The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-04-24
SENATOR STONE
MUCH ANNOYll
Missourian Emphatical|y Pro-
tests Innocence in Baking
Powder Scandal.
LAUGHS IN THEIR FACE
Grows Peculiarly Eloquent Over Wha
He Terms Assassins' Methods
Bryan Also Addresses Mis-
souri, Editors. Il

!, Kansas City, April States
Senator William j. Stone, addressinps
the convention of the Missouri Demo.AA
cratic Press association yesterday aft.H
ernoon. made an elaborate explanations
of his connection with baking powderE
legislation and enforcement of the stated
pure food laws, and bitterly ~denounceds
the daily newspapers Of the state,
which he declared had bounded him.
outrageously.
William J. Bryan had been announced
as the principal speaker Of the after
noon. He was received enthusiasts
ally and spoke as q country editor toI
country editors"
He declared that throughout the
country he found deep and growing
dissatisfaction among the republican
voters with the policy of the national
administration, and exhorted his hear
ers mot to make the democratic party
so much like the republican party that
1t would be Easy for republicans to get
In 1t. but to keep it different, so that
in time of stress the people would turn
to the democracy for d~eliverance."
Praises Old Missouri.
Praising the state of Missouri for It's
prosecution Of the packing companies,
he said: 1.-THE federal government
SSSlil u ~ q Ia
nal law, and prefers the use of injunc-
TONS"
Mr.. Bryan spoke with earnestness Of
the hostility of most Of the large daily
papers to the democratic party, and
said that some of the protested deno-s
cratic papers Of the east did more
harm in four years of a~pologizing for
the democratic platform than they
could undo in four months of a cams.
paign when they supported the ticket"
He closed with a reference to the
Missouri legislative scandals, calling for
the punishment of every offending offs
:iai.
Congressman-elect G. NJ. Hitchcock
Of Omaha spoke briefly, II hen Sena-
tor Stone was introduced, n at once
took up the bribery Investigation. The.
senator, who labored under intense ex-
citment, protested against the persecu-i
lion to which he had been subjected by
the "scavengers of the press who had
lsed "assaSsins' Methods
He shouted:
Before my God, / fear them not; I
laugh in their faces, and spit upon
Them 8
Senator Stone denied various reports
that he had been in conference With
Colonel William H. Phelps and Lieuten-
ant Governor Lee since the investiga-
ton had been begun. He said he had
been the victim Of '1mendacious attacks
lpon his character" while governor and
after he had retired to practice law,
and now suffered under low, insin-
uating, filthy IND false attacks"
Declares He Is Outraged.
II submit to the judgment of fair
American citizens that it is an out
rage" he said. Neither nor
accused has dared to lay a charge
against my character"
Senator Stone said that he had no
part in the passage of the anti-alum
law of 1899, and did not know for nearly
q year that it had been enacted. AS a
private attorney he had assisted in the
enforcement of the state pure food laws,
and in 1901, when it was proposed to re-
peal the anti-alum law. he wrote an ar
gu1nent against repeal, but he did not
visit Jefferson City.
II swear to you I never spoke nor
wrote to any member Of either house
Of the legislature concerning this mat
ter but what I have old you,' he de-
clared.
II hope every guilty mar will be un-
covered"
In closing his address Senator Stone
said:
IT hope God will wither my hand
palsy my tongue and burn my hear
in the flames of hell before I will in
~tentionally dishonor any position tc
which the people of Missouri assign
me-"
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