Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — FOLK IS THE NOMINEE. [ARTICLE]

FOLK IS THE NOMINEE.

Unanimously Named for Governor of Missouri by Democrats. After an all-night session, marked by intervals of disorder and commotion that could not be quelled by the gavel, the Missouri Democratic State convention unanimously nominated Joseph W. Folk, Circuit Attorney of St. Louis, for Governor and, adopted a platform which promises a vigorous, unrelenting crusade against corruption and hoodie in Missouri in the event of Democratic supremacy at the polls. Just as the day was breaking Thursday the convention adjourned until 40 o’clock and one of the most turbulent sessions of a Missouri Democratic convention ended. Joseph Wingate Folk was bora in Brownsville, Tejin., Oct. 28, 1869. -His father is Judge Henry B. Folk Of Brownsville and his mother is a descendant of the Estes family of Virginia. Mr. Folk is a graduate of Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Tenn., where he finished his literary and legal education. He practiced law in Brownsville for two years and then went to St. Louis in 1892. Mr. Folk became generally known to the citizens of St. Louis through the prominent- part he took in the settlement of the great street car strike of 1900. As Circuit Attorney, of St. Louis Mr. Folk successfully prosecuted a number of bribe takers in both branches of the municipal assembly.