New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-04
Big Speakers Busy in Ef-
fort to Save the
State.
MOOSE AND q. o. P.
WORK IN HARMONY
Governor and Senator
Heavy Load for Foes
to Carry.

from Special Correspondent OF The IhouneI
Kansas City, Mo, Oct. 3.-The alarm
which the Democratic leaders OF the
state are feeling over the development
of the campaign is being reflected by
the great number Of prominent SPEAK
ers who are being sent in. They are
handicapped by the bad record OF the
rreeent state administration, dlssatis-
faction with Senator James Reed VINO
is ND for reelection, and the desertioh
Of the few Germans who nave oeeh
Democrats. ,,- c,., p;11
Stone has spent great deal OF time
in the state, Senator Reed is putting
in all of his energy and time, vice
President Marshall is making several
speeches. and so are Senator Ollie
lanes. Of Kentucky, and Champ, ClarK'
Heretofore Clark has always had row
inc commission, but this year he Is
spending much time here, because the
greatest need is in Missouri
State Record Weak.
This danger does not come from the
German vote, but from the shocH the
Democratic organization mas sustaihsu
from the impossible and grossly mem
Gent present state administrator. Coi'
onel Fred Gardiner, the Democratic
nominee for Governor, Will never men
ton, in his speeches, the name OF 10Y
ernor Major. Then, too, the hepup,
licans have nominated as MS oppohen'
probably the strongest Repupiicah ~
the state, a member OF the MlSsouiI
Supreme Court for ten years, 1uuse
Henry Lamm. Of Sedalia. lie is IRON
10000 to $4,000 votes stronger than
the national ticket, and STANDS an eA'
cellent chance of election. :,
The Missourians also have never iei'
that Reed adequately represented the
state. So they do not enthuse over
him, while Walter Dickey, the candl'
date of the Republicans, is particularly
strong. AS state chairman IN l9oo ne
carried the state for Taft by having an
organization such as no state had ever
seen. This year he seems to have de-
veloped an organization almost as per
feet.
The German vote, while larger than
that of any other state, will not partlc'
ularly affect the Missouri outcome, fol
fully 80 per cent is already Republican
The 20 per cent which has heretofore
been Democratic will vote for Hughes
Moose with G. o. p.
Missouri is one state in the Middle
West where the Moose and the Repub
licans are working together pleasantly
They feel they have victory ahead L
there is actual harmony. For the mos
part they are not entirely satishe'
l
party is reunited, but for this cam
paign they are willing to DO honest
whole hearted work for the Republican
ticket.
/ William Allen White, of Kansas, ex
pressed editorially in his Emporia ia
zette" last Saturday what Is the con
viction of most of the Middle Western
Progressives and Independents. III
said in part: 4
at seems likely that considerable
majority of the Progressive vote OF 1--WE
| and four years ago Will vote Tor Mt
Hughes. He will get, say, SO per cen
of the former Bull Moose vote and lO'
per cent of the Republican vote.
"But that will not unite the Repub
lican party.
"To unite a party requires a com
mon issue. The issu of beating Wilson
is not sufficiently vital to hold these
two factions together, after this cleo
ton.
Union Depends on Hughes.
aParties are not united on machin'
cry. Tradition even will not hold fol
very long The hope of the Progress
sives for genuine unity with the ke'
publicans lies in what Candidate
Hughes will do as President Hughes
He will be expected to make new issues
He will be expected TO take the 7,0OO,-
600 votes cast into his personal hopper
and if he is wise turning from old fields
into new fields, abandon even the old
marty tradition. He will hold only to
the forward moving temperament OF
the Republican party. With that con
structive mind of the party, IN the hre
of some future event, and with con-
viction burning around some new issue
which his wisdom largely will make,
he will be expected TO amalgamate a
new party united.
New issues and a new leader must
fuse the contrasting elements into one
party"
Helped Congressional Races.
Hughes strengthened himself much
by his ST. Louis speech, and he helped
the chances of the Republican candi-
dates for Representative. Fourteen OF
the sixteen Representatives from Mis-
souri, now are Democrats. But the Re-
publicans have a good chance to elect
their two members and hghtlng
chance TO elect new men in the llth,
18th, 18th and 18th Districts.
Missouri is more than normally
Democratic. She is Southern in tenn
permanent and instincts. The American
flag was raised over the court house
at Liberty after Wilson's election in
1912 for the first time since the Civil
War. And Liberty is only twenty-five
miles from Kansas City.
Still. the state seems likely to go Re-