Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-09-25
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER Is. 1913.
NIissouri's $ Senators.


Senator s. P. Beaven and W. M.
Adcock are home from a visit to
Washington and were especially de-
lighted while there to hear so many
good words for the Missouri delega-
tion and say that on all sides is heard
the expression that Missouri has the
strongest delegation of any State in
the Senate and the House. Senator
Beaven in speaking of the standing of
the representatives of the State
said:
"Many Missourians have visited
Washington this summer, and from
what can hear, all came away con-
vinced, that our senatorial team,
Stone and Reed, is the strongest and
most influential in the Senate. 1t is
a source of pride to every Missourian
spending even short time in the
capital to observe that the two Mis-
souri, Senators are in the front rank
of Senators. Their names are heard
on every hand in Washington with
expressions OF the most deferential
esteem and high regard.
"Stone is practically the leader of
the Senate. He has done more work
in the preparation of the Democratic
tariff bill than any other man, with
the possible exception of Underwood.
He ranks all other Democratic mem
bers, except the Chairman, on the two
most potential Senate Committees,
Finance and Foreign Relations. While
the tariff bill was under consideration
in the Finance and Committee, the
most difficult work was assigned to
and performed by Stone. When the
bill came to the Senate, it was Stone
who took charge of the bill during its
most critical stages, and it was Stone
who did more than anyone to prevent
Democratic disagreements in the eau
Gus that considered the bill. The Gre
dit for the united Democratic front on
tariff revision is, therefore, very large
ly given to Stone. Likewise, in the
Mexican crisis, it was Stone who fig
ured in the closest conferences upon
the subject as one of the most power
full factors.
"There has not been much debate
on the tariff bill from the Democratic
side, but the most forceful and effec-
tive of the Democratic contributions
to that debate came from Stone. The
Republicans set up the old time howl
of panic and disaster in the Senate,
and predicted dire things to follow
the passage of the tariff bill. Stone
came to the front as the spokesman
of the Democrats, and in a few old
time speeches drove the Republican
calamity -howlers to their tents of
woe, and stopped by his exposures of
Republican designs deliberate pro-
gram, seeking to create panic.
'EIt is moreover amazing that the
Missouri daily papers do not tell the
people of the State the facts about the
work of the two Senators. That is, it
would be amazing if Missourians did
not know a few things about the
jealousies and petty personal reasons
underlying this treatment of Stones.
The correspondents of these papers
in Washington privately admit that
Mr.. Stone is the real leader in the
Senate, and that Reed is foremost in
the work of framing currency legisla-
tion and the lobby exposures. But they
are not permitted to write the facts
facts which have been heralded in all
the largest dailies throughout the
United States except in Missouri,
where private feuds arising from tri-
vial animosities control the columns
of her great dailies. 1t is, of course,
shameful, but it will not suffice to OBJ
scure the truth about both Stone and
Reed when they come back to face
their constituents and receive assur-
ance that their faithful stewardship