Show Kerens Honor Recognition of His Ibis Persistence Its a Q far cry crr from the crying cITIng boss and the rest of tho Missouri Republican lican itcan outfit to the and the In the city that Vienna rolls rolla are named after And will Colonel Kerens like Bite It in fn Vienna I Will It seem natural to him to pass an nn election year ear without t the visits of emissaries of oC national state Blate and city committees Will an I Intimate view of oC court Intrigues make mako makeup up for the lost fun of fighting over and chairmanships Will the furious Curious party part battles of tho the Austrian Aus Austrian trian parliament seen Been from the thc hon hen ored but neutral seat of an nn ambas ambassador ambassador sado seem more than tame counter felts of the senatorial combats combat thu colonel has waged and an might again have waged had lie he remained In Mia Alls Missour sour Tho questions have not seemed to toI I worry Colonel K ens an more than I the problem of or making ends meet on OD a year ear while entertaining princes counts and diplomats For ForIt ForIt Forit It Is not of record that he ever ob oh objected to the mention of his name nume fo tho Vienna post poal But nut now that the sound Bound of trunk packing IK is I heard at 36 35 r place Colonel Kerens K has hns the air all of oC ofa oCIl ofa a Il man who not only an enemy In the world but Is not conscious of ever eyer having had one ojie Could Kerens have combined all nIl his hla friends here hare and at nt Washington ho need not havo have waited until his sixty sixth year ear for Cor his parts reward Could Elkins and Manley and Hanna have hove swung tho the votes otes of Missourians for him as they th swung tho the votes of their own states the Missouri elec clec electorate electorate would have had hod him to blame Instead of William Il Warner for tho the I AldrIch tariff Kerens has for years been ablo able to todo todo todo I do things at Washington Even disfavor did not spoil his ability to get Jobs and favors for or his bin followers And what he wanted It was his way to go so direct to Washing ton and ask for Kerens was never ner or much of a letter writer and his hla faith t In absent treat treatment treatment ment menu was small If I a Missourian adherent ad adherent adherent herent wanted help hf lp at Washington It was not Kerens Remus way par to write a letter to some sarno one His way was to peek pack his hll grip go to Washington and stay until tint he got what he was after or get I definite Information that it ft was wal not to La tobe Labe tobe be had and why not riot In his efforts t to put the title Sen Senator Senator I ator before his name Colonel Ker Kor Kerens K r one ens spent energies which put pul into I any nr line of his bis business might have hav j I made hit his present millions Into tens tena of millions I Ifo I To fo lavish money mone on complimentary 1 nominations for fol the senate in the I II I days when Kerens used to do it showed faith In republican party part des deg destiny destiny I tiny When a republican judge way waa I elected to the thc Missouri supreme court courtin in 1891 Kerens Korens began b gnu to see the thc long IO lon KI white way war opening to Washington WIl and tho the senate He knew he would havo lo to pavo pave his way Wu with wilh money mODe and ho he I financed committees S and paid political I cal advisers high salaries and an expense I bills He Ho had a way war wa of not taking the for Cor which he paid fancy fanc prices and nearly every prominent I politician who has been close claBo to him can call point to lo some time when had tho the magnet magnat only followed his counsel things might have luwe turned turnell out very err differently His Interest did dl not give she him in insight Insight insight sight and he ho grew weary wear at the wrung wrong time lime the Ute said time lime being 1901 Ho did not wholly holl forget org l what was wa expected ex expected of his check checkbook but he hp let n lot lol of legislative nominees get set through h the campaign without forming a first name namo acquaintance with him When Whoa Mm thu Into late afternoon of oC election day flit showed that thai a republican would fill Oil Senator lor seat scat Kerens Korens was farther out l of to toUch touch ch with politics tiCK than he ho had holl boon hoon for many years But he became Instantly and sh ely busy bUH and when hen after niter a R months man paying of prodigious bills at nt the Plant Planters ers rR he ho moved quarters quart en to Jefferson City Citro he ho was wag us fully ull convinced that ho he h would win as M that ho ought to win Yin His Hig belief that he ought ou ht to win and I that therefore his chief rival rhal ought I not to win became n H passion That passion p H lon under the tho sting of a defeat I to him almost unbelievable led to the bolt of 1005 Kerens money which is counted I In hm sown seven was made In lit mall I contracting railroading mining mini and antI manufacturing His chic fondness transcending his political ambitions arc are for his bit church and an his daughter The completion of the new cathedral on Lindell boulevard will bo ho I as proud a In his hh life as a the day da of his hla i ilife life as the tho day of his hl presentation to j the tho Austrian kaiser And a telephone I message from rom his hili daughter last laRt year Jea yeara a debutante has always t fj to I close up lip the tho days darN work in his and send him whirling toward to ard Vande I venter place pIneo in his motor motol He lute has never neyr learned the language In which VIenna s most famous song sons Mein LIeber Augustine was writ written ten tan But he atones alones for his deficiency I If deficiency It is by hy owning stock In Ina Ina ina a company compan which prints German pa papers papers pers pen And time the language of diplomacy we are told Is not Gorman anyway St SI Louis Post Po l Dispatch I |