St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 17, 1909

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POCOmmoMmoene p maT will we do with Folk? The State of Missouri, having borrowed dite for four eventful years, has returned ‘St t Louis chuck full of energy and not yet 1 we G yctnt out to our New York and Boston algae our private touring cars, the com- of the reform Circuit Attorney and ee tell our country cousins, through of rubberneck wagons, how he the boodlers, banished the bookmakers Sepeisiets % elked the brewers? wil we merely add his name to the list of e banquet speakers, reward him with a vative handclaps on such occasions, and ' times pass him. with a casual, “Good - Governor’? or prety having one more “Governor” as a i is not, in itself, a matter to get greatly t about. We have so many “governors” in s already that we can hardly walk around “en the alieenik into the street because Gov. ara is putting up a building. Call at the Rice Police Court and you will see Gov. on 8 the efforts of a band of Chi- i to > convince Judge Tracy that they never ‘of sucha game as fan-tan. Start across A street to speak to Gov. Stanard as he 3 grain office, and Gov. Stephens’ ll just miss. you, and, running to way, You ‘will land in Gov. Francis’ e sur srt ar: ‘these were lieutenant-gover- u % the title which greets their ears in tis “Governor,’ as unqualified and sonor; ‘te they had been the actual autocrats of 1 City pie wagon and pardon mill. é hes a@ way, as St. Louis has seen: be- for himself the question of what to practice law—some kinds of law—and , incur any of the penaltiés of the statute pently proposed for the punishment of men Firth Ward, where, as a guest of the b aotel,. he is now living. And before ‘he will work for the sort of nomi- as thinks the sorely pressed St. Louis must make in order to win. r “" ap ‘hope for Democratic success in the ng city election,” he said to,a Post-Dispatch , Who called on ‘him at the Southern, soon con hoger from Jefferson City, “is in the of a strong man for Mayor. Such an “as ‘Lon Sanders or Frank P. Crunden, I have heard suggested.” © = ‘the things Mr. Folk believes the new nistration must do are to build the e without delay and to give the'city a - utilities commission. g act, under which the city has the adi Ainistration, and he does not see why is s has not esol taken advantage of it. ithe "ate to go ahead ‘with it. U why it hasn’t been built by Zod es in speaking of the bridge, “¥ eo if he were back bake Four Courts he would to find out why. ‘i : how it would look nding boodlers or election crooks morte will have to keep on won- mer enemy of bribery says he se ‘of that. sort in his law prac-

A et es fae fees [se fee | ee fees fe fe = But his conversation these days isn’t all about civic righteousness matters. He is just as ready to talk about the lighter side of life to which he expects to settle down here. “I don’t know whether I shall take to golf or not,” he said in answer to a question about the sport of Taft, Carnegie and. Rockefeller. “I have never before had time to learn, and I don’t know whether I would care for it: But I am planning to see a lot of baseball games this season.” As a qualification for fanship, Folk has enthu- siasm for the game, and some knowledge of its rules and fine points: 3ut any newsboy could pass a better examination than he on the names and achievements of present-day players. Bobby Wallace and Cy Young are the only ones whom he remembers from the days, be- ' fore the boodle prosecutions began, when he now and then went to the game. The mighty deeds of Rube Waddell, Harry Howell and Jack Powell have all escaped him. For the glory of their strikeouts has been confined, save on rare occasions, to the sporting- page, while Folk, and the things he has “put over” on the boodlers and lidlifters, have had preferred space on the first page. : About the most important thing which the two legislatures in Folk'’s administration failed to do, Folk believes, was to pass the bill, which he recommended, prohibiting. one corporation from holding stock in another. This is Folk’s idea of a remedy for the trust evil. “The holding corporation,” said the former Governor, in speaking of this plan of his, “is the mother of trusts. In St: Louis, one cor- as ee, Bese tias, 9

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echitp is + HH 3 } 4 . aitft apa 333; He: it! e bt if, ae Aaa ai perth Hetitet Hn} fiat ita a) Betti ith Hint ef Lo tual time, I believe the tariff will be the strongest issue for the Democracy. “The American people are not hidebound in po- litical matters, and the Republican majority in the last election is no sign that the Democrats cannot win control of the lower House two ane hence.”’ ‘ N GOV. HADLEY’S inaugural address of last Monday Folk recognized several plans which were identical with, or like, his own. One was the suggestion of a tax on the capital stock of corporations; another was a plan designed to lessen the weight of technicalities in criminal ap- peals. | Mr. Folk, who had some experiences of his own with odd Supreme Court technicalities a few years back, thinks it ought not to be possible for a member of the Legislature, accused of brib- = ery, to plead in his defense that Missouri was never legally admitted to the Union, and that therefore he is not legally a legislator and can- not legally be bribed. Nor does he think much of the way prepositions and adverbs are some- times magnified in appeals.

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\ + ’ * re 2 a . pon > ‘ , - >, age . a ~*~ + . * * 4 ae ! ? & * ; e — . — a more to I know of, _ ‘~ “As Circuit Attorney,” he sald, “I once had a iest of the i Fa i Sr: a if “a EI fe Faris aieme TO BECOME A concentration ef such interests as the Steel Trust and the North American Co., until some day we have a holding corporation of holding corpora- tions, which will unite all the trusts and create a single power more mighty than the Govern- ment itself.” OCIALISM was spoken.of in this connection, and Mr. Folk’s comment was to the effect that Socialism and trust development, though directed by different men and inspired by different motives, tend to the same end. But Socialism is a topic fruitful of misunderstanding ‘and controversy, ‘and-as his exact words were not recorded, Mr. Folk’s customary request to be og th RP RI rE) ees, seergeee a ia os e ; . . ik og FASE + “ we a ae MENS bE aE = P 9) es SS : LW al eo ie Te Ae ng t € ee a Si is ‘Se MR Org iy ec ee a