Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-06-28
WHITLEY SPURNS
BAUER'S HELP
Senator Says Publication Of Letter
"Was Contemplate Petty Po-
Iitical chieanery."
from ST. Louis Republic.
June 16, 1918

Senator Xenophon P. Whitley yes
kerday gave the Republic copy of his
Iotter addressed to Ignatius ]. Bauer,
Secretary of the Retail Liquor Deal
MS Association.
Bauer recently wrote a letter to r.
Perry Spencer, an employee of the
State Insurance Department, assuring
Spencer that saloon keepers and-llquor
interests would support Whitley as
against Joseph w. Folk.
Whitley in his letter to Bauer de-
Elares the preparation and publication
OF the Bauer letter was "the most
contemplate form of petty political
Ehicanery."
Whitley in his letter to Bauer tells
nim he will make public his letter to
him. The letter is as follows:
mr.. Ignatius J. Bauer, st. Louis,
Mo.--Dear Sir: have letter before
me purporting to be signed by you,
and copy of St. Louis newspaper
IN which is published the same letter
addressed to r. P. Spencer. In this
better you pretend to be writing as
secretary of the Retail Liquor Deal
hrs Association, and you express most
violent opposition to my opponent in
the race for United States Senator.
Says Inference Is Clear.
"From the language of your letter
the inference is clear that you are op-
posing Gov. Folk because of injury
which he has done to your associa.
ton, real or imaginary, and you clear
ly intended the inference to be drawn
that you have received, or expect to
receive, favors from me.
81 might have been puzzled by your
letter if it had not come to me at
the time l received the letter and the
newspaper clipping, that a carbon
copy OF the letter to Mr.. Spencer had
been given to the press by my OPP
ponent before it reached it's destina-
ton.
From this significant circumstance
I am forced to the conclusion that
your letter was written for the pur-
pose of favoring what it seemed to
oppose, and in the preparation and
publication of your letter there was
a desire to arouse in some of the vot-
ers of the State prejudice against me
hU infaprip0 uyho h,
that have asked for your support, or
that you can EXPECT favors from me
for consideration of 1t.
Attacks Methods Used.
81 shall not undertake to express
my opinion Of the methods adopted
on the preparation and publication of
this letter further than to say that it
represents in my judgment the most
Sontemptible form of petty political
ehicanery.
"I do not believe 1t will serve its
intended purpose Of misleading any OF
the voters of Missouri when the facts
are known, and am giving this letter
70 the press of the State in order that
the people may be informed and may
judge for themselves the real purpose
OF the letter, which so speedily found
Its way into the hands of my opponent
and was with such speed delivered by
him to the press for publication.
Il understand that you are a Repub-
1ican and hold a position in the office
OF the Sheriff Of the City of st. Louis.
1t is fairly to be inferred that your in
terest in contest between two Demo
Gratis in the primary is measured by
advantages that you might expect to
gain for your party through the nolni-
nation OF my opponent rather than
myself. l do not believe that the
Democratic voters of the State will
fail TO see the significance of your
action from this standpoint.
"Yours very truly,
"XENOPHON P. WII1FLEY."
RAkk Eoll.