Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1904-11-03
Larble HILL Missouri, Thursday. November ;, 1904.
s7adIcv Bears False Witness.


The Kansas City Star said on Sep
tcmher 26: There was absolutely no
basis OF fact for the attack Of Mr..
Herbert 5 IIadley on the Prosecutor
of Boodlcrs in his speech ut Sed;lia
last Saturday night. Since Mr.. Had
ley IS so anxious that he should be
correctl Y quoted and that he should
be ahSolvcd from the charge Of Hn-
fairness, ii is surprising, to say the
least, that he should give to The
newspapers Il speech which was a
clear misrepresentation OF facts as
they appear i'll the published records
OF the supreme court Of Missouri.
! The republican candidate for at
torncy-gencraI said Saturday that
after Folk WAS elected circuit attor-
ncy OF st. Louis in 1900, and the
elcc1lo,l was contested Mr.. Folk
crushed to the supreme court to Sc
cure Il writ Of prohibition, contend
ing for the first time in the history
Of the state that III a contested elec-
ton ease the ballot boxes could not
be opened and the ballots counted III
comparison with the poll list"
Mr.. Folk did no such thing, and
the supreme court made no such
order rs Mr. HadIcy said it did. The
facts can be found III the reports Of
the supreme court, volume 16i pa &c
%, and the name Ofthc case is Funk
houser against Spencer.
Here are the facts: FL 1900 the
whole democratic city ticket in St.
Louis was elected in protest against
the corruption under the WaIbridge
and Ziegenhein administrations.
| The republican managers were furi-
Gus against certain republicans and
wanted to expose their votes. They
appealed to the circuit court and
! obtained an order to open the bal
lot boxes and compare them with the
list of voters and report to the court
EVERY FACT WHICH THE CONTESTANTS
WANTED TO KNOW. The politicians
who brought the SUIT charged that
every vote cast ut that election WAS
fraudulent, INCLrDING THEIR OWN.
Mr.. Folk did not 90 near the SUI
! preme court or any other court. lie
| joined with the elected circuit Judges
and others to employ an attorney to
defend tn, charges Of fraud In the
case Of the elected coroner, Funk
honscr, this attorney went to the su-
premc court and obtained an order
which forbade the report to the court
| Of how every man voted, which
| would have DESTROYED the secrecy
of the ballot. The order WAS thoroly
proper and constitutional. On the
| other hand, THE COURT EXPRESSLY RrI-
| ED THAT THE BALLOT BONES COULD BE
| OPENED AND THE BALLOTS COMPARED
WITH THE LIST OF VOTERS, and the re-
I suit reported to the court to deter
mine whether fraud had been com
mittcd ornot-hutn not the details as
to how each individual citizen voted
If Mr.. Hadlcy did not know the
facts ofthat case he should have read
the record before making a dclibcr
ate attack upon Mr.. Folk. The mass
of the people do not read the SUI
| prcme court reports. but Mr.. lladley
should know that some persons do.
and that a plain misrepresentation Of
the facts, whether thru Willingness
or ignorance can not go uncOrrected.
Mr.. Hadley is fairly corncrcd. He
must admit that he is slanElcring Mr..
Folk for partisan purposes, or that
he (HadIey) is such Il poor lawyer
| that he didn't know the facts in this
important case. Either way it turns
out, Hadley Is not qualified for at
torncy general.