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Show kept Mr. Filley constantly before the public by severely criticising his every publie act. Since McCullagh's death the great partv organ he built up has systematically ignored Mr. Filley. WHAT HAS BECOME OF FILLEY? Only a few years ago the most conspicuous con-spicuous figure in the Republican politics poli-tics of Missouri, was the Hon. Chaun-cey Chaun-cey Ives Filley. For many years he was the Missouri member of the Republican Re-publican National committee, and was the one man above all others consulted by his party's managers on affairs in his State. He participated ouite as prominently as any of the old-line Republican Re-publican leaders in all the campaigns down to that of 1900, but since then little or nothing has been heard of him. A mighty power be was in his day, and his dropping .out has been sr complete that mana.y politicians .in Washington are wondering if he is dead. Mr. Filley is still living, and although well up toward the fourscore four-score mark in years, he is in good health and vigor. Mr. Filley 's present plight of inconspicuousness illustrates better than any other modern example what is liable to happen to the public man who is ignored by the newspapers. When Joseph B. McCullagh was editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat he |