The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-21

S,in trying to be fair to my side in st. Louis
He said I was a fool for wanting tn be
fair in poiit:cs-such politics as has pre-
vailed in 81. Louis and surrounding coun-
well, do you consider that fair way
AS fair. Mr. Halves. as fair as the man
ner In which you. an Interested party. sit
and WELD "A vote in this committee
Cunningham refe.s as having taken place be
tween him and the managing editor # The
day ";' or two aftSr tn ' County GonvSnt:on. Mr.
Cunningham said that he had at first been in
favor OF giving the other side the Central
Township delegates in order to show fairness
and remove any controyeFsy The managlng
scenes those at the Clayton primaries. to
make the instgators a present Of the Central
good politics required. Tha editor OF The Re"
public was not present Ths managing .ii,9r
Republic smoke in his personal capacity
Judge Gibson. George Il. Bowles ard ].
II Bohn described the Carondelet Town
ship primary mass meeting The meet
ing. each declared, was dominated by
crowds of strangers. Indians. who came
to Alton in furniture vans and autono-
bileS. joseph Hannaucr. II was asserted,
led the outsiders. Bohn, VINO was tenn
porary chairman of the meeting, declared
that he had been threatened with per
sonal violence, and had been compelled to
vaCate.
MIR. Hawes cross-exam!ned each of these
witnesses. but could not shake their as
the meeting. The further story of these
remarkable political dongs was aided in
the unfolding by Davis Biggs, an attorney
who lives in kirkwood,
CENTRAL TOWNSHIP AFFAIR.
He spoke of the Central Township af-
fair-the blacksmith shop primary. The
information ifad by the Folk men. said
Mr.. Biggs. was that 2IO"Indans were to
be supplied from st. Louis, and to be man
aged In the Hawes interest by Fred Essen,
a Republican.
'.Oil the day Of the meeting" Biggs con-
tinued, Il went to Clayton and found men
there by the score VINO answered all de
scriptions of political Indians OF the st.
Louis tribe. Then l. and others of the Folk
side passed the word around and held our
meeting i'll the shop. At least twenty-five
lawful Democratic voters of the county
took part in our meeting.
Proceeding to the day uf the County Con-
vention. BiGgs told of the assault on
Republic photographer. the Indians being
unfr.endly. 10 The Republic because of its
course IN the primary campaign. lie told
of other incidents of that day. the diff
dents in the Probate Courtroom. the ad-
iournmcnt of the convention during the
disturbance and the subsequent Conven-
tion in kirkwood.
Claude Martin. Doctor Atkisson. Lee
Barton. John King and others of the
Hawes men Of the county made state
ments for the Hawes side. These were ef-
forts to show that the mass meetings were
regular. and that the kirkwood conveIl-
'J,s Jesse SCI Joplin fos the Folk side. then con-
tributed a picturesque chapter, of the in;
quiry. He asserted that he had overheard
talk In the office and headquarters OF
Harry L. Hawes. when an executive meet.
ing took place. at which Fred Reed OF
Ferguson and other Hawes men had
spoken of a plan TO take Indians into st.
Louis County
I was talking in the Laclede Hotel
said Joplin. when one of the Hawes men
beat; were 10 take 400 Indians out there
JOPLIN SCENTS PLOT.
Il thought 1 smelled rat. so 1 went
up to Hawes headquarters. hearing that a
meeting was taking place there. l admit
that l was eavss-dTopping around. Well.a
l heard them telling of how they would
take Indians out. So when one of the men
then left the meeting | knew where he
would so. 1 got some sf my friends |
sid wa wanted he!p Iaid wanted ted to
wanted my friends to throw another and
another. We did. We threw several
ponies of liquor mo large horses into F.
And finally he told me the whole story;
During Joplin's talk, Halves laughed
continually at the amusing gestures and
infection of the old man. After Joplin
had sat down. Hawss rose to demand that
Joplin give the name of some one whom
he saw at HaWeS hcaCQulrIerS JopIin
could think only of Mr. Dolan, Long
John"
You cannot mean this story seriously
of meeting in my Office asked Hawes.
Joplin insisted that he did mean 1t Sc
seriously. Then Hawes explained that
Jesse Joplin Is good natured man,
much liked, whom. however. the boys
are fond of joking. He thinks that tnat
is the explanation of Joplin's alleged
plot-that it was a joke played on Joplin:
II want to introduce one witness here,
said .Hawes. because the newspapers of
ST. Louis have done good man a grave
injustice. 1 will call Mr.. T. NJ. Jenkins
Jenkins said that he had gotten together
street-car men, residents of 81. Louis
County. employees of the Suburban and
Transit strcet-car companies. He provided
transportation for them to Clayton and
arranged that they go to the Central
Township primary. OF these. he said ther5
were between III and 120 men. He de-
clared that they were legitimate voters.
VOTE ON HAYES DELEGATES.
The vote on the motion to seat all
Hawes delegates was as follows: