Sedalia Weekly Conservator

Sedalia Weekly Conservator. FOR INFORMATION WRITE A. C. MACLIN, ACTING PRESIDENT. ```markdown ``` A. C. MACLIN, A. M., ACTING PRESIDENT PRIMARY & GRAMMAR Grades, providing a thorough drill in the elementary branches. ACADEMIC OR COLLEGE PREPARATORY Preparatoy, with Classical, Scientific, Biblical, English, Normal and Commercial Courses. MUSIC DEPARTMENT Vocal and Instrumental Music; Theory and Harmony. INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT Sewing, Dressmaking, Cooking Domestic Economy & Printing. Special Attention is to be given Agriculture. COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Complete elective courses leading to the several academic degrees. FOR INFO The College was founded 1894 and named in honor of Gen. Geo. R. Smith, the campus and grounds of 28 acres being the gift of daughters, Mmes Smith and Cotton. It is owned and conducted by the Freedmens' Aid Society. Is located on the M. K. & T. and Missouri Pacific railways. The main building is of brick 120x40 feet, with an ell 75x40, four stories high. Contains 62 rooms including offices, parlors, recitation rooms, chapel, kitchen, dining room, laundry, dormitories for ladies and gentleman, heated by steam. The Charter was issued Feb. 17th 1903. It makes the Trustees a body corporate, defines their power, prescribes manner of selection and the relation of the Board to the Freedmans' Aid Society. MRS. ESTELLE H. WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY, Literature and MISS M. MINNIOUS SON—George R. S. —Music. ciple it has successfully maintained. Through the Civil War it consecrated a reunited country to free and equal American citizenship. It has kept the channels of Interstate Commerce open for all and, through the National Banking System, the refunding of the National Debt. Resumption of specie payments, the Gold Stand and the Emergency Currency Law, has sustained the life current of national integrity. As trustee of the National wealth, it has investigated mineral regions, surveyed soils, developed waterways, including the Panama Canal, irrigated deserts, conquered waterways, and husband of the public lands. Protecting (By Frank Aedricks, New York City) —Party of Expansion The Republican party was a founded upon the principle that the government was established to protect for those the rights and liberties of every individual who lives in the United States. That prim- ```markdown ``` DEPARTMENTS Historical Sketch Incorporation and Trustees Why the Republican Party Should be Successful in November George R. Smith College Sedalia, Mo., Offers Splendid Opportunities THE MUSEUM FACULTY A. C. MACLIN, A. M. Acting President—Walden University —Economics and Philosophy. B. H. BALL, A. R.,—George R. Smith College—Mathematics. MISS B. NOBLESSE MASON, —University of Chicago—Greek. MISS MAE FIELD, A. A., Walden Uniniversity, Latin-German. DUKE BOYD, A. B., Walden University, English. REV, F. S. BOWLFS, A. B.,—George R. Smith College—Science. EARL A. HARRIS, M. D.,—Me Harry Medical College—Chemistry and Physiology. SEDALIA, MO., MONDAY, SEPTEMRER 21, 1908. American labor by regulating immigration and by taking at the Custom House, to pay American taxes, foreign capital's advantage from low wages, it has preserved to American industries the home market of eighty millions of the world's greatest consumers and so laid the surest basis for American competition in foreign markets. Uniting capital and labor, thus, in a common prosperity and common source of increased reward, it has created opportunities, improved conditions of employment, brought about a higher standard of living, and more widespread distribution of wealth and well-being, and made expansion moral as well as material. less tban : : $10.00 Use of the Laundry, .50 Music, Instrumental or Vocal, for one month of four weeks, 2 essons per week $2.50 One lesson per week, $1.50 Use of Instrum nt per Mon. .50 Use of Type writer in Com- Reoms are lighted, heated, furnished with bed-teads, mattress, pillow, two quilts, mirrors, bowl, pitcher and lamp. Students furnish for themselves sheets, pillow cases, extra quilts, blankets, slop bucket, lamp chimneys, soap and matches. A reduction of 50cts per month is made from the tuition of candidates for the ministry and children of ministers. All bills are payable in advance the first day of each school month Money for students' expenses Intrusted with inular possessions, it has brought them peace and progress, and provided for the extension and protection of American trade, for the National defense, and for the honorable discharge of the responsibilities of world greatness. Maintaining peace at home, with foreign nations and among them, it has given American rights and American opportunities new meaning thru out the nation and throughout the world. II.— The Party of Progress and Prosperity. Promising progress and property, it has been politically sincere. It has never had a candy. Expenses should be sent directly to the President of the College. Send by draft, P. O. order, express money order or registered letter to A. C. MACLIN, Acting President, Sedalia, Mo. A number of students boarding in the College permitted to earn some of their expenses by work in the building or on the grounds provided they are willing and efficient. Liberal pay is allowed for all work done, but employment will not be continued to those who fail to do their satisfactorily. Most students earn in this way $2 per month; some earn larger amounts. Application for work should be made to the President in advance of coming. A large number of students find employment in homes in the city, sufficient to expenses of board and tuition. The call for young ladies for these positions is always Work and Self-help. date of a section, prejudice, or class, nor a platform of negation, scheme of repudiation, program of scuttle, or doctrine of despair. It has never lent itself to a demand for revolution, to be followed by reaction and retrogression, it has stood firm for evolution by constant, steady and enduring progress. Finding trusts, giant-born flourishing under supposed conflict of State and National law, the double prohibition of existence serving but to foster their development, it has never, in an attempt to destroy trusts, withdrawn, in State or Nation, the protection of law from property, but has, through Executive investigation and resort to the courts, re- WANTED AT ONCE $9,000 FOR Industrial Building An Enrollment of 500 STUDENTS AN ELECTRIC PLANT To Light the Campus and building COMPLETE OUTFIT For Our Printery. DEVOTED AND GODLY FACULTY; HEALTHFUL & CONGENIAL LOCATION INSPIRING & JENNEBLING ENVIRONMENTS PRESIDENT. greater than the supply. Application for such employment should be made in advance thru the President of the College. As far as possible we endeavor to safeguard those working in the city, but cannot be fully responsible for those outside the college building. Only young men and women of established habits and character can be allowed this privilege outside residence. Children under twelve years of age will not be received, except special arrangements are made with the President. The purpose of the College is to give a thorough, practical christian education. It cares for the health and physical training, provides for refined social culture, gives careful attention to morals and manners, and aims to lead the students to a personal religious faith and life. ```markdown ``` No.15 [Name] LANT 1 building FIT y. r. the Design and Scope of the College solved the conflict which had ali- lenced law and given trusts exist- tence. It has never proposed to advance American workingmen and American institutions by banishing American industries, and building up those of other lands, and scorned to insult labor with an illusory promise of immunity from law. Yet it passed the Pure Food Law and the Employers' Liability Law secured equal accommodations on railroads, aided agriculture, created the Civil Service, established Free Rural Mail Delivery, reduced foreign postage, and increased pensions. Continuing, naturally marked out programs it pledges of T ```markdown ``` G. TOM IRELAND,.....Advertising Department. FRED A. HUGHES, Local News and Circulating Department. -SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year,..... Six Months,..... Advertising Rates Quoted on Correspondents and Agents w in Central Missouri. Entered at the Sedalia Post C One Year,.....One Dollar. Six Months.....Sixty-Five Cents. Advertising Rates Quoted on Demand. Write Today. Correspondents and Agents wanted in every town and village in Central Missouri. Entered at the Sedalia Post Office as Second class matter, KEPUBLICAN TICKET For President-- WILLIAM H. TAPT. For Vice President-- JAMES S. SHERMAN. For Governor— HERBERT S. HADLEY For Lieutenant Governor— JACOB F. GMELICH For Secretary of State— JOHN E. SWANGER For State Auditor— JESSE A. TOLERTON For State Treasurer— WILBUR F. MARING For Attorney General— FRANK B. FULKERSON. Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner— WILLIAM W. WILDER For Judge of the Supreme Court— ARGUS COX For Judge of Kansas City Court of Appeals— ARCH B. DAVIS For Representative in Congress for Seventh Congressional District— JOHN WILLAKER For State Senator for Fifteenth Senatorial District— HOLMES HALL For Representative— GEORGE W. ANAMOSA For County Judge Eastern District— CHARLES W. KNOX For Judge Western District— JOHN M. CURNUTT. For Prosecuting Attorney— HARVEY D. DOW For Sheriff— BENJAMIN F. JENKINS For County Treasurer— TRUMAN T. VIETS For County Assessor— PHILLIP SULLIVAN For County Surveyor— HARRY O. MOSS For Public Administrator— JOHN H. PREGGE For Coroner— FRANK R. MORLEY For Constable Sodalia Township— LOUIS H. KAHRS George R. Smith College Opens. The Sixteenth Annual Opening of the George R. Smith College was held in the College Chapel, Tuesday, September 15th at 10:30 a.m., with the Rev, W. H. Smith, district superintendent of the Sedalia district, presiding. After reading a lesson from the CVI Psalm, the Rev. J Will Jackson, D. D., led in prayer, which was followed by singing, "Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown Introductory remarks were intelligently made by the presiding officer, which was followed by a short address by the Rev. C. S. Webster, of the Smithton circuit. DR. HENN 811 to 815 WALNU The Old Reliable Doctor- regular Graduate in Medi- Over 30 years in Kansas Ct Authorized by the Chronic State to treat all Cures guaranteed or money refunded. mercury or injurious medicines used. No de- treated by mail and express. Medicines at Charges low. Over 60,000 cases cured. Age cases and send for terms. Consultation free a The Old Reliable Doctor—Dident in age and longest located. A regular Graduate in Medicine. 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Scott, of this city. Miss Irene Fletcher then delighted the audience with one of her choice piano solos. The Rev. J Will Jackson, D. D., pastor of Taylor's Chapel, of this city, was then called to the platform for the concluding remarks. His remarks were timely and to the point. In appropriate terms, the Rev. W. H. Smith then introduced Prof. A. C. Maclin, A. M., as the new executive officer for this scholastic year. He, in brief but sensible sentiments, spoke of the grave responsibilities that attained to the position he occupies but courageously declared his determination to meet them without any fear of failure. During the first week, the enrollment will exceed One Hundred, which is very auspicious. New instructors of ability and character are in charge of the various departments. It is believed that an era of phenomenal progress is dawning for Old George R. Smith College. Patrons and alumni are requested to keep the public informed of what is transpiring in and about our beloved alma matre. Prof. Duke Boyd, A. B., an alumnus of Walden University, of Nashville, Tennessee, has been placed in charge of the English Department. The Commercial Department will soon be placed under a proficient instructor. "If I am elected president I propose to devote all the ability that is in me to the constructive work of suggesting to Congress the means by which the Roosevelt policies shall be clinched." Hon. W. H. Taft, at Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. 8 1908. The Crews Meeting Upon the political platform, the honorable Nelson C. Crews, DERSON OUT ST., KANSAS CITY, MO. Oldest in age and longest located. A clinic. Over 83 Years' Special practice- city. ESTABLISHED 1867. C, Nervous and Special Diseases. All medicines furnished ready for use —no medication from business. Patients a distance everywhere. Free from glass or breeding and experience are important. 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It is true that the Negro has no ghost of a sensible opportunity to support democracy this year, since upon every occasion, it has refused to take a manly and bold stand in defense of the Black man's rights under the law. Happily for the Crews meeting on the 21st, several short addresses were given by Dr. J.C. S. Walden, the Old Roman, and the Rev T. L. Scott, the youthful political hercules. These addresses with the melodious strains of the Queen City Concert Band held the people in the right attitude to take in the political gospel, in all its purity, as given by Mr. (Crowley). Uncle Buck Shelly and James White, two of our honored silver haired Civil War Veterans, gave vent to their feelings unremitting ly. This meeting will help the Negro Republicans to get together as never before in this county because they have seen the necesity of electing everything that the Grand Old Party has on board. Dr. J. T. Williams a recent graduate from the MeHrrry Medical College of Nashville, Tennessee, did the honors as chairman of the meeting. In his preliminary remarks, he gave several cogent reasons why the Negro is determined to stay by the Grand Old Party. Negro citizens all over the county will be glad to hear from him later. Lincoln High School Enrollment Increased. The enrollment at the Lincoln High School has already exceeded the 350 mark, a larger margin than that of last year at this time. If parents and patrons will do their duty, we shall have a sufficient attendance to cause the employment of another teacher. By the addition of the Industrial building, the efficiency of that line of work is augmented. It is sincerely desired that all children report at once at the school. Let them report for regular attendance and good behavior. Prof. Hubbard and his corps of assistants have gotten down to real work, although the hot weath er has served as a slight deter rent. To give encouragement to the faculty and to also subserve the public good, all must take a hand in getting all of our children in school and then keep them in Republicans Keep Busy at It. "Walter S. Dickey, Chairman Republican State Committee, has received, at the headquarters in St. Louis, the first complete poll book, or voting precinct directory. Mr. B. F. Sharpless is the Precinct Captain and Mr. A. W. Stevens the Township Committeeman, of Rockville precinct same township in Bates County, who are entitled to the distinction of having completed their work and delivered their book to State Headquarters the first of any voting precinct in Missouri. The precinct organization blanks and poll books were sent throughout the state the latter part of August and Republicans everywhere are now completing the work. We hope our local Republicans are up and coming on this important part of the detail preceding the election." Miss Ruby Marten spent Saturday and Sunday with home folk. V. Bryon Young and Frank Lindsey spent Saturday evening at Otterville on business. DISPRANCHISE THE NEGRO CHAIRMAIN ATWOOD FORGES. Opent Letter of Bryan Manager Wilson Declares for The Res- tinction of Educational Leavenworth, Kan., Sept. 10. A big stir was created in political circles here by the production of a letter over the signature of John H. Atwood, national Democratic committeeman for Kansas, and chairman of the Speakers' Bureau of the National Democratic Committee in charge of W. J. Bryan's campaign, advocating the disfran chisement of the Negroes of Kansas. The letter of Mr. Atwood was printed in the Kansas City Post under date of May 6, a couple of months in advance of the presidential nominations, when it had not been decided to play the hypo crite to capture the colored vote. Mr. Atwood is the first Democrat to boldly declare for the disfranchisement of the Negro race in a Northern state. He goes farther and plans to practically cut colored children off from receiving an education. The letter of Mr. Atwood read as follows: To the Kansas City Post—By one of those strange ironies of fate which sometimes overtake the benefactors of individuals, people or races, the State of Kansas, which has done more, perhaps, for the Negro than any other state in the Union, is now suffering a grevious political wrong from the hands of the freedman and his descendants. William A. Harris would now be govenor of Kansas had it not been for the ignorant Negro vote and there have been times in the past when the Democratic party could have elected its state ticket had it not been for the ignorant black vote of Kansas City (Kan.). Leavenworth, Atchinson, Lawrence and Topeka. There was a time when the Negro vote was not a considerable factor in Kansas politics, but the time has passed. The influx of Negroes from the South, the rapid multiplication of those native to Kansas soil, and the increasing insistence of the Negro upon social equality, make the Kansas Negro not only a political factor, but a social and political menace. If the last general election be a criterion, the Negro now holds the balance of political power in Kansas as he does in Missouri. This in itself is bad enough, but in Kansas we have suffered for long years the outrage of mixed schools, fastened upon us by Republican politicians. Mixed schools lead the Negroes to aspire to a mixed society, and this close contact of the races is productive of trouble from which Kansas would be free if the Negro had less political power and were not admitted to the same schools with the whites. Kansas has long been weary of the Negro politician, and it is more than weary of the mixed school. Patience has its limit, and I believe the time has come when the people of Kansan will join with the people of Missouri in restricting Negro sufferage. I do not advocate the disfranchisement of the Negro on the ground of his color. That idea is abhorent to the principles of our free government and its execution would be in conflict with the constitution. But our constitution will permit the disfranchisement of the ignorant, depraved, lazy, vicious and debauched Negro, and this disfranchisement should be accomplished to the end that our free institutions may not suffer. May 6, 1908 JOHN H. ATWOOD. Arthur Camp took a very plesan't drive to Smithton Sunday eve. Private Orders Given Special Attention. When You Buy Mone Monsecourt's Beer, You will Be Purchasing a Home Structure. EASTERN HISTORY 1830-1840 Lodge Directory. UTOPIA COURT No. 19, Order of Calanthe, Sedalia, Mo., Meets on the first and third Thursdays in each month at 3 p. m., at the D. O. H. hall, Mrs. Annie L. Stemmona Worthy Councillor. Mrs. Carrie Mason, Register of Deeds GREATER SEDALIA NO. 42 Sedalia, Mo. Holds, its regular meetings on the first and third Thursdays of each month, at the D. O. H. Hall, 108 East Main Street, at Eight O'clock sharp. W. H. Huston, Box 96, Chancellor Commander. S. B. Moore, Hoffman Bldg., keeper of records and seal. POLAR STAR LODGE No. 60, Verslilles, Mo., --- Meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in each month, at 8 O'clock, in its Castle Hall on Fisher St. C. W. White, chancellor commander. E. W. Fowler, keeper of records and seal. St. Louis Lodge No. 41 St. Louis, Mo. Holds its regular meetings on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at the Pytnian Hall, 3137 Pine street, at 8 p. m. William Carson, 1114 Morgan street, chrysellor commander. Charles S. White, 1239 Morgan street, keeper of records and seal. WARRENSBURG LODGE NO. 46 Warrensburg, Mo. 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Agents Wanted Everywhere. TAIL TO OTHER FOR MISSOURI STATE FAIR SEDALL AMONG THE FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER THE WORLD'S GREATEST SEWING MACHINE LIGHT RUNNING NEWHOME Eton man either a Vibrating shuttle, Rotary Mattle or a Single Thrush (Chair Stock) Sewing Machine write to THE NEW HOME Sewing MACHINE COMPANY (Orange, Moor. Many sewing machines are made to sell regardless of quality, but the New Home is made to wear. Our guarantee never runs out. Sold by authorized dealers only. FOR SALE BY J. J. BAKER Supply Co., SEDALIA, MISSOURI. 1 SEDALIA CHURCHES. Sunday School 9,30 a. m. Preaching 11,00 a. m. Class-meeting 5,00 p. m. Epworth League. 6,30 p. m. Preaching 7,30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening of each week. J. Will. Jackson, D. D., Pastor, Residence, Minneapolis Cottage QUINN CHAPEL A. N. E. Church Morning Service 11 a. m. Sunday School 2 p. m. Class meeting 3 p. m. Evening Service 8 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday nights at 8 p. m. Teachers' meeting Friday rights P. Thurman, pastor. H. R. Brown, Secy. C. M. E. Church North Osage St. Morning services - 11 a. m. Sunday School - 2 p. m. Claus meeting - 3:45 p. m. Epworth League - 9:30 p. m. Evening Service - 7:45. p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednes day evening of each week. Christion Band meeting every Friday night. You are welcome. Rev. T. L. Scott, Pastor 313 W. Clay Mrs. Mamie Walker, Secy. Montan Street Baptist Church. Preaching 11:00 a. m. Sunday school 2:30 p. m. Preaching 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. Come, you will be made welcome to all of our services. — Rev. J. H. Downing BOUNTY CHAPEL, FREE BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday School 10 a.m Preaching First and Third Sunday in each month, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m Prayer Meeting Tuesday night Covenant Meeting Friday night Pews free and everybody made welcome Mrs Zuz Whiteley, Clerk Mabel Williams, Acl. Clerk Dr. Miller* Anti-Fat Palm relieve pain. 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Dorsey who has spent several weeks in Colorado Springs Colo., left Sedalia for her home in Old Virginia Monday. Father Washington Price, after a very pleasant visit in Lexington and Kansas City, has returned to our city for the winter, we are glad to see him. R. F. Phillips, a member of the class of 07 left Sunday night for Nashville, Tenn., where he will enter McHarry Medical College of Walden University to begin his sophomore year in medicine. J. B. Simpson returned from Kansas City last week, where he went to secure a large tent to be used at his state fair stand. Our friend J. B. means to have plenty of chicken for State fair visitors Keep this in mind because he will sure treat you right. --- The Coronation Club was entertained by Mrs. Carl Banks last Wednesday. A large graphophone furnished the music for the occasion. Peach ice cream and angel food were served. The club will meet with Mrs. Marie Johnson next week. You will miss a rare treat if you fail to attend the Old Colored Soldiers' Reunion and Second Annual Encampment at Pertle Spings near Warrensburg, on the 23 to the 25 of this month. You may sleep, eat and enjoy yourself on on the grounds during the entire term of the encampment. Chief J. M. Braden and wife who have been with us for two years in interest of the True Reformers, have been transferred to Indianapolis, Ind., to continue the work. We regret to see them leave as they have made many friends during their stay here and have been thorough workers for the organization which they represent. We hope them much success in their new field of labor. Miss Mary Stewart and mother enjoyed a ride last Sunday but they will remember for years to come. After spending several pleasant hours with friends in Dreeden, they started home late in the afternoon. It was so late and they so happy that they became leapt on one of the suburban houndwards of Dreeden. Unfor- ```markdown ``` tunately for them they ditched their buggy and had to seek help from one of the neighbors. The Church Extension Board, of the Central Missouri Conference M. E. Church, met in the College Parlor on the 15th and recommended to the Parent Board that a loan of $1600 be granted to the church at Independence, Mo. Those present w-re Rev. Richard Davis, pastor of Centennial M. E. Church, Kausas City, Mo., Rev. Richard Rush, of Versailles; Rev. F. S. Bowles, A. kt., Editor W. H Huston, Dr. J. M. Harris, Rev. W. H. Smith, Superintendent of Stewar Stewarts Cafe MRS. S. DALE, PROPRIETRESS First Class Meals. 7 A. M. TO MID-NIGHT. ICE CREAM, SODA W SANDWICHES A SPE Patronize Us and Receive 121 EAST MAIN STREET. Go To WILLIAM'S RES ICE CREAM, SODA WATER, LUNCHES AND SANDWICHES A SPECIALTY. Patronize Us and Receive Proper and Polite Treatment RESTAURAVT 105 NORTH LAMINE ST. 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Murray, a former resident of Warrenburg, Missouri, to Mrs. Annie L. Stemmons of this city, promises to be the social event of the season. All Sweedom is filled with anxious anticipation. The ceremony will be performed at the Morgan Street Baptist Church on the 30th at 8 p.m. According to present arrangements Robert Cooper, of Warrenburg, will be the Best Man. Miss Dora L. Flournoy of Kansas City, Mn., will be the bride'smaid. The Misses Freda Lewis, Edna Harper, Pauline Washington and Marguerite Gravelt will be flower girls. Mrs. A. C. Braden, Assistant-Chief of the True Reformers, will sing a solo. And the wedding march will be played by Miss Eva Parker. The reception will be held at the residence of Mr. & Mrs. John Leewright on North Moniteau. Jennings-Britt Nuptials Higginsville, Mo., Sept. 16 '08 A very pretty wedding was solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Franklin Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock p. m. when their daughter Miss Eva Britt was married to Mr. Moody Jennings by Rev Watson. The parlor was lighted and beautiful flow ATER, LUNCHES AND SCIALTY. Proper and Polite Treatment. SEDALIA, MISSOURI. S TAURAVT h as Mother used to Serve PROPRITRESS. ers were strown everywhere. At the appointed hour Miss Anna Britt took her seat at the piano and Miss Henrietta Dyer sang a beautiful solo and by the strains of the wedding march the happy couple entered the parlor. The bride wore a handsome gown of white silk and carried a large bouquet of carnations and roses. The groom looked his best in regular dress suit. After refreshments were served they were accompanied to the station by a number of relatives and friends where amid showers of rice and good wishes they lift on the four o'clock train for Salina Kansas where they expect to reside. They recieved many useful presents. The bride is one of Higginsville's best young ladies. She was born and reared to womanhood here, and a graduate of our public school. The groom is a young man of worth and ability, a graduate of Lincoln Institute. May success ever attend them and a happy voyage on the Sea of Life is the wishes of many friends. HIGGINSVILLE NEWS. Walter Douglas was seriously hurt one day last week while work ing the mines, which broke three of his ribs. He is reported to be improving nicely at this writting. Eugene Estol was hurt one day last week while working in the mine but is able to be out again. Mr. W. B. Stanton spent Sunday in Marshall visiting relatives and friend. Died in this city Sept. 16 1908 Ernest the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Howlett. The little one had been in poor health for some time. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Thursday at their residence conducted by Rev. T. L Watson. Mrs. John Carter of Lexington is in the city on business. Miss Nellie Hale is still on the sick list. Mrs. T. A. Jones returned Wednesday evening after spend a few days in Kansas City. Mrs. Jenkins Workcail of Omaha Neb., is in our city on business. MALTA BEND Misses Pollie Saunder and J. Jacie Saunders are very ill at this writting. Rev. S. Tays pastor of the M. E. Church of this place had a grand rally Sunday Sept. 13 1908. Revs. Woodson Pane, Randall and E. D. Burns were present. The amount raised during the day was $28.82. Compulsory School Attendance Law. We call the attention of our parents and guardians to the following provisions of the Compulsory Educational Law:— 1. Every child between 8 and 14 years old and between 14 and 16, when not regularly employed, must attend some day school at least half of the term each year. 2. No child can be excused on promise to attend; he must attend the first half of the term before being excused on that account. 2. Courts having jurisdiction (Justice of the Peace in rural districts and in cities having less than 50,000 population) may excuse children from attending school for the following reasons: (1) parents can not supply proper clothing; (2) child is mentally or physically unable to attend; (3) no public school in two and a half miles of the home; (4) labor of the child necessary to support family; (5) child has completed the common school course. 4. No child between 8 and 14 can be employed in mine, factory workshop or store unless accused for one of the five reasons, or has statement from teacher that he has already attended half of the term for that school year 5. It is the duty of attendance officers and district clerks to notify parents and guardians when children fail to comply with the provisions of the law. 6. The penalty for non-attendance falls on parent or guardian and it is a maximum fine of $25 or imprisonment for 10 days, one or both. 7. For illegal employment of a child, the employer is subject to a fine of fifty dollars and costs. 8. Every school board shall publish this synopsis in a newspaper of the district or post it in at least five public places ten day before school opens each year. VOTE FOR TAFT. Some talk say it is my duty, For the Peerless One to vote; If he is not chosen captain, Our good ship wont stay afloat But a chap gets tired of voting For the man without a peer. I can always vote for Bryan, So I'll vote for Taft this year. Change is sometimes necessary. If this life we can enjoy. And altho our sweetest boon is Voting for the Peerless One. Yet some little variation Makes the landscape seem less drear; I can vote for Bryan always, So I'll vote for Taft this year. Even tho our children's childre Hang their heads in deepest shame, Blushing for their ride forfatho Who at one time jumped the game; So we'll vote for Taft this year -- Professional World HIGH CLASS Job WORK may be secured at This Office CALL AND SEE OUR EXHIBT OF CALLING CARDS Old Colored Soldiers' Re-union and 2ND ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT TO BE HELD AT Camp Frederick IN THE CELRBRATED PERTLE SPRING WARREN September 23 Attractions At PTEMBER 22- The Veterans will Strike M. Tents, Mattresses, Cots, Rooms for the accommodation of 500 or more on PTEMBER 23- The Old Negro Settlers on it the Pertle Springs Pavilion at 1:30 p.m. ion of Thomas Chapman, Holden; Lum Charles Simpson, Smithton. All old cie OLD SOLDIERS' ANNUAL BUSIN Hon. N. C. rews, of Kansas City, A Col. James W. Jackson, Clinton PTEMBER 24- EMANCIPATION DAY Parade at high Noon, led by the celebrat Rev. J. C. Caldwell, of St. Joseph. J. Burton, Jefferson City, will PTEMBER 25- Veterans' and Dress Pa es will be delivered by the Rev. F. L. S. Benoia Scott, a Civil War Veteran, of War BASE BALL GAMES Scott's Piccaninnies, of Sedalia, will meet the ter Sure Winners, on the 24th at The Celebrated Qu Of Sedalia, Missouri, under the man the music for each day's a Musical Concerts the Mammoth YOU CAN NOT AFFORD COME PREPARED TO REMA STAFF OFFICERS R Frederick CELEBRATED AND WORLD RAY SPRINGS G RENSBURG from 23 to The nions Already S rans will Strike Camp, at Camp B Cots, Rooms, Meals and other 100 or more on the grounds at reas egro Settlers of Central Missouri at on at 1:30 p. m. to perfect an org Holden; Lum Blair, Centerview All old citizens, male and fem ANNUAL BUSINESS SESSION AT Kansas City, Adj-General R. E. Jackson, Clinton, will deliver ade ATION DAY CELEBRATION— Now the celebrated Queen City Coach of St. Joseph. Pres. A. C. Maclin erson City, will deliver the address and Dress Parade at Camp Free Rue, F. L. Scott, of Sedalia; Rev. Veteran, of Warrensburg, Missouri ALL GAMES DAILY on Cam alia, will meet the Dresden Juniors on the 24th and the Smithton Br rated Queen City Co under the management of A. H. each day's attraction. Hear t concerts Every H ammoth Camp AFFORD TO MISS T TO REMAIN IN CAMP OFFICERS FOR 1908 ENCAM Attractions Already Secured: SEPTEMBER 22- The Veterans will Strike Camp, at Camp Frederick Douglass at 3 P. M. Tents, Mattresses, Cots, Rooms, Meals and other Necessities will be provided for the accommodation of 500 or more on the grounds at reasonable rates per day. SEPTEMBER 23—The Old Negro Settlers of Central Missouri and the Great West will meet at the Pertle Springs Pavilion at 1:30 p. m. to perfect an organization under the supervision of Thomas Chapman, Holden; Lum Blair, Centerview; John Carter, Salt Pond and Charles Simpson, Snithton. All old citizens, male and female, are urged to be present. OLD SOLDIERS' ANNUAL BUSINESS SESSION AT TWO-THIRTY P. M. Hon. N. C. rews, of Kansas City, Adj-General R. E. Gillum, of St. Louis, and Col. James W. Jackson, Clinton, will deliver addresses at 3:30 p. m. SEPTEMBER 24—EMANCIPATION DAY CELEBRATION—Civic and Old Veterans' Parade at High Noon, led by the celebrated Queen City Coacert Band of Sedalia, Missouri Rev. J. C. Caldwell, of St. Joseph, Pres. A. C. Maclin, Sedalia and Rev. H. J. Burton, Jefferson City, will deliver the addresses at 3 p. m. SEPTEMBER 25-Veterans' and Dress Parade at Camp Frederick Douglass. Addresses will be delivered by the Rev. F. L. Scott, of Sedalia; Rev. J. W. Gordon, Clinton and Benoia Scott, a Civil War Veteran, of Warrensburg, Missouri. BASE BALL GAMES DAILY on Camp Diamond BASE BALL GAMES DAILY on Camp Diamond Scott's Piccanninnes, of Sedalia, will meet the Dresden Juniors, on the 23rd; The Knob Noster Sure Winners, on the 24th and the Smithton Browns, on the 25th. The Celebrated Queen City Concert Band Musical Concerts Every Evening in the Mammoth Camp Pavilion YOU CAN NOT AFFORD TO MISS THIS GRAND AFFAIR. COME PREPARED TO REMAIN IN CAMP DAY AND NIGHT. Rev. Richard Rush, General-in-Chief Rev. James W. Jackson, Colonel Rev. W. H. H. Brown, Lieutenant-Colonel Caleb Lindsey, Major Rev. R. E. Gillum, Adjutant-General EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Rev. J. Frank McDonald, Dr. C. S. W. Rhodes, Rev. Christopher Tayes, Ten, Hayden Golden, Val Williams, Ford, Benjamin Lynch, James White, Albert Williams, Harrison Fisher, Transporta COMMITTEE FOR 1908 ENG Dr. C. S. Walden, Rev. Ant Ophor Tayes, M. Berry, Val Williams, Guy Fox, He James White, John Cowan, Jon Fisher, Sandy Ousley, Jo Transportation Facilities EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR 1908 ENCAMPMENT: Rev. J. Frank McDonald, Dr. C. S. Walden, Rev. Anthony Coleman, Rev. J. W. Rhodes, Rev. Christopher Tayes, M. Berry, A. Howard, Samuel Al- len, Hayden Golden, Val Williams, Guy Fox, Henry Tucker, James Brad- ford, Benjamin Lynch, James White, John Cowan, Levi Smith, Frank Barbour, Albert Williams, Harrison Fisher, Sandy Ousley, John Butler, Samuel Williams The Missouri Pacific Railway Company and the Pertle Springs Railway Company will furnish First Class Transportation Accommodations for reasonable rates. For further Information Call on Local Ticket Agent or Write 1717 SOUTH MISSOURI AVENUE, SEDALIA, MO. H. HUSTON Advertising Agent, Sedalia, Mo. Benjamin F. Isaacs, ar., Inspector-General Rev. J. C. Shackletord, Chaplain George Oualey, Treasurer Charles Williams, Sergeant-at-Arms J. F. M. Counce, Drum-Major Currency Reform and development of the Maclean Marriott, and make the United States the financial centre of the world. III.—The Constructive Party—It Organizes the National Will In the evolution by which party government has become the extra-constitutional method of securing responsibility to the people, the Republican Party has become their traditional representative and the Democratic Party, the organized aspiration of individuals for power without responsibility. Fairly tried, from 1893 to 1895, the two Democratic House and the Democratic President were a "wild team" and a helpless driver. Democracy agitates local differences, Republicanism or organizes the National idea. In 63 the people were committed to the cause of human liberty; the idea of "Liberty and Union" expanded for the first time into the reality of the American nation. In 1879 money was committed to a specie basis; specie was at once, until 1893, no longer sought and government bonds went to a premium at the reduced rate of interest. In 1896 business men were again committed to confidence; before a single statute was enacted prosperity set in and in ten years bank deposits almost trebled—a permanent gain which the recent panic, a "state of mind' now completely dispelled, scarce ly touched. In 1906 business was committed to fair methods; without compulsion violations largely ceased. The Republican Party, at each period, sounded the public conscience, felt the National pulse, framed its policies in response, and realized in law the dominant American idea. Its constructive past assures its constructive future. It is today as it always has been, "The Party fit to Govern." 1V. — Party of Statesmen The party of Statesmanship, it has been the training school of statesmen. Its policies have been forged in the heat of public discussion, tempered in the deliberation and shaped in the conflict of many trained minds, and drawn and finally wrought for the country's welfare. Dominating its members through principles, it assures unity in government; its staunch partisans have made the greatest contributions to National progress. The roster of its leaders is the national roll of honor of public service. V.—Taft and Sherman Constructive Candidates—A Construct- Platform Republicanian stands today for progressive policies in safe hands. By solving the constructive problems of world power in the last two administrations, William H. Taft taught the world our capacity and us his own. In all constructive legislation for twenty years. James S. Sherman has been a leader. In the records of the Republican candidates as well as in the platform are written the story of the nation's progress and the reliance of the future. A Democratic President or a Democratic House would turn back those pages; thereafter Brvianism would record "Deastruction" This the Republican Senate could not prevent. Under Taft and Sherman and a Republican Congress the great progress of the past will be held and the greater progress of the future will be as aured. A FAIR DEBUTANTE A very pretty and charming affair was that of last Saturday night when Miew Anna Crosswat daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Crosswalt, made her way to society at Arlington Hall, which was festooned with garlands of white and green, the orchestra being screamed from view by poles and COMFORT AND ECONOMY MORE AND BETTER HURDER, STRONG, NON-RUSTING, UNBREAKABLE PARTS, ENDS AND BUTTON-HOLES THAT WON'T BREAK OR FULL OUT, SMALLER IS TO POSITIVELY GUARANTEE THAT BULL DOG SUSPENDERS OUTWEAR THREE ORDINARY KINDS MADE LIENT HOP HEAVY WRIGHT TECHNOLOGY BREATHING, LIVING IN A VARIED BEAT, PLAYING BETWEEN 50 CENTS BULL DOG SUSPENDERS HEAVY WRIGHT TECHNOLOGY BREATHING, LIVING IN A VARIED BEAT, PLAYING BETWEEN 509 North Lamine Street, cut flowers. The young debutante, dressed in pompadour net ver pink silk, and carrying a bouquet of pink and white roses, which the ladies presented to her carried the honors of the evening with girlish grace and dignity. After the presentation of the debutante by her mother, Mrs. D. N Crosthwait came the grand march led by Miss Aunie and her brother David. Following them were Miss King of Jefferson City and Paul Crosthwait. Others in line were: Cora Carr, Irva French, Evelyn Wilson, Misses Daughtry, Boaz, Blanch Holliday, Corriene Buckner, Lillian Wells, Alberta Wells and Barker of Lawrence, Kans. Presiding at the punch bowls were the Misses Ruby Bradley, Nannie Richardson and Melody Thollins. Mrs. Crosthwait was assisted by Mesdames J. F. Bradley, T. C Unthank, H. O. Cook, J. Lang, F. Jackson, & W. W. Fairfax, S. Harris, A. Gibs, J. Hill, C. Monroe, W. P. Swan, J. Herndon, Nero Bossfield, M. Carter and Miss Salie Jordan. The out of town guests were: MissDaughtry of Chicago, Miss Warrick of St. Louis, the Misses Barnes of Denver, Miss Flo King, of Jefferson City and Miss Wright of Topeka. The young debutante is a student of Fiske University Tennessee, and will resume her studies this fall. MALTA BEND ITEMS. Mrs. Laura Davis of this place is in Marshall visiting. Mrs. Sarah Neff was called to Kansas City to spend a few weeks with her sister who is ill. Miss Edna Reid is on the sick list this week. Mrs. E. D. Burns is very ill at this writting. Misses Pleadis Fowler, Susie Stuard and Messera Alva Turk, and George Steverson of this city spent Sunday at Marshall. Miss Bettie Jiles is visiting in Cow Creek this week. Mrs. Charley Taylor and children spent Sunday in Cow Creek. Mrs. Annie Fluence and Mrs. Mollie Fluence spent Wednesday with Mrs. George Rich. Mrs. Alberta Tibbs is on the sick list this week. George Steverson left for Lexington Tuesday for a few weeks. W. J. BLOCHBERGER Wholesale Liquors. —AGENT FOR— Miller's "HIGH LIFE." The BEST MILWAUKEE BEER 115 WEST MAIN STREET, SEDALIA, † † MO --Beth Phones 501.-- Quinn's Saloon --FOR ALL KINDS GF-- Speech of Hon. Herbert S. Hadley Republican Nominee for Governor of Missouri At the Opening of the Campaign for 1908, at Springfield, Saturday, September 19 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: Four years ago the people of Missouri gave their electoral vote to Theodore Roosevelt and elected the entire Republican State ticket, with the exception of Governor. It now becomes necessary for them to consider the administrations of those whom they elected four years ago and to decide whether they wish to continue the policies and principles of government which those administrations have sought to enforce. THE WORK OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. TAFT, HIS LOGICAL SUCCESSOR. And now that he has blazed the pathway along which we must travel, we need a leader who will continue his work because his heart is in the work; who will have the courage to be right when it is time to give up, to be courageous and strong enough to refuse to take terms with politicians, even to be President; who thinks before he talks and investigates before he acts; who sees all decisions before he makes a decision and who knows difference between a principle and a precedent; a leader who knows the rights of labor and of capital, and the wrongs of each; who sees all experiences of the judiciary and the aggressiveness of the executive; who knows that our trade and commerce should be large, but who also realizes that our commerce must be honest and lawful; who knows that successfully direct the prosecution of the greatest public work of the century and negotiate with fairness and satisfaction that the lives and happiness of millions of people are maintained other man knows, the conditions and necessities of our dependent races, and who has a heart that feels for their deficiencies. One. In fact, who is able and willing to work for the great work and destiny of the Republican party. Such a man and such a leader we have in him who was the trustee of William McKinley and who is the logical leader of Theodore Roosevelt, our candidate for the Presidency, William H. Taft of Ohio. The controlling question in this campaign in national politics is the one question that has been raised: the principles and policies of Theodore Roosevelt; and William H. Taft stands for the American people today as the representative of those principles and policies. THE WORK OF REPUBLICAN STATE OFFICIALS. In State affairs, we challenge the attention of the people of Missouri to the records that have been made by the Republican officials whom they elected four times. They have performed the duties of their respective office, oorous, efficient and painstaking manner, and there has been no suspicion of scandal or claim of inefficiency in connection with the record of any of these officers. Who were elected four years ago, and who didates in this campaign have, during the last four years, served as members of the State Board of Equalization, which assesses the value for the purposes of taxation of the public service corporations of the State. An advance of that work they have increased the assessments from $131,142,152.67 in 1904 to $163,124,152.67 in 1908, thus adding to the losses derived by the people of Missouri from the public service corporations of the State nearly half a million dollars each year. And even with this increase of assessment, the property of the public service corporations is not a higher proportion of its value than is the property of the dividuals. And, in addition to increasing the taxable wealth of the State in this amount, these officials, as members of the State Board of Equalization, have also increased the inequalities in the assessments of public service corporations which existed under Democratic rule as a result of political influences and campaign contributions. THE WORK OF WILLIAM W. WILDER. If time permitted, I should like to tell you something in detail as to what officials have done in the performance of the duties of their respective offices. I should like to be able to give you a clear and efficient account of the exact methodical and efficient administration of the different offices have been conducted, should like to make clear to you how your State Auditor, William W. Wilder, has served in the schools of the State more than 646 years, and has collaborated in inheritance tax collections by directing unauthorised attorneys, appointed by Democratic Auditors, and by insisting upon the county officials in the various collections, as is provided by law. I should plainly to you, in detail, the care that he has taken in the examination and inspection of the various accounts submitted to the approving the efficient manner in which the collections are processed and disbursements of the State, and that the last Legislature against its unwarranted extravagance. And it was only because his warning went unheeded that the approving the efficient manner with a deficiency of more than one and a million of dollars of revenue as a result of the extravagant appropriations of the last Democratic General Assembly. And yet, this covering this over-appropriation of funds, has been made by the mandates of the Constitution, accounted for the public schools the penal and elec SUPPLEMENT OF THE WEEKLY CONSERVATOR, MONDAY, SEPT. 21, 1908 municary institutions of the State and the other necessary functions of government the funds necessary to carry on their various activities. THE RECORD OF THE STATE TREASURER. The administration of the office of State Treasurer by Jacob F. Gmelich would also furnish a profitable subject for discussion and would be able to give it. He has, with a financial ability never before equalled in the discharge of the duties of this office, kept the funds of the treasury in the hands quired by law and in three years and nine months of his term has collected as interest on balances for the benefit of the treasurer, 380,503.83, while his Democratic predecessors have not collected only $447,181.18. He has kept the books of his office in absolute harmony with the provisions of the law and has put efficiency in the conduct of its business. THE RECORD OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. I should like to tell you much in detail as to the manner in which John E Swanger has conducted the office of Secretary of State. How the routine duties of the office of the pompany and recently performed to the complete satisfaction of every citizen. But what is more important, Mr. Swanger has made the banking laws of the State mean something to the people. And so long as he is in a situation in which he is playing the promotion and inspection of our State banks, it will not be necessary to enact a law providing for the guarantees of deposits, compelling the honest and capable market to be responsible for the dishonest and incapable of making the law. Why should we be careful and conservative in declining to take any action which would unjustly injure the credit of any men or banking institution, he has been fearless and courteous in the performance of his official duties when the office required him to be a firm and unfeasible. And further, he has been a scornless man who has not given a clean bill of health to any insolvent bank because it was owned by a man of political influence, and he has been a man of political influence, and he has been a man of political influence, as a history of solvency. In addition, he has compelled corporations which had long been transacting business in Missouri without expense, to comply with the laws of our State and to provide the service of personal revenue fund many thousands of dollars to which the State was legally entitled; he has increased the receipts of his office without increasing its expenditures, and has all particulars performed the duties of his office with economy and impartiality. MY OWN OFFICE. I should like to tell you, if I had the time in which to do so, of that work of my own office of which you have never read in the newspapers; of the work that I have done in the library in attending to the ordinary, every-time t duties of the office which results in the proper enforcement of the law, the prevention of abuses or the necessity for reform, is this work, and not the work of office of the law. I have no attention, in which I take the most satisfaction, for it is a careful attention to the performance of the details of official duty that insures the best safeguard of the law, and an impartial enforcement of the law. In addition to the work of those State officers elected four years ago, we point to the importance of the prizes to the honest and efficient services that have been erected by the other officers elected at that time: Albert D. Norton of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, J. D. Johnson of the City of Chicago, and Lamm of the Supreme Court of the State, Frank Wightman of the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, John C. Kirkpatrick, Quentin-Governor, and also do we call the officers elected to plebe to the high rank that has been secured for Missouri in the National Conference of Representative elected in 1904 and 1906, and by our Senator, William Warner. THE REAL ISSUE. But, notwithstanding the satisfactory and efficient records that have been made by these officials during the last four years of people in Missouri are asked in this campaign to support the State affairs to that faction of the Democratic party which was driven from power in 1904. Even if there was but little in government, the Republican State officials elected four of them to your confidence and approval, there is every reason and consideration of good citizenship why you should not restore to the Democratic party the control of the Democratic party. From 1973 to 1904, the Democratic party was in unquestioned control of the offices of this State, and for twelve or fourteen years under the control of a certain crowd of politicians who were pleased to refer to themselves as the "Old Guard," but whom governor Falk and his friends, with permission, have called to call the "Old Gang." And what was the result of this thirty-one years of uninterrupted rule, and more particularly of political supremacy during which the State was bloom and blossom of its glory and its power? I do not want in this campaign to be partisan or unfair, and that which the State has done to the good citizens of all parties force me. I prefer to quote to you the statements of your present Democratic Governor as to the evils and abuses that existed in the State of the "Old Guard," and for which that organization is directly responsible. GOVERNOR FOLK'S CHARGES AGAINST THE "OLD GUARD." According to his repeated public statements and many of his supporters, the "Old Guard," while in charge of State affairs, used the police departments and political machines to纵使 large cities as political machines to纵使 large cities of chance from elections; they so protstituted the ballot to corrupt political purposes that elections in the large cities no longer expressed the free will of a free society, their management become both inefficient and corrupt, and those men who were sworn to enforce the law became violators of it; those men whose duty it was to suppress and regulate vice became partners in vice nor property; their management it was to prevent crimes against the ballot committed crimes against the ballot; those men whose duty it was to suppress and regulate vice became partners in vice nor property; their management it was to prevent corruption in the elections and in the enforcement of the laws in the large cities was equalled, if not surpassed, according to the charges of Governor Folk supporters, in the corruption which existed in the state for years; their charged that for years the "bribe-giver and the bribe-taker had stalked through legislative halls and gone unwhipped of justice"; that legislation was corporations that legislation in the interior plea was defeated by the lobbyists and the bribe-givers of protected corporations in fact, it was the charge of Governor Folk supporters of the government had been conducted by the Democrats party that the "restitution of the principles of common honesty had been come the paramount issue in MissouriPolitics." How completely true were these charges can be read in the confessions of John A. Lee, the records of legislative investigations, the records of the bodee trials for legislative and municipal corruption, and police investigations at Kansas City and St. Louis. PRESENT DEMOCRATIC RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS RECORD. Now, in this contest, I say again that it do not want to be partisan, and I also want to be entirely fair. I want to do not want, and no party, an injustice. I do not want to be an injustice in the class and the Democratic party the responsibility for this disgraceful condition of police, legislative and executive corruption which existed prior to 1904. A political party is the origin of the responsibility for such a condition of affairs for which only as it endorses that record or seeks to place again in power the men under whose management and control such convolutions were allowed to arise and continue. Now, up to the point, which is the most likely case of the present State candidates of which the present State candidates were members, gave to the administrations of Stone, Stephens and Dockery the very same endorsements of the same partisan partisan part of the action of Joseph W. Folk. Name me a member of the "Old Guard" who was active in the affairs of the Democratic party for the twelve or fourteen years prior to 1904 which he was a party to the campaign for the nomination of William S. Cowherd. Go to St. Louis and see there in the primary election returns as expression of "Old Guard" methods, eviden- tical to the "Old Guard" which neither its cunning nor its power. Let me read to you the testimony of Ed Butler, convicted by Governor Folk of booding and sentenced to five years in the State. I am told that he had the technical decision to the Buryant Court. "The only man I come out for before the election," said Butler, "was Cowherd for Governor. I wouldn't be surprised if my support made Cowherd ten thousand votes Louis and five thousand outside the city." "Then you came pretty near nominating Cowherd," the interviewer suggested. "I am not saying that," was the cautious reply. He made wins, but that don't prove that I am back in politics; I don't have to be. I have friends all over town and they know me well enough to know what I want. If I had to tell them every time, I wouldn't consider them worth much as for them." "Whom will your friends support for Senator," the reporter asked. "Stone will win," was the answer, "even the preachers are getting on to Folk. His lid has made more drunkness in St. Louis of a Sunday than was ever seen before." He said he was sandwalls of Stone. For myself, "continued Butler, "I gave the most attention to the candidates for Circuit Judge. I knew I had class, Harrett and Werner. I didn't care who to for Dillon, he goes to church too much." Do you want that kind of a man to nominate your candidate for Governor? Do you want your Governor under obligations to that kind of man? Now let me read to you the testimony of Lawler P. Daly, the Chairman of the Democratic City Central Committee in St. Louis, for securing for Mr. Couchard his nomination. "Each ward committeeman who favored Cowherd, said Daly, "was given one thousand dollars for ward expenses." (There are twenty-eight wards in St. Louis.) "I was given one Daly, 'the committeeman' was given with individual contributions. For example, in one ward the committeeman, whose name I will not mention, was allowed one thousand dollars for campaign expenditure, and I was given my own personal use. At least $35,000 was employed by the Cowherd managers to carry St. Louis. These are facts. It is true that I was for Dave Ball for Governing and invited my friends in the Twenty-second War. There is no use asking me who gave this money or who collected it, because the fight is over and I am not yelling." "How much were you and your associates on the Democratic City Committee offer to support Mr. Cowherd?" Daly was asked. "Oh, I don't know," he replied, "the amount was so much that perhaps the public would not believe it. Things didn't go just right to suit me, but that is no reason why I was the one to take him. I was Colonel Ball, I would go home and take a rest. It might be all right to contest the primary, but if I were Colonel Ball I wouldn't do it. The cards have been given to me to do but take his medicine. But they me that in Kansas City one ward which had registered $50 gave Cowherd a majority of 1,500. If that is true, it beats our man methods all hollow. I am not equally satisfied with things as they have happened. But what could any leader do when he run up against that $35,000 slush fund? The ward committeemen won't deny that the committeeman was paid $1,200 for expenses; besides that sum, he was allowed $500 for individual expenses. I refused to take a cont. Ball was a poor man and there was nobody back of him who gave a share. There was no deal on the State ticket; it was a straight out fight and the cash won." Now let me read you some of these election returns themselves in Kansas City and St. Louis. In order that you may see what a wonderful system it is that has made it possible for St. Louis for the purpose of nominating and electing for the people their public officials: In the Third Ward of St. Louis, Mr. Cowherd was credited with 1.542 votes and was elected in 1906, upon the same registration at the general election. Woodson, who polled the highest vote upon the Democratic State ticket, received only 1.179 votes. A canvass of this ward by the police department, under the direction of the Crawford, showed that not more than 15 per cent of the cordsed as having voted for Mr. Cowherd really voted for him. Practically the same vote was returned for the other candidate upon the machine ticket as was returned for the St. Louis "Republic," the State Democratic organ, on Friday, August 7, 1908, says, in speaking of this vote: "The vote of 1,542 for Cowherd and 21 for Ball in and of itself is not incredible, but a great achievement. As a southeastern-governor, we find the same dilemma here. We are 1,552 votes for Mr. Palmer of Carroll County, and 15 for Kelley, the governor of Louis. Then we have 1,547 for Roach of Louis. Then we have 1,547 for McGrath of St. Louis for the office of Secretary of State. A sorry showing that for the Kellys and the McGrath in a word, we have 1,547 for Roach through the list, we have 1,540 for Govan as Auditor, 1,544 for Winters as Railroad Commissioner, 1,559 for Graves as Superintendent, and 1,558 as Judge of Court of Appeal, 1,558 for Court Attorney, 1,558 for Morrissey as Sheriff, 1,546 for Overall as Public Administrator, and 1,558 for Parker as Coroner, for which was to be made among seventy or more candidates on essentially personal grounds, and out of about 1,530 votes there eleven. How does the Third Ward age to get itself into such a state of unanimity as to so many candidates for so many offices? It is not the work of the candidates themselves, for some of them, toure to say, were never in the ward and never saw or spoke to a voter of the ward. Continuing, the same paper, on the same day, gave editoriality: same day, days editorially: "It is entirely natural that Ball and McCormick have a fortune nate as to be put on the slate which was railroaded through the Third, Sixteenth and probably other wards of St. Louis, should feel eager desire to get back of the extraordinary returns received from these wards, and should be interested of the voters who vote the Democratic ticket in a big city ward vote solely for the same slate, picking exactly the same ten names from a list of more than seventy, we face a political phenomenon that is not only the investigator. No wonder that the candidates crushed beneath this marvelous ward roller should want to know a good deal more about it. They are justified in making inquiry about the man or men who manhandled the method adopted to guide it to so singularly败奉 compulsion. There are many pertinent queries that may be asked. How was the selection of the Third Ward slate influenced? What inducements got the cannibals to guide it to such a conclusion? How were individual voters brought about such disciplined control? When did they get the training that enabled them to vote with such mechanical exactness? Perhaps it is well to remember that the criminologist, the general election laws apply to primary elections in all Contests are not provided for, but frauds are punishable." It has further been developed by the police investigation of the vote in St. Louis, conducted under the direction of Governor Folk, that votes were counted in Ball, the St. Paul and Mr. Wallace, and seeing that I had no opponent and did not need them, they counted votes for Mr. Cowherd that were cast for me. Votes were counted for Mr. Cowherd that were cast for candidate. Many votes were counted twice and three times for Mr. Cowherd. Votes were recorded as voting for him who were out of the State; who had moved to other precincts; who had not voted at all, and who had been long since dead. Votes were recorded as voting for Mr. Cowherd in alphabetical order, all the A's before all the B's, and so on throughout the alphabet. The same conditions as disclosed in the Trial Court were in case of other wards. Where there has been investigated. And yet, in the face of these facts, developed by an investigation conducted by Democratic officials under the direction of a Democratic Governor, the Trial Court declared that "IF the Democratic State platform say that 'IF for me' committed in the City of St. Louis" etc. In order that you may understand something more as to the result of Butler's primary election, let me read you the testimony of one of the judges of election as to the manner in which the voting was done: On days after the primary, M. M. Reynolds, of 517 North Ninth street, St. Louis, who was acting as a judge in the Fourth Ward, Seventh Presidet, the polling place where he is located at 517 North St.棉街; said: "Shortly before seven o'clock Tuesday morning, a crowd of about fifteen men came into the room and asked for ballots, giving a name of a man I know to be a wolf. I was not a person of other persons I knew. I requested the police to arrest them, charging that they were repeaters; but they ignored my request. I turned before four o'clock, when I gave orders that only four should be admitted at a time. These orders also were ignored by the police. When I renewed my permission, I jumped on me and beat and kicked me, knocking me on one of the tables. Ten minutes later I left the place to telephone for some more police protection, but when I returned, I was away from the place, the same crowd came up behind me and renewed their attacks. After going home to apply remittance for injuries, I came back, and under additional instructions, I brought throughout the remainder of the day." It should be said, in fairness to Governor Folk and his Board of Police Commissioners, that the police who permitted this action has been discharged from the department. In this primary election, according to the returns received from the judges and clerks, David A. Ball carried eighty of the 114 counties of the State and Mr. Cowherd was outside of Kansas City and St. Louis, Mr. Ball had 12,000 more votes than Mr. Cowherd, but in Kansas City and St. Louis, according to the election returns, Mr. Cowherd was credited with approximately 400,000 votes. In the entire State Mr. Cowherd was credited with 96,091; David A. Ball with 84,317; William H. Wallace with 47,905 and Henry F. Stapel with 17,214. 53,345 more votes were cast against Mr. Cowherd than he received, and the face of the returns themselves, Mr. Cowherd is the minority nominee of the Democratic party. Not only is Mr. Cowherd the minority candidate upon the face of the returns, but is there a man of sense who has been elected to the State and Mr. Cowherd would be the nominee of the Democratic party today. If only honest votes had been counted in his favor? Let me read you upon that question the testimony of William W. Wallace, Judge of the Criminal Court of Jackson County, for whom over 48,000 Democrats got their votes counted in the last primary election. Judge Wallace says: I do not accept the election returns of the recent primary as a correct verdict, do not accept it because there were between five and six thousand votes past for me in Kansas City, though there were never counted. There were votes counted that were never cast. Because the returns indicated my defeat, it does not mean that my stand for the enforcement of the law was repudiated. In Kansas City there have been vile elections, crooked elections, wicked elections, thieving elections, and monstrous elections. There is a great deal of talk about corrupt elections in St. Louis. We have crooks in Kansas City who can teach those in St. Louis things about stealing elections that they never hard off. Now let me read to you the testimony of David A. Ball of Pike County, former State Senator and Lieutenant-Governor of your State, as to how he was robbed of the nomination for the benefit of Mr. Converder. MR. BALL'S EVIDENCE. Two days after the primary, Mr. Ball said "I am convinced that I was sold out in Kansas City and St. Louis. I am led to believe that wholesale frauds were committed in those cities, and if I can fix the responsibility for these methods, I am ready. Five days after the election, Mr. Bull Five days after the election. Mr. Ball said: The object is not to contest the election, but to secure the punishment of the men who stole the election." On the next day he said: "We must go to the penitentiary the crooks who robbed me of a few earned nomination." september after all the disclosures as a result of the police canvass and the grand jury investigation, and after he had time for examination and reflection, Mr. Ball said: "I will go to jail and rather put in jail the thieves who robbed me, no, I will not say me—who robbed the Democrats of the State—of the nomination for Governor, than to be Governor of every thing, too, if it takes all the rest of my days. I know" continued Mr. Ball, that was honestly nominated at the Democratic convention, and indicted twenty-five judges and clerks who stole that primary. When the trail leads into the upper tundra, I am going to take a direct hand in the game myself. Say I want to be a Democrat in Missouri to thousands of Democrats in Missouri believe today should be their candidate for Governor, "say for me that I want to be information that relatively the frauds in the state are a warrant in Kansas City as in St. Louis, and I am going to get at the bottom of them, too. A man who was in those cases, I want to be information that cannot like to have them opened, but I believe the thieves who steal honest men's votes ought to be prosecuted and put in prison, so that what I am going to see done if there is law and justice in Missouri." Following the primary election, George Creel, coal oil inspector in Kansas City, by appointment of Governor Fok, charged his name. The Independent, that framed the vote, and the maries, and published an offer of $ 30 apiece for 175 men who were recorded voting in the Second Ward. If Jim Pesgerast, Mr. Creward's North End represen- tator, Mr. Creward's North End represen- tator, to produce all or any one of them, to tip off the offer has been accepted, and yet Mr. Creward, in his opening speech at Sodalia, stated that I would be rebuked for slandering the people of Kansas City because was demonstra- tely in the primary election have only repeated the charges made by William H. Wallace, David A. Ball, and the representative of Governor Folk. So am I to be rebuked, let it be for that, because was guilty, namely, repeating the charges of these well known leaders of democracy. A RECEIVER OF STOLEN NOMINATION. Consider all of this evidence, honest citizen, whatever may be your politics, consider the vote itself in these two cities; consider the testimony of Ed Butter and William Wallace; consider the testimony of William H. Wallace and David A. Ball, high-minded, honest Democrats, and then answer in your own conscience as to whether Judge Wallace will claim that money, fraud and violence typical of "Old Gang" methods, have foisted upon the Democratic party the candidacy of William S. Cowherd. If it is true as you suspect, then you are robbed of the nomination, the beneficiary of that robbery was Mr. Cowherd, who thus stands before the people of Missouri by this campaign charged by his principal opponent, the violent nonviolent. Do you wish to give to such methods the approval of your vote? Do you wish to endorse a candidacy made successful by such crimes against the Constitution of the United States? Judge Wallace may not openly oppose the election of Mr. Cowherd they never have, and they never will, so long as they regard their own respect and their respect for the Constitution of the United States, that Mr. Cowherd was the honestly nominated candidate of the Democratic party. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Now what is the significance of these crimes against the ballot and this lavish use of money to nominate Mr. Coward and to defeat Mr. Ball? Why is it that the crimes against the ballot in the City of St. Louis would obstruct $55,000 to defeat Mr. Ball and to nominate Mr. Coward? Both of those men profess to believe in William J. Bryan and his principles, and to favor the same candidate in the election. Why was one worth $55,000 more to them than the other? Why was it that men would commit crimes against the ballot, rivaling those which were committed under the rule of the "Old Guard," to another. Why was it that men would commit crimes against the other? Both Ball and Coward had declared in public speeches for the enforcement of law and for honest elections, and yet men were willing to commit crimes themselves within the very shadow of the ballot. How did one and to defeat the other. What private assurances had these men received that in case of Mr. Coward's election no harm would come to them and that all would be given to one question which each voter in Missouri would answer for himself when he casts his ballot on the 3rd of next November. RALLY 'ROUND THE FLAG In the early part of this campaign, Mr. Coward made some speeches that he has since tried hard to forget and tried harder to forget. He charged, in substance, that the Democratic party in Missouri had gone off after false gods and had taken up with the Democrats in the state to "truly round the flag" with him. When Mr. Whitecotton Dave Ball, Judge Evans and Judge Wallace all asked the Democrats what flag he meant, suddenly asked that battle-cry and shibboleth of victory. The flag, however, which Mr. Coward asked the Democrats to rally round was the flag of the "Old Guard." It was the flag of the "Old Guard." It was the flag that Mr. Folk and his supporters drove from power in the Democracies, and the flag that the people of the State drove from the State capitol in that election. DO YOU WANT TO GO BACK? IN FAIRNESS TO MR. COWHERD. Now there may be those who may think that I am unfair to Mr. Cowherd, who is a man of personal integrity and legal ability himself and participate in anything dishonest or corrupt. I do not want to do Mr. Cowherd even an apparent injustice. I freely acknowledge personal integrity and his legal ability and will withhold the pressure of the hope that our political con- troversies will not affect the pleasant personal relations that have existed between us for years. But is there one among you who can say that, though of personal integrity can be held in high regard, which could not with equal force and fairness be claimed for Alexander M. Dockery. Is there one among you who can say that, though of personal experience in state affairs of Lon V. Stephens, And yet, under the administrations of these two men police corruption, election frauds, sale of legislation and bribery in the state of Louisiana, the day of its rule. The experience of Lon V. Stephens did not prevent the purchase of a law from the legislature for the consolidation of the street railway systems in the state of Louisiana, were exposed in the Cardwell case. The personal integrity of Alexander Dockery did not prevent the scandal of the alum deal, the crimes confessed by John A. Lee, of the University of Kansas in Rancho City and St. Louis. If there is sight in the public service of Mr. Coucherd during the fourteen years that he drew an official salary that would give to him $100,000, that Mr. Coucherd would prevent a return to the conditions that Stone, Stephens and Dockery could neither prevent nor correct, that Mr. Coucherd indeed if that evidence can be submitted to the people of Missouri. CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS There is another question. Should he be married to Mr. Cowherd, his friends enlist the help of a friend about, Mr. Cowherd is in this amour, loud in his praise of Willard, B. B. and A. A. The present대회 the platform is likely to be held on the 20th of the 10th to 11th of the year, when the most�ent of that punk of the more attestable platform which declares in the publicity a campaign on the use of a campaign of the platform in the process of the development of the "Mr. Cowher's activity" and the disclose any mention of this int- class of subject. I should like to know who Mr. "whord" stands upon the question of the "favor of the publicity." I am a campaign of the public in building the State Nation alone, and the public "state" is "be in favor of the people." I are campaigned contributions at an election not in the case of those which are as "so" as a nominative of the public of all campaign on the subject that he make public the names of the men who subscribed the $25 which the Lawler P. Dolly, the Charmant, the "Lions" and the "Kings" were the only ask that he secure the contribution made for him. Louis, says he would be in which he will be present, will not be the people how much was subservied. Let him tell me how the status of public security and the process of public performance. Let him tell me how it was subservied by those saloons and interests which have violated the law and the post and hope, in case of his return to the future. Let you tell me how much those were in control in St Louis during the period of public and election corruption gave to him the power of the law and the power of the information. I ask him to possess information as many as in the process of the management of St Louis to make in the process of the public. When and only Mr. Cowher secures the publication of the facts in the province the fact he is secure in his support of a candidate and the platform of the in-democracy. HOME RULE AND SUNDAY CLOSING In order that I may not be subject to the criticism of asking questions, I have answering none. I wish to deal with some of the propositions that I discussed by Mr. Cowherd in his opus, Mr. Cowherd, Mr. Cowherd character in that speech that I made in the Republican platform was put there to counteract the declaration in favor of the enforcement of the laws regulating dramas, and he calls upon me "to initiate the home rule plank, or admit to the law I do not propose to force the law as to the closing of salons on Sunday." In answer to this challenge, I am on Mr. Cowherd that I will not repudiate the principle of home rule for which my position is based. I do not propose to force the law as to the closing of salons on Sunday. In answer to this challenge, I am on Mr. Cowherd that I will not repudiate the principle of home rule for which my position is based. I do not propose to force the law as to the closing of salons on Sunday. And if I Governor I will make this plank of the platform mean exactly what it says. "We favor the right of the people of each locality to select their own officials," and Governor Folk, in his inaugural admonition endorsed that principle when he said: "I believe that the people can be trusted to govern themselves and that if the large cities are given the privilege of selecting officials the people there will give attention to them, and it is be wrong to give local self-governance in the selection of local officials to part of the State, then it would seem to the entire theory of our government would not take interest in public matters, nor not take secure good government for them then they ought not to expect to face the outside. Local men would contend to attend to the public business their own business, after One thing is also certain in reference to this question of home rule, and that is that even if the selection of police, election and exclase office, is not the same as the case of the state, the law of the State providing for the regulation of dramshops will still remain the laws of the State until a majority of the people's representatives want them changed. In the following policy of office has enforced of the laws regulating dramshops in, St. Louis County, by the order of the law of the State, and if I am elected Governor, that which, have accomplished the general in the case of the law of the State, is an amortised by, I can accomplish as Governor, with an honest, Attorney General, in the large cities of the State. But why is it, may I again inquire. If the Republican platform is not in the right of the law of the State, and if the enforcement of the laws regulating dramshops, that all the lawless saloonkeepers are the State are supporting Mr. Cowher, opposing me? There is nothing that the State would say that it would con- take the men that they are making a take in supporting him, and there is nothing that I could say that, and there is nothing that I could say that would win me their approval. But I want neither their approval nor their votes, for I have not given the law the right to do so. I am not the law. The saloonkeeper who obeys the law is entitled to the law's protection, and an absolutely square deal from the State. All this he will have from me. But I here and I am not going unrelenting opposition to the lawless saloonkeeper who does not come from the state and elect our public officials for his own protection. MV LABOR RECORD AND MR. COW-HERD'S. MIXED SCHOOLS AND THE SCHOOL QUESTION. Mr. Cowherd, in his remarks upon the school question, would seek to leave the impression, without making the statement, that he is not a representative statement is absolutely lacking in a suggestion of fact to support it. I am now, and have always been. in favor of the statement, and have always been in favor of the statement in the public schools, but also in our higher educational institutions. And if I am elected Governor, I pledge the people of the state government to provide the law which was inaugurated by the Republican party, when in control of the state government, to 65, providing for black and white dress, is maintained unchanged. I think all intelligent persons who have investigated this question of freedom agree that for the sake of business that this holiday should be maintained. accused in the Republican State ism in favor of increasing the amount of money our public school system. has does my party believe, can handle the state's given to the states the State Normals, yet I am opposed to maintaining the present disproportion of revenue between the State University and the public schools, by which it costs $118.60 each year for every student in the State University, and for every year for every pupil in the public schools. HOW CANDIDATES SHOULD BE JUDGED. I now want to offer some reasons why I should be elected Governor. The only way by which a candidate can be fairjugged by the people is by his party record of official service, the platform and the process of the people which he invites the information of the people and by the influences that surrendered his candidacy. I have already referred somewhat in detail to the influence that I have secured the nomination for Mr. Cowherd, that surround him today and that will surround him in case of his election. Those influences consist of the representatives of a corrupt and a discredited machine; the representatives of those public service corporations which seek to prevent vors from the State and need to prevent the legislation of the state's interest; the representatives of those salons and liquor investments which have tried to violate the law in the past and expect to do so in the future; representatives of those who would use men to violate the law who are sworn to enforce the law; who would use men to debach the ballot who are sworn to protect the ballot. These are some of the influences that are secured for Cowherd's nomination in the term he was not�ing him in selection and which will surrounding him it successful. Missouri alone. I did not desire to be a candidate for Governor, or for any other office, but I responded to the expressed will of the people of Missouri without reference to party. I number among my supporters the representatives of no public service corporations seeking favors from the state; the representatives of no law-breaking saloons and I want none of either. My nomination has come to me unpurchased and unsought. My election will come to me without the taint of illegality, or it will not come at all. If there is the slightest question as to the legality of my election, I will refuse to qualify as Governor until that question is removed. I want no tainted office. The only influence that will be around me as the Governor are the influences that are represented by men as strong and clear and true as ever asked the suffrage of a people—zry associates upon the Republican State ticket. If you ask me for my declaration of principles and the promise I offer to you, I refer you to the Reubican State platform, every plank of which I endorse and every word of which I approve. THE RECORD OF OFFICIAL SERVICE. And now as to the records of official service that Mr. Cowherd and I offer to the people as the promise of the manner in which we will discharge the duties of the great office of Governor. To an examination and comparison of these records, I invite the attention of the people of the State, Mr. Cowherd has held four official positions—Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Jackson County, First Assistant City Counsel of Kansas City, Mayor of Kansas City, and Congressman from the Fifth Congressional District. He has held public office for fourteen years, and if he or his friends can point to a single instance in any office that he has held where he ever attacked an abuse, corrected an evil, opposed or defeated corrupt political influences for the benefit of the people of Missouri, I shall be glad to have that instance brought to the attention of the people of the State. I have held the office of First Assistant City Counselor of Kansas City, Prosecutor of Missouri General of Missouri. And if my opponents can show wherein I have ever failed to do my entire duty to the best of my ability, I will not pursue the purpose of this discussion, it is not important to refer to my record in the office of City Counselor of Kansas City or Missouri. Four years ago, I was nominated for the office of Attorney General by accident and elected on purpose. And yet it was not until I was appointed to the office I endowed to take hold of it as if I did. I soon learned that I could occupy my entire time with its ordinary route of office. I should endow to correct some of the abuses and evils that existed in our commercial and industrial system to the injury of the people of the THE STANDARD OIL TRUST. tion, has been exposed 'and driven from the State; the Standard Oil company of Indiana and the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of Indiana, and the National Oil Company order of the Circuit Court of Jackson County to obey our laws and sell to all who wish to buy. Competition in the state has been abolished since March, 1906, when I began suit, thirty oil companies have been admitted to do business in the State, and in the entire previous history. The result is that the price of refined oil no longer increases when the price of people in the state increases, because the wholesale price of refined oil is $9; cents a gallon at the time I began this suit, it is today $6; cents a gallon, which means a saving of $800,000 a year to the people of Missouri. THE MORAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CASE. But over and above the material advantages that have been accomplished is the moral significance and importance of this litigation. And it will always be a challenge to the people, that it was the State of Missouri which forced the officers of this great combination of wealth and of power, to bow for the first time in humble submission to the law and the courts and to disclose its plan of organization and business complained in a foreign jurisdiction, as against the persistent and uniting efforts of the oldest lawyers that money could buy, has since been used as the basis of suits against the Standard Oil Trust by five States, and by the National Government, regard of the laws of the Nation and the States and the rights of competitors and the public which once characterised and become largely matters of ancient history. By this result there has also come to the American people a realization of the fact that power is above the law and that none will be permitted to violate the law with impunity. It is a narrow paranoid indeed and will be satisfied with results such as these. INSURANCE TRUST. I want to tell you the result of the proceedings that I conducted against another combination of corporate interests doing business in this State. In 1899 my predecessor, E. E. C. Crow, began a suit against a number of insurance companies that had been accused of anti-trust laws of this State. The Supreme Court sustained his action and assessed a fine of $1,000 against each of the last two years, by reason of complaints as to the rates of insurance. I began an investigation that had not been reduced and were arbitrarily fixed and maintained with but slight, if any, reference to the harass of the risk. I also accused the former negotiators looking to an adjustment of this litigation and offered to reform their business so as to comply with the laws. I charged the former State on a scientific basis, giving to each building the benefit of any protection from fire that it might enjoy. I would hold in the proposition was accepted and the work of readjustment of insurance rates in this State is now in progress, and will probably have been since the next six days. In the City and County of St. Louis, I am informed that there have been since the beginning of business property of from 30 to 40 per cent, and from the reports received of the new rates in different parts of the State, it can be confidently stated that the average reduction in insurance rates thus secured the annual amount paid in premiums by the people of Missouri to fire insurance companies, other than mutuals, is approximately $800,000 a year for an amount will amount to a saving to the people direct of, at least $800,000 a year for an amount will amount to a saving to the people blinded by prisoner who would hesitate to admit that this is a better procedure than to secure the imposition of a fine which the defendants could have months recoup by an advance in charges. OTHER ANTI-TRUST PROSECUTIONS In addition to these suits brought under the provisions of the anti-trust laws of the State, I have also conducted a suit against the Trader's Live Stock Exchange of Kansas City, which was sustained by the Supreme Court of the State, the United States District Court, and the Trust Court. I secured injunction against the further consolidation of that combination; a suit against the Trader's Live Stock Exchange of Kansas City will soon be completed and submitted to the court for decision. In this last case it is worthy of note that the defendant escaped the notoriety and trouble of litigation. I informed the attorneys who submitted this proposition that the question of whether the company should be subject to courts, and not for the Attorney General to determine; that no company could pay for the damages of the guilty, it should make way for others who would comply with our laws. And it is with testimony in this case Cyrus H. McCormick, the president of this $120,000,000 corporation, a relative by marriage of John H. McCormick, my request and freely answered all questions that I asked him as to the plan of organization and the business methods of the company. This same officer recently refused to pay any attention to similar processes issued by our neighboring State of Kansas. It thus appears that the orders and the decrees of the courts of the Missouri are the country. This is some advancement at least, from the time when H. H. Rogers and his associates accounted for arranging insolence upon to answer simpler questions on "advice of counsel." WHAT I HAVE ENDEAVORED TO AG- COMPLISH. In those anti-trust suits that which have endeavored to accomplish is to relieve the people of the oppression and evil of monopoly by giving them the benefit of free competition. My efforts have been to accomplish a correction of existing evil and abuse, rather than to inflict punishment for paid-off offences and have国内行政法。In this work I do not claim to have been entirely successful. So claim, however, to have accomplished something. And today the people of Missouri have fair conditions of trade and free competition in practically every important article of the service than they do. If I was elected office, if I was the notoriety seeker which some of my Democratic opponents assert, who cared nothing except for his own glorification and advancement, I could easily have settled the Standard Oil litigation three years ago for an amount far in excess of all the fines imposed against corporations for the institution of our laws during the entire history of the State. In the exception of the duties of my office, I did not think it right to license the Standard Oil Trust or the Harvester Trust to levy the public upon the people of Missouri any more than I would have thought it right to license the gambler or the burglar to have tribute upon the people by plying a vexation on the occasion of his death in this particular, at least in entire accord with the great majority of the people of the State. As all governments, I will continue as long as I am for public purposes to vex the people want, and what my path of action requires is fighting against and not compromising with lawlessness. In addition, to which an undue prominence has been attached, constituted but a small part of the work of my office. In the conduct of and in the securing of testimony to sues, I have had no assistance except that which was furnished by my regular assistants. THE RAILROAD RATE LITIGATION. The litigation over the Massasoit Freight Rate Laws of 1908 and 1907, and the two-cent passenger rate law of 1907, with the eighteen railroads of the State, has been a much greater and more laborious undertaking, and, in fact, has been the largest contribution to the modernization of the history of the State. It has been a necessary for the attorneys for the State to fully acquaint themselves with the methods and operation, and the method in which the railroad rates are fixed and established, the methods and details of railroad access, the railroad business from the grandpoint of operation, as well as from the standpoint of litigation. The expense of export examination of the books and accounts of the railroad companies, has been considerable examination of the books and accounts of the railroad companies, has been considerable examination of the books and accounts of the people of Missouri as well as the people of other States, for the first time, to examine the railroad freight and passenger rates. It has disclosed to the people of this State the enormous tribute that they have by the railroads to levy upon them for years. THE TWO-CENT PARE FIGHT. Further, Governor Folk in his St. Joseph speech in his present campaign for the United States Senate sald, in speaking of this litigation: "A great deal of testimony was taken to decreal the fairness of these rates and as a result of these investigations into the cost of freight and passenger service, that passenger rates could be materially reduced myself and the General Assembly, that passenger rates could be materially reduced corporations. Believing that the passenger business of the railroads justified it, I recommended the reduction of the passenger rates." With the enactment of the two-cent passenger rate law in 1907, the railroads announced that they proposed to enjoin its own铁路 and other railways. According to the law, the raids of the freight rate law of 1906, the rate of the speed of the goods to make Missouri the battle-ground in their contest against the two-cent fare, and learned something in the two years of the first year, the rate of the speed of the railroads was to their methods of legal warfare, and I decided to use the same method of fighting the raids, and used it to finish the people of Missouri and the forced not to let them select both the form and the forum of litigation, and on the basis of the law, the rate of the speed of the railroads and the action of the raids for an injunction in the United States Court to restrain me from enforcing the two-cent� of the raids against them. I went to the State law for the first year for a junction enjoining the railroad companies from disobeying this law; and I went into the railroads to make the railroads went into the Federal court. Judge Matt W. Reynolds of St. Louis, and Judge John G. Park of Kansas City, issued an order to rejoin the railroads on the railroads, and the railroads were prepared their papers for an application of the railways to the railways of the United States Circuit Court of question was argued on the 8th day of June, 1907, before Judge McPherson of the United States Court of Justice, and a Knott City, but before the decision in their order, the railroads weakened in their fight, and the railways plan to have me adjudged to be a content and speed of the effect, for ninety days the two-cent fare as an experiment. The result of the ex-law of the railroads was not to be made as the railroad companies until the business depression last winter affected unfavorably. The trade was as well as other states of industry, along with all other日益 endevored again to secure a temporary injunction against the two-cent� and the railroads. The law is approved since was denied by the United States Circuit Court, and the entire controversy, including both the freight and the passenger rate law, was not to be made. In this controversy with the railroads over the two-cent passenger rate law, it is important to do injustice to the railroad interests. do not want to see the railroad companies of the State compelled to carry passengers two cents a mile by so doing it would not be intelligent that this question could not be intelligently determined until the railroad companies had actually carried passengers at an actual experience whether or not the decrease in the rate would result in an increase in the number of passengers. The results have vindicated the correctness of the law and should comply with this law. And while it has not resulted in any substantial reduction in passenger earnings, it has until in a letter to the people of MISRU- sion of 61,100,000 and year in the repo- ted gold and the passenger service. Or, in other cases, the people to travel it a smaller sum. THE REGULATION OF FREIGHT RATES. The conclusion that I have reached as a result of this litigation over freight rates is that the fixing of a schedule of such rates could not to be undertaken successfully accomplished by squaring the hasta, confusion and inaccuracy which usually attend the deliberations of an intelligent commission composed of men who by training and study are competent. During the progress of this litigation a chance was offered through the initiative of Judge O. M. Spencer, one of the attorneys to accomplish what I regarded as a satisfactory compromise of this litigation. He ordered to put into effect for his road, other roads do likewise, all of the rates fixed by the acts of 1906, with the exception that instance be offered to establish in rate as low as that existing in any contiguous state. Mr. Frank Wightman one defendant with me, agreed with me that this would be a satisfactory compromise, and Governor Polk was also disposed to the democratic members of the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, and particularly that of John A. Knott, ble, and the litigation still continues. THE DISCONTINUANCE OF PASSES. OTHER RAILROAD CONTROVERSIES There is another condition in the railroad affairs of this State which I have undertaken to correct, in the situation and laws, and which I have undertaken to correct by suits which have been finally submitted for decision in the Missouri Pacific Railway Company has owned and conducted coal mines and elec-terprises, and in company with the Wabash Railroad Company, has owned and conducted cipher companies. But recently the Missouri Pacific together with the Iron Mountain, a subsidiary company, acquired a controlling inter-prise which is a parallel and competing line of the Missouri Pacific. As the Constitu- tion of the State requires that railroad companies shall furnish the same facilities to all express and competing lines, and as the laws provide that railroad companies shall furnish the same facilities to all express and competing lines solely to that of transportation, I believed that these conditions were unlaw- RAILROAD OPPOSITION TO MY CANDIDACY. I am advised by men who pretend to know that on account of these contemptuous acts of the people of Missouri against the railroad companies of the State, that the railroad companies are opposing me and that the State cannot do not know whether this statement is true or not, but I say here and now that the State can show where I have ever done or tried to do a railroad company a single act of injustice, I will withdraw the State to vote for Mr. Coward. All that I have tried to compel the railroad companies of every city of Missouri has to do—chase its faws. I do not want to see a railroad company which is legally entitled; I do want to see any railroad company treated with injustice or unfairness. And if I have unjustifiably veto a bill which treats a railroad with injustice as I would vote against it, I cannot justify. Nor do I think that the railroad should be compelled to reduce their charges for transportation, unless it can make a fair return upon the value of their claims which shows that their charges are too high and that they are levying an unfair tribute upon the people of Missouri, even that they will gift them until they fairly In addition to the suit against the Delmar Jockey Club which I prosecuted in connection through the Supreme Court of Missouri and through the Supreme Court of the United States, I have also conducted a study of the rington case and the Spaugh case, and a case which involved the constitutionality of the law limiting the hours of work in each twenty-four. For my efforts to sustain the constitutionality of the law, I have decided from the Supreme Court of the United States, I received the thanks, not only of the Western Federation of Miners, but of the Miners' associations of miners, in the State of Missouri. In addition to these' matters of litigation, I participated during the last year, and in the last year, I participated in the argument of the most important question affecting our system and form of government which has been submitted to the United States in the last twenty-five years. That was the question as to whether it was the right of a public service corporation to be the officer of a state from enforcing a state law in its own courts. I assisted in this case, because the same question was involved in important litigation in which the State of Missouri was interested. It was a violation of the Constitution of the United States and an infringement upon the sovereignty that belongs to the state. The State right to prosecute in its own courts suits to determine the constitutionality of its laws. It was a divided court decided adversely to this contention, it was some satisfaction to me, and some satisfaction. I believed that this State took active and an aggressive part in this important controversy which arose from the efforts of the charges of public service corporations. And, yet, notwithstanding this record which I have but briefly and imperfectly discharged the duties of my office, the contention of the Democratic orators that while I have endeavored to discharge the duties of my office, I have been in the accomplishment of results. And it was the statement of my distinguished opinion, Attorney General, under my management, had reached "its maximum of efficiency in advertising" and "its minimum of efficiency in results" and the minimum of efficiency in advertising." WHAT I CLAIM FOR MYSELF. This is the record of services that I offer to the people of Missouri as a promoter, and you if elected to the office of governor, I do not claim that I have done anything as Attorney General beyond my plain plains. I plains all that I would like to have accomplished. I do claim that I have enlisted the people of the State, and that I have accomplished something in the way of practical results. I do claim that today the nation-wide movement for honest business and the correction of the evils and systems, and that to Missouri not only do the States of the Union turn, but also the National Government for assistance of this great work of reform. It is claimed by some of my political opponents that there are violations of law not brought suits to correct or punish. That may be true. There is a limit to the power of a plaintiff in three years and six months and then it is always easy to criticise. I have endeavored to do some important work, have consistently fuss to commence an suit in response to popular clamor for political effect, or to make a useful public purpose would be subserved, in case the suit was successful. And I have my office that in so far as I could accomplish, and in so far as I could prevent, no man and no corporation, however powerful, were above the law, or that they could violate the law with impunity. And if I have my law into the minds of men who never felt that fear before, then I can feel that my official efforts have not been in vain even if I do not satisfy the Democratic politicians. CONCLUSION. Just a word more and I am done. I have been told that there are men in this country who question the questions of national politics, but who will vote for me for governor. I do not know that this is true. But if it is, I will not a man upon the Republic's State ticket who is not as worthy of your support as you I. And if you have sufficient knowledge of the State government who will work in the people's interests, you to have sufficient consideration for me to give me men as my associates in the State government who will work in the people's interests. And if you entrust to us the conduct of the affairs of this great country, promising her upon upon upon every occasion, party and personal honor that we will enact enact laws to restrict the liberty of its affairs; but that we will enforce all its laws, without fear and without fear that we will conduct the business of the State we will, above all things, at all places and at all times, to every citizen, rich or poor, weak or strong, lot and have it counted as one, to the people of Missouri, irrespective of party, we submit this record of the good and bad with confidence your word.