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~ NOE upon q time an almanac
maker In London achieved great
reputation as a prophet by pre-
dieting that it would snow in
that foggy region on the 4th of
July. When the st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat plumes itself on its powers of
vaticination, people naturally think of
that almanac maker. Every two years
for three decades it has been prophecy
ing regularly that Missouri would go
Republican. Once in that time-in 1894
when the Democrats were in bad
humor, the Republicans had small
majority in the state. In 1904, when
once more they were in bad humor,
there was a political dogfall. Roosevelt
carried the state, and the Democratic
candidate for governor also carried it.
Roosevelt got the electoral vote of
Missouri because 10000 Democrats
stayed at home. Now the CD. claims
that the state is in the Republican col
umn to stay and that the Republicans
will sweep 1t from Kansas to the
Mississippi this fall This may deceive
outsiders, but fools nobody here at
home. The state is at least 10000
Democratic If Democrats turn out.
The CD. has correspondent at JEFF
ferson City who kills off one Democratic
congressman every Sunday. Not long
ago no defeated Judge Rucker Of the
Second district, in which there Is clear
Democratic majority Of nearly 5000
when they are all out. The name Of
this destroyer Of Democratic congress
man Is Saumel Kellar. His modus
operandi is very simple. Here It is:
II all the Democrats stay at home, the
Republicans will win, provided they go
to the election. Now, that's easy
dead sasy-easy as falling of log.
and slippery log at that. It Is said,
I'm vain does the fowler spread his net
In the presence of any bird" Yet here
day In and day out the Globe Democrat
fowler boldly spreads his net In the
sight Of the Democrats Of Missouri and
aggravatingly says to them, " know
you have about 1000 Democratic ma
jority In the Ninth congressional dis
trict Of Missouri, but we intend to
carry 1t for the Republican candidate
for congress because more than 1000
Of you careless Democrats will stay at
home ON election day" Surely the
Democrats of Missouri cannot be
caught in a trap when It is explained
to them every day by Republicans pre-
cisely where and what the trap is. Yet
that is the only way the Republicans
can carry the state or any one Of the
fifteen congressional districts.
ia the meantime the Republicans Of
Missouri are DIVIDED into two bitter
factions headed by Colonel R. @. Ke-
rens and Thomas Niedringhaus. They
hate sach other as cordially as did the
RIVAL houses Of Capulet and Montague.
They not only quarrel-they come to
blows. Up at Monroe City, In Judge
Ruoker's district Postmaster MeRoun
and-1-D>-ts. ration, whom he sue
oseded IN Office recently, had fight,
in which Megoun was knocked down
ana Patton received a four inch scalp
wound before they could be separated.
That's fine sample Of Republican har-
mony in Missouri. No doybt Messrs.
Kerens and Niedringhaus would DO de-
lghted to disembowel each other liter
ally were they not afraid Of the law.
Missouri Republicans are indeed q hap.
py family