The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-01-02
Kerens Honor Long-Delayed;
Recognition of His Persistence

: ored. but neutral. seat of an ambaS.
Sador, seem more than tame counter.
feits of the senatorial combats tho
colonel has waged and might again
have waged had he remained In Mis-.
souri,?
The questions have not seemed to
worry Colonel kerens any more than
the problem OF making ends meet on
1880 year, while entertaining
princes. counts and diplomats. For
1t Is not of record that he ever OBJ
jeCted to the mention of his name 70,
the Vienna post,
But now that the sound of trunk
packing is heard at 36 Vandeventer
place. Colonel Kerens has the air OF
man who not only hasn't an enemy
In the world. but is not conscious OF
ever having had one
Could Kerens have combined all hIs
friends, hore and at Washington, he
need not have waited until his sixty.
sixth year for his party's reward.
Could Elkins and Manley and Hanna
have swung the votes OF Missourlans
for him as they swung the votes OF
their own states the Missouri elec.
torate would have had him to blanc,
Aldrich tariff.
kerens has for years been able to
do things at Washington. Even
Roosevelt's disfavor did not spoil his
ability to get Jobs and fayors for his
followers. And what he wanted, II
was his way to go direct TO Washing.
ton and ask for.
herenS was never much OF letter
writer and his faith in absent treat,
ment was small. II a Missouriap ad.
herent wanted help at Washington IL
was not Kerens' way to write a letter
TO some one. His way was to pack
his grip, go TO Washington and stay
until he got what he was after. or get
definite information that it was not lG
be had and why not.
In his efforts to put the title Sen.
ator" before his name, Colonel Ker.
ems spent energies which, put into
any line OF his business. might hava
made his present millions into tens
Of millions.
To lavish money on complimentary
nominations for the senate, In the
days when Kerens used to do II,
showed faith in republican party des.
tiny. When a republican judge was
elected to the Missouri supreme court
in 1894. kerens began to see the long.
white way opening to Washington and
the senate. Hc knew he would have
10 pave his way with money and he
financed committees and paid pollti.
cal advisers high salaries and expense
bills. He had a way of not taking
the advice for which he paid fancy
prices. and nearly every prominent
politician who has been close TO him
can point 10 some time when. had the
magnet only followed his counsel.
things might have turned out very
differently,
His interest did not give him in.
sight and he grew weary at the wrong
time. the said time being 1904 He
did not wholly forget what was ex.
pected of his cbeck-book but he let
lot OF legislative nominees get through
the campaign without forming a first.
name acquaintance with him When
the late afternoon OF election day
showed that a republican would flll
Senator Cockrell's seat. Kcrens was
farther out Of touch with politics than
he had been for many years.
But he became instantly and expen.
siyely busy. and when. after months
paying OF prodigious bills at the Plant
ors. he moved quarters to Jefferson
City, he was as fully convinced that
he would win as that he ought to
win
His belief that he ought to win and
that therefore his chief rival ought
not to win, became a passion. That
passion. under the sting OF defeat
to him almost unbelievable. led to
the bolt Of 1905.
Kerens money. which is counted
In seven figures, was made IN mail
contracting. railroading mining md
manufacturing His chief fondness.
uanscending his. political ambitions,
are for his church and his daughter.