The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-22

reception in the parlors of the Huckins
Hotel Hundreds of farmers shook General
Stevenson by the hand. His knowledge oe
Missouri was wonderful. One old fellow
from Johnson County came up and an
nounced that he lived near Warrensburg.
Let's See said the General, that's in
! the county wher your statesmen soms
from. You've turned out Senator Cockreil
and Il lot of other good ones
And to another: so you're from Howell
County. the home of the big red apple?
And YOU are from Montgomery? How's
Champ Clarke"
And. you come from Auaraiu? Do you
know Cy Clark"
Among the callers were men who used to
know the General in Illinois. For every one
he had pleasant word. One of the COM
plete strangers was N. Marc Seguin of
Lyons, France. "Ah, SO you are from beau
tiful France" the General said. L have
very happy remembrance Of a delightful
month there"
Governor Overmeyer of Kansas. swart
Us an Indian. sombre. impressive positive
the born leader of nen-was standing close
to General Stevenson. lie shook the hands
of hundreds and seemed to like it. He. too,
had 4 pleasant word for each conner.
You spoke in our county not long ago
said Mayor Rohartls OF Hannibal. AS quick
as a fash. Mr.. Oherneyer responded:
Yes, at Palmyra, on the 18th CT Septem-
ber. l remember you very we'll.
Governor Robert A. Campbell grew rem
inescent as he came UP from ST Louis IN
General Stevenson's car last night.
This going to a Democratic rally in a
Pullman car suggests another rally 1 once
attended. ] won't tell you what year it was
but you may know that Senator THOMAS
Hart Benton was there. and Benton dle0
In the .ifties The rally was held at Spring
field, ana We went there from ST. iouls oE
stage coach, consuming three days time
Just before Senator Benton arose to speak
he was approached by some one who held
onoos.te views on certain subjects. and in
public way this man asked the senator 10
ran,Z- 70 certain questions in the course or
hia address. o+
At have the questions here on sheet
Of paper the gentleman said. extending
roll OF manuscript.
"Henton drew himself up TO big superb
height and In the gravest manner salo'
VIII you not hold them for time:
rrne man stood with the pape: in mana
which Benton made no aJlusfon to any OF
tin, points touched in the paper. Wneh lie
bea finished he at once left the platform.
.I,,,t YOU have left your quesuoneT
s.ardjng there unanswered some one sato'
:. Yes Benton responded. WIN shln,.'ie[
ing srorn. Il left the medaling Ounce there'
holding that paper ior i''e i'N7 &"
That was his place.
"Tb,. was > great rally" Governor
Campbell continued, but This one VIII 'e
twice as big
orermcyer Of Kansas told good s'o.s
on himself to-day. He was one OF nc
sne.lars in behalf of Kansas city III the
,,ntast for the National Convention lase
snrina. II had been reported Mt the ume
int the c;tv OF Milwaukee. ksnsas tltE
chieP rival in the contest, had raised q nun
dred thousand dollars for the purpose OF To-
eating the convention.
Mr.. Overmeyer accordingly prepared
sneech. In which he took the position that
It would be unwise for the committee 10
consider the subject from the point OF view
of money for, II such a. rule were Ioi-
lowed, II would be 10 the interest oi the
Hanna crowd to raise an immense sum TOT
some out of-the-way city, where. OWING 10
its inaccessibiity, the convention would
prove q failure.
Mason Peters of Kansas. Overmeyer and
Major Harvey Salmon of Missouri were &C.
6upants of one room. Sometimes it happened
that one had the key and sometimes an
other. one day. Mr.. Overmeyer came to
Major Salmon in II great rush and asked
him FOR the key TO the room.
Il have not got it, said the Major.
whats the matter?'
Matter enough cried Overmeyer. You
must help me 10 find Peters at once
why do you want to get into the room
in such hurry?" the aajor persisted
WELL" said Mr.. Overmeyer. II have just
learned that we've got more money for this
thing than Milwaukee has, and I've got 10
turn that speech OF mine upside down"
And he did. Ii was u great speech, and
had its effect in carrying the day.
The people Of Scdala are properly proud
OF their public library. 1t is at present To-
Gated in the Courthouse. but the plans have
structure that will surpass nearly any IL
hrary in the West. There were many WIS.,
itcrs from out of town to-day. The libra
rian. who is an exceptionally well-informed
young woman made the interesting state
ment that the books in fiction that are most
popular foilow, almost exactly, the taste
books are TO Have and To Hold" Rich
ard Carvel,'' "Knighthood," David Har-
,lm," ..Jance Merediih,'' and the others of
lartiy at the SedaIia Public Library they h are
quite in line with the reports from the st.
Louis libraries
Ah, Dingie of Moberly. who is in politics
and business until he can't rest was an in
terested looker-on this afternoon. He has
been successful in nearly everything that
he feels that he is just beginning.
Tonight at the Sicher Hotel. some one
came up TO MIN ana Snll: Hello, JulluS.'
But | am not Julius said Dingle.
Aren't You Strauss. the photographer. Of
ST. Louis?" the other asked.
t'Not by long sight" said Dingle
The resemblance is really quite remark
able.
One of the most remarkable crowds that
came here to-day was the Strasburs Club
Of Polk Township. Cass County, Missouri.
IN this township there are 1876 voters. OF
these Sc are Republicans. Yet the Stras
burg Club has u membership of 52l. and
most OF these We're in line in the parade to-
day. Tonight. while David Overmyer of
the Strashurg Club walked ON the stage
with two immense pictures of Bryan and
Stevenson and another of Dockery. The
crowd, which had already gone wild over
the speaker. toCk fresh breath and
shrieked itself hoarse over the 7ew pic
lures.
The two men from Kansas were asked
many times to-day for their speeches. Each
time Mr.. Overmyer and Mr.. Atwood de-
clared that they had prepared no speeches.
Leaning out of his carriage at Liberty
Park, Mr.. Atwood broadened his already
broad face into perpendicular smile and
said:
My dear young friend, if you will write
q good speech for me ] will deliver 1t this
evening. More than that, if you will print
q good speech and say that / delivered it.
! Will declare. publicly and privately, that
1t Is my own. and be proud OF the chance"
The young man journalist hardly knew
whether Mr.. Atwood was joking or not, but
he concluded that he was not, and felt |