The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-12-09
One of His Managers Gives Con.
tents of the "Dope-Sheet' of
Former Committeeman.
ELEVEN ARE NOW DOUBTFUL.
Admission That the Old Boss
Cannot Muster Anywhere
Near His Former Strength
for the Senatorship.

ens's dope Sheet came out yesterday
| when a man connected with his headquar-
ters told just what he claimed. He did not
tell it for publication. bu: he did tell =
friend Of the strength OF Camp Elkins'
| in an effort 10 get the latter's help. The
Kerens assistant manager did not succeed.
but his claims. clothed with the authority
OF confidence. are interesting.
II had 4 list OF the Republican members
elect with me- said the man who was
approached" and lie checked them off for
| me with explanations regarding why they
would vote for Kerens-in some instances.
Here are the men whom Kerens claims
absolutely. party or no party. Roosevelt
or anti-Roosevelt, through thick and thin;
Senators Peck of the First District.
Frisby of the Fourth. Gilmore of the Fifth
and McIndoe OF the Twenty-eighth. While
Curry OF the Nineteenth is generally con-
sidered doubtful. he said kerens would
get him in the end.
of the Representatives. he claimed as
sure Kelley of Barry. Bittinger of Ru-
ham ana Self OF Greene. Williamson of
Harrison. Richardson and Walmsly OF
Jackson. Stemmons. Elliott and Roach OF
Jasper. Sherwood OF Lawrence, Petit
Hawyes of Putnam. Arnoldi of ST. FraA-
co.'s. Eiles of Stone. Stewart of Warren
and Foyles of St. Louis.
MAY LINE Up LATER.
There are number of doubtful Rep
resentatives. whom Kerens claims are
with him at heart and will line up at the
proper time. They are Cooper OF Boil
inser. Watts of Buchanan. kies of Cape
Girardeau, Mober.y OF De ka!b. Moss ana
Lyons of Jackson. kleinschmidt of JET
ferson. Detweiler of Laclede. Speer of
Usage and Small of Ozark.
According 10 this. kerenS thin--- he
has twenty-five absolutely now for MIN
and eleven generally considered doubtful.
but who are really for him. or total OF
thirty-threC.
ised TO deliver Small of Ozark and Cur
ry, the new Senator. Former Mayor Mel
lette and Jim Gideon of Springfield claim
credit for the two Greene County Repre-
sentatives. Ed RoZier of Pennington and
Polite Elvins hold Arnold in their pocket.
according 10 my informant and will de-
liver him at the proper time.
BILLY Diffenderfer of Lebanon delivered
Detweiller of Laclede to the Kerens
brother-in-law of viles of Stone. and has
promised the latter's vote despite the fact
that the county Organization. is against
him. Hayes of Putnam has given writ
ten pledge to kerens.
'.Pettijohn of Linn to the outsiders has
been generally supposed to to be hands Of ;nt
, They said that his. son. James, is EN-
ployed by kerens on the Utah Railroad,
owned by Senators kerens. Kearns Of
Of IN Montana. s al all whom W We're emu here s' a a
couple of weeks ago"
FORTY-SEvEN NECESSARY.
It will take forty-seven votes to Sc
cure the caucus nomination. ker-ls
acknowledges that he has not the votes
yet. but that he will get them In good
time. story went the rounds yester-
day that two or three churches in the
southern part of the State had received
two or three weeks and that the senator
ship was involved.
When the foregoing list OF the claims Of
Kerens was shown to a man who is fight
ing him. several alleged discrepancies
were pointed out. For instance, it is
claimed that Peck has not committed
himself and that Curry will be against
Kerens.
OF the Representatives It is claimed that
Watts Of Buchanan is against kerens for
good. kirkham of Camden has told
for Kerens. Kies Of Cape Girardeau Mo-
ber,y Of De Kalb. Self Of Greene. Moss
and Lyons Of Jackson, Kleinschmidt Of
Jefferson, Detweillery Of Laclede, Speer
st. Francois are all in the doubtful list. a
total of thirteen.
II these claims are good Kerens has
only twenty votes. with the increasing
opposition Of the President manifesting
itself more and more each day. Three or
four Of the remaining members elect are
also challenged, but just who they are
Is not known. The personnel of tho
pledges to the candidate is being kept a
secret where possible. and only chance
brought the kerens strength out yester-
day.
Undoubtedly. in some OF the counties
whero the position Of the members elect
is known there will be trouble brewing
Some Of the members count upon their
organization AID their constituents for
getting how they vote in tho senatorship.
but until this is a fact there may be more
than one protest lodged against the de-
livery Of good votes to undesirable candi-
dates