The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-10-23
Makes WE'LL Received Address in
Courthouse Where He Prose
cuted Edward Butler.
AND ORATOR IN TOUCH.
Columbia Regarded as Original
Folk Town, for Student at
Smoker There First Sug-
geSted Him as Governor.
BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.

Columbia. Mo-, Oct. 22--In the same
courthouse. the most picturesque in Mis-
souri,. where he prosecuted Edward Butler
in the garbage-contract case two years
ago., Mr.. Folk to-day addressed a Boone
County audience az the Democratic nomi-
nee for Governor.
Columbia may be considered the original
Folk town. and 1t was a crowd of original
Folk men who greeted him this afternoon.
Speaker and audience were In complete
accord. n the meeting proved memora-
BILE in every respect.
When the. hard-fought Butler case had
ended, after the jury had rendered its
verdict of three years in the penitentiary,
Folk was the guest of a college fraterni-
ty here at a smoker. Three cheers for
the next Governor then cried an enthu-
siastic student. They proved loud. and,
as now appears. prophetic huzzahs.
In delivering his speech, Folk stood
practically at the very spot where
he argued to the jury in the Butler case.
Some of the former jurymen were among
his auditors. Certainly very many of the
farmers and townsmen who heard him
then, packing the courtroom to suffoca-
ton. heard him again to-day, and great
numbers OF them came forward when he
had concluded to say that they were for
him two years ago and are still for him.
The Columbia appointment was filled
with difficulty. The one train on the
Wabash branch. which runs here, turned
turtle three miles south of Centralia. re-
sulting in an indefinite blocking of traf-
fc. A long drive was the only recourse
and ~ u-uc t,ndarfoEan uith n faSt taor,
The twenty-four miles from Centralia
over was made in less than three hours.
Henry T.. Lee and w. Hampton Roth
well met the candidate eight miles out
Of Columbia with a fresh team. This
hastened matters. Lee furnished an ex-
Democrat in a hurry. Fears of a smash
up, however, proved to be groundiess, and
he brought the party into Columbia with
out breaing any bones. The Folk d~eclara-
Influences which corrupt Taa politics pe@hths. was
equally the source of interest to-day
that II was in another form when the
archboodler Of Missouri stood a defendant
before the court.
1t had the more significant Endorsement.
too, In votes pledged to support the prin-
ciples announced. In Boone. as elsewhere
red fire and lurid oratory. som Of the
local politicians profess alarm. since there
IL not 90 much of shouting as Is usually
the case IN Such q stronghold OF I)emoc-
racy. Boone always goes more than 5000
Democratic. and runs a close race with
Monroe for place as the banner county.
But sober Judgment inclines to the be-
lief that the voters are calmly and seri-
ously alive to the crisis of the present
moment.
1t is believed that their minds are fully
made up. and that no pyrotechnics are
needed to insure that they go TO the polls
election day.
Congressman W. D.. vandiver and Dor
sey W. Shackleford were also in Column
bia to-day. They addressed large audi
ences before n after Mr.. Folk arrived.
Because of the wreck on the Wabash
Folk was unable to keep his date at Stur-
geon tonight. 1t would ave been neces-
to make another drive, and he did not
feel equal to 1t. The appointment accord
was cancelled.
He left Columbia at 8 p. M. planning TO
directly to st. Louis.
Monday he is scheduled to deliver three
speeches in Nebraska. His freedom to do
so. however, ears unlikely. He had not
heard definitely from the Albright case
tonight, but If that comes up for trial on
Monday. III will be compelled to remain in
st. Louis. He begins another o in Mis-
souri, Tuesday. The first point of his itin-
erary Is Burlington Junction In Nodaway
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