Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-09-03
e W. q. KEENAN,,
He Explains the Plan for Sustaining
the Ex-Confederate Home In De-
tail-Makes an Ailusion to the
National Democratic Party
of Missouri.

Hon. w. III. KEENAN,, member of
the Board of Directors of the ex-Con-
federate Home Association, which met
at Liberty, Mo-, on Thursday, August
q, 1896, being interviewed by a rep
resentative of the Mexico Morning
LEDGER in reference to the outlook
for the Home, said of the Home and
other things:
l have just returned from Liberty,
Mo-, where the twelfth annual re-
union of the Confederate Association
of Missouri was held. The good peo-
pie of that beautifully and BEAUTIFULLY
located little city gave to us a warm
and hearty welcome. I have never,
in all my travels, met a more intelli-
gent and friendly set of people than
the good women and men of Clay
County.
had the pleasure of seeing for the
first time in my life William Jewell
College, which was located and richly
endowed by DIR. Jewell, of Columbia,
Mo-, who was an uncle of the lament
ed Governor Hardin. 1t, with other
buildings since erected, is located on
the topmost part of a beautiful eleva-
ton in the eastern suburbs of the city
fronting the setting sun.
The Liberty Female College, pre-
sided over by Rev. G. M. Williams,
formerly of Audrain, is set upon a
more beautiful rise in the western part
of the city, fronting the rising sun,
exactly opposite William Jewell. The
two together present a magnificent
view. 1 feel greatly indebted to Mr..
and Mrs. @. M. Williams, Mrs. Lizzie
Ward, Mrs. Orr and her good hus-
band, DR.. Orr, who gave to me special
attention, together with my old
friends, Col. d. Clint Allen, DIR. J.
M. Allen, Col. John Chandler and two
of my old comrades,J John w. Hall and
Will Ready, formerly of Columbia,
Mo-, and besides many good and beau
tiful ladies, whose names l cannot
remember. The turn out was not az
great as the people of CLAY county ex-
pected. They had made preparations
to care for ten thousand people or
more. / never before saw such an
abundance of everything to eat, sowell
prepared.
I saw and was warmly greeted by
our old friend, Thomas Don Carlos,
who, 1 am told, is doing well. Col
Clint Allen told me when he met Don
Carlos and learned from him that he
was from Audrain and was a Demo-
crat and an old hard shell Baptist be-
sides, he said to DON Carlos: "Sir,
with that record you r entitled to
the immediate freedom of the county
and all the credit you want on your
own name"
The Confederate Home does not
owe a dollar and has at this time only
money sufficient in the treasury to run
it until Oct. 1st next. A call will be
made upon the good people of the
State within the next month to come
to its aid. Knowing them as we'll as /
do and especially the good people of
Audrain, of whom l am proud, !
feel they will do all in their
power by contribution to maintain the
Home until the plan, which was ma
tured and presented by Judge H. M.
Ramey, of st. Joseph, for Its perma-
nent support can be perfected.
The plan unanimously adopted by
the Confederate association is this:
To incorporate the Confederate Home
with the Home Office at Higginsville,
Mo-, to run 20 years and have the
present corporation convey all the
property at the Home, which is worth
500, 900 or more, to the new corpora
ton and then let the new corporation
issue ten thousand shares of stock at
twenty dollars per share-the pur-
chaser of each share to pay 81 each
year to the treasurer of the Home al
HigginsvIlle for twenty years. At the
end of the twenty years and the ex.
istence of the corporation the proper
ty at Higginsville, SO conveyed, tc
become the property of the share
holders absolutely.
This plan will raise $4,000 a year,
which, with $500 a year left the Home
by Grove Young in his will, will, it is
thought, be sufficient to run success
fully the Home and take good care OF
the inmates for 20 years to come.
believe many throughout the State
will take advantage of this feasible
plan to aid and sustain this creditable
charity. I would suggest that fathers
and mothers take a share of twenty
dollars each for each of their children.
I feel certain thst in twenty years
every dollar paid on each share of the
stock would be returned with interest
The property consists of 1852 and
s6-1oO acres of as fine farming land al
is in the State, in a high state of Gull
tivation, with good, durable buildings
thereon and besides it is underlaid with
a vein of good coal. Taking into con-
sideration the location, quality of the
land and permanent character of i'm
provements, we may reasonably ex-
pect it to than double in value
in the next twenty years. Many of the
daughters of the Confederacy were
present, who by their many charms
and suggestions made the meeting
both profitable and pleasant.
The thing that has amused mt
most since / left ISL have been accost'
ed by many of my friends whom I me
saying: "We r greatly surprised te
see from the papers that you are lend,
ing your assistance to the so-called
National Democratic Party"
/ have invariably told them they
are greatly mistaken; that the "Ken.
nen'' from Audrain they are thinking
and talking about is not l; that it is E
C.Kennen, of Laddonia, who is a much
better and smarter man than I am but
not so good a Democrat; that I never
bolt; that ! always bow to the will Of
the majority, and that when the ma
| jority Is more than 10 to / Git is 80, ]
= 49,. 49, no YH-v that n oINnncf