Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES

J. W. Folk, Who Aspires to the Presidency.

Joseph W. Folk, former governor of Missouri, is an avowed candidate for presidential honors. At a recent banquet in St. Louis where Democrats of all factions gathered he announced the principles on which he will seek the presidential nomination on the Democratic ticket in 1912. Mr. Folk said: “The doctrine of equal rights should be a living, vital and coiltrolling force in the government. The Democratic party should insist upon the stamping out of graft and corruption from every department, the eradication of all special favors, bounties, subsidies and a tariff for any purpose other than revenue.” Other principles named by Mr. Folk were the preservation of the right of the states to self government, the restriction of American territory to the western hemisphere, the extension of trade by revising the restriction upon commerce, an income tax, the election of United States senators by direct vote and opposition to the domination In public affairs of special interests. Former Governor Folk has had a meteoric career in politics. Although but forty-one years of age, he has served four years as governor of the great state of Missouri, his term ending last year. He gained great popularity while prosecuting attorney of St. Louis, sending a of legislative bribers to state prison. He is a native of Tennessee.

Gaynor as a Physician. “In Mayor Gaynor’s early days on the bench,” said a Brooklyn lawyer, “a prisoner’s counsel said in the course of his speech: “ ‘Medical witnesses will testify that my unfortunate client is suffering from kleptomania, and, your honor, you know what that is.’ “ ‘Yes,’ said Judge Gaynor, ‘I do. It is a disease the people pay me to cure.’ ’’—New York Sun. New Minister to Morocco. Frederick W. Carpenter, the new United States minister to Morocco, has for more than ten years been private secretary to President Taft. When Mr. Taft was head of the Philippines commission he cabled to America for a competent stenographer. Carpenter, Who was then employed by a San Francisco law firm, sailed on the next steamer for Manila. Since that time he has been Mr. Taft’s private secre- • tary, constantly at the elbbw of his chief on his way to the presidency. A desire for a change on the part of Mr. Carpenter influenced the president to name him for the post at Morocco. The new minister is a native of Minnesota, but most of his boyhood was

spent in California, where he received his rudimentary education. When through with public school he returned to his native state and studied law at the University of Minnesota. Here he took his degree, and was later admitted to practice both in Minnesota and California. Mr. Carpenter is a man of slight physique, but has a store of nervous force that permits him to accomplish a vast amount of work. Naturally, with his splendid opportunities, he is well versed in politics and diplomacy. He is fond of art and has a notable collection picked up on his many and varied journeys through the highways and byways of the earth.

FREDERICK W. CARPENTER.