The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-09-19
HAYES MAY RUN.

HAYES MAY RUN.
Elsewhere In this issue will be
found an interview with Harry B.
Halves, police commissioner Of St.
Louis and president OF the Jefferson
Club No discriminating reader can
fail to discover from the interview
the character Of the man and the
secret Of his strength with the St.
Louis democracy. He is a plain mar
who thinks 10 straight lines and has
never learned the definition OF the
word euphemiSm. He believes ia
party government and party organ.
ization. AS a candidate for governor,
If he decides tn become a candidate,
his case will be entirely different
from that Of any one of the other
candidates. He will start into the
race with a certainty OF nine-tenths
of the delegates from st. Louis and a
probability Of every one. But he
will have to fight for everything be
gets out in the state. He is known
and favorably known to the politi-
clans, but not to the people. Perhaps
none of the papers of the state, local
or metropolitan, would be 50 hostile
to him as some Of them are to Reed
aud others to CAN'T and other to
Folk; but then none doubtless would
espouse his cause with as much
warmth as some have done 10 the case
Of the other candidates.
MI. HAYES says that If he decides
to become a candidate he will first
resign his Office as police commissioner
and also the presidency Of the Jeffer-
son Club and will make a canvas Of
every county in the state. If he
does, he will make friends wherever
he goes. While he is not an orator
in the usual acceptation of the term,
he speaks with a vigor Of thought
and an ~earnestnesS Of purpose which
attains the same ends. He is more
companionable and more interesting
personally than most public men He
has an excellent record, which would
be asSailed only by republicans. By
sheer force of leadership he has con-
verified ST. Louis from a normal
republican majority Of 10000 to a
democratic majority of 10000. he
has never used his influence and his
organization except for good govern
ment and reform. Wells and Folk
owe their election to him, and he has
followed up the work in two subse-
quent elections by standing out
squarely with the reform movement
In the circuit judges election and the
municipal assembly election.
Mr.. HAYES has for several years
wished to be governor Of Missouri,
but perhaps a little circumstance
which happened last winter is having
more influence with him In determin.
Ing his course in the matter than
even he is aware Of. Last winter
Mayor wells gave a big official dinner
to which Mr.. Folk aud MI. Halves
were Of course invited. Mr.. Folk
made the unconscionable blunder OF
declining the invitation on the ground
that he would not be a guest where
Mr.. HAYES was invited, and he pub.
lished his declination in the St. Louis
Star, a republican newspaper which
at that time seemed to have a
monopoly of the Folk news. There
seemed to be no justification for this
procedure either upon grounds Of
good sense or policy, and it was cal.
culated to arouse the resentment Of
Mr.. HAYES and his friends. Proba.
bly, nothing Mr. Folk has done or left
undone has so weakened him in public
estimation in st. Louis, and it is not
improbable that Mr.. Halves is human
enough to wish to submit the ques.
ton of their relative public estima,
ton to a vote Of the people who
know them, both.
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