The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-12-05
HON. HAIRY HAWIy SPtICH

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nothing hut ~sdulation, nothing but fat
ter roihing hui homage nothing but
ASSISTANCE. rom an classesand an types
Of our people. want again to charge
tiat the statements or insinuatiOns
that the public officials Of our City or
our private citizens have not rendered
you every possible assistance, are false
and should have been publicly denied
BY you.
DOODLE AS AN ISSUE.
Doodle has not been a Democratic
or Republican question. BOodlers who
were elected by Republicans and hood
lers who we're elected by Democrats
have been discovered, indicted and con-
yicted. There is no politics in the
question. There are honest and dis
honest men in both parties, the pro-
portion of dishonest to honest men in
each beingcomparatively small, l would
not charge that any political partyis the
party OF boodlers, nor would | charge
that any per cent, no matter how COM
paratively small, represented a senti-
ment in favor of dishonesty in public
officials.
In order to make boodling either a
State or a city issue it must first be-
shown that the administration of Rol-
la Wells or the Administration of A.
NJ. Dockery is dishonest and corrupt
There must be two sides to a question
10 make an issue. What would be the
two sides If Doodle were an issue?
What party or what part of any party
would espOuse the of Doodle?
What per cent of the population Of the
State would be susceptible to Doodle
Influences? Mr.. Folk is a candidate for
the nomination for governor by the
Democratic party and has been for
over a year. The question of whether
he will be nominated is a question
which should be decided by Democrats.
There were $50, 900 votes cast by the
Democratic party in 1900. What per
cent OF these votes does Mr.. Folk as
sumo are controlled by Doodle or cor
rupt influences? His campaign man
Rger claims that ninety per cent of the
voters of Missouri are for Mr.. Folk,
and that he is being opposed only by
boodlers and corruptionists. Must we
therefore determine by the logic OF this
statement that Mr.. Folk and his cam
paien managers believe that ten per
cent of the Democratic vote Of Mis-
uouri-that is to say, $4,000 votes-are
boodlers or corruptionists? How does
Mr., Mcleod know that there are S5,-
900 boodlers in the State Of Missouri?
On what does he base his charge?
Is 1t not an insult TO hundreds OF
thousands Of Democrats in this State
to say that there are enough Demo-
Crats in Missouri who are corrupt and
dishonest to make such an issue? II
Doodle is the issue in Missouri, who
would be found TO take the Doodle side
q the issue? Is there a man In the
whole State Of Missouri who would ad-
VOcate a Doodle party or who would
advocate corruption in office? AS a
matter of fact, have not MI. Folk and
some of his supporters attempted &c
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Ms own political aspirations, and prob
ahly with the idea that he can make
q vigorous fight on imAginery oppo
Rsnts? Is he trying to erect a Zoe. gar
Eson its citadels with a vivid imag.
nation, fil its ranks with creatures q
his brain. and then fight them for hI
own e~diication and for the enhance
ment of his own political fortunes?
Booble as an issue. Mr.. Folk, viii
y0u as its only opponent, viii o
course be most pleasing to you per
aonAlly and OF much benefit to you
political fortunes, but has the conduo
Of democratic affairs In this State beeI
such that you can honestly raise sucl
an issue? Is every man who oppose
you a boodler, a friend of the boodler
or an advocate of corruption? Can W
not find one honest man in Missouri
who a oppose you, who is opposinI
youy Or, are they, as Mr.. Mcleod says
boodlers or the friends of boodlers?
In your st. Joseph speech, you say
Party organization must be main
tanned and party leaders sustaine
when right, but party loyalty does nc
require personal approval of indivit
ual dishonesty or party defense Of col
ruption, It is said that this doctriI
would lose thirty thousand Democrat
votes in st. Louis. ! deny that thel
are that many Democratic boodlers
the City Of st. Louis. or anything Ill
it,"
Who made this statement, Mr.. Foil
Give us the name of the man who sa
there we're thirty thousand Democrat
votes in st. Louis that require pc
sonal approval of individual dishol
esty or party defense Of corruption
Give us the nam of one man wi
made this statement? The fact is, N
Folk. that you have by indirectit
charged that any Democrat in the C
OF st. Louis who would vote again
you for election would be a boodlI
Thirty thousand boodlers in st. Lor
indeed! Such a statement is an {
front to the whole City.
Because you have discovered IN
great City faithless public officials a
Dany more greedy capitalists trying
BUY rights from its corrupt servan
because you have found a comparatiy
" few mea engaged in this species