Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-30

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of these figures.
THE st. Louis Police Board-the
subservient tools of their master,
the slick and facile Joey, who is
posing as a Righteous Reformer,
desiring all the possible usufruct
of politics while holding himself
above it's contamination - that
Board last week ordered the with
drawal of all policemen from the
Jefferson Club. Mr.. Coale, the
President of the Club, protested, to
which protest President Gray Of
the aforesaid Board responded,
saying that MI. Coale was ''the
political megaphone for some one
else," and declaring chat sit is
false to assert that the police were
first admitted to the Club under
Gov. Folks administration as the
Clubs president; that "Folk did
not accept one cent contribution
from the police during his cam
paign." Whereupon Mr.. Coale,
who evidently knows whereof he
speaks, replicates with some hard
facts seasoned like a hot tamale.
His "open letter" is as follows:
"a little brief authority has evil
IDENTIFY turned your head. You
have probably seen the well-known
picture of the small dog seated
before a graphaphone, listening
intently, with the inscription un-
derdeath it, His Masters Voice.
You have evidently heard the
voice, and the political harangue
which you sent me is the result.
"My letter to you was intended
to acquaint the public with two
facts-the first that the Bottoms
Gang was running at large, COM
hitting outrages in various parts
of the city, and especially upon
the Jefferson Club; and second,
to acquaint the public with the
fact that no objection to police
officers remaining in the Jefferson
Club had been made to your
board, or it's predecessors, until
the approach of a political cam
paign, when you heard the mas
ter's voice. and they we're order
ed to resign.
"Every real Democrat in st.
Louis knows that the Jefferson
Club has been strictly a political
organization since it's birth four
teen years ago, and that it has at
no time ever been considered a
social organization, and at the
time Joseph w. Folk was presi-
dent it was a political organiza-
ton, known as such, not consider
ed to be a social organization, and
that what distinction he had OBJ
tanned in politics up to that time
came through his affiliation with it.
81 again assert that it was under
the administration of Joseph w.
Folk that police officers were first
solicited and admitted to the JET
ferson Club.
81 again repeat and am willing
to prove that Joseph w. Folk,
when candidate for Governor,
knew of the collection of S21, 900
by the Police Department before the
same was turned over to the State
Committee, with his full knowl-
edge and approval, and that he
did not protest against it at any
time.
81 am not surprised at the ignor-
ance displayed by some of the
members of your board regarding
political matters, especially by
yourself.
"If any of your members, with
the probable exception of Mr..
Bland, ever in the past contributed
one cent to the Democratic party,
participated in it's councils, assist
ed in it's elections, or in any other
way indicated your Democracy,
the same is unknown to me and
other Democrats of this city.
"You therefore, could not be ex-
pected to know much of the his
tory of the Jefferson Club or of Mr..
Folks connection with it. 1t may
even have escaped your attention
that at the time Mr.. Folk was first
elected to Office, the charge of dis
honest election was raised by a
partisan newspaper and COM
plant was made of the Indian tao
tics to which your letter refers,
and that, Immediately after the