The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-17
WALLACE REPLIES
TO ACCUSATIONS
Makes Dignifed Address at Lone
Jack-Says He Will Do Demo
cratic Thing at Proper Time.
GOVERNOR IN AUTOMOBILE,
Made Quick Trip From Kansas
City-Great Crowd Attends An
nual Reunion in CommemOra-
ton of Battle of Lone Jack.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

| REPUBLIC SPECIAL
| Kansas City. No. Aug. Ex-Governor
| Dockery had the experience OF his life TO-
day when he Travelled by automobile from
| Kansas City TO Lone Jack and home again.
| The distance, thirty-four miles by the
odometer. was covered on the outgoing trip
| in two hours and a half. but coming back
| to Kansas City the Governor made it in
| two hours and ten minutes.
II thought" he said. ss he alishted from
| the automobile, the old machine would
| break down sure. l was not afraid of run
| ming into tree because l did not sec any.
! We went like the wind. l would be willing
/ to come home next time four miles an
| hour rather than at that speed of twenty
seven miles which we obtained this after
noon. But enjoyed the trip hugely. 1t is
one thing to sit on a twentyton steam
car six feet from the ground. and do sixty
miles an hour. and quite another to have
your face turned TO the breeze and cut
through it on little machine that can
jump fence at thirty miles an hour.
Although the Governor had addressed an
audience of 10000 and had received an ova-
ton, whenever he was asked at his hotel
! tonight concerning the days proceedings
he invariably led off with his automobiling
experience
Piazzak. the chauffeur of Police Commits
sioner Kemper, who was the Governors s
I host, is a daring driver. He is a clerk in
the private Office Of Commissioner Kemper.
Less than a week ago while speeding in an
automobile. which was to have carried the
| Governor to-day. he ran into a dog. The
| accident was serious enough to knock his
companion unconscious and make scrap
| heap of the machine.
A great crowd had already gathered. the
Lone Jack annual picnic being famous
| through the western part Of Missouri as
| the occasion for the assembling Of all the
ex-Confederates who are able to travel.
The picnic is held in commemoration of
the battle of Lone Jack, fought August is,
1862, in which Cockrell. Hays. Hunter and
| Quantrell took prominent parts.
Dockery and Wallace Speak.
Governor Dockery addressed the crowd
along the lines of his recent speech at
Holt, Mo.
In q prepared speech, which was well re-
ceived, William H Wallace of Kansas City
made answer to the representations that
he has allowed his candidacy to partake OF
an arrangement with Republicans. In part
Mr.. Wallace said:
FeTlow-Citizen.: I stand to-day almost in sight
OF the old farmhouse in which was reared
look into the chivalric faces OF assembled
! thousands gathered here from all parts of West
ern Missouri nineteen-twentieths Of whom are
Democrats. By the usage OF many years 1t has
become the custom at this great anniversary to
discuss almoat exclusively political questions and
with the other speakers here to-day-Democrats
and Republicans ask unanimous consent TO
make q political. though not a partisan. speech.
Ny fellow-citizens. am being unJustly criti-
cIsed and misrepresented somewhat Of late and
l appeal to your OF Justice and your mag
nanimity. while at the outset / utter a few
! words in self-defense. For number of months
1 have been q candidate for office asking a great
honor from the voters of this imperial Common
wealth Personally. have been treated With
remarkable courtesy and magnificent Hospitality
Politically. have been handled. In the main. up
to this hour, pretty roughly.
The ordeal through which have been passing
has been q far trying one than most Of
you have imagined. When the charge 10 on:
when all goes well; when the flags flying;
when trained troops cluster about the leader and
cheer him to the echo. II requires but little cour-
age to swoop down upon the forces OF the en-
envy IL they be undisciplined. So Cortes riddled
the armies OF the Montezumas. So Alexander
the Great-though possessed Of neither military
genius nor unusual courage-overran the world.
TIMES MAY TRY MEMS SOULS
There sometimes come occasions in the
lives of the humblest Of requiring far more
courage than is necessary for the ordinary
charge. To endure punishment. not by the mo-
nent or the hour. but by the day. the week. the
month"; to stand UP and up and up as 1 have
felt compelled TO do. and be knocked down ana
down and dcwn in primary elections from
Dunkln County in the Southeast portion OF this
vast State to Clinton In the northwest Though 1
have arisen stronger from every fall until my
strength is rapidly approaching that Of my
conlpetitor), is TO a possessed OF the sensi-
bilites common to his race. a far more trying
task than some OF you may have thought
Yet frauEht with at least temporary hardship
and dIsappointnent as my lot has been there
are Just few lending politicians in Missouri
who are endeavoring to place me in a far more
trying and painful situation. They insist upon
striking after declaring with one voice that
am down for good. They say that should NJ
longer remain IN the senatorsI race and they
industriously attempt to disseminate the impress
sion that ere long. pidued by defeat and enam-
ored OF despair ] intend doing something pcs-
lively harmful. II not treacherous to the grand
old party Of which l am SO proud to be MEM
ber.
Not an Abxolom or Arnold.
NY friends. you need have no fear whatever
about me. 1 am no Absoom In secret revolt;
am no BenedlCt ATIlOld StShlnN 10 UttIdy Cause
1 am sworn in honor TO support At the proper
time and in the proper way shall do the proper
and the Democratic thing.
I remain in the senatorial race because my
courage as n man and my loyalty to my friends
are involved; because. since battles began. no
true soldier ever laid down his arms until the
, last lick was struck the last gun was fired;
because by persistence. l have won lights In far
darker hours; uecause, If ! from the field
would lose the respect even of the supporters of
my opponent. VINO advise me to run: because. IL
without irreverence 1 may the language OF
another God himself hates gutter"
Plans for the Campaign.
BY virtue of a request in writing. just re-
ceived from the Democratic State Committee, L
intend to stump the State in the coming cam
paiEn In doing this. shall labor just as car
pestly for the election Of Democratic nominees
for the Legislature who favor Governor Stone
for United states Senator. for the election Of
those who favor myself.
Not only this. but during the State campaign
! NV candidacy for the Senate shall remain abso-
lutely in allegiance. It shall never be mentioned
defend myself. hut this shall be all. My oppo-
nent may prosecute his candidacy without the
, least criticism from me.
Ny whole labor shall be expended for the
triumph of the general Democratic cause: and
II my opponent Is correct in his estimate-that
a majority OF the Democrats who will serve IN
the next General Assembly already shown
10 be for him-then. the election of Senator
being the principal issue in the State campaign.
II follows that the principal portion of my work
will have been for him.
II IL already asserted that in the country por-
ton Of our state there are one or two dark