The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-28
EDITORIAL NOTES

= The first great popular demonstra-
ton in favor OF the abolition Of the
British House of Lords was held in
Hyde Park, London, twenty-nine years
ago today, oct. rs, 1884 over one hun
dred thousand persons attended the
meeting, and every denunctatfon Of
the peers was greeted with wild cheers.
The House of Lords had its beginning
in the eleventh century, when William
I. created twenty-seven peers, who
were frequently summoned to consult
with their monarch. It was not until
the thirteenth century, however, that
the kings of England issued writS sum-
moning the peers to regular parlia-
mentary sessions, at which twelve per-
sons were chosen to represent the
commons. In 1910, during the Tong
Parliament" the commons voted the
House of Lords to be useless" and
nine years later 1t was abolished. With
the downfall of CromwelPs regime the
peers again became powerful The
first Parliament of Great Britain met
in 1907. The first Roman Catholic peer
took his seat in the lords in 1929, and
the first Jewish peer YVES admitted in
1855. The movement for the abolition
Of the lords has made great headway
since the demonstration of the radicals
in Hyde Park in 1884.
.swomen. can have the suffrage when
a majority of them want il. I think
eventually they will all get it. I have
always felt that every fight for better
things, to be successful. must have
the moral support of the women. In
fact. I have frequently said I had
rather have the moral support OF one
good woman. than the votes of ten
men,
This tribute to the fair sex comes
from Joseph Wingate Folk. famous as
q prosecutor of bribers, Governor of
Missouri, candidate for the Democratic
Presidential nomination and now So
1icitor for the State Department at
washington. The former executive OF
the Show-14e state is. like his present
rE1fef in the State Department, Chau-
tauqua platform favorite. He has an.
nounced that he will retire from the
lecture field, in which he has been
making $685. 600 a year. His new job
pays only So, 600 per year, although, as
Mr.. Bryan has said, 'it is of great
importance at this time when the ad-
ministration is dealing with questions
affecting the Latfn-Ann erican repub-
lies" Mr.. Folk will have much to do
with Uncle Sans relations with the
brown and brunette brothers of Span
fish America.
Mr.. Folk was born in Brownsville
Tenn. Oct %, 1862 and was educated
at Vanderbilt University in his native
State He became a lawyer in $780,
and ten years later he was elected cir
cult attorney of st. Louis. Immedi-
ately upon taking office things began
to happen in the Missouri metropolis.
Wealthy and prominent politicians
suddenly fould themselves face to face
with the grim possibility of prison.
The young attorneys campaign against
bribery and corruption made him an
International figure In 1904 he was
elected Governor of Missouri, and, up
on his retirement from that Office, his
fri Te.d Id i11
nation campaign in his behalf. The
Misourian failed to connect, but he is
still young man, this being his forty
for=rsh birthe=y, and ais admirers are
firm in the belief that he will yet oc-
cupy the White House