The sun., 1904-07-04
HEARKEN TO ABE SLUpSKY!
". LOuyS SEER MAS ms SAY ON
REFORMER FOLk.
snch Men won't To In Practical veiitics
--TIe wouldn't Take Good Money That
the People wanted 20 Give Hin,, and
Hire some Good Man ~ DO His WORK.


Hire some Good Man " DO His work.
ST. Louis. July 3-In the grass plot
through which the visitor passes TO reach
the marble steps OF the handsome home OF
Col Abe Slupsky, warrior. educator. phil
osopher, statesman and school reforrner,
there stands heroic owl done In bronze,
with wide. moditative eyes. a high and In
tellectual forehead and pinions that rest
ready for fight or flight.
The owl is typical Of the master Of the
house. II IL his selection TO designate
his home. II is the representation OF wis
dom He IL it's personifcation. Behind
it sits the great seer himself. at peace with
all the world. brooding the political ques-
tions Of the day and age.
"D'ye know" said the great observer
this afternoon, Il don't believe that they re
going to nominate Folk. Really. I don't.
! think they're going to throw the SCOT into
him. ] was down at Joplin to look that
convention over. and made up my mind
that they were getting ready to throw him
Three months ago was offering to wager
that he wouldn't be nominated for Cover
nor, any part Of thousand, anywhere in
st. Louis, and the reason is that he Is q
four card fusher.
Now, have no feeling against him-not
bit-not a mite No, sir, l don't harbor
any grudge against him. But he hash t
made good He got into Office, and then
he struck high note. and he's been trying
to play up to 1t all the time since. He ain Z
got the orchestra to do it. And the Supreme
Court has reversed him Ave times--five
times. Now he's letting a procession OF
crooks out Of Jail to get Ed Butler.
They say that Ed Butler has been crooked
for thirty years. Well, don't II stand to
reason that II you or me or Ed Butler or
any other man has been crooked for that
length Of time, that a really competent
man could get him into Jail without turning
all the convicts in the State loose to do II?
And think Of this; When they dubbed
together and raised Sl6 900 here all around
among the good ones In st. Louis TO buy
a house for this circuit attorney, he turns
em down, don't he? Refused it. Refused
It! Wouldn't take it. Said no.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH REAL MONEY?
We'll, II he had been on the level, and it
had been a straight man that the money
was offered to, what would he have donei
What would / have done? What would
you have done? Why, we'd have taken
the money and said to those good ones:
Now, look here, I've been trying to get
some Of these pikers inside the cage and
! can't do it. ! amt up to the job. Now,
I'll take this money and III hire a COM
petent man, and I'll have him do the trick,
for can't do it, and it ought to be done
sure. Then we'll all be satisfied. won't
buy a house with it, but I'll 60 out and
hire a good lawyer and set him to work
and see what he can do about these rascals.
That's what I'll do
That's what any real, sure-enough
man who was on the level would have
done. But Folk didn't do it. If we were
hired to 60 crack a safe, and the safe was
there and the money was inside OF it and
We knew that the money was on the in
side, and We found that it was the kind
of a safe that we didn't know how to crack,
what would we doP What would we do?
Why. we'd go to some one that could crack
the safe, and we'd say to him, go and
get that coin. Here's yours And then
we could deliver the goods. We'd keep
our contract.
-There's another thing that makes me
think that this man won't do. And I'm a
Republican, too, and don't care anything
about it. He's been working all the time
to get Ed Butler. Now if you're going
out for the nei who have been doing all
these crimes, aren't they all alikep What
chance have you got with the man who
says: This for Brown, but not for Jones'I
EVERYTHING FOR ED BUTLER.
WHY does he take after Butler SO. and
let the rest of the big fish get awayf 1t
looks queer to me. Everything for Butler.
Now they say that there are other big fish
around here that might be caught, and
yet you don't hear peep about them.
them back from Europe, while you don't
find them chasing up the big ones at ALL
REMARKS ABOUT JUDGES.
There's game in that, all right. If
you get up before just Judge you're safe.
If the Judge says: Here's a man and here
here the lawn ana this Is what It eoes
you're all right and you don't have any
hi 10 be afraid Of. But what are you
Going to do when the Juoge will take u
thou and from that fellow 10 convict you
Judge like that? And what chance have
you got when the Judge says: This for this
ore, but not for that one?
DANGER OF PROHIBITION.
Now. III tell you that all the big railroads |
afford to have this man Folk In the Gov |
ernor's chair. They can't afford It. And |
the big breweries here in St. Louis. what
are they going to do about itp Do you think |
that they can afford to have Folk for Gov |
ernor? Why, really believe that il he was |
to be elected Governor Of this State he |
would turn st. Louis into a prohibition |
town. That is exactly what he would do.
"Eow1 Well, you know how it is. A man !
who is Governor we all take our hats OF to,
and We do about as he says. 1t don't make |
any difference what he was before he was
elected. and it don't make any difference
what we thought of him personally before
he was elected. When he is Governor, there
he is, and we do what he says, because
he is Governor, and not because his name
is Smith, or Jones. or Brown. or anything
else.
And l really believe that il Folk was
elected Governor he would make St. Louis
as dry AZ a bone all the time, for think
hat he could find way to do it. because
he was Governor. So think that he's not
going to be nominated. The interests are
90 big for him to be nominated. But II
he is nominated, he's not going to be elected.
Il was offering to bet three months ago
I hat he wouldn't smell the nomination.
Now I'm Offering to bet that IL he does get
II he won't be elected. For I think that
they'd rather have the other fellow in
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