateful I
for their confidence e'"'e''''0n 0' Republicans
Forty years of service with the Republicans of
pleasure f a -, Their heir teedfastness is
honesty want no hsbSr OF hei hH SINCERITY and
cpan cppanIed In the ranks OF the brave and unpur-
prOpriety forbids me however. from tsS5 sehss o,
seat seat in the State Republican Committee. Ths
me, has placed in my hands a SfSI cnmmIsaNI ny ny
trin Hhited states Attorney for the Eastern Dis
commission soTaG & must be fathfully and honestly per
ssans the GaF Of pocoi hHgg
for eopaP1 Gi'ifshSasTs to cbs i would be
TO change opinion on f this sSSiec as for P me
deeiinntion Rib R the yaSSancy created BY this
sntlous Republican. l promise to do ali In nv
Power to secure the indorseent at the az polls m by by
PGGss laid the speRPdd Pdidd''PlSs ps,torm ana
and capahie me me Convention; and Of the worthy
it. Faithfully yours ''' + BbuoI5e ~ 3TSn 9Ies by
baida I5ank po p Roberts is also a Federal office
question of Roberts propriety in remaine Sne
ing on the committee Interesting He is
IN, the , personal friend of Atkins and had the
the Missouri Pacific offices. IA
An Omceholders' Convention.
Gndonotedly the entire convention was
ran faiIea ior no other purpose than the con-
ton Of candidates for the three State oftires
was tine least interesting part of the pro
fteedings' teees Neither Atkins nor Kerens in
though friends OF the National COMMIT.
of 1eeWsn ne are c claiming that the nomination
The leaders of the two factions were the
recently s1s sappointed Federal officehoiders
from the Kerens regime. Aligned With
Akns were Collector of the Internal
Revenue Frank d. Roberts of SpringfieId
surveyor OF the Port John Albus OF 81.
Joseph, Postmaster Joseph Harris of Kan
SaS 3se MY; NY; collector of Internal Revenue |
Ben Westhus, United States District Attor- |
ney D. F.; Dyer and Collector Of Customs |
charles F. Gallenkamp of St. Louis: Post
master W. +. Bloebaum of St Charles, |
postmaster H II. Mitchell of Clinton. J.
d; duncan and J. p. o'Bannon of the |
Perry Freeman from Indian Territory land |
of1ces and w. II. Martin of the Roonyflle
Land once. or these, State Committee
man duncan of Springfield receives the |
credit for giving to Secretary of the In |
dorsement from any congressional dis
trict, the number being seventy-two
FRIENDS or herens insisted that patronage
Is weakness to any man. but in the con-
Vention the lack Of 1t was a greater weak [
ness. Most of the old Kerens guard were I
on hand and fought the Hitchcock indorse- |
ment from beginning to end Postmaster |
A. W. Brewster of ST. Joseph was present. |
as was Consul General ]. L. Bittnger OF |
Montreal Others were Postmaster Thomas |
gins Of PALMYRA, Postmaster Alger or |
Hannibal. Postmaster Thomas Kelly of |
Moberly. Postmaster John E. Swanger of /
Milan. Postmaster Charles d. Morris of |
Trenton. Postmaster John Gilbreath of Ap- |,
pleton City. Postmaster H. P. Kinsolvng of |
Maiden. Postmaster NJ. NJ. Campbell Of |
Albany and others. Two men who had |
been dismissed by Roosevelt, former United /
States District Attorney e A. Rozier and |
former Surveyor of the Port Charles H. |
Hitchcock. Lib Morris of Excelsior |
Springs. who formerly dispensed all the
Post Offices in the Third District. also