Show THOMAS KEARNS 8AGKI t Impressed I With the Certainty I of Republican Victory SILVER DEAD IN THE EAST r Mr Xearns Says that in i the States He Visited There Exists No resent res-ent Hope for preeCoinagelier0 < is Some Talk of Expansion and I I Sympathy for Boers but the Currency Cur-rency Question is Not Discussed Little Doubt in East JffcKinley jI andRoosevelt will be Elected i > 1 l Thomas Kearns rcturncd lo theCity I early yesterday morning 1r rojm his t trip to the Philadelphia convention Mr I Kearns expresses the same opinion that the other delegates who have returned do that McKInley and Roosevelt will be easy winners this fall The sentiment senti-ment throughout the East Mr Kearns 1 says is overwhelmingly In favor of i continuing the prosperous conditions I I made possible by a Republican Administration Admin-istration and that th6 people will indorse I in-dorse the administration President McKInley by reelecting him by a triumphant tri-umphant majority Mr Kearns does not doubt The silver question he says Is for the present a dead issue throughout the I East the only issuo that attracts much dl attention there being the question of 1 expansion There is some little talk also of the trust question and some h sympathy is expressed for the Boers but that this sympathy will go to tim 4 extent of claiming that this country should interfere In the matter at this stage Mr Kearns thinks Is not probable U prob-able t ableMr Mr Kearns was present at the opening I ii open-ing of the Kansas City convention w having gone there from St Louis n where he had been on business and says he enjoyed the spectacle presented Isp pre-sented by the excitable although misguIded I mis-guided Democrats very much ii Mr Kearns ventured the opinion that the claim of certain Democrats that Illinois would go Democratic this year is erroneous by many thousands of cs votes notwithstanding that the Democratic Demo-cratic VicePresldenllal candidate halls from that State Indiana Mr Kearns thinks is almost assured to the Republican I Re-publican party and this he ihlnkK will II also hold irue In the case of New York ich Like the others who met the famous rough rider Mr 1 Kearns returns home so a great admirer of Col Roosevelt and I repeals the news formerly brought that ia Teddy will visit Utah WIth the enthusiasm en-thusiasm aroused by a few speeches from Col Roosevelt and other statesmen states-men of national repute who will be here during the campaign coupled with cal the existing conditions of prosperity everywhere Mr Kearns believes 1 there Is much more than a fighting chance 10 to carry Utah for the Republicans this eu fall |