Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-08-18
isOHE COMMENTS FROM OTHERS
Flat Denial Of Conference On candi.
dates, Vita Some AlInsion to the
Course Pursued by the Lead
iug Candidate at jefferson
City.

MT. Lutks MI AA'
vandlveF, Mr.. Cook, Judge Evans and
Senator Stone were present
In the course OF the meeting there
arose a question Of whether Mr.. Folk
should make q declaration In favor Of
the entire Democratic ticket. Senator
Stone says that this declaration was
promised and is not forthcoming. Mr.,
Folk had previously and has siuce de-
clared that 1t is unprecedented that
one candidate should be asked 10 dis
cuss the merits OF another. the
assumption being, In honest politics,
that men nominated on . ticket ara
compelled to support the nominees
and the platform
Senator Stone, in his letter TO the
Kansas City paper, also says that Mr..
Folk really had desired the nomina-
ton OF Cook and Alien and had gone
so far as to propose an alliance. The
chief question raised by the Stone
letter, aside from the natural inquiry
as u the purpose Of the document, ID
that Of the alleged alliance and what
it amounted to.
FOLKS STATEMENT TO REPUBLIC.
senator William J. Stone insults
the united Democracy OF his State by
the suggestion that any candidate on
a duly nominated State ticket viii moi
support the other candldates-all the
nominees Of, one convention.
Senator Stone, by broad inference,
attacks the head OF the ticket chosen
by bis own party, an unparalleled in.
stance Of political irresularity. His
two-column TRADE can have no Other
purpose than to embarrass the party
that has placed him in his high posi-
ton.
"The jefferson City convention wa:
a convention of the people. No candi
date was nominated because Of am
alliance, agreement, understanding OF
combine Of any nature. ] am on re
cord in half a dOzen instances as say.
ing that ! would have no part In
debating the nominees OF a eonven.
tion Of Democrats with minds Of theil
own and wills OF their own. Ths
TICKET nominated was not chosen b,
me nor by any individual, but was ths
choice Of the Democracy Of Missouri
Every leader In that convention give
bis hearty support 70 the ticket.
This suggests a question OF minol
Importance that may possibly interesI
good Democrats at this time:
"Wm Senator Stone follow the LEAD
OF Mr.. Cook and Mr.. Halves and othel
meI who took a hand 10 the Jefferson
City convention and pledge himself Il
support the ticket, including the head
OF the ticket? Or, will he continue Il
support the tlcket-by assailing it?''
MR.. FOLKS STATEMENT.
Circuit Attorney Folks statement
to The Chronicle, denying Senator
Stones charges, Is as follows:
Senator Stone seems to be support
ing the ticket with a knife. He hal
been gliding around trying to create
trouble. l most emphatically deny
that l asked either Mr.. Cook or Mr.
Allen TO 20 on the ticket, or thatthert
was any alliance. While / was moi
unfriendly to them personally, / OPP
posed their nomination, as | preferred
the nomination OF men who had beer
identified with this movement. ]
could not and would not assume the
role Of dictator, as / bad advocated
the right of the people to select theiI
own nominees, and il would not have
been consistent for me to dictate Il
the convention what 1t should 10 witt
respect 10 the other nominations. II
would not have been proper for me t.
have said to the convention. You arr
not competent to select the othel
nominees and you must name the mar
l suggest Such a position would have
had no effect and would only have In
volyed me in inconsistencies. Mr.
Cook and Mr.. Allen were nominated
on the ticket, not because / wanted
them or because / did not want them
but because they had secured a major
ity Of the delegates, and those dele
gates believed that they we're the best
judges as to whom should be placed
on the ticket.
when the convention named the
ticket, / gave an interview, which was
published in all the papers, accepting
the situation as all the nominees had
pledged themselves to the platform
and had agreed TO loyalty support me
in carrying out the policies l had
advanced. said, II / found that any
OF them were not 10 good faith | would
unhesitatingly say 50. A week or SC
after the convention, articles appeared
In the various papers saying that
Senator Stone and Others proposed to
force me before the State Committee
70 make a statement there. When the
State Committee meeting was called,
1 was asked into q conference at the
Southern Hotel, there being present
Senator COckrell, Senator Stone, Judge
Evans, Mr.. Vandiyer, Mr.. Selbert, Mr..
Mcleod, Mr.. Cook and myself. After
discussing other matters, Senator
Stone arrogantly demanded that l go
before the committee and say that I
would support the ticket l told him
1 would do nothing OF the kind, that
] bad already expressed my views on
the ticket and would do so again in
my own way and in my own time. He
then said be was going before the COM
mittee and demand that l be called 10.
] told him 10 go ahead and do as he
pleased, that l would not be bulldozed
by him. He then had some hot words
with Senator Cockrell aud they went
out together. In a short while they
came tack and Senator Stone said he
understood that / had an interview,
which II was my intention to give out
the following week. l told him I had
and expected 10 give itOut on Monday.
There was no promise to him as TO-
what ! should do. The next day q