Mexico Missouri message., 1908-10-22
HADLEY GETS EXCITED.
A Monroe County Editor Asks
Him Some Pointed Ques-
ti0nS.

Idsls' MO, Oct. HERBERT
:. hadley. Republican candidate
for Governor, spoke this afternoon
at Paris To about 300 persons,
many Of whom were women Gu
rious to see him. and for the first
time in the campaign he devoted
his entire speech to defense of his
record rs Attorney General aud Of
accusations brought against him.
He lost his temper and launched
into personal abuse.
The credit for smoking Hadley
out belongs to The Paris Mercury,
a Democratic paper, which, in its
issue Of to-day, propounded a col.
umn and a half of questions to the
Republican candidate and demand
ed that be answer them without
equivocation or evasion. Among
the questions were the following:
Is it not fact, Mr.. Hadley, that
in any number OF precincts in st.
Louis your own vote as reported
by the police failed to foot up to
the vote counted for you by your
friend, the Honorable Jep Howei
Could frauds have been possible
in st. Louis without the collision
of the Republican judgesi
lie replied to this by stating
that the men who wrote it did not
have sense enough TO pour water
out OF a boot AS he had no opposi-
ton and th,r re was no reason for
fraud in his behalf. The so called
Republican judges and clerks, he
said, Were appointed by Demo.
cratic Election Board, aud were
not Republicans, but Democrats
in fact.
When asked if he had ever prov.
en- his statement that brewers had
contributed $50, 600 to help Cow.
herd carry St. Louis, and if Law
Ter DAILY himself had not repudiat-
ed the statement, he denied that
he had ever said that the brewers
/ contributed the money, and said
that be had never seen Daley'src.
pudiation Of the statement attrlbut-
ed to him.
The exciting point came when
Mr.. Hadley, after having said
that he had answered all the ques.
tions fairly aud frankly, was iu-
terrupted, and 4 demand made OF
him by Editor Bodiue, OF The
Mercury, that he reply to the most
important question, that of the
contributions 10 the Republican
State campaign fund made by St.
Louis brewers four years ago.
/ This question be had refused TO
read aud evaded answering, but
when confronted with his de-
ceptiou, made bold bluff at re-.
plying, stating that he was an uu.
willing candidate at the time, aud
that no mau could point to any
thing IN his official record which
would show that he had consider.
ed the contribution in any way
binding upon his actions. When
asked why he did not prosecute the
offending corporations. he replied
that the Senate committee, upon
whose report the question was
based, had made no finding, aud
, dismissed the audience before the
! finding embodied in the report
could be produced.
AS showing Mr.. Hadley's du.
! plicity. the following excerpt is
quoted from the Senate commit
. tess report
! "Fifth-That the Auheuser.
Busch Brewing Association of st.
I Louis is corporation engaged in
5 the manufacture and sale of beer
: in the State of Missouri. and that
said corporation on the seven
d teeuih day of October. 1904. coa.
tributed to, aud the said Thomas
I X. Niedriughaus received from
J. said corporation as a contribution
J, in the campaign fund of said com.
} mittee the sum OF s25. 200. aud
IS that neither said contribution nor
5 the name Of such contributor il
, set forth in said statement 50 filed
ky sail N;a1.;n.kaus - .