Arizona republican., 1911-11-26

aounced that Mir. Folk would be glad to shake hands with all who cared to meet him, but must necessarily a speaking engagement few min utes later on the city plaza. All present availed themselves of the op- portunity to meet MT. Folk.
 During the dinner a roll had been circulated for signatures by all pres ent. the list of names being as fol- lows:
 Joseph w. Folk. A C. Baker. John son county. Mo; Alfred Franklin. Jackson county; Albert D. Levine,
 Schuyler; C. E. Wood. Galloway; Ed
 l.. Shaw. Pike; Helen Guernsey and
 Mrs F.. l.. Shaw of Bloomfield. Iowa:
 Dr and Mrs. l.. D. Cameron. M. A.
 LaBelle. Lewis county. Mo; Dr. and
 Mrs. R. A Alton, Lucy T. Ellis. St.
 Louis; p P Parker. Pike; J. q.
 OMalley. William P. Volta, St. Louis;
 Charles K. Pishon. St Louis; Will
 liam Wallace. Kansas City; F.. l..
 OMalley. Pike: C. M. Zander. Kan
 sas City; Joseph Cope. Linn; NJ T. Brown. Mexico, Mo; F.. B. Nincll, Wright; T. J. Goodwin, J. C. Good win Rails: William M. Costley. Law renee. D. L. Connor. Adair; MT land Mrs. John T. Dunlap. Kansas City: MT. and Mrs. John B. Holman, Columbia; T. B. Stewart, Columbia; Mrs T. F. Stewart, Sedalia; Y. \. Thompson. Springfield; c. O. Me Murtry. Galloway; Frank F.. Whitton' Gentry: S. q. Witten. Grundy; Phi IC. Ensign. Vernon; l.. C. Taylor Boone: J. C. Brown, Dade county; Henry C. Yaeger. Warren; A. A Betts. Andrain Among the guests were C. H. Akers, V. D. Ritter. C. Is. Scott. Lewis T. Carpenter. Mark Dunbar and William G. Lentz. At the plaza meeting Governor Folk was greeted by d small but enthusias- tis audience. There were perhaps three or four hundred people assemblei though by no means such crowd as one might have expected to hear the pre- campaign address of one who as pires to lead his party in presiien- tial campaign. The notice, however. had been short.
 The address of Mir Folk was purely political and as such was quite enter taining though not nOticeablV illum- mating. By use of time worn figures in which the wealth of successful busi- ness men is measured by the pover,N
 of others and supplying his compar'- sons humorouSly the speaker wrought much laughter from his hearers m the carly part of his address.
 From this innocent diversion he passed on to the recital of platitudes Iconcerning the nobleness Of honesty and fair dealing that could not hut meet
 the approval of every right minded person But finding il necessary to dD something more than endorse local democratic candidates and to assai! something more than the greed ot capital in order to give his speech the
 proper political flavor, Mi. Folk launched off into a discussion of the
 protective tariff from the usual view point of the democrat using in his IT,
 lustrations the staple jokes and meet ing with the conventional democratic applause.
 From tariff to money is naturally
 short jump and it was no effort at all
 for the doughty politician to leap thf
 gap and launch an assault upon tha
 AIirich currency plan. NOtwithstand-
 ing at the convention of about 500 bankers from all sections of the coun-
 try in their deliberations in New Or
 leans. after the most rigorous investi-
 gation unanimously approved the plan. Mir Folk declared it to be an in-
 stitutiOn conceived in the special in
 terest of the capitalistic classes and
 fraught with danger to the citizens and
 state.