The St. Louis Republic., 1903-09-20
Believed the Governor Will Cast
the Die at the Convection of
His Home County
GOVERNOR is GETTING BUSY.
Hopes to Capture a Number Of
the Little Conventions Before
the Big Counties Get In
to the Fight.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Springfield. Ill. Sept. 19.-It is expected
that Governor Yates will formally an
nounce his candidacy for reelection at
the Morgan County Republican Couven-
tion. which will he held in Jacksonville
Monday. Morgan County is the Governors
home and, as q very considerable portion
of its Republican population is on the
State pay rolls, It can be depended upon
Ia inaugurate his campaign with enthusi-
asm.
Resolutions indorsing the administration
of the executive and demanding his re-
nomination by the party already have
been prepared and are only awaiting the
meeting of the convention to be made pub
lie. 1t is expected that the Governor. will
be present and that he will deliver an ad-
dress which will be the key note OF his
campaign.
The early convention in Morgan County
is due to the fact that the county is not
under township organization and the time
Is coming when the commissioners tickets
must be nominated. There are eighteen
other counties in the State which hold
these out-of-season conventions. For the
most part they are like Morgan County,
Democratic in politics, and, SO far as the
Republican gubenatorial nomination is
concerned. their action at this time will
not be particularly significant.
TAKES TIME BY FORELOCk.
One thing will be indicated by the early
conventions and this will be the thorough
ness of the preliminary work performed
by Governor Yates. While his political
opponents have been figuring on the big
Republican counties which have not yet
commenced TO think of the next Governor
he has been getting IN his work IN the
little Democratic counties, and he Will
turn up with quite bunch of delegates
before the other men get into the fight.
Calhoun County is an example of what
dorsed him, and. while it is only drop
In the big Republican bucket. ii will have
a couple of delegates in the State Con-
vention. There are number of counties
handled with ease early in the game, and
while neither Of them has much to offer.
the man who gets them all will have
something.
SEWERAGE OF PATRONAGE
State patronage will go long way in
some of the little counties at this time.
and the Governor has whole lot OF it at
his disposal. Among his assets in this
line Is. the appropriation made by the
ton. This will furnish a number OF pleas
ant Jobs for precinct captains who desire
to go to st. Louis during the Fair.
Recently the members of the Illinois
Coal Operators Association have been en-
deavoring to interest the Illinois Commits
sioners tosthe Exposition in an exhibit of
Illinois coal. Ex-senator Walter Warder
of Cairo, who is member OF the com
mission. was approached on the subject
and spoke very favorably of 1t, but he
was compelled to admit that there was
little likelihood OF getting the State TO do
anything in the matter. He had been i1-
formed that the appropriation would not
be devoted to an eXhibi Of the resources
of the State. but that the greater portion
of it would be spent for entertaining"
REORGANIZATION in SANGAMON.
1t is stated in Springfield that the posi-
tion of purchasing agent for the commits
sion has been promised to W. J. Butler.
one OF the leaders in Sangamon County.
Butler has been at the head of the Yates
Last spring he was nominated for Mayor
by the machine and, although nothing
could be urged against his qualifications
or fitness for the place, the city reyerSed d
its Republican ma jority and gave 1t 10
the Democratic candidate. Harry Dever-
eaux.
Since the defeat Of Butler there have
Yates machine and the organization of u
new one, but the recognition of the de-
feated candidate indicates that the Gov
ernor has not given up faith in his old
leaders. II is certain however. that there
will be considerable new material put into
the local machine, for the Governor has
become convinced of the insincerity OF