The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-10-11
Missouri Attorney General
Says People Must Stand
By the President.
URGES ELECTION OF
STONE AND RUSSELL
Policies Now In Vogue Must Be
Maintained, Prosecutor Tells
Cape Crowd.

night literally scared Judge Smith
Mcpherson, of the United States
Court in Kansas City, whom he brand
ed as the tool of the interest and the
foe of the people.
The State prosecutor recalled his
fight for the people to prevent the
federal court from throttling the 2
cent rate law by injunctions, and how
Mcpherson was compelled to accept
the Attorney Generals ruling.
II have been held up to ridicule by
the people controlled by railroads and
the subsidized press" said Mr.. Barker
"just because I contended that the
people ought to have that which be-
longs to them. Judge Mcpherson who
has been the friend and ally IF tire
railroads ever since he was appointed
to the bench by Roosevelt, was still
the chum of the interest when l asked
for hearing for the people.
Give times ] argued the rate case
before him before he finally set date
upon which he would act. There was
nothing for him to do but what he had
been ordered to do, and I therefore,
expected him to sustain the state.
"When the day came for his deci-
sion, I found the courtroom filled with
railroad lawyers, drawing salaries
from $4,000 to s150,0O0 a year. And
before he made his rulings one of
them asked him: ais friend to go to
the aid Of the railroads.
att was the first time in all my life
that I had heard lawyer plead 70 a
Judge on behalf of friendship to save
a client, and because was interested
enough in the peoples cause to de-
mand that MCPHERSON forget friend
ship and decide the case on the law, l
have been held up before the people
as having no regard for the dignity of
federal judge
"But when Judge Mcpherson finally
handed down his decision, he decided
in favor Of the state, just as I had
asked him to do and no more.
81 have profound respect for a
Judge, so long as he remembers the
people, but I retain the right to criti-
cize him when he forgets the people
and turns over to the interests. That
is why I denounced Judge Mcpherson
in his own court" ''-.-'..
General Barker praised President
Wilson for his attitude toward Next
co and his policy Of neutrality in the
present war. "The people should
stand back Of the President in his de-
termination to keep the United States
out Of the conflict which is shattering
the countries Of Europe.
"Mr. Wilson's Mexican policy prov
ed the best that we could have follow
ed. 1t would haze been folly to have
invaded Mexico and it would be idiotic
to permit ourselves to become involv-
ed in the great European struggle
President Wilson Is the man most
needed in the White House, because
he is certain to keep peace.
"!And when this cruel conflict is
over. the United States will be the
greatest country Or the face Of the
earth: with it factories and mills en-
tact, with food enough for all and
with prosperity Astounding. That is
the aim of Wilson.
"The Democratic party has kept the
faith. What it promised has come to
pass and the policies that are now in
vogue cannot be deserted. While the
Republicans and Progressices destroy
each other, the Democracy must hold
together and continue to build '1pon
the foundation that he has already
laid.
"There are no apologies to be made
for the Democrats who are now hold
ing state Offices. They are splendid |
officials, faithful to the people and 10y
al to the state. Our State Treasury,
now held by one Of the most loyal
sons Of Southeast Missouri, has
S., 900, 900 in it, the greatest sum in |
many years. When the Hadley regime
went out Of office the treasury was al |
most depleted.
1.-THE Democrats now in office must |
remain there. And the Democrats |
from this state that are now in Con-
gress cannot be allowed to go. Joe
Russell has rendered efficient service
in Congress and he should be return
ed. He is needed TO help uphold the
hand of the President. -
civilian ]. Stone, Missouri's senior
Senator, is the most important nan in
Washington except the President.