The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-11-28

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which Eastern magazine writer's ana
censored newspapers have given OF MI
Folk. II is possible that | have maze
mistakes. If so Mr.. Folk will know
and he is the man to reply. A reply
made by the Republicans who edit the
st. Louis Star OF the Globe-Democras
will not suffice. It should come from
Mr.. Folk in a straightforward manly
way. and l will promptly correct n
statements whose accuracy he sue
cessfully challenges.
l have not been discussing Mr.. Folk
as circuit attorney. l have been dis
cussing Mr.. Folk as a man who Is
seeking the Democratic nomination for
governor. Mr.. Folk, therefore, owes IL
to his party as a candidate for office
to reply to the charge that he refused
to support 1t when appealed to through
its representative men. If he has any
excuse to offer, we ought to have 1t.
If he has none, he ought to admit It
But what excuses he has, and what ex-
plantations he has, should be made by
himself and not by one of his deputies.
charge that Mr.. Folk made his last
Democratic speech in the campaign OF
1900. when he was a candidate for Of
fee, and that, although repeatedly in
vited and requested so to do, he re-
fused to make a speech when his par
ty required II, and that the first polit-
ical speech he made since those OF
November, 1900, was a speech made
at St. Joseph on October "a, when he
was again a c%andidate,a period of three
years having elapsed in which time he
refused time and again to assist in any
of the battles of his party. l charge
him now with having made his last
speech in his W interest in 1900 and
that his next speech three years later
was again made in his own interest. I
charge that he has been selfish, and
that he has at all times considered
himself and not his party.
My structures on Mr.. Folk are adj
dressed to Democrats and not to Re-
publicans. | can well understand why
what l have said will not appeal to
Republican newspapers or Republican
politicians.
THE DOODLE QUESTION IN ST.
LOUIS.
The Democratic party tried in its
platform and in the character of its
nominees in 1902 to make good gov
eminent the issue, Doodle by that
name was not presented as an issue,
first because all honest people of all
parties are against boodling, and sec
ond the mention of it would have en-
phasized the bad but unfounded repu-
tation for corruption which the sensa-
tional press and magazines all over
the country had given our city be-
cause of the Doodle prosecutions. The
picture which Eastern magazines
were painting of Mr.. Folk undoubted-
ly was agreeable to him and pleasing
to his vanity, but the picture of st.
Louis as a corrupt, illy-governed and
mismanaged city was not relished by
u citizens and was not honestly
stated.
From the time that the first Doodle
exposure was made to the present day
| state without fear of contradiction
that no public officer has ever had
such absolute, united, continuous. and
able support in the prosecution of any
public work as Mr.. Folk. Every daily
paper in the City of st. Louis. every
weekly publication, every monthly
magazine, published in the City of st.
Louis, the State of Missouri or the
United States, has given him it's cor
dial and unstinted support. One enter
prising paper in the City went so far
as to send n of It's ablest men to
Mexico to secure the return of one Of
the members Of the House of Dele
gates. The man employed in this work
was probably n of the most brilliant
newspaper men in st. Louis. His work
was conspicuous in behalf of good gov
eminent and for the purpose of assist
ing Mr.. Folk, This is but one illustra-
ton Of what has been done by private
citizens of the community in the great
work. Citizens of all classes irrespecs
tive of party have come to his assist
ance. Sums of money were raised to
pay for special juries, and for other
expenses where no provision was made
by the state.
All of the juries which have tried the
Doodle cases in st. Louis have been
what is known as special juries. That
is to say, they were men selected
from the business walks of life. La
borers, artisans and mechanics did not
sit on these juries. Special juries have
never before been used by public prose-
cutors in their work, there being no
provision for the payment Of their serv-
ices, which cost SIS each panel, and
money was raised by private citizens to
pay for them.
Special juries such as l have de-
scribed have never been used in any
other part Of Missouri, so that 1t can
be seen to what extent our citizens
have gone, when they by private sub
scription have raised money to provide
Mr.. Folk with juries Of this class, and
l believe that, if he continues in his
belief that he cannot trust his cases to
the ordinary jury composed Of or
Ginary citizens, our people will con-