Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1905 — Gov. Folk Welcomed at Denver. [ARTICLE]

Gov. Folk Welcomed at Denver.

Gov. Folk says he cannot remember taking a drink of Kansas whisky. Then he didn’t take it. No man who takes a drink of real Kansas whisky ever forgets it. Gov. Folk of Missouri insists on paying his own expenses at the Portland fair. If the govenor is not careful, he will succeed in getting himself classed as eccentric. They want frost in the South to stop yellow fever; and they don’t want frost to spoil the cotton crop. If you were the weather man what would you do in a case like that? A candidate has been nominated for mayor against Tom Johnson but the latter is not losing any flesh. He is confident that Cleveland, Ohio, knows a gdod thing, when Lincoln Steffens points it out. Governor Hanley’s action in removing from office Auditor of State David E. Sherrick is to be commended. The governor has shown that Sherrick was a defaulter almost from the hour he took bis office, using funds that belonged to the state to settle his private debts; that he gambled away SIO,OOO of the state’s money at French Lick; that he used his office for grafting purposes and was an all round bad man to have in any position of trust. His prototype may be found in many other places, but the nerve to retire them to private life is lacking with their superiours and with the voters, many of whom really know the true character of the men they uphold by their suffrage. Well, well. The investigation into insurance matters in New York has disclosed that the New York Life gave $50,000 to the Republican campaign fund in 1896 and again in 1900 and again in 1904. This was admitted under oath by George W. Perkins, who is a partner in the J. Pierpont Morgan company and a trustee of the New York Life. The money was deposited with the J. P. Morgan Co., and was payable to the treasurer of the republican national committee. The disclosure has created consternation in the g. o. p. camp and among policy holders of the New York Life, and recalls the charges made by Judge Parker during the last presidential campaign regarding the contributions made by the big corporations to the republican campaign fund.

Denver, Sept. 22.—Governor Folk, of Missouri, who arrived here on his homeward Journey from the coast, was entertalmsl at luncheon by the Denver Chamber of Commerce. Several hundred state and city officials and business men grinded tlie distinguished guest, ami lie made an address on the subject of enforcement of the laws.