Iron County register., 1899-11-16
Hendrlckson on Politics.
Sundays Post Dispatch contained t

District in the Senate from 1891 to 1895
was among the political visitors thi
week. A friend reports him as discuss
ing the Stone-Phelps row as follows
81 am living on my farm and not tax
ing any papers and do not know wha
ii is gong on. l don't take as much in
" terest in politics as formerly. / an
more interested in mines and mining
lands. Our land, which two years age
: We would have been glad to have sold
Z for $25 or $50 per acre. is now bring.
ing from 5000 to 5000 and we don't have
any time TO waste on politics."
He was asked about the Stone Phelps
controversy and what he thought OF
+. Stones interview in opposition to the
candidacy of Phelps for delegate-at-
large 10 the national convention, to
which he replied: II haven't read the
Interview of which you speak, but /
don't believe Phelps is a candidate
He was out to my place about three
weeks ago, looking after some right of
way matters for the Missouri Pacific
Railway company, and told him that
| had heard some of the Webb CITY
boys speak Of him as being a candidate.
and he said he wasn't candidate; that
he had been a delegate to several ma
| tional conventions and didn't care to
be delegate again, but that he had
| heard that there would be a fight on
| Stone, for member of the national COM
mittee and that he might want to go to
| help him, but that he didn't take much
interest in the matter, because of
Stones support of McKinley's policy
in the Philippines"
''But, said a friend, ''Stone says in |
his interview that he will oppose
Phelps as a candidate for delegate"
"Well, l would have to hear Stone
say that himself to believe it. He and
Phelps have been so closely identified |
in political matters so long that |
would be 10th to believe that there is
any difference now. He is under too
many obligations to Phelps to go back
on him. Stone is man who always
remembers his friends. Ifaman wants
to fasten Stone to him for life with
hooks of steel, all that is necessary is
for him to do something for Stone, and
he can draw on him at will. Phelps
made the fight of his life for him in I
Jasper county in 1886 when he defeated {
Judge CAN'T. | was chairman of the f
convention when Phelps stole the i
delegation for Stone, and Stone was Y
there and saw it, and so was Harvey
Salmon, and he knows what was done. {
And then in the State conYention which {
Stone for governor wasn't fl
there, but knew what was done, and O
there cannot be any trouble between d
.hem. | never heard a jar between r
hem except once. During the fight C
CAN'T and Stone for the NOM P
nation in 1886, Phelps had charge of s,
stones interests in Jasper county, and Ct
learly all the other politicians of the b
,ounty were against him. 10 fact, | a
lon't recall more than two or three C
Vho were friendly to Stone. Harvey al
'almon, Tom Lingle, Casey. Boone and ol
ther Henry county politicians were bl
own there doing all they could for cl
iantt. We were all at Carl junction ca
n the day of the primary there and re
he friends of CAN'T had been charging ar
hat Stone was the railroad candidate, to
nd the friends of Stone charged that re
almon and the other Henry county de
oliticians had come down to buy the to
elegation for CAN'T. 1t was charged er
lat Salmon had agreed to pay one de
ian $500 for switching from Stone to IN,
anti, but no one believed that. Stone N;
ad grown very sensitive over the
large made against him, and he tried is
} avoid being seen with Phelps when of
was possible, to the amusement of tie
7erybody, and whenever he and La
helps went to the country either one of
: the other would walk out to the arr
lge of town, where he would be Joined we
: the other driving the team, and Ha
ey would go to the country together; me
in returning. After the primary at loy
lrl Junction Stone and Phelps we're see
ling over to Waco to look after the do,
imary there, and Stone said to Phelps, rig
You walk through the saloon and bu:
wn through the cornfield back of it, Phi
d l will drive around to the other An
le of the field and you can get in ish
ere" Phelps replied that he had "a,
en- walking in and out of town that BILE
lex until his feet we're sore, and that ley
any walking was to be done that day FIJI
one would do it himself. Stone dou
Int like it very we'll. for he thought 500
would attract more attention than Geo
elps going through a saloon, and he sual
ID something that betrayed a little tim
at, but they carried Waco, and | al inde
we'd Stone got in good humor ..po
ain, for they were together after OF
1t and there was no i'll feeling be- his
cen them. In fact. when the Con- prid
sssionaI Convention met and n was won