Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-11-29
-CRInsos RAnBIER
The '0ld Pilitican' Of Mexico Comes
Out Strong for Folk and Law
enforcement

NhC 4AtAGAD VI tnE oe 1ooto 4Ntt1
polItan Police Board, there drifted to
headquarters one day an angular
youth with high cheek bones and hair
the color Of tomato blsque. He
fiosted 10 like . breath OF new mown
hay from the Charlton bottoms and
handed up a letter from ]. Anderson
'Collett, a political bell wether VI Key
tesyIlle. The letter requested Halves
TO give bearer aIob on the force and
enumerated reasons good and sufficient
why It should be thus. So the Charlton
product was provided with brass but
tons, numerous instructions, a trusty
elm club and assigned TO the toughest
block 10 the city to get the edge Oh
his rusticity and the hay seed out Of
his bail-bearings- His first day as
guardian OF the public peace was live
ly In the extreme Capturing a shop
litter with the goods he was marching
same 10 the station when the crook
cut and ran and disappeared, as COM
pletely as th, lone bandit who held
up the Only Way at Glasgow last week,
and ]. Anderson Collects protege was
promptly called on the carpet before
the board 10 explain the get away.
Humbly did he acknowledge the corn
and many we're his promises TO be
more careful in the future. mr..
President said he. ION a straight
fast track like the main street Of my
own native Keytesville far away ! can
outrun and gather 10 the slimest, slick
est swiftest crook that cracked . safe
or sandbagged an oreide west end dude
10 the cleaning, but l can't doit on
these blamed hardshel side walks until
| get city broke. I xas drilling along
peacefully with this dry goods guy
when he suddenly pulled away and lit
la rag for the leyee. / trailed and
gained right along until we got TO the
end OF the block, then he fi0ated around
the corner like a white barber on roll
Ter skates. An right there Was when
l lost my grip on the situation for /
couldn't stop or turn until | got to
the middle OF the street and by that
time he was half across the next block.
He got wiseto my weakness and con-
tinued the treatment and SO after a
few more turns be faded away, but Mr..
| President" and here his countenance
shone like a harvest moon, 'if l had
had the durn cuss on pIowed ground l
could have caught him in three min
utes
Results OF the recent election indi-
cate that on the granitoid under the
glare Of the gas, electric and red lights
opposed by bosses with breweries at
their back, money to burn and patron
age to distribute the Missouri Democ'
racy is equally unable to compete with
the G. o. p, but out in the country
where the leaves on the scrub oak
blush crimson at the first kiss OF frost,
where the bright yellow OF the birch
completes with the gorgeous torches
OF the flaming maple, where the red
haws Inot the Harry who is safely sns-
pended ~eIs5wherel hang as high and
lonesome asthe last years birds nests
exposed in the leafless pin oaks, the
howl OF the yellow dog in the Missouri
Democracy IL heard no more in the
land, and throughout all the dells and
dingles OF the great mule producing
commonwealth there is a condition Of
peace and satisfaction like unto and
even more so, than the spirit OF
brotherly love which gropes through
the local council OF united commercial
travellers, for we have met the enemy
with the usual result. Rural Mis-.
souri, went twenty thousand Demo
cratic overcoming the lead OF the G.
o. p. in Kansas City and st. Louis
enough to leave the eleven thousand
TO the good. As a campaign center
piece Gov. Folk doomed mp grand,
gloomy and peculiar. There was not
glory enough to 20 around so we will
have TO give it to Folk, for like the
great King Dodo, others may sprinkle
but Joseph only reigns In all the po-
litical history Of the state M man
ever climbed the ladder Of popularity
as rapidly and steadily and held on as
securely rs Missouri's governor. Three
years ago at New Florence when he
made his debut into state politics as
an extra early candidate for his pres
emit high Office, he was practically I'M
known outside the city OF st. Louis.
To-day his name and qualities, like
Duffy's malt whiskey, are known OF
all men. Wherever he went during
the recent campaign a multitude met
and applauded HANNIBAL he filed
the square; at Montgomery the streets
at the finished town Of Fulton the
basket ball team from William Wood
aud the foot ball team from Westmin-
ster led almost the entire population,
with the exception Of Jesse Maughs, to
the railroad station to do him honor.
And 10 greater Mexico the Court
House was inadequate to even accom-
MEDIATE the multiplicy OF Chautatqua
circles who are on hand TO give him
their pictu rescue and inexpensive
salute, so the opera house was secured
and at that, the water ESQ to
speak, was backed up to Fix Its
corner. The governor is clear, force
ful speaker, but not an orator like
Reed and Stone HIS tongue lacks the
silver tip and his brain is void OF land
scapes and catchy theories on govern.
ment Ownership No hide bound
member Of the G. 0 Pts as consistent
q standpatter as Gov. Folk. He
wouldn't draw to a straight
though it we're open at both
ends and the middle and he wouldn't
discard to make a double ace flush. He
stands squarely on his platform OF
moral surgery and enforcement OF the
law, and lisa winner, for like a snow
ball in damp weather he gathers sup
port as be rolls along and don't know
where be is going but hes on bis way"
His name is used to copJure with by
lesser lights, and wide-awake utllItar-
fans ride on it TO victory 10 their own
policital wars Down at Wellsyille in
a owneh where the normaI paruh