Monroe City Democrat., 1908-10-08
Voted Against the Railroads.

4 made the minority report and led
the fight against an appropriation OF
millions of dollars in land and money
to be given to the two great railroad
companies entering the City of Wash
iueton to aid them in building de-
pots and elevating their tracks. And,
though defeated at first, it was due
to the fight / led that in the end we
reduced the appropriation million
dollars and gave the present magni-
ficent Union Station to the City OF
Washington. Had Mr.. Hadley made
such a fight in any representative
body he would now be posing as a
builder of the station and caihng up
on the public to erect his monument
in the place it adorns:
81 made the minority report ana
led the fight against the bill inereas-
ing the capitalization of the WASH
ington Gas Light Company. Nine
million dollars, without any cores
ponding benefit to the people OF that
city, and, notwithstanding it was a
Republican Congress and the measure
supported by every Republican but
one upon the committee, 1t was oe-
feated.
"When went upon the Committee
on Post Offices and Post Roads. the
Government was appropriating aoout
$4,000 for rural free delivery. l
served six years on that committee,
a portion of the time member OF
the subcommittee that framed the
greatest appropriation bill that comes
before Congress, and during my ser
vice the rural free delivery grew
from a handful of carriers to an army
and the appropriation for that service
from S25o,ooo to more than $4,000
600. i did my part in giving to the
farmers of Missouri and the United
States the benefit of daily mail,
and every traveller over MISSOURI
roads may find a monument to that
work in the humble boxes before ev-
cry farmers house.
What Would He Have Done?
"Had Mr.. Hadley taken an equal
mart in such a work he would today
be posing before the people OF the
State as the father and founder OF the
system. But when he challenges me
to give reasons from my record why
I should be selected to this Office IN
opposition to himself, l do not need
to answer him in my own words.
do not need to follow him through
his flights of vain-glor1ous ooasnng.
He and l were both in the service
of Jackson County from 1000 to 1907
as a member of Congress, ne as
Prosecuting Attorney of that county.
Nineteen hundred and two was NOT
presidential year; there were no na-
tional questions to take the MINDS OF
people away from local issues; there
was no enthusiasm for presidential
candidate to distract the voter, and
he had then the opportunity OF voting
for the man. Kansas City has given
a majority to every Republican Pres
ident with one exception since the
Civil War. Two-thirds of the time
# elects Republican to the office OF
Mayor.
"Mr. Hadley made the campaign
for the Republican ticket in 1902,
made the campaign for the Democrat
ic ticket; he stood upon his record,
on mine, and the people whom we
both had served, the people OF our
home who knew us both, the people
who were better able than any other
to decide upon the value of our ser
vice, elected me by 6,235 majority and
defeated him by S3,647.
"Mr. Hadley says l was defeated
for Congress in 1904. He knows tull
well that in that campaign as chair
man of the Democratic Congressional
Committee l spent but FIVE days IN
my district, giving my entire time TO
the duties of my position at head
quarters in Washington and IN New
York. He knows, too, that in mt
of temporary insanity that year Mis-
souri, went Republican and ten Mis-
souri, Democrats were compelled to
Weld their seats in Congress to Re
publicans, largely because of the pop
uIarity of Mr.. Roosevelt and the url-
popularity of Mr.. Parker. But when
he calls attention to the fact that in
this landslide / went down with better
men l call his. attention to the fact
that, notwithstanding made no cam
paign, l ran 1000 votes ahead OF, the
national ticket in Jackson County and
led most of the local ticket by Ike
majority.
Sewer-Pipe and Trusts.
Posing as a trust buster, Mr.. Had
ley selects Walter S. Dickey of Kan
sas City as his campaign manager. No
sewer pipe is sold in Mr.. Dickey's
territory except such as comes from
his plants, and since by some device he
gained control of all the factories in
that territory, and his comDetitors
verv generously decided not to inter-
fere with him, he has more than
doubled the cost of every foot of pipe
that is laid in that portion of the
United States. A trust-busting cam
paign managed by Dickey and an
snti-brewery camp.ign managed by
Stiefel presents the climax of false
pretense in politics.
"Mr. Hadley left public Office as a
result of the campaign of 1902, but
he retired to the more lucrative posi-
ton of attorney for the Metropolitan
Street Railroad Company and the NJ,
K. & T. road. / have no fault to find
with him for such employment 1t