Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-21
Stone IS INDIGNANT
Declares Insinuation That He
Was Mixed Up In Doodle
Case Is Unjust
HE BLAMEs THE NEWSPAPERS
Says They Have Hounded Him Ever
Since He Was Elected Governor
Never Spoke Nor Wrote to Any Mem
Der of the Legislature About the
Alum Bill.

Kansas City, April 21.-United States
senator William j. stone, addressing
the annual convention of the Missouri
Press association yesterday, made an
elaborate explanation of his connection
With baking powder legislation and en-
forcement Of the state pure o avs,
and bitterly the daily news
papers of the state, which, he declared.
had "hounded' him o~utrageously.
Mr.. j. Bryan had been announced
as the principal speaker of the after
noon. He was received enthusiastically
and spoke as "a country editor to coun-
try editors" He declared that turnout
the country he found deep and growing
dissatisfaction among the republican
voters with the policy of the nationa.
administration and exhorted his hear
ers not to make the democratic party
so much like the republican party that
1t would be easy for republicans to get
into it, but to keep it different SO that
in time of stress the people would turn
to the democracy for deliverance.
Praising the state of Missouri for its
prosecution of the packing houses he
said:
The federal government seems to be
afraid to enforce the criminal law.
and prefers the use of injunctions."
Mr.. Bryan spoke with earrestness of
the hostility of most of the large daily
papers to the democratic party and said
that some of the protested democratic
- -. ta..& sltl 5000 H. 49,, e., fn,,,
years of %apologizing for the demo-
cratic platform than they could undo
in four months of a campaign when
they supported the ticket
He closed with a reference to the
Missouri legislature scandals. calling
for the punishment of every offending
official.
Congressman-elec t c. NJ, Hitch
cock of Omaha, spoke briefly, and then
Senator Stone was introduced and at
once took up the bribery investigation.
The senator, who labored under intense
excitement. spoke against the persecu-
ton to which he had been subjected
by the ..scavengers of the press" who
had used "~essassins' methods"
He shouted: Before my God l fear
them not; 1 laugh in their faces ana
spit upon them"
Senator Stone denied reports that he
had been concerned With Col. William
H. Phelps and Lieut.. Gov. Lee since
the legislature investigation had been
begun. He had been the victim of
'mendacious attacks upon his char
acter'' while he was governor, after he
had retired to practice law, and now
suffered under low, insinuating, filthy
and false attacks
II submit to the judgment of fair
American citizens that it is an out
rage" he said. Neither accuser nor
accused has dared to lay a charge
against my door,
Senator Stone declared that he had
no part in the passage of the anti
alum law of 1899 and did not know
for nearly a year that it had been en-
acted. AS a private attorney he hal
assisted in the enforcement of the state
pure zoos laws and in 1901, when il
was proposed to repeal the anti-alum
law, he wrote an argument against re
peal, but he did not visit jefferson
City.
Il swear to you I never spoke nor
wrote to any member of either house
of the legislature concerning this mat
ter. but what l AVE told YOU" he de-
clared.
Il hope every guilty man will be UNI
covered"
In closing his address. Senator Stone
said: Il hope God will wither my hand,
palsy my tongue and burn my heart in
the flames of hell before I will inten-
tionally dishonor any position to which
the people OF Missouri assign me-"