Show CANNOT KANSAS republicans cannot carry the state if silver men combine boston july 1 mr george H burr ot st john kansas president ol 01 abe st john trust compan yand member of the national republican committed commit teo was in boston today and to an interviewer said che republicans have a very small chanco of carrying kansas if tho democrats and free silver men combine strongly as they are bound to in kansas the great battle ground for gold will ba in indiana illinois and michigan and if the republicans can carry all these states mckinley will win by just a neck I 1 think the republicans will do this because I 1 think there will be enough eold men in the free ailder men can get enough in michigan or indiana we shall be in a dilemma people in the cast have no idea oi tho extent 0 alie silver craze in the west it caused considerable disaffection in the ranks of the republican farmers and the democrats and populists have gone daffa over silver aad farm prices on a gold basja the republican gold plank at 1 louis haa set the west wild and solidified the silver ranar |