The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-29
FOLK TALKS OF GRAFT KILLING
PRAISING Missouri As HAVING
SHOWN OTHER STATISTIC WAY.
The New Governor Guest % Honor at the
Missouri sOelety's Annual Feast
Hailed ~ q Future PreSident-He
Calls Bribery the Treason Of Peace.

York did honor last night 10 Gov Joseph w
Folk. on the occasion Of his first public
appearance In this city Mr.. Folk looked
the herd over and made the deliberate
statement that Notwithstanding his well
known prediltet IONS, be felt warranted In
saying that they were each and every one
free 70 return 20 Missouri at any time
Certainly after the welcome he received
nobody could well doubt that Gov. Folk
will feel free 20 wander into this neighbo
hood hereafter whenever he is moved To
IRmble.
The Missouri Society OF New York Il
one Of the most modest aggregations that
ever disports itself around the banquet
tables Of the Astoria or Delmonico's
IN the course Of the winter. It's usuaI
banquet attendance Is about fifty. But
last night Il expanded and there were
nearly 200 diners 10 cheer Gov. Folk and
his eulogista
The dinner was served in the great ball
room instead Of IN the little dining room Of
the Astor gallery as heretofore. Daughters
Of Missouri and tho wives Of Missomi's
sons filed the galleries and burst the buttons
from their gloves cheering on the geysers
Of approving oratory below.
The tables on the floor beneath that pro-
vided for the guests Of honor where so ar
ranged that they formed M o." the abb
breviation OF the State name in great let
ters Of snow white linen and glittering
silver and candelabra The rest Of the big
room was filled with smaller tables where
gathered little groups OF Missouri sojoun-
ers in this land Of coupon cutting and tho
fruits thereof
Among those who sat with Mr. Folk
and the president Of the Missouri Society
Henry Wollman, were: Melville +. Stone.
DR.. Henry W. Pritehett, Samuel NJ. Garden
hire, William Travers Jerome, Thomas
Ewing, William Hepburn Russell, Wills B.
DoWd, Robert c. Ogden. Marion J Verdery,
Charles S. Bryan, the Rev. J. Ncyitt Steele,
Oscar s. Straus and Joseph B. Graybill
Among the other diners were Jules Baobe,
r. r. ConIlin, John Fox, Howard s. Cans,
Francis P. Garvan. George +. Ide.'C. +.
Mofit. John D. Lindsay. o. X. Lyle, Robert
B. Roosevelt. Charles Seested, George B.
Sutton, Frank Seamans Stanley Todd, S. V.
White, Charles s. Whitman and W. b. Wins
low.
The souvenir Toe boIes. which were the
only frosty things about the dinner, we're
made with coTers which represented the
oountenanoe Of Mr.. Folk In bas relief
The eating part Of the celebration came
20 an end when the orchestra, in playing
through q medley, swung into Yankee
Doodle and then Dixie" All through both
songs the MlssouTians rose up and let of
the staocato plains yell and the cheer Of
the East with impartial enthusiasm Then
they clamored for eloquence. Mr.. Woll-
man at once responded with a brief intro
ductory speech, saying among other things
Il never expected 20 live long enough
10 zee Missouri go Republican, but il did
this fall. Among them all one Democrat
was elected, our guest, Gov. Folk the
stanch and fearless upholder uf the law and
the fearless fighter Of crime, whether in
high OF low places. Missouri went for
Roosevelt and Folk
uooemen on the floor and the women In
the galleries had made a racket over "Yan-
kee Doodle and Dixie the greeting
which Mr.. Folks name got was a riot.
The yell and the cheer rose in a volume
which made the great American fags the
only decorations Of the room. hutter with
the vibrations and perhaps with the breeze
made by the fiuttering Of the napkins Of
the men who stood up and waved them
around their heads. The Western cowboy
whoop and the Cis-Mississippi cheer were
varied with the mule hee-haw q more than
one unTegenerate son Of the State Of mules.
Mr.. Woolman added.
Il introduce him 20 YOU AZ the pre- cent
Governor Of the State Of Missouri and tho
but who can read the Rtars? Gov. Folk
Then the tumult and the shouting began
all over again. Gov. Folk, much less
austere looking than New Workers have
learned 10 believe he was by stud ying his
portrait, rose up and looked al the crowd
with broad and cheerful smile. He spoke
with a clear voice. slowly and with the
greatest cOmposure. IL was quite ap-
parent that in the beginning he was speak
ing quite extemporaneously. When his
hearers laughed Mr.. Folks responsive
CLEAN OF good nature was good 20 see.
BE was frequently interrupted by laughter
and applause. He said:
Gov. Folks speech.
'When look over this assembly and $40
the handsome men and the beautiful women
/ need not be told that you are from Mis-
sour, for you have shown me- by your
hospitality. ! never thought that II would
be my privilege to be hanqueted in New
York by a lot 81 exiled Mlssourians II has
been charged that have attempted to de-
populate the State, hut ] am glad 70 say
In this company that any OF you are at
liberty 10 return at any time.
There was an old fellow down In Pike
county who had trouble with his ewes.
Soon after the last election, when Missouri
went Republican, he went 20 a physician.
When he came out he met a friend who
asked what the doctor had said.
He said that II didn't stop drinking
And what did you sayp asked his friend
well was the reply, I told him that /
had lived 10 see Missouri 90 Republican,
and thought had seen about all I wanted
10 anyway"
PRAISES MISSOURI.
The Governor went on TO eulogizs Missouri,
sfaiIest Of the Federal sisterhood. the
garden spot Of the L MON, the Eden OF the
valley. Il has fewer motgaged homes
than any OF the manufacturing States,
fewer mort gagged farms than any Of the
agricultural States and fewer mortRaRed
men than any Of the United States, he said
IL spends four times a. much in schools
ns In maintaining the State Government,
pays five times more in educating the negro
than all the negroes in the State pay in
taxes; u has no illiterate counties; its news
papers are many, well read and incorrupti-
Die; its people are tallest and strongest Of
those In all the States. He continued.
But however great In natural resources,
however potent In material achievements,
and however brilliant her attainments in
the varied fields Of human arts and useful
ness, Mtssouri's fairest and dearest possess
sion Is her own good name That name she
has treasured and defended and faithfully
indicated before the people Of the world.
We have what Is called the Missouri idea
the idea that citizenship In a free country
Implies civic obligation to enforce the
performance Of every public trust and hold
ing every public official 10 strict acCo,nta-