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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-12
Rose AGAINST Him.

The revelations Of his grand jur1es
had shaken the public's confidence IN
everybody about the capital so the
whole machine, honest men and DIS
honest ones alike, rose to fight him.
They raised the cry, Folk is no
democrat" He had refused to vote
for James J. Butler, son of the boss he
was prosecuting, when Butler was
candidate for congress.
The machine people thought the
charge would kill Folk politically, but
when Folk stated his case the people
said you did right
Governor Dockery finally attacked
him in two prepared interviews and
charged him with party disloyalty and
slandering the state. The answers
came back when in the strongest dem
ocratic counties of the state % per
cent Of the total democratic vote in the
county was cast for Folk in primary
elections. In st. Louis and Kansas
City the police departments, con-
trolled by the governor, drove voters
away from the polls on the ray of the
primary, or stood idly by and let thugs
and thieves beat respectable citizens,
in some cases, into insensibility. For
every man driven from the polls or
slugged under police supervision,
thousand democratic Missouri farmers
dropped their work and went to the
primaries to vote for Folk. Primary
days became holidays in the country.
Had Few Friends.
When he went into the race Folk
could count the politicians who had
good word for him on his fingers. The
county machines used all the ingenuity
they had to beat him. They devised
unusual, and often, unfair rules for
the prima ries. Now they are trying
to make terms with folk, but the peo-
pie are demanding a clean sweep. In
what is known as the Missouri state
machine are many men Of high char
acter and many who detest the hood
| lers and grafters, as heartily as
the people themselves, but others
whose record for dishonesty is dis
| grace to the state. Whether the con-
I vention will discriminate between
them is hard to say now. The worse
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-12
Railroad Congress to Meet In Capital.

R2iIfOdQ SOnSfeSS ~ h'SS@ ~ S"f
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 1.-THE
first convention of the International
Railway congress ever held in the
United States will be held in WaSh-
ington just a year from the present
month, and arrangements are already
being made for what is regarded by
railway men and mechanical engineers
al lover the world as a very important
event.
This annual assembling Of railway
men of all civilized countries, which
will be the seventh, has generally been
held in Brussels, Belgium, where the
HEADQUARTERS Of the permanent COM
mission are located. The congress
will come to the United States under
government auspices. and In response
to an invitation extended by the Sec
retary of state. A special appropriate
ton was incorporated into the sundry
civil bill to defray the necessary ices
and empowering Mr.. Hay to make the
communications to the foreign governs
mentS.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-12

early gold hunters of California and a
large share of the Indian fighters of
the plains. During the civil war Mis-
souri, furnished more soldiers to the
confederate army than any cotton state
and more soldiers to the union army
than any New England state. 1t also
kept up a war Of it's own with Kansas
and most of the able bodied men who
were not regularly in military service
took part in warfare that was kept up
in an irregular way at home.
Deep Prejudices.
Such conditions make a people Of
stubborn character, deep prejudices
and much determination. Normally
Democratic Missouri was held in the
list of republican states about ten
years by the enforcement of a law
prohibiting any one connected with
the cOnfederacy or sympathizing with
it from voting. These disabilities We're
removed in 1878. Missouri at once
became a democratic state and has re-
manned democratic ever since.
At each election the democrats have
told how in reconstruction days the
republican legislatures corruptly sad
died a debt on the state that it has
taken thirty years to pay how their
teachers and preachers We're locked in
Jail for following their aVOcatiOnS
without taking the test oath, how the
whisky ring steals and the abuses by
the Home Guards, militia, We're con-
Quoted. That was answer for any
charges made against machine rule
and the party in power kept on grow
ing despite the fact that the press Of
the state charged corruption in high
places. The deep seated prejudice of
the people made the machine safe and
it became Independent and defiant. 1t
boldly took complete control of the
police and election departments of the
large cities by boards appointed by the
governor.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-12
Works Through Party.

The reformation is coming through
the party in power, but not through
its machine. Such a thing is unprece-
dented. 1t seems wonderful that Mis-
souri, can make a change in its whole
method of doing public things and all
within one party. Folk Will be COVER
nor of Missouri unless there shall be
some remarkable cause like his death
10 prevent it. He is pledged to do ex-
actly what his party has not done in
this state.
Joseph W. Folk came to Missouri
from Tennessee. Had he been born
four months later he would not be
eligible to the governorship at the
time when he WILL no doubt. become
governor. He will not be 50 years old
until October. He first attracted at
tentiOn in St. Louis by being the most
conspicuous factor in the settlement
Of the great street railway strike in
the summer of 1900. 4 few months Ia
ter the democratic bosses got together
to make up their city ticket. St Louis
is independent of any county and
elects city officers that correspond
to county officers elsewhere. These
bosses said
Put Joe Folk on the ticket to catch
the labor vote"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-12
HE HAS THE STATE OF MISSOURI
COMPLETELY UNDER HIS
CONTROL.
Record Has Been One of the Most Re-
markabIe Things In Ameri-
can Politics.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, May l0.-The
growth of Joseph w. Folks power in
dence of a political revolution in the
most conservative state in the great
west. Many Missourians do not I'M
derstand it themselves, for it has been
one of the remarkable things in Amer
lean politics. 1t comes of natural
causes.
After all, the movement to Folk is
a case of the opportunity, and the
man who could take advantage of it.
Today he has the state at his back
iticians are seriously considering
whether they would not gain more by
putting Folk at the head of their state
ticket, and making his election unan-
imOus, than by naming a candidate in
opposition to him. Though it has been
a democratic state ever since it was
admitted TO the union, except during
the civil war and the reconstruction,
Missouri has more than 300, 900 repub-
Iican voters. 1t is not an exaggeration
to say that 100000 Of them have told
their neighbors they will vote for Folk
this fall. Part of them will keep that
promise.
The Folk Movement.
A few facts of Missouri history may
help make what Missourians call the
Folk movement better understood
Compared with other western states,
Missouri is Old. 1t was admitted into
the union in 1920, or forty years be
fore Kansas, its nearest neighbOr on
the west. 1t was a state of pioneers,
With numerous naVigable streams it
built up a slaVe-holding population in
the valleys and q people opposed to
slavery on the upland prairies. They
were bold, hard people, VINO contrib
uted more than their share of soldiers
for the Mexican war, thousands of the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-12
WHITMAN AGAINST ATHENA.
Ball Game for Saturday-Washin
Will Not Come.

The Whitman college basebell team
will play against Athena at that city
on Saturday. Marquis will probably
tWirl for the Athena team. The fol-
lowing week Whitman goes to Moscow
and Pullman for a series Of games.
Very likely Athena will play a return
game at Walla Walla on the Tuesday
afternoon before the race meet be-
gins. Also on Saturday of that week
Whitman and La Sale will probably
have a game. 1t will be scheduled in
the morning, however, SO that all will
be able to attend The game which
was to have been played between the
University of Washington and Whit
man on Monday has been called off
by the former institution in a letter
received from Manager Speidell by
Manager Baldwin this morning. 1t is
possible that the two institutions will
cross bats later in Seattle.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-12

Pond the ads in the Statesman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-12
Caught Labor Vote.

Caught Labor Vote.
It was done and he was elected cir
cult attorney. His office controls the
prosecutions for felonies in st. Louis.
He soon found that the city govern
ment was corrupt to the core. In the
house of delegates, the lower house of
the municipal assembly, a combine of
nineteen out of tWenty-eight members
sold ordinances to the highest bidder
Folk indicted the whole nineteen
Six of them confessed. Then he in
dicted the millionaire democratic
boss of his city, Ed Butler He con-
victed him, but the state supreme court
turned him loose. In twenty-one cases
tried he secured nineteen convictions,
two Of them against millionaire bribe-
givers.
Others. members of the municipal as
sembly, fed to foreign countries. One
millionaire brewer left on a hasty va
cation more than two years ago and is
still absent from the United States.
While Folk was pushing his prose-
cutiOns in st. Louis and attracting
general attention, the charge was
made, one day, in the general assem-
bly, Of the state, that bribery was going
on among the senators and representa-
tives. 1t was made by the speaker of
the house Of representatives and
promptly taken up by the house,
which appointed an Investigating COM
mittee 1t soon developed that sew
eral senators had been making parade
of $1,000 bills. Some of them were
| in the hands of men who never hon
estly owned $1,000 in their lives. A
grand jury was called. The attorney
| general, E. c. Crow, took charge. The
| legislature adjourned in haste. Ten
days Of investigation produced a SEN
| sation.
| Lees Confession.
F, The lieutenant governor of Mis-
| souri,. John A. Lee, up to that time q
candidate for governor, made and
| signed written confession to the eff
feet that he was a boodler and haG
acted as the agent of the baking DOW
der trust in buying the votes of sever
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-12

eiement had the power. in some wav.
10 prliS the more respectable element
TO It's aid in fighting Folk. The conn.
try people are ready to nunisb a,y
ankle. The vote in primaries is some
thing wonderful. Up to May | no less
than forty counties had held primaries
without Folks losing a county. thougb
there Is contest in one. Two of his
competitors have quit the race in dis
gust. The third has been urged IN
stay IN by men. who. though they have
cried party loyalty" for years are
now trying to lay the foundation for a
bolt that will be as harmless as Cow
ernor, Dockerys attacks on Folk have
been.
Fight Was Bitter.
The fight made against Folk no.
been the bitterest since reconstruction
days. Counties that east 1000 demo-
cratic votes in the last election are
giving Folk 2500 to 5000 votes in the
primaries with scattering votes for
the opposition. In some counties the
primary vote for Falk has been
unanimous and yet men have ridden
ten and fifteen miles to the polls to
swell his vote and make sure that the
county's expression of preference was
sufficiently emphatic. In a few
places where trickery was feared some
polls. The race is a Whrlwind. a rum
away that seems to the machine poll
ucians of the state more like a tor
nado than anything else. The smaller
fry say Il wave of fanaticism is run
ming over the state, that so per cent
of the democratic voters of a county
would not turn out to vote in a pri-
mary unless they had become derang-
ed in some way.
The fact is that Folk came just at
the right time to lead one of the
greatest oyerturns in a states politi-
cal affairs was seen in a western
state. This state has been fifteen
years ahead of its politicians in every
kind of progress for u long time. The
politicians did not know it. The Mis-
souri, that admired Jesse James and
Cole Younger was the Missouri of the
reconstruction period. IN business
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-02-12

We are Offering some popular patterns of Ingram carpets
at the lowest prices ever made in Rapid City. Also can fit
you out with Brussels carpets of all kinds, Wilson Velvets,
Administers, Tapestry Brussels, superior and reliable quality
Of goods in every grade. Rugs, lnoleum, curtains, shades.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-02-12

We sell only the best makes. All winter clothing
must be sold before inventory is taken.
We have cut prices on Childrens shoes just SO per
cent. All sizes from Is to lbs. Mems shoes,
Ladies shoes we are selling at lower prices than
ever offered before in Rapid City. SALES NOT
PROFITS rs OUR GREAT OBJECT.
II you want a high grade, hansomely finished piano
without paying a fancy price for it, Come and
The daily sentinel., 1904-02-29

Col. G. Bower of Palisades came in
on the noon train today.
w. b. Stanley of Salt Lake City
foru;er resident of this city, was in
town yesterday.
Just received 1865 new spring car
pet samples. Charles Smith, Manu-
fscturers agent.
Gates Kersburg, of the firm of Kers-
burg and Hertz, was an arrival home
at noon today from the east.
The next attraction is the big mus
ical comedy success. "Our Goblins'.
Tuesday evening, March LIST.
Wanted. To huv from owner for
cash. two residence lots ON east Main
or Grand Avenue. j. NJ. Craig.
The musical comedy success booked
at the Park, "Our COLLINS Tuesday
NJ arch lst is without question one of
the best comedies that will visit us
this season. Every act and speciality
with this company are up.to-date in
NAhAAihS NhtiA oohESs AlAilNtSf ttGs "a
large crowd should witness the first
performance in this city of "Our Cob
Inns or Fun on the Rhine.
Delta is to have mountain water.
Work on the new system was started
ON Wednesday of last week by gang
of forty workmen and the Independent
says that water will be running
through the mains within ninety days
| Grand Junction still drinks water
from the Gunnison. She has spent
enough money on two systems to have
the best mountain water in Colorado.
ID. Baughman. a former resident OF
this city, now resident of Portland.
OREGON, was an arrival in the city
this morning. Mr.. Baugman is il
the insurance business, representing
Bankers Life. of Des Moines. H,
likes that country up there. but say
that they don't have quite so man.
clear days as we have in the Grapt
valley He reports his family we'll
He will remain in this city about ON
week.
The daily sentinel., 1904-02-29
Runaway Was
What Caused
Trouble.

Justice Joseph p sweeney presents
the appearance today of man who
has been in rathor a bad scrap. he
has been joshed considerably all day
about the possible means through
which he got his face so badly SCARED
and secured the limp with which he
is compelled to walk. He, however.
gives a good explanation which will
have to be accepted, especially. as he
says it can be verified by a number of
people who saw the attempted runaway
in which he figured.
Being very delightful afternoon
Yesterday, he secured Il team fcom the
Bedwell stable to take drive. He
drove to place in front of the GouI-
lev store, intending to take Miss Net
tie Blain for drive.
He assisted Miss Blain into the
carriage and was about to step into the
buggy himself. when the horse made
a lunge forward. He had just time
to pass the lines to Miss Blain. as the
horse started. 1t dashed wildly up
the street. but at the court house Miss
Blain. who never lost her presence of
mind and sawed away at the bit.
gained control over the horse.
As the horse shot away. Judge
Sweeney was thrown to the grouno by
the sudden start and was badly scratch
ed ON the left side of his forehead and
he thinks that his leg was struck by
the hub of ono of tie wheels.
He says the horse has a habit of
starting quickly, which he could have
overcome had he known of the habit.
Justice Sweeney is happy that the
damage to himself was slight as it
was and that Miss Blain was not in
iured.
The daily sentinel., 1904-02-29
New Ditch District.

The election for the creation of the
Orchard Mesa Irrigation district occur
red last Saturday afternoon.
The result was unanimous and the
following board was elected: Divis-
ion No. I. NJ. V. Fostor; Division
No. ?, d. W. Often; Division No. 3
Fred W. Barbar
Next Saturday the board of county
commissioners will meet to canvass
the vote and afterward the directors
elected will qualify and organize.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-09
MAKE YOUR OWN
FURNITURE POLISH

If the critical eyes Of house-cleaning
time discover shabby-looklng furniture,
here is a polish which will bring back Its
aforetime shining glory: Four ounces of
shellac. two pints Of ALCOHOL, two pints
OF linseed oil, and one pint OF turpentine
Mix and add four ounces OF ammonia;
shake and apply with q sponge,
A polish that Will keep well and may be
applied often, Is made OF one ounce of
white wax, one ounce OF yellow wax. one
half ounce OF linseed oil, a quarter Of
an ounce OF powdered borax, and one
pint of boiling water. melted all together
over the fire.
A French polish Is made from six ounces
of shellao, dissolved In q pint of wood
.naphtha. and a quarter OF 3 pint Of lin
seed oil, s. q "A Il
embossed leather can be cleaned with
turpentine, applied With y soft CLOTH
This removes the stains, but slightly
stiffens the leather. which must be made
.pl!able again BY rubbing briskly with
crude oil, Be careful to use little oil, and
to 60 carefully over the surface, after
the oil has been applied with clean
cloth, and remove all traces Of the grease,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-09
SHE'LL STREET.

Tho village of Sconset. on the eastern
shore of Nantucket Island, possesses In
the ancient and dlminutive houses of Its
fishermen a domestic architecture indig7s
enous, quaint, andunique. They hug the
ground ; their hosptable doorsteps crowd
into the narrow streets; their low caves
arc within reach of the hand, The VIM
dows of many pants, are small and high
up, with charming arrangements of white
castings and sash projected slightly from
the gray wcather-beaten shingled walls,
There are unexpected effects of roofs and
gables, and ivy-mantled wings, which
often frame a. few square feet Of door
yard gay with old-fashioned flowers
hollyhocks. margolds, aud phloy+-which
bloom riotously in tho salt. moist ali, Of
tho place, 4t
The more pretentious houses OF the is-
land have look-out platforms built OH the
ridges of their sloping roofs. where, IN
the old whale-flshlng days, the people at
home watched for the ships returning
from perilous voyages IN bleak northern
oceans, or looked the lastNon the dim!I-E
ishins sails of the outgoing whalers,
There is also In 'Scansat an old church,
with beautiful colonial befry, which
commands fine view of the village. tho
roors. and the encompassing ocean, and
there is deserted, weather beaten wind
mill standing idle nn,a hill which gives
the homely old place strangely for
~ y . /
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-09
Halt. lMBROGLIO
RESOLVES in AIR
(By $40 ciat q Presss.,l

lisf+f
WESTINGHOUSE III x g ,,,sii sJ Mt.
3l.eger, the Haitien minister here. has
made All ex plana tim Of the recent in.
s:erna tionial episode a Port M Prince,
Involving a tack on the French and
7German ministers, and tho presence of
warsh.ps WI ii cons equence to! procure
separation. which throws an entirely diff
51erent llght#on the affair deriving it$of
any such anti foreign animus as was at
first attributed toll.
The aivices, Just received I from IA iti.
show that the incident occurred as toll
lows 4: I55 ss si1i5} sasssa5s
n Be fore the executive mansion at Port
au Prince. there Is a road y which Is
closed after dark to ia II pedestrians and
carriages. On the evening Of tho 2lst
OF June two carriages were II seen on
that road. 1T was dark; the sentry
could not see the occupants OF the cal
.iages and could not then know e they
were foreigners or natives. The coach
man, not hearing or not taking any no no
.tice. of the warning OF the sentry, the
latter. to avoid using his rifle. thought
ri to throw a stone in the direction Of
tho carriages. The the next morning. the
s,eport was made that the occupants of
,hn carriages were the French and Ger
man minister's; the officers Of the guard
and the sentry were punished. and the
Secretary for Exterior Relations called #
at boil, legations to express regret and
q apologize I In tho name Of tho govern
ment."
Minister Powell has since reported to
the state Department that the Incident
las been satisfactorily closed.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-09
HIGH WlND. in
BUCKINGHAM.
Electric Disturbance iii Tels.-
phones Alarm Citizens Oh
the Circuit.
AN ATTEMPTED e MURDER '|.J , e
ATTEMPTED MURDER {: e:
Robert James, Colored, Shoots
Wesley Agee, Another Negro,
in Head With a Pistol.
Especial to The Times -Dispatch.)

8 Especial to The Times Dispatch)
D1LWTN. VA. July s--A severe cleo
trical storm passed over this section Tues
day accompanied by high wind. The
electric fluid caused some alarm to those
having telephones by explosions nearly
as loud as a pistol shot and Vivid flashes
as 1t passed a large oak tree was blown VI
dowi, on, the dwelling Of sMrs. Leila Beck,
damaging considerably the chimney and
the gable. A tobacco barn was blown
down on the farm Of Mr. s. II. Williams.
,rhis has been an unusually favorable
season and the growing crop Of tobacco
and corn give the promise of an abundant
yield. Thfeshing wheat has commenced
and the yield is good. Mr.. NJ. ~ shep-.
herd sowed six and a half bushels .
wheat and threshed one hundred and
severty-s!x bushels.
and altogether the the condition OF the
farmer is better than 1t has been for
years. HIS
on Monday Robert James and Wesley
Agee, both coiored, started from Bucking-3
ham Courthouse to Liberty Chapel to at
tend a Fourth OF July picnic. On the trip
they imblbed pretty freely OF cider and
mean whiskey, Robert9carried the usual
gun. IN some way Wesley borrowed
the pistol. and while In his possession
fired four OF the five loads from 1t. On
returning 1t Robert was indignant about
his firing. and used some strong Ian
8guage. to which Wesley replied that he
would pay him for the cartridges This
was not satisfactory to Robert. who
seized him By the lapel gof the {. coat. say.
Ing: ~ will take my pa y now" fired at
Wesley's head, the load taking effect
back of his ear. He fell to the ground
but fortunately the bullet did not enter
his skull. but followed the bone back
of his head and game out nearly oppo-
site to the point Of entrance. A physician
was sent for. and Wesley is pronounced
out OF danger. ,s3
FOUR GRIMES
Il This makes four crimes Committed by
that race in the county within the last
year, three of them resulting in death
Robert James was taken before Justice
Garnett who fined him fifty dollars for
carrying concealed weapons and sent
his case to the Circuit Court. rs