The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1904-04-14

ir. Stefiins is the editor of Nc
pre's Magazine, aud in the current
be has a scathing article ON 0The
DENIES Of the Republic and takes
bsouri as the scene Of his literary
lloit.
Following Is one Of the most perth
pt portions Of the article:
Almost any state would start US
#lElt, but Missouri is the most prom
Ag. Joseph W. Folk, the circuit
-orney OF st. Louis, has not only laid
le open the road out there; he
flows II Is the way Of a system. Hell
kn't at first. lie, too, thought he
Is lighting political corruption, and
q the whole Of il was the st. Louis
zhg. But he got the ring. Mr., Folk
y convicted the boss and members
.hthe the doodle combine that was
Sllling out his city; yet the ring does
Y break. whyg Because back Of
e boodlers stand the big business
|hn who are buying the city up.
lllgs, Folk got the business men, too.
ley are>got "low-down politicians
|Aey are respectable business men"
Having discovered early that boodleH
bw IN pairs; that wherever there was
|Bbriea-taker, there twas also a bribe-
|Dver. Folk hunted them IN pairs. Aud
N pairs he brought them down. Aud
+ III the ring does not break. What
4 tie matieI2
Il That's whaCs the matter. "lhat
nan Folk" Is attacking the system.
! I Ne had confined his chase to that
Unprotected bird. the petty boodler,
nl might have been well. Indeed,
|here was a ti' e, just before the first
|rial Of the boss, Col. I'd. Butler,
|shen the ring vas IN a panic and
Everybody ran. II he had stayed his
band then Folk could have been
Governor OF Missouri, the leader Of
his party, and a very rich man. But
Pe would not stop These were not
| he things he was after. At that
moment he vas after Boss Butler; and
|he got him.
and the conviction of Butler he
laid recently, "is the point where we
passed out OF the ring intothe system. "
Butler was not only tile boss Of the
ring: he was the tool OF the System.
He was the man through whom the
st. Louis business man did business
with the combine, and Folk hadn't
caught all the business men involved.
lrhe first time | met him, early Ia his
|wofk, he was puzzled by the opposition
OF officials and citizens who,
"a Iefhought. should have been his side.
NE next time saw him this mystery
e clearing. one BY one those peo-
were turning up IN his deal or
d lck b f'a5 me Al could lot
n eh hem. he aaN never reach them
II b4t there they eere. aud they
III relatives. tleli friends their
III krs.. their business aud social
~ tes nobody can r.llzeN says
'Mf. y M sthe infinite fsmllleatlons
|of n thing. And the man folt
rising out Of the wrecked machinery
Of Justice Ia Missouri may lead his
peo 70 zee thar the corruption @.
the government Is not merely Co
run lon. bnt revolutionary process
Amas8.s Tor a ne9 form Of government
lind ms people Of Missouri, rising out
softhe wrecked machinery q the gov.
'ernrent If Missouri. may teach theiI
poi iielans a lesson IN liberty and
Da,ol,or Rul that Is not enough Thai
hAliI reach neither the soufce noF th'
~ "A II tlu evil. Some power gIeatel
|ll,n FOLK. greater than that Of th'
ole Of Missouri, must rise @ brinl
me f. tie captain n industry ~
tn. That business, imrofiantas 1
4 not sacred. that not everything
Al pays Il rights that, II bfibefy /
Aeon. iffhs corrupt politician Is
altor then tie eorrupting oualnes
AN Is an enemy Of the republic n
,stter Aaa many tauae Ne nay noa