The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 1, 1908, Page 5

Volume XXX. { — ames fe « + m8 SUPPLEMENT TO THE BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES, Butler, Mo., Thursday, October 1, 1908. Number 49. COWHERD MERCILESSLY FLAYS HADLEY IN HIS ADDRESS TO MISSOURI DEMOCRATIC EDITORS. Ground Cut from Under Republican Candidate by Convincing Expos- ure of Barren Record and Deceptive Claims. Bursts of Enthusiasm Excited by Brilliant and Pa- triotic Defense of Democratic Administrations. Hadley, Trust-Buster and Liquor Law Enforcer, Personally Selects Sewer Trust Magnate and | St. Louis Brewer to Manage Campaign. Old Anheuser-Busch-Stiefel-Niedringhaus Brewery Bought Election of 1904 Recalled—-Hearers Amazed. Grandest Meeting and Banquet in History of Democratic Press Association. <5 2 St. Louis, Mo., Sept. The meeting of the Democratic State Association in St, Louis today _ “Lam glad to greet here this even- ing so many Demoeratic editors of Missouri, You are the men who make or mar the fortunes of the poli- Press tempt of all honest Democrats is now receiving, at least in part, the punishment he so richly deserved; but Senator Sullivan is still a power in the Republican party, and bear- ing in one hand the record of his conviction of soliciting a bribe, and carrying in the other the credentials from his party as a delegate to the National Convention at Chicago, he sat by the side of Mr. Hadley to name the presidential nominee for his party. “There are dishonest men in all par- ties, and now and then every party is liable to make a mistake in the selec- tion of its candidates, The difference is this: We punish our scoundrels, they promote theirs, Republican Interferes in Peril. “Mr, Hadley exhibits an carnest de- sire to make the St. Louis primary an issue of the campaign, I here serve notice on him, we Democrats can set- tle our own family disputes, and the Republican brother that breaks in be- tween the warring members of our family is likely to receive a jolt on both cheeks, He can make no issue with me over the primaries in St. Louis, “There may have been illegal vot- ing in several wards, but the returns so far gathered indicate that Mr. Hadley'’s percentage of fraudulent votes about as great as anybody else's, The returns further show that on the Democratic side such votes were about equally divided between my leading opponent, Mr, Ball, and myself. But I observe in the Globe- Democrat of September 26 that in Precinct 7 of Ward 22 Mr, Ball was credited with toy votes, | was given 3 and Mr, Hadley 34. The canvas sers find thirteen men who admit according to the reports published in the St. Louis papers, disappeared with $26,000 of his employers’ money. When caught he returned most of the money and escaped punishment for his crime.” He is now posing be- fore the people of this State as a purifier of elections and is the man selected because of his remarkable proficiency in election methods to prepare the data on which the in- vestigation of the St. Louis primary is being made, “Mr. Hadley wishes to know whence came the $35,000 for my pre- liminary campaign, will answer him. It came from that same inex- haustible storehouse whence he draws the proof of the great things he has done for the people of Missouri, It exists only in Herbert Hadley’s im- ination, and has for its proof only the statement of this modern Munch- ausen and the mouthings of a discred- ited political boss, “L answer him further, that no cor- poration, no saloon or no brewery ever contributed one cent to aid me in the tight for the Democratic nomi- nation, Can he say as much? But since he desires to enter into the question of campaign contributions, I would like. to call his attention to a little history in Missouri, “I shall not state as testimony the vagrant mouthings — of Republicans, but I will give as my au- thority the sworn testimony of rep- utable men taken before an_investi- gating committee of the Missouri Legislature, and the finding of facts as reported by a committee composed like of Democrats and Republicans Should Have Reversed Words. “With all the enthusiasm of convert to respectability Mr, Was the largest amd 11 a tician, You bear the brunt of every a in its history. Editors were present] political battle, and when the Demo- from all sections of the State, and] cratic press of Missouri is aggressive- the room in which the meeting was | !¥ enlisted in a fight there is no : longer a doubt of the outcome of the heid was crowded until the seats pro- contest. vided were not suflicient for those} “Our Republican opponents opened their campaign Saturday, at Springfeld last s advertised in flam- ing posters rivaling those of Ring- ling Bros.’ circus, glaring from every billboard in Southwest Missouri. The Republican press informed us prior to the opening that at least 25,000 Re- publicans would sing Hosannas_ to Mr, Hadley when he took the plat- form, The meeting was held in a city of 40,000 people, in an auditorium present, The address of welcome was delivered by Mayor Wells of St. gave to the newspaper men the record of the Democratic a ministration in that city, showing that it had, according to the record of the Census Bureau at Washington, placed St, Louis in the front rank among the 189 largest cities in the umon, Mayor Wells also stated that while > he had not voted for Bryan either in the election of 1896 or 1900 be- directed other- wise, he wold this-year enthusiasti- cally cast his vote for the Nebraskan. Joseph B, Shannon of Kansas City briefly addressed the newspaper men concerning his recent visit to Pitts- burg, Rochester and other eastern cities. He produced facts to show that the business depression and pov- Louis, who seats, and they were not all filled, so that this magnificent gathering of 25,000 Republicans dropped to le than 1,500, and the campaign that was thus haltingly opened : net be- coming lame and blind; it is already beginning to receive ay that pitiful consideration the strong ‘always show to the afflicted. ss cause his conscience Abuse Is Weak Defense. “We are told that Mr. Hadley's speech is to be the keynote and the chart by which all other Republican orators are to be guided, 1 trust that y in those cities has never before} this is true, for the Democr of heen equaled, far exceeding as it does | Missouri can never be diverted from the worst condition experienced in political principles by a tirade of jabuse and a flood of misrepresenta- tron {r. Hadley delib issues of the campaign; central and western states-—“He said trip began he| icared that Bryan would again be de- hat vhe i i that when his ately avoic he y feated, but aiter viewing eastern con- | mentioned the presidential candidate is citions and talking with all classes |! Connection with his eulogy of Mr ‘ ca annGiieaa tae id Roosevelt, and devotes practic de was convinced that aryan wou entire time to pre of him he triumphantly elected in Novem-|denunciation of me. He raise: swarm of gnats and hopes. to divert us from that old Republican elephant he is trying to hide in the jungle Democrats will not this year be di verted, We will shoot that old ele- phant hide so full of holes that even ber. Democratic Banquet. The climax and principal feature of | the meeting in St. Louis today was that by actual count contained 1,340 CHARLES W. NAPE PURALO PORIRAl, Wz1am S. COWHKERD, 7 ra) (LEYLA ut a) qy PCE RT TOO oun Fr. ATWOOD, "NOTIONAL COMMITTEEMAN Feo TAnsh disgruntled | men that Section 7176 his obligations to the bonght him his office. of the Revised Statutes of Missouri prohibits a corporation from sub- scribing money to the campaign fund of any political party, and makes such conduct work a forfeiture of the charter of the corporation so offend ing. It further provides that the suit to forfeit the same may be brought in any court of the State by the At- torney-General, The Legislature of Missouri, by resolution, inquired of Mr. Hadley why such suit had not been brought against the brewery company that contributed $2,500 to- ward his election, and Mr. Hadley responded that the facts did not in his opinion bring the case within the language of the law. First Aid to the Brewery. “This, notwithstanding that the president of that brewery himself swore that $2,500 was contributed by the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Associa tion; that it was paid with the check of that company, and the committee found that $2,300 was contributed by this association, and so distinctly re ported, and the check showing the same was in evidence before them In the light of these facts it is amus ing to witness the attempt of Mr. Hadley to make campaign contribu tions an issue and pose as a political purist, “Mr, nominat Hadley says he owes his mn to the people of Missouri alone, This statement is equaled in jhistory only by the ‘Nine Tailors of | Tooley Street’ who resolved that they were the people of England Mr. Hadley knows full well that he was not nominated but appointed by a little coterie of politi who at the dead hour of the mi cane FOLLA WELLS, PAYOR CF ST.LOUWS, Jtrery (TZ, FEUDEY, CHAIRMAN FIPS EPVUTTER) Some of the Notable Figures in Great Meeting of Missowri s Democratic Editors. ie enormous banquet at the Plan- : ters Hotel, This, the largest dining | Doctor Hadley will not be able to DIDATE Fore GOVERNOR. hall i St Le : ia filled with ae draw from that fertile fancy where TSE IF, St, LOUIS) WES MueS 'X\he keeps his record a salve to heal hundred editors and Democratic | the wounds, leaders, Eloquent and stirring] “Mr. Hadley wants to know what] From the St. Louis Republic. 7 ches were made by Hon, John Dsno ae has apne in Bt ol — Atwood, head of the speakers’ An. it ge REE: ae Hie hen voting for Mr. Ball, eleven who claim Lureau of the National Committee; State in the West; it has built up our M Hye voted se ie eH nine tor ton, Charles W. Knapp, editor of} magnificent school system; it has is pone hg Ree Oe ea ise St. Louis Republic, and Mayor | built and maintained our great elee-| ying reduced Hy about 300 per cern of Belleville, Hlinois, The au-}™OsyMary institutions; it has made] cont. [note also in the Second pre- life safe and property secure in every corner of the State; it has reduced taxes from 50 cents to 17 cents, and with this constantly reducing rate paid the twenty-one millions of debts that was the only monument left from the years of Republican rule. «tence was enthused from beginning to end, A like spirit of confidence has never before been exhibited in a Democratic campaign. Hon, W. S. Cowherd, Democratic nominee for Governor, literally rid- cied Herbert S. Hadley, the Republi- can nominee, in a speech tuat will be- «come historic as one of the finest specimens of ratory, convincing ‘logic and high minded dissection of the barren record and claims of his Mr. Cowherd never for a Democracy’s Honorable History. ““It has honestly accounted to the people for every cent passing through its hands, and of $100,000,000 that it handled not one dollar was lost to the Treasury of the State. But Mr. Hadley wants to know whether I re- a \ opponent, pudiate. former Democratic adminis- moment descended to such bage lan-| trations. 1 answer no. From Wood- ts xuage or method as those employed | $0" % and hag hie Folk there has ys by Mr, Hadley in his opening speech, not been a Democratic Governor 1 # 3 e ssibl fi whose administration has not been a Sc LC gf hut he left no possible excuse tor any | credit to the State, and who has not Democrat to vote for Hadley, who he} at the close of his term deserved the said boasted as a trust buster and the} plaudits due to faithful service. oe “He talks of corruption under enforcer of the liquor laws, with Wal- S. Dickey, head of the sewer pipe cust, his personally selected manager from Kansas City, and ‘Otto F. Stie- fel, the famous brewer, who pledged a part of the wine cellar slush fund . of 1904, his leader in the city of St. Democratic officials. Has he forgot- ten that the reign of corruption in St. Louis that startled! the country was under a Republican Mayor, and it was a Republican Council that fixed a price list on legislation? This dis- graceful condition was broken up by Democratic officials, and the people of St. Louis, without regard to party, showed their appreciation of that sit- uation by turning the Republicans out and installing the present hgnest and efficient Democratic administration. Louis. The text of Mr. Cowherd’s sneech follows, and after that will be found the speech by Hon. Charles W. Knapp; also, a statement about the proven forgery of the Cleveland ar- ticle on Taft, which the Republican National Committee has circulated throughout the United States with Bryan's speech at Topeka on Guaran- teed Banks, which ‘speech is ‘said to ‘be in more demand than any other shocusnet ofthe campaign. ture halls. Lieutenant-Governor of the corruption one man was convicted, ‘oartted in the “He talks of corruption in Legisla- It is true a Democratic betrayed his trust and only escaped the peniten- tiary by turning State’s evidence. But there exposed only he was a Republican en John A; Lee,|rect supervision and control of one bee ee ‘toa well-| Joh: con-| messenger, wi! Nae) cinct of the Fourth ward that Mr. Hadley is credited with twenty-six votes, and the canvassers find only two men that admit voting for him. “The Democrats of this State un- derstand that in every booth Repub- lican judges and clerks were serving by the side of Democrats; they un- derstand full well that if there fraud the Republicans participated in it, and they know further that no man upon their ticket owes his nomi- nation to a pt BOnEy received in the city of St. Loui “Mr. Hadley. gre made himself the sewer through which the slime daily put forth in the columns of the Globe. Democrat is to be given to the people of the State. He has gath- ered up the intemperate utterances of local politi s smarting under de- feat and tried to build a case by call- ing it testimony. Hard to Reconcile G, O, P. “Mr. Hadley will find it is equally difficult to disturb the Democracy by trying to reopen old wounds as it is to unite the Republicans in behalf of the ticket in whose selection they had no voice, Over all the State the Democrats are lining up with splendid harmony and going forth confident of victory, all the more aggressive because of the earnest fight that was waged in the primary campaign, and over all the State the epublican party is dead or sleeping, because it taxes no interest in the ticket ap- pointed for it by the bosses, It is well, however, for the Democracy of the State to understand that the in- vestigation in St. Louis is being made upon the data prepared under the di- in B. Owens, a formet express ho a few years ago,| announces that this election will come to him without the taint of illegality, or it will not come at all. He had better, if he desired to be truthful, reverse the sentence and announce that it will not come to him unless with the taint of illegality, “When did Mr. Hadley reach this plane of political purity? When did he reffise to accept an office because of the tainted source from which it came? In the investigation of the election of 1904 it was proven that shortly before that election was held, at a meeting in the cellar of a well- known St. Louis brewer, Mr. Nied- ringhaus, chairman of the Republican State Committee, announced that he needed $25,000 to carry Missouri for the Republican ticket. I do not need to call the attention of the people of this State to the fact that $25,000 spent in the closing hours of a cam- paign is spent for no legitimate pur- pose, but can only be successfully used as a corruption fund. Upon this plea, the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association gave its check for $2,500; its president subscribed $10,000 more, and Otto Stiefel, owner of another brewery in St. Louis, and Mr. Had- ley's most ardent supporter, and prac- tically the manager of the St. Louis end of his campaign today, guaran- teed $6,250 more, and so the $25,000 was raised to purchase success for the Republican ticket, and standing on the foul eminence of an office bought for him by the money of the brew- eries of St. Louis, Mr. Hadley de- nounces the brewery influence and talks of purity in elections and cam- paign contributions. As he turns to the country the mask that denounces the bgeweries he smiles beneath it at his friend Stiefel, and arranges the meeting at which he, as Mr. Stiefel’s guest, is to be led through the streets of St. Louis that the saloonkeepers seeing him in such excellent company may know the drift of his sentiments. ““Tt must be said to Mr. Hadley’s uses however, that he recognized y made up a ticket for in Jefferson C the Republican party and, by virtue of a_ politi machine, drove every man from public life who dared to op pose their dictation, and Herbert Hadley himself, in vile obedience to their demands, compelled: one his own assistants to resign the posi tion which he held because he in sisted upon his right as a Republican to submit himself to the voters of that party as a candidate for public ie shall not follow Mr. Hadley gh the volume of fiction evolved from the recesses of his own imagina tion, which he calls his record, | re member, hdwever, a few years ago a suit was brought by Attorney-Gen eral E. C. Crow against certain in surance companies, and a oresul of that suit the Supreme Court Hel these companies guilty of the offense of deliberately forming a trust , maintain the prices to be charged for insurance, and a writ of ouster was issued against them. Companies’ Guilt Was Admitted. “Later on the court revised its judgment and permitted the compa nies to continue in business in the State upon the following condition: First, they were to pay into the treas- ury, each $1,000 in fines for their past offenses, and the court held jurisdic- tion over them, in case they should again do business in this criminal way, that the writ of ouster at once should issue. “Under this decision $99,000 was pee into the treasury of the State. ow, if Mr, Hadley found any im- surance company was again violating the law, all he had to do was to call the attention of the Supreme Court to this fact, present the evidence and have the company driven from the State, whose laws it had violated. But he tells us that, under authority of a commission, he took testimony against certain companies, and as a SSB Li ean se result of that testimony he, Herbert Hadley, reduced insurance rates in Missouri, Ii Mr, Hadley found that these companies were criminals, what right did he have to compromise the erme? If the evidence showed e | they were not criminals, by what form of persuasion did he reduce the rates? “If Mr. Hadley made an agreement with any imsurance company in the State to reduce its rates, let him take the people of the State into his con- fidence and publish the contract that there was made “Hf he did not have.a contract, but had even the slender hold of a stipu lation from attorneys, let him pre sent the written instrument. If he does neither, we are justified in charg ing that this statement also rests only m his own lmagination, and was an- other of the ‘dreams’ with which he is trying to deceive the peor Che facts are that the records in of- tice of the Insurance Compr of Missouri will show that f to 1904 the rates of insurance were reduced 2 per cent; from 1904 to 1905 the rates were reduced § per and from 1905 to 1906 there wi other redaction per from 1900 to 1907 there reduction of 3 per ce four years prior to the t bert Hadley so mony in the companies, rates have and yet, unequaled, this Bomb claims credit of rie companies, after d 1g suit, followed the plan th ey merly pursued, cent, an cent, and was another » that for that Her reduced; Claim is Patently False “Mr. Hadley's 3 himself the passenger tf ne sovernor ‘ Democratic patently fi: tor strrigett treprentitrett 7 attempt to take to credit of the r tien in utes brou vmmmendation and the “tie ane, wit deb: s 2 BS why it is the ered in his be that he with the. r . Ten swer ould Ra reft to igno Knott, reement statute ed to book enter 4 ! an upen wr this recog e the law nd fe nition f the obligations of his office he faces Mr. Hadley’s denunciation after several columns of claims in r rd te wn performance, M asks tate what I r. Hadley to haye ever aecomp ished mild endear me to the 4 ° ti, Dhaves 1 hte an that sh of M vert honorable reputi could: be mab boasts, | have ¢ ton sh aman’s rep the mouths of | ‘ own, hallenges me rendered any my comm him. We tant city each cou culministratic v system of parks a oday is. the cond city of t nistration then was minder my rated the vards th glory of the inder mya Lethe rate vmunity: fr ubic follars to the am feet franchise Mighty Deeds Accomplished. “Under my administration tl that a De was mac ainst a great ar iul corporati for munic Wothe waterworks system, ¢ we had to meet every ¢ n Kansas City, including City Star, that is now Hadley, we the city on of the $3,000,000 for supy won out in tl Ns its waterwo it we them made. ‘ i We have re 2 per cent, im 1 water wed the serv water to. the ost $100,000 a1 rates en every city that forr mally, anc vas not between political parties between Democracy and an int it society known as the AL PL AL ad captured the Republican 1 as Carty Mr, ft State a fend a man int nay affect ture? 1 the Kans “Does of this that answer when such cravens, liberty will not long remain vith the people pon my record in the Mayor's office 1 was elected to Congress, and Hadley asks what li I accomplish there for the p a am willing to leave the qu on of y standing in that body to Joseph G. Cannon, Republican Speaker of the House, or James herman, inee for Vice-President on the Re- publican ticket, and I challenge Mr. Hadley to call upon them for an an- swer. It is true, a Democratic mem- ber in a Republican Congress cannot accomplish much or get credit for even what he does accomplish. But in reply to Mr. Hadley’s request as to what I did, I answer I voted and worked against the passage of the Dingley tariff law that today is rob- bing the people of this State of mil- lions of dollars for the benefit of the protected trusts. How would he have yoted had_he been able to deceive stood on nom Mis souri Democrats and ee