Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-18
TIE NEXT GOVERNOR
E0S. WILLIlI ]. ST0lE IS SEEN
At ZONE.
he Is HAPPY WIN SURROUNDED BY
HIS FAMILY.
Ho" His Nei<hbors Regard Him-A Very
interesting Sketch, of the Daily Life
OF the Democratic Candidate
For Governor.

yet others he is called just Bill" 1t
Is all the same though to William Stone
what the people OF Nevada call him; he
knows them all, and they ali very prop.
erly think there is no man like him
William Stone has lived in Nevada
you are to pronounce it Nevahda please
pretty much ever since it was town.
lie has pretty hcme there and fine
farm near by, his children were reared
there his gracious wife is beloved by
the little city's whole population Ne
vada people have always believed that
William Stone was good man. When
he began to campaign through the old
Twelfth congressional district, and into
the remoter counties of the southwest,
people there began to grow steadfast
in the same belief. When he went to
congress and made acquaintance all
over Missouri and beyond. the idea had
wider growth. Now that he has won
SO splendid a victory over SO strong
competitors at the jefferson City con-
vention and more and more people are
coming to know him the belief that
Stone is good man has grown state
wide.
Everybody is coming 70 think that
William Stone viii make first-rate
governor. The Nevada people took up
that idea first and they ought to know
for they have been acquainted for Il
long while.
The town where Stone lives is first
rate town. 1t is one of the best cities
Of southwest Missouri, where so many
lovely and fast growing towns have
sprung up. The place has about 5000
inhabitants 1t is an American town.
That is the chief boast of the Nevada
people. American names are most to
be read on the sign boards y great
proportion of the population is of Mis-
souri, birth. There are hundreds of
families there who have come from CEN
trail and north Missouri
These people are not making much
noise about standing up for Missouri.
as are certain loud takers, but they are
standing up all right. The town they
have builded makes a beautiful. sub
stantial answer to the hungry crank
who says moss grows on all Missourians,
but who is glad enough none the less
to live in the state he villiies. There
is no moss on Nevada.
The town is one of wide, graveled
streets, through which infrequent
horse cars tinkle. In the center is the
court house square. of regulation Mis-
souri, pattern. and from the tower of
the old court house the stars and stripes
float all the day. The things in which
Nevada people do most glory are their
fire department, the spouting sulphur
well and lake on one side of the town,
the huge insane asylum on the other.
h. hn
smelter and the triumph of William
Stone.
As for Stone, he is to be seen on the
streets pretty nearly any day when his
campaign allows him to be in town
His progress through the street is slow
for every man whom he meets must
shake hands with the next governor and
discuss the situation awhile.
And ex-Congressman Stone, known
now as about the cleverest organizer
and strongest campaigner in the state,
is equally glad to meet them all
The two men whom the Times sent
to find out all about Stone and his ways
and to make few pictures caught him
in the barber shop of the hotel Mitchell.
He greeted the newspaper men with the
same quiet, una affected cordiality he ex-
hibited to his friends in the town.
''Give you a little of my time?" he said.
''Why, certainly; there's plenty of
time. Let us GO up to the parlor. where
we will not be disturbed. But we need
some cigars first"
And MIR Stone selected the cigars he
liked and went up stairs with rs much
deliberation as if he were not due To
leave for St. Louis to attend the state
committee meeting early in the after
noon: he was in no hurry at all We
cornered him in the parlor and talked
and shetched him quite as much as we
chose.
The Stone personal peculiarities have
been much celebrated in print. and.
moreover. much exaggerated Mr..
Stone Is quite six feet tall and he is
spare of frame. but he is not nearly so
thin as some people think. The impress
sion of thinness in Mr.. Stones face is
given by n very pointed chin. The jaw
is strong and broad and the forehead is
wide. sir. Stone is alwyS cleanly shaven,
save for n dark mustache that is allowed
to have pretty much its own way. The
man does not show his forty-five wears
much; his hair is beginning to gray a
trifie. Perhaps the most striking Stone
characteristic is vagrant lock of hair
that hangs In triangular shape over the
right side of the forehead 1t comes
clear down to the eyebrow aud just as
soon as barber has combed it up care
fully on top of his head Stone tousles it
back into its original place.
He does not give much attention to
his personal appearance. but his attire
is always neat. On this particular day
he wore a thin gray coat, gray trousers
of another pattern and a yellow vest, his
collar was OF the open front pattern and
his white tie of lawn carelessly knotted.
The only iewelry or ornaments testified
to the wea-er's membership two of the
great secret orders. On the coat lapel
was the button and scimeter of the or
der of TIE Mystic Shrine: attached TO the
haIf-concca ed watch guard was heavy
gold badge of the Knights of Pythias-
The yvcarer of these eInblens has al
WAYS been a strong Mason, is a mem Der
of the Ararat temple, Ancient and Ac-
cepted Order of the Mobiles of the Mys-
tic Shrine, is connected with the local
lodges both of the Knights of Pythias
and the Odd Fellows
Mr.. Stone cast his white straw hat on
the floor beside him, let his cigar go
out and set t. talking upon anything
and everything that CHANGED to come
up His voice j. deep and well modu-
lated. his language direct, rhetorical,
full of striking and forceful expressions