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Show SENATOR STONE IS CALLED JY DEATH Held a Most Important Position Po-sition in Democratic Party. WASHINGTON, April H Senator William J. Stone of Missouri, chalr-! chalr-! man of the senate foreign relations committee and lor man years prominent promi-nent smonf Democratic leaders, died here today, after a stroke of parnlysls suffered lasi Wednesday. Senator Stone suffered the stroke while on a street car on his way to the senate office building a slight cere hral hemorrhage affected his lef( side, tendering him bolpless, bul he did not lose consciousness and a few hours later rallied. His family and friends were very hopeful until esterday. 'when there was a decided turn for j t he worse. Today there was a second cerebral hemorrhage and the senator fell Into a state of coma. Death c ame at 4 : 30 o'clock this afternoon. At the beside wer' Mrs Stone and their children Federal Judge Kim I brough Stone of KansasiCity; Mrs John W Parkinson of St Joseph; and Miss Mabc-I Stone and niece, Miss bfai ' garet Winston of Si. Louis. Senator Reed announced funeral j services will be held tomorrow after noon at the home and the family, accompanied ac-companied by B congressional commit I tee, will leave with the hody in the evening for St. Louis At St. Louis a night train will be taken for Jeffer- i son City, w here the body will rest in I state in the state capitol Wednesday That evening the body will be taken to Nevada, Mo., Senator Stone's old home, for burial there Thursday, by the Nevada Masonic lodge. A successor to Senator Stone lo hold office until the next general election in November, will be made h Governor I Gardner of Missouri, who is a Demo- jcrat Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska. ranking Democrat of the foreign relations rela-tions committee. I?, expected to succeed suc-ceed to the chairmanship. Senuto William J. Stone was in j public life 4." years and during that I long period probably engaged In as I many political contests as any man of his time, ranging all the way from enntroversies over county offices to the broadest national, issues. At ihe entry of the United States 'into the war Senator Stone performed ihe trying feat of antagonizing his own party administration and then realign ing himself with it in a generally sal Isfactory manner it was in connection connec-tion with the bill proposing the arm ! ing of American merchant ships that he took sharp issue with President Wilson He stood with the dozen Bene-tors Bene-tors whose opposition caused the fail I nre of that measure at the close of the sixty-fourth congress and brought down the denunciation of the pr-.v jdent upon "the wilful twelve " While 'Senator Stone made no apologies tor his course on that occasion, he nlways rnnlfinHnH It nn l AJ n ... , ....v... ... jmt ,mt lYiui nis duty as a senator, because iu accord with his convictions. His opposition to the declaration of war on Germany was also pronounced, and ho declined to take charge of the war resolution, as would have been expected of him as cha.rman of the committee on foreign relations. He did not seek, however, i... place obsta- lea in the way of a consideration and transferred his leadership to Senator Hitchcock, next ranking Democratic member of the committee He believed be-lieved that American participation should be avoided if possible, but when the die was cast for war he changed over night. He took his place with the supporters of war measures and consistently maintained that ntti-t ntti-t ude. Although he had served in the hpuse of representatives and had been governor gov-ernor of his state. Senator Stone first attracted national attention In connection con-nection with Mr. Bryan's first campaign cam-paign for the presidency in 1896. He became the Missouri member of the national Democratic committee and soon took front rank among the Bryan managers, justifying a reputation for shrewdness and foresightedness he al ready had gained in Missouri. Mr Stone's position as a member of the national committee led to his selection as vice chairman lor Mr. Bryan's second sec-ond campaign As i consequence of their associations, the two men became be-came close friends. But at the pemo-i pemo-i cratic convention in 1912, Stone led I the right for the nomination of Speaker Speak-er Clark. Sinc coming to the senate in 1903. Mr Stone had been to the I front on all important questions He (seldom hesitated to attack any senator, sena-tor, Democrat or Republican, who opposed op-posed what he believed to be deserv-ling deserv-ling administration m-awure--j Notwithstanding his pacifist attl- j tude. Mr. Stone was made chairman' of the committee on resolutions at the ' St. Louis convention in 1916 and to Jhlin fell the difficult work of shapinc 'the platform on which President Wil 'son was re-elected A Kentucklan by nativity, born M:i 7. 1848 Senator Stone removed to Missouri Where he graduated from the Missouri university and was admitted to the bar in 1S69. In 1873 he was prosecuting pros-ecuting attorney of Vernon county. He came to congress as a representative represent-ative in the forty-ninth congress and 'was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-i fifty-i first congresses, serving from 18S5 to I 1891. From 1893 to 1897 he was governor i of Missouri. L'pon the death of George G. Vest, he was first elected to the sen-' sen-' ate in 1903 and was re-elected in 1909 i and 1915. He married in 1874 and had three children. oo |