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Show THE HAND OF DEATH IS UPON HIM. While riding In a street car in Washington today, Senator Stone of Missouri, chairman of the foreign relations rela-tions committee, was stricken with paralysis. His condition is reported j serious. This is the beginning of the end of a very" remarkable record Since bis ! break with the administration, when be -ought to prevent the United States entering the war, the senator has been finding comfort in the cup that cheers No doubt he had begun to realize what a great mistake he had made and worry had possessed his ! soul. The American people had turned from the man in disgust and the knowledge of the fact must have brought its strain. The general verdict is that Stone, to gain a political advantage by ap pealing to the German vote in Mis souri, deliberately imperiled his own country It is somewhat harsh to re-cite re-cite those odious things at a time j i when the man is stricken down, but I The Standard aims, by taking advantage advan-tage of the near-tragedy, to deeply im-1 im-1 press on the people the story of a great man who, yielding to a base j temptation, ruined his career and went down to the brink of the grave in Ig- j nominy. |