The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-01-06
TALKS OF FUTILE.
The st. Louis Republic Predicts
That He Will be the
Speaker.

The friends of Hon. W. F. futile
are glad to learn that bis prospects for
election to the speakership of the
house of representatives are constantly
growing brighter and that his election
is now almost assured beyond donbt.
This fact is now recognized all over
the state.
Yesterday, the st. Louis Republic
had the following to say
of Mr.. futile and the speaker
ship race, in its Jefferson City CORES
pondence:
1.-The indications now are that Hon.
Wilbur F. Tutt'e, one of the repre-
sentatives elect from Pettis county,
will be the next speaker of the house
Of representatives. Of course nothing
is certain until accomplished, but a
careful survey of the situation leads
to the opinion that everything is ia
vorable to Mr.. Tuttle's election. Hon.
Ed. w. Turner will come to Jefferson
City with a strong following, and one
that will be complimentary 10 his long
term of service In the house and to
his popularity as a man. But he has
the misfortune to be a lawyer at
time when the farmers are demanding
and obtaining recognition. Repre-
sentative Webb, of Jackson, will not
have a solid delegation from his own
county, and representative Fogle, of
Schuyler, is not paying much atten-
ton to the race"
Mr.. Tultle's postofice is the little
town of Dresden, near which is his
extensive farm, half covered with
sleek horses and fat cattle. He is
quiet man, having had little to say in
the Thirty-ffth General Assembly ;;
but he is an orator of no small preten-
sions, and his few speeches have mark
ed him as a man of sound judgment
and quick perceptions. He was born
at VVellsboreugh, Pa, March 4, 1871,
and is, therefore 40 years of age, He
was educated at the Genesee Wesleyan
Seminary and Genesee college at Lima
n. Y, and was city clerk of Elmira,
N. Y, in 1S60-61. Then he entered
the army as captain of Co. K. One
Hundred and Forty first regiment
New York Volunteers, and rose to
major and to lieutenant colonel of the
One Hundred and Sixty-frst. After
the war Mr.. Tuttle tried journalism
and the law, but falling health drove
him "back to Eden" and he came to
Missouri full fedged farmer. For
nearly 20 years he has successfully
titled the soil, and is righteously proud
of his ability as an agriculturist. He
came to the Thirty-ffth General As
sembly a retiring, modest, almost
difident man, and while a visiting
Sedalian would prophesy great things |
for Tuttle, he stuck to his desk until
it seemed all the Sedalia prophecies
had failed. But the man was waiting
for his "sea legs" He got them one
day and electrified the House with a
speech that bristled with elOquence,
wit and good sense. After that Mr..
futile was a leader, but always a
Democrat, always prudent, careful
and conscientious.
Mr.. Tuttle is of medium height, |
slender figure and broad shoulders.
He has red mustache, which drops
IN that peculiar way characteristic of
literary men. His hair is dark, and
his eyes of that cold gray which always
makes a man formidable at the other
end of a gun. In fact it is compli-
ment to him TO say that he could east
ly be mistaken for a Texas sheriff,
save for the kindly and genial lines
about his mouth. When he visited
Jefferson City the other day he was
plainly clad in suit of dark gray
cashmere, with bobbed-off coat and
ad-brimmed,- black felt hat. He
He wasn't cut out for dude, if he
did emanate from New York, and the
members of the Thirty-sixth General
Assembly will have no difficulty in
cultivating his acquaintance at short
range. Mr. futile has plenty of that
which society calls polish, but he
is travelling on his horse-sense rather
than on his shape.
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