The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-11-15


in Missouri, shows him to be "a su-
perb general, natural born fighter,
a great organizer, and a statesman
OF unquestioned courage and ability
and it shows the democratic party in
Missouri remains cheerful, elastic
and confident, and that the prospect
ahead of it is yet rosy and promis-
ing.
Great Confidence in DOchery.
Governor Dockery will give us an
administration that will further pro-
mote the best interests of all our cit
izens, and when he retires from the
office he will leave the organiza tiOn
even stronger than it was when he
was elected.
Il am particularly elated over the
great victory in the state, but es-
pecially in st. Louis 1t was there
where | have been fought the hardest
by the republican newspapers and
politicians, because OF the police law,
the election law, and the street rail
way law, and because OF my refusal
to call out the militia during the
great street railway strike, when the
demand to do so was made upon me
by Sheriff POhlmann and other prom
inent republican business men and
politicians
'"The Globe Democrat for two
years has not had kind word for
me. 1t has maligned, slandered and
traduced me at every point. 1t has
attacked me since my election in
every issue, in from two to fifty par
agraphs. People away from the
city and state have been made to
believe that | could not safely visit
the city, that had destroyed what
little there was left of the democratic
party, which had so often honored
me. and that | was to be impeached
for malfeasance and corruption, etc,
etc. knew always that in every
public act OF mine in which St. Louis
was interested that II majority of it's
citizens were with me. My own pri-
vate letters and interviews with them
demonstrated this. 1t has not been
possible for me to meet the thou
sands of charges brought against
me, and to undo, even partially, the
great wrongs inflicted upon me bt a
malicious and unfriendly press.
Consolation in the Result.
"But the results OF the election
Tuesday have demonstrated clearly
that the citizens of st, Louis are not
easily fooled. They show a willing
ness to give the police. election and
street railway laws fair trial. They
have shown. also, clearly that they
indorse almost unanimously my ac-
tiop in refusing to call out the militia
for the purpose, OF shooting hell out
OF the strikers, to crafty lot of
dudes, who were afraid to do posse
duty, and to crafty, also, a few st.
Louis silk stockings. a demented
preacher or two, the Seventh street
agitators, cigarette tiends and the
republican schemers who were using
them and pushing them to the front,
and | am greatly pleased with the
results.
Il do not want to Oleaye the impress
sion that l am entitled to all the
credit for the great democratic vic
| tory in st. Louis. when the $4,000
republican majority was overcome,
because | am not. A rotten city re-
publican administration, the mayor :
refusal to cooperate with the St.
Louis police board. and to help us
suppress the strike, and to protect
life and property, and the attacks
made upon the honor OF the lamented
Phelps. Hardin and WoOdson, the
democratic officials Of the state gem
orally. in connection with the school
fund by the Globe-Democrat, the
shrimp candidate for governor, and
a lot of character assassins, who had
been employed by Mark Hanna, con
tributed no little to the result.
| St. Joseph. Mo, Nov. 11,-Tom
Smith a gambler. attacked Police
man Scott in a cafe at , o'clock this