Show JAMBS IN Df A SOUTHERNERS EYES EY Jefferson City Correspondence of Kane Kanas City Star The he sentiment still existing amen amon amenthe the old southern people in which encouraged Frank James to as asfor uk asfor for an n office Mice at the hands of or the state tal legislature lature is Ut le understood by net pe peo people pepie pie not of Missouri James Tames had a to justify him in starting i ithe In Ithe the race It took the Influence of th til the heads of the party from front governor dow down downto to beat him bim The people le of other states htow tROW sow c cFrank of Frank James Tames simply as a a bandit wh who robbed trains and banks and shot met men menThe The old Democrats of the rich riv river counties which have always domi dom dominated dominated the Democratic party ant am and through it the tho t state take tak a different view of Prank Frank James and of the tee n votes that were cast for him in spite c of oft the t most bitter opposition a will contend that he was a patriot Sev Se Several Several Sereal eral real of them served with wih him In th Ui the armed forces of it f the confederacy re reg regular regular ular uSer or irregular Among the members of or o the house bout are men who served with wIH Frice Shelby Shelb Bill Anderson and Quantrell Q CHI CaP CaPtain tain W F Heber of Boone count county served with James under Bill Ander Anderson son who was as much a cause of or ter tei tein n nw Fur r to tu the unionists In eastern as Quantrell was in western Mis lItI Missour Ouri sour Captain Roberts RobEr was not a member f Arder hand and of ma marauders marauders marauders but was during durin the latter par part of f th the war a member of the seers secre secret service He earned a commission o a of colonel from Kirby irby by Smith ye yet was never known as colonel for it wa we Rot not until years after the war was over ove that he be dared show the commission I 1 knew Frank James well Cap Caplain tarn lain Roberts said saki and came carne in con contact contact contact tact with him a great gret deal d l We Ve were with Price together to early in the war wai and I want to say to tp you that Fran Frank James was a gentleman When hen he was as ordered to do any thinS we knew it was done He went in a as private but was soon advanced to t lieutenant Then he was with Bit Bill Anderson for a long time tI I se so much of him but tw two or three time times since until I came over here this thi week The last time I saw him before was at Moberly soon after be he sur surrendered rendered I was introduced ed as lIB judge but b t he just grabbed gb both my hand band and said Why this Is Captain Rot Rob Roberts erts and shook both hands bands at once The Tte old mans eyes glistened and aed h hi he began to pace pa e around the tae room ro Tin The notice James Jam had given him pleased please him more than tha the highest appoint most It m in the gift of oC the governor could couk have save done A bystander asked aked for tin the story of the Centralia fight It has lia been leto told many times but the tile ok old Jed lator had a version of his own BIn ill Anderson he said with th thi the Tames lames boys the Youngers ind md Tom Todd a brother r of Representative Representative Todd of Vernon county went ent to o and stopped a train tool took of ft sixteen men in the uniform o or ot union soldiers and shot them to death That Phat was some of Bill Andersons A do dongs Frank James approve ol olmen or BUell men inch things though he did participate T burned the depot t and rode away Ilay f c that time I was waa w buying baying supplies Mid I getting setting them to Price when wreD 1 I cOuld nd and when hen th they t y burned the depot depol hey they burned worth w rth of boots that J I I md tad bought for the rebels They kno now enow it was Prices Price army they wei ee They saved a few pain pairs of boots Each Sach man picked out a pair p and he the boots with whisky from frets a couple oC if iC barrels there were In the depot a ahe at ai he time and hung hu them over their eddies addles when they went away It was wat wasH waso o do H way of getting get whisky that I guess lot not many people ever bad to resort rt to toor or f course the fight ft bt made mad sore more fighting Johnson came after Bill Ander on with union soldiers An lerson denon raon had OO OO men mounted and wait waited ed tl d till tilt about of Johnsons men inca tad had dismounted and then charged dunged Hot fot ot a man who had dismounted lived to o 0 get to his horse hone The They were all hot ahot down The mounted men ol ot command tied lied and a run light fight was kept up all the way to more than twelve miles Clemens followed them within a quarter of a mile of oC the town It was a terrible butchery but Johnson John on came caine fter after them flying the black flag ft That Thata a ae been denied but I 1 know it was tnIe rue ruc rueI I r gathered up some of the badly rounded wounded and had Conk Murray taken takeno to o mv my own house hou e I kept him in an tUe till Frank Janice James came ame and got ot Un You see I could mix around with withe e I suspected 1 was w buying and selling sellin cattle and an l ls tan s and sometimes supplies like those mite boota Bill Andersons men burned up If f r the officers wanted information l they rould send me to buy stock where it itras Itras w ras to be got cot and I would take the tock tech to St Louis and make my report to the head bead of the secret service there Sometimes I had to pay P too much for Cor CAttle because I had to get them and nil J only made 14 during dun the whole sea sean aon n of 1864 1861 but I got cot the information James was driven to Jesse as 5 ready to surrender end and ten came rame after hint him and he H lied Iwu to toland stand land oft off a whole force of them They were wee ere killing our me men mei after ner they Stir sur surrendered rendered Cole had gone back to the old Younger farm near Caseville Ca and nd rid wa was aM plowing with an old rundown run own eke oke of oxen whoa the drove C Im to outlawry by trying to tonI m r r Dim m rn No sir Kir if it been the f r the ution after atter the war Frank James Jame Jam oud olt have ha e been one oae of the foremost of Missouri Irl M III lie He was U a man of 01 IDe ne Intellect and high h sense of honor boiler b nor wt t the drove him hi to te do things thina he tight toot not to have done donto I dont know whether nether he robbed robbe trains or not but Inow I Inow Inow now he was wan always an honorable gen and a it good goud soldier Rr noh h in is I 70 iO years fars old and anti antiC ande ande e e C speaks for a class ct of men who wIo are every day daJ less numerous than the day before He did not realize and nd neither did Frank James that a generation is not in sympathy with the fol followers followers followers lowers of the great guerrilla chiefs Anderson and Quantrell had almost reached reach d middle age To his mind the refusal to recognize recognise ree Frank James ac cc actually stamps the brand of cowardice on the Democratic party of Missouri |