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Quantr1Ps Raiders Hold Reunion and Recall Wild E

caring for three helpless children you
have troubles enough without add
ing to them"
A kind, considerable, nature-loving,
acknowledgements Quantrill this,
undreaming Of the bloody days in
the womb Of the future. And there
were many other letters in the same
vein.. Some written when he was
teaching school and Boarding
around" at Stanton, show quite a
literary vein and real depths Of feel.
ing. Fancy Quantrill in this picture
drawn in one Of his home letters
just one year before the Sumter
shot:
ut is pleasant morning, this;
the sun is just rising, it's light caus~
ing the trees. bushes and grass to
glitter like brilliants, while the hang
ing sheets of frost drop from them,
announcing his warmth, then silently
melting away. stood in my school
house door, and viewing this it made
me feel new life, and merry as
the birds. But these feelings and
thoughts are soon changed and for
gotten, by the arrival of eight or
ter of my scholars who come laugh
ing and tripping along as though
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down. One was asilled outright, one
wounded and another slain, it is
stated. by Quantrill himself the
next day. The fourth escaped.
This was Quantrill's first battle"
on Missouri soil, soon to be stained
with many such crimson streaks. 1t
was an act Of dastardly treachery,
say the Kansas historians. "They
were niger stealers and deserved
their fate,' say the Quantrill apollo
gists.
Anyway, 1t was the event that
sent Quantrill to mastering his lit
tie army Of gusrrillas, recruited
mostly from wild and reckless young
farm boys in Jackson County, aflame
with the fumes Of war and the ad-
venturous lure Of q rowing life I'M
trammeled by the discipline Of army
regulations.
In the woods Of jackson County
he gathered his clan, picking them
with rare judgment Of the stuff
that he wanted in his men, trained
them to be smbidexterous gun fight
ers and the most daring and skillful
hcrsemen. Then he raised the black
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Survivors | lave Sworn to Meet Each
Year at an Old Rendezvous as :.
Long as Any Survive 1

Then three of his men, seeing the
hopelessness Of the situation, asked
leave to surrender. Quantrill opened
the door for them and allowed them
to walk out, hands up. Then he
opened fire on his besiegers, made q
bold dash out Of a rear door, ran
through stream of bullets to where
His ever-ready horses were tethered
in the brush and made his escape.
The blacklist page in Quantrill's
history is the one that deals with
the Lawrence Raid, or the Lawrence
Massacre, as it is named by Kansas
historians-yet even on that CORY
day some curious things happened
that seemed to bark back in associa-
ticn to the man who had noted the
singing Of the birds and the gam
bols Of the children in his school,
teaching days-a flare Of the other
man that had sunk to the depths
Of him.
Four hundred men--the greatest
number he ever had under his COM
mand-rode with Quantrill into the
doomed town that summer day of
1868. There was no military gar
rison in the town. What really
prompted that raid is not known to
this day. The objects Of plumber
and reprisal do not entirely account
for it. The deeds done could only
have been the offspring Of long
nursed dreams Of vengeance, root
ed, perhaps, in some Of Quantrill's
early experiences there.
But this is what happened: Stop
ping his band just before entering
the town, Quantrill passed the word
to ''kill the men without quarter"
and then added, "but / don't want q
woman touched" And it is q fact
that all through that bloody day,
though husbands were shot down,
while their wives chung to them and
pleaded, the women were invariably
spared, and many of them went
about the streets in the midst of
the murderous fire, begging Glenn
ency for their men and trying to
save their homes from fire and
plumber.
Once in the midst of the deadly
work Quantrill recognized the white
flag, displayed from the Eldridge
Hotel, and took the guests Of the
house under his protection and re-
moved them to a place Of safety
and then burned the hotel. Another
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Men Who Sacked Lawrence and
Tenorized the Border Proud of
Their Early Deeds

skill, energy, perspicacity and I'm.
usual presence Of mind, his fame az
a guerrilla will endure for genera.
tions."
Somewhere between these two ex-
tremes Of portraiture lies the truth
about this half-masked and mystery
clothed night rider of the border,
whose self-assumed task it was, as
Edwards luminously puts it, ito
weave the sable fringe upon the
blood-red garments Of Civil War"
Let US see if we can step softly be.
tween the partisan camp and find
some neutral ground Of biographical
fact, for, whether demon or hero, the
story Of Quantrill Is still as fasci-
mating as Waverley romance.
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CHAPTER I
Quantrill the Sentimentaliss

Quantrill the Sentimentalist
THAT there was dual nature in
L. the man is attested by his
lineage. There was good and bad
stock along the line. He always
claimed that his family was of Eng
lish origin, settling before Revolu-
tionary days in Maryland, at
Hagerstown.
Thomas Quantrill, the grandfather
of the guerrilla, was the captain OF
a company raised for service in the
War Of 1872, was wounded at the
battle Of North Point and left a
record as brave and patriotic SOL
der. He left q brood Of sons, in
whom the rowing, adventurous streak
began to develop.
One Of them was said to have be-
come pirate operating in the Gulf
Of Mexico; another a steamboat
gambler and a man of many love
affairs, for he was said to have been
a handsome man; another, Archi-
bald, was steady-going printer and
newspaper man who married a loyal
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WOOT HILL and Tuck
W HILL, typical members of
the Qa4aatrlll band of guer-
rillGs

flag and bound them with q slogan,
"No quarter. Death to all men of
the North"
Then began a series Of raids and
fcrays, sudden and deadly ambus-
cades, scenes Of pillage and slaugh-
ter, that soon made the name of
Quantrill synonym for death and
destruction.
Men like Jesse and Frank James,
Cole Younger, Bill Anderson, Arch
Clements, George Todd, Dick Mad
dox, George Shepherd-wild spirits
as reckless and daring as Quantrill
himself-rallied to his sable stand
ard and yielded him a loyalty that
could only have been given to a man
with the magnetism of command and
the genius Of organization-and
these qualities, by all accounts,
Quantrill must have possessed.
But it was not all brush fighting
for Quantrill. Time after time he
was hunted from his lairs and made
to give battle in the open and often
came OFF victor. Time and again he
was trapped like a fox in his hole
and made wonderful escapes through
fire and streams Of lead.
And every now and then that
strange streak Of sentiment would
come to the surface at unexpected
moments. Once when completely
surrounded in a house at the out
skirts Of Kansas City by the Fed
eral soldiers, he parleyed with them
through the window, asking lesve 20
lss the, civilian householder and his
family Daa@ out-which was granted.
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Charley Hart, a Quantrill Pro.
totype of Our Own Bill of
CHAPTER II

totype of Our Own Bill of
the Screens
D UT even while he was penning
Id these beautiful letters to his
mother, the dual nature was
working within him. The rowing
streak was cropping rapidly to the
surface. He would make mysterious
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to the
Indian camps, where he learned
much Of woodlore and Of other
things; sometimes to the gold fields
Of Colorado, and there was one long
trip across the desert to Utah, where
the future raider was foreshadowed
in Charley Hart, gambler and en-
bryo desperate Of the mining camps.
Charley Hart was William Clarke
Quantrill. Why he assumed the
name has never been known. There
were many secret dark gaps in his
history-oYten he disappeared and
never explained when he turned up
again. There were stories afioat Of
"nigger stealings" and underground
railroad transactions in and around
Lawrence, where he spent much Of
bis time just before the outbreak Of
the war. There were stories Of kill
ings also linked with Charley Harris
name that came back 90 an after
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time, finding his men firing into the
house of a man named Stone, Guam
trill dashed up and called them off,
saying:
"Old man Stone did me kind
ness in times gone by, and I won't
see hair of his head injured"
But that was ALT was not a
day for sentiment-the order to kill
was obeyed to the letter. When the
guerrillas rode away a hundred and
fifty dead bodies lay in the streets
Of Lawrence, and the mourning
cries that went up from the DESC
lated homes rescho to the present
day.
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Northern woman, Mary A. Sands,
who, it is claimed, was the woman
who really waved the flag at Stone
wall Jackson's men in Fredericks-
town, an incident that inspired
Whittiers Barbara Frietchie."
Quantrill's father was Thomas
Henry Quantrill, Of the group of
old Captain Thomas's sons, and ap-
pears to have been an inoffensive
old gentleman, a timer by trade.
After his marriage to Caroline Cor
nelia Clarke he moved to Canal
Dover, Ohio, where William Clarke
ouantrill' the man Of border history
was born.
About FIVE years before the out
break Of the Civil War Quantrill,
then a youth Of eighteen, left Ohio
for the West and the lands Of his
dark destinies, and it is in his let
tiers Of the next few years, written
back to his mother in Ohio, that
there is revealed sentimental
strain in the man that Is hard to
harmonic with his later reputation.
Writing from Stanton, Kan, in
1867, he strikes this Byronic strain:
"Dear mother: It is now too dry
TO work ut the corn; this is why
have leisure time to write during the
week. have taken my atlas and
went to the bank Of the river in ths
shade to write. Everything feels and
looks happy; the wood 10 full Of birds
OF every kind seeing which can sing
the best and sweetest. The Ash are
playing In the water Of the river,
which 10 slssr 40 crystals and tho
squirrels bound from tree to tree,
till seeing me they stop, and, after
eying me curieusly, then scamper ON
again Sill / almost envy their happi-
ness. ! have but ons wish, and that
is that you were here, for cannot be
happy here all alone; and It seems
4hes ! am the only person or thing
shatis not happy along this bsanti4ui
stream. But I aaass elese my letter
on { viii nake 9yeu Aads and An
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CHAPTER III
Quantrill Under the Black FLAG

TNHE scene shifts across the
Kansas border line into the
wild woodlands Of the Sina-
bar Hills in jackson County, Mis-
souri,. It was here that Quantrill's
day Of fate dawned, and twas q day
of bleod, the guerrilla's baptism.
The armies of the North and South
were mastering, and Quantrill made
his choice.
In tine latter part Of 1850 he
creased the border into Missouri
with @ raiding squad Of four nens
ostensibly for the purpose Of setting
frse the slaves Of one Morgan
Walker, a farmer near Blue Springs,
In Jackson County.
Arrived ut Morgan Walkers
place, Quantrill betrayed the men
TO Walkss, and joinsd @ sauad con-
caaled in tho house; TO shoa& ,aaahAAGa
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math Of that Utah trip, but it is all
hazy, uncertain history.
There are no doubts, however, of
the wild, registering life he led in
the Far West. He was noted at this
period for his reckless gambling; he
played to the limit and backed his
play with his gun; but perhaps that
was necessity of the times. Here
is a picture of Quantrill as he ap-
peared in 1858 to soldier in one
of the companies at Fort Brideer,
R. NJ. Peck, now resident of Whit
tier, CAL:
while sauntering through a big
gambling tent day or SO after pay
day, watching the game at the vari-
GUS tables. I heard some one re-
mark, There's Charley Hart and
having heard Of his fame as wild
plunger in gambling, took good
look at him. He was apparently
about twenty-five or three years old,
about 5 feet 10 inches in height, with
an ungraceful, slouchy walk. He had
on a pair Of high-hecled calfskin
boots of small size; bottoms Of
trousers tucked into boot-tops;
navy pistol swinging from his waist
belt; a fancy blue flannel shirt; no
coat; colored silk handkerchief tied
loosely around his neck; his yellow.
hair hanging nearly to his shoulders,
topped out by the inevitable cow
boy hat. This is the picture Of
Charley Hart as my memory presents
him now.
GAS he entered the tent he car
ried in his left hand colored silk
handkerchief, gathered by the four
corners, which apparently contained
coin. Advancing to one of the tables
where the banker was dealing monte,
he set the handkerchief on the table
and opened il out, showing the con-
tents to be gold coins. Hart then
asked, Take a tap, pard7' meaning
would the banker accept bet of
Harris pile against the Dealers, on
tho turn Of card. The banker
accepted the challenge, shufficd the
cards, passed the deck to Hart to
cut, then threw out the layout Of
six cards. Hart set his handkerchief
Of gold on a card, at the same time
drawing his pistol, saying, Just to
insure fair play seeing that the
banker had his gun on the table con-
venient to his hand. The banker
dealt, and Hart won. AS the banker
locked up with muttered oath, he
found himself looking into the mug
z.e Of Harris pistol held in one hand,
while with the other he swept his
winnings into his handkerchief.
Handing the banker a twenty-dollar
gold piece for a stake, he sauntared
away looking for new banks to bust
The next day was told Harris MAY
velous luck had deserted him and
he lost every dollar he had"
On his return to Kansas from the
West he made Lawrence his head.
quarters, where he was still known
as Charley Hart, and his life and
operations there were shrouded in
much mystery. For a while he lived
with the Delaware tribe Of Indians
on. Mud Creek, about four miles
from Lawrence, and claimed to be a
secret agent Of the tribe on the quest
OF horse thieves. Then his name DO.
gan to bS.eonneataa with =tae bordsr
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ruffian gangs, whose exploits kept
the borders Of Kansas and Missouri
in constant state of terror.
Whatever his real convictions
about the impending struggle, it
seems certain that at this time he
was playing a double role, like many
others Of that day, between the
abolitionists and the slavery ex-
ploiters-he had "friends' on both
sides. The time had not yet struck
for the fates to loose the thread
that changed the current Of his life
and turned the picturesque, rowing,
sentimental adventurer Of the Wild
West into the most desperate, re-
lentless and crafty guerrilla leader
that ever followed the ambushed
trails Of war the world over.
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F0rew0rd

,TNACK in old Missouri, where
- the surnac leaves are REDEEM
~ ing and the Usage oranges
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LT1ILLIAM ANDERSON one of QuamtriWs heutemants
w qvho led the rald CentYaia, Mo.

their lives would always be like
this beautiful morning, calm and
serene. And I wish that I could
always be as these children. But I
have been SO no doubt, and I have
no reason to expect it second sime.'
None, indeed. Four years from
the time he penned those tender
lines he was riding on his death
dealing expedition to Lawrence,
where there was no laughter Of
children and the music of the birds
was not needed on one day of doom.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-29
Bryan s Plank on League Provides
Senate Majority May Ratity Treaty

SAN FRANCISCO June 2s-Raifaton of Treaty of Yer
oes W such reservations Senate
m the plank Of William Bryan dealing oh treaty League
V Noos The Ne6rasan tonight public his plank
go oelore the Resolutions Committee. 1t folous:
The Democratic party amendment to the Federal
CONSTITUTION providing Tor ratification OF treaties
SO mat 1t Will be to end
the most fundamental principle popular
namely the right of the people to rule
"ch we nave recently than $4,000
we have sacrificed hundred thousand favor an
immediate reonvenng of the Senate that this principle applied
treaty controversy
majority the Senators eserng for the future
ne making OF such changes as deem necessary.
we favor appointment by the consent
Senate OF delegates league until rep
larry chosen delegates elected qualified
I'VE favor the selection of the delegates in the Iap of
Nations by popular vote in DISTRICTS the people NAV
speak through representatives the august tribunal
which will consider the warfare of world
These delegates should be vote for war without
specific instructions from Congress- from the peope piven m
referendum y
Our nations delegates should also be instructed insist unon
the disarmament of the world burden of nar
may be lifted from the shoulders and the
Oh an enduring peace laid in friendship and cooperation"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-29
Conventions
Greeting Sent
To President
Message of Appreciation,
Praising Conduct of the
War, Adopted Unani.
mously by the Delegates

SAN FRANCISCO, June %. = The
Democratic National Convention TODAY,
on motion of Governor Frederick D.
Gardner, of Missouri, directed Chair
man Cummings to send to Presidcr.
Wilson message of their appreciation
and greetings
The resolution, adopted unanimously
just before adjournment, praised the
achievements of the President in the
conduct of the war, "rejoiced in the
recovery of the Presidents health and
strength, and deeply resented the NAL
lgnant onset of the Pres ident'S parti-
san foes"
The text of the telegram follows:
I'm recognition of the fact that the
mantle of Jackson and jefferson has
tallen on your Shoulders as the un.
questioned leader of our party, the
hosts of Democracy, in national con-
ventlon assembled, have directed me to
send you the following resolution of
appreciation and greeting:
me Democratic party, assembled in
national convention, extends to the
President of the United States it's
admlring and respectful greetings.
Achievements Are Praised
For seven of the most fateful years
IN the history Of our country, Woodrow
Wilson has occupied and by his char
acter, learning and power has adorned
the highest Offices in the gift of his
countrymen.
He has initiated and secured the
adoption OF great progressive measures
of immeasurable value and benefit to
the people of the United States.
AS the Commander in Chief of the
Army and Navy of the United States.
he has led the patriotic forces of his
country through the most momentous
struggle in history, and, without check.
reserve or retardation, to an honor
able part in the immortal victory for
liberty and democracy xon by the
free nations Of the world
We hail these achievements, sir,
and are proud that they have been
accomplished under your administra-
ton.
We rejoice in the recovery of YOUR
health and strength after months of
suffering and affection which you have
borne with courage and without COM
plant.
Resents Malignant Onset
I'VE deeply resent the malignant
onset which you have most undeserv-
edly been called upon to sustain from
partisan foes, whose judgment is
warped and whose perceptions are
obscured by a party malice, which
constitutes q lamentable and disgrace
full page in our history
AT this moment, when the dele
Continued on next paoe)
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200 Trappedin
Subway Train;
5Hurt i'm Panic:
Passengers ON Five Cars
Make Rush for Doors
When Smoke Caused by
Short Circuit, Fills Trains
Roar and Binding Flash
Guards Stand Awe-Stricken
With Platform Nearby:
Police Reserves Called

"a SHoe on tne 1Ourtn car of fIve-car
Canarsie train dropped to the third rai
at the Canal Street station of the B. r.
T. subway shortly before 10 O'Clock
last night. There was a roar and a
binding flash as the current was short
clrcuited in all five cars.
The lights blinked out i,nmcdiatelv
and smoke surged about the train.
hlllng the cars as it rolled in through
the open windows. In the confusion
and darkness the guards at first failed
to realize ina. the train was standing
by station platform and ignored the
cries O. The passengers 70 oner the
doors.
Panic-stricken. nearly two hundred
passengers began to Chamber over one
another In an effort to reach the win
dows. The stronger ones who man
aged to gain footholds battered at the
glass until 1t was shattered and started
to climb through the jagged apertures,
those behind tugging at them in an
effort to make room for themselves.
Before any one had been seriously
nurt the guards opened the doors
Another rush followed, the passengers
clawing and trampling to be first at
the doorways. Men and women lost
their hats, coats, umbrellas and suf-
fered severe jostling.
Eventually they all got out, some of
the women falling senseless on the
platform as they emerged Some one
passing Canal and Center streets tee-
phoned for the reserves from the Eliza
beth Street station. The subway sta
tion agent sent for two ambulances.
The police separated those who
showed bruises and scratches from
those who were sound and set up an
emergency hospital on the platform,
where doctors from st. Vincent's and
Volunteer hospitals treated five per-
sons for bruises, scratches and
hysteria.
Those who received medical atten-
tion were Mrs. Backy Gelfer, 206 Bush
wick Avenue, and her twelve year-old
daughter, Sarah, who were suffering
from hysteria and shock; 1gnatz Zil
mach, OF 476 Central Avenue, whose
head was cut; Mrs. Minnie Balinson, Of
1873 Cook Street, who was hysterical,
Street, who tainted. All of them live
in Brooklyn and all went home after
being treated by physician.
Within ten minutes the train was on
it's way again, but without passengers.
Those who had been through the acci-
dent chose to wait for another train
or to take another sort of conveyance
to their homes. Taxicabs were called
to take the injured to their residences.
A representative of the Public Serv-
ice Commission reached the station
soon after the train departed and fol
lowed it to Canarsie to try to find out
the cause Of the accident.