The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-08-10
Republican Member of General
Assembly Says His Chances
Are Good.
NOMINEES ARE FRIENDS.
Four of the Six Are fractional
Supporters, While Other
Two Gave in to His
Crowd.

~ conditions in ST. Louis signify any
| thing. Colonel Kcrens will stand an ex-
ccIlcnt chance Of being elected United
| states Senator ut the next session
| Of the General Assembly. He Is now out
| West looking over his railroad, but We
| expect him back before many weeks.
Il don't know. whether he has ths
| Senate still In view since the President
| has turned him down on appointments,
| but II is easy to see how popular he is
| When he appeared before the Republican
State convention In St. Joseph he received
| the loudest and longest applause OF any
| one When he went after the Post-Ofice
crowd. he met a response that should put
him back again for another try at the
Senatorship even II II Is against Cock
rcll'
Thus plainly did Republican candidate
for denomination. who lives in ST. Louie,
yesterday express himself on the Republic
an outlook from his point Of view. This
man voted for kercns in the last minority
caucus. and has never deserted his ban
ner You could use my name. but there
are too many political opponents Of ker-
ems in my district for me to show my open
preference" was the explanati ton he gave
OF his refusal TO allow his identity to be
known.
Republican politicians generally are an
ucipating with great deal OF interest
the return of Colonel Kerens. His recep-
ton AMI speech encouraged the practical
po iticians more than anything else in the
convention. aside from the nomination OF
Walbridge for Governor. The refusal TO
nominate candidate for Senator in the
convention was due to the hope that Col
onel kerens would come up with his old
time effort to carry representative dis
tricts.
Colonel Fred w. schuarte, the right
hand man OF Colonel Kerens. is said TO BE-
in Colorado. recuperating. Whether he
VIII return to Missouri is not known. He
has usually attended to the country dis
tricts. while city politicians have lookeI
after the wards.
MANY ENCOURAGED. e.
The composition of the ticket has en-
courhged some Of the Republicans to hope
that the old-time antipathy to Kerens may
have ceased. Walbridge has always been
recognized as more of Kerens man than
anything else. though he has trimmed
In all iactional fights so successfully that
one Of his chief arguments for nomination
was his freedom from this sort OF thing.
John Swanger. nominated for Secretary
OF state. has always been kerens man.
master from kerens and has always fol-
lowed him in state conventions. Until re-
Gently. Frank J. Wightman of Monet has
been Kerens man; Since his renomina-
ton. he IL accounted to be one of the old
crowd that followed kerens until the
Atkins regime began.
Herbert s. Hadley. nominated for Attor-
ney General has never been anything
other than n follower of Kerens. He
fought the Atkins crowd In all of his fac
tonal fights and his nomination was be-
cause OF the proposal OF John II. F1ana
gan. who rushed down the convention aisle
to have his name presented by the Kan
sas City kerens crowd.
The other nominees are Atkins men
State Senator Mckin!ey's chief Gain to
consideration was the fact that he fought
the Kerens crowd in the State Senate. 1t
was only after much persuasion that he
was put on the ticket with Kercns men.
Wilder for Auditor was put on the ticket
by the Ksrens mon. In order 10 break UP
the Atkins combination in the Thirteenth
District, 20 that he IS considered merely
a pawn In the game.