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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1905)
' ' I i 1 T ( a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a m WANTED Potatoes. Onions, Root Vegetables Apples, Hay, Oats, Barley We pay Highest Market Prices for all Produce a We are receiving regular thipmentt of fresh eggt which we are quoting to the trade at $8.25 per case of SO doz. Fancy white clover honey from California, tweeter than '. native etock. 24 frame cases at $3.25 per case. We have a large lot of No. 2 applet which we quote at 40c per box. Oregon Produce Company Call up Main 29 for MEW WALNUTS ALMONDS BLEACHED SULTANAS Cluster Raisins Citron and Lemon Peel Muscatel Raisins Dates Heinz Mincemeat BAKER BROS. PHONE MAIN 29 Adams Ave Mow is the accepted time To do Your Christmas Shopping . We Have the Goods BOOKS, DOLS, GLOVES, ETC Presents for old, and young s E. M. Wellman & Company ' ADAMS AVENUE : . A D 0 P.Q D D 0 D D D Q O tt Q Q 0 WHITE ROSE FLOUR ti nilled with the He of pleasing every dealer's high, oittos trade-custo"-"- who appreciite quality, Thea uauie of the ?ioot Flouring Mill Co. guarantees re liability and Dighett grsde lu every eack of Cour eariug the White Rose brund. F;oneer Flouring Mill Co. aBoaoaaoDDDaa ay a w w h a jTI.BJ WW WW www- JOS. V. FOLK. THE HI ' Hi THE PUBLIC fit TODAY A Man Wlio Has NaUe Good His (apaijn Pieces, Is diving v tlie Great State of Missouri a t fltrcajii V: . . (leaning.- ' : . ' perhaps, it may be said that he does not sjem to be of such size and strength as he will be after ten years mare in the school of life, and that the kind of a pre sident he might likely make three years from now it so much inferior to the pres ident that they hope and believe he would make ten or a dozen year from now, that they dislike to tee him wasted on an earlier opportunity." The seventh ton of a seventh ton is supposed to be endowed with remarkable qualities. But if William Allen White it to be entirely credited. Mr. Joseph W. Folk, governor of Missouri at the age of thirty-eix, and "one of the half-dozen real leaders of civic honetty in America it a teventh ton of a teventh ton and yet it "a most ordinary young man equipped with the usual physical , and mental ac couterment" There it nothing mystical about him or his success. The only diff- no special oratorical ability, no peculiar talent for political organization, no per sonal magnetism, no campaign fund to speak of. he closed hit canvasa with a unanimous nomination in the convention. It was a most signal triumph for simple. straightforward honetty and unquestioned courage. Sayt Mr. White: "A great mor al itsue wat moving among the people. That itsue concerned the enforcement or the annulment of law, and Fo'k drama tized it His career, and the fight made erence between him and many another I upon him for that issue, cast him at tlje young gentleman in Vanity Fair, says Mr. hero, and Amer'cana never fait to applaud White, it that Folk "hat tense enough to , the hero and hist the villian." Although CITY JULIUS BREWERY ROESCH, Proprietor. Largest Brewing Plant in Eastern Oregon Ask for La Grande Beer and get the Best LA GRANDE BEER IS MADE IN LA GRANDE AND SHOULD HAVE THE . PREFERENCE be honest and make it pay." Mr. White tells the story of Folk't career in hit us ual vivid style in McOure't for December. It It a ttimulating and reassuring story. After he succeeded in getting born, in Brownsville, Tennesee (hit ancestors on both tract navuiM i -... -.C .".' " Revolution), young Joteph got the usual education of an American boy in an American country town and finished off at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, grad uating with the law class of 1890. After practicing law a short time in Browns ville, he went to St Louis, and achieved hit first prominence at attorney for tome striking street-car employees. At a re sult of this prominence, he became the Democratic nominee for circuit attorney in St Louis, and wat elected. Then he began to surprise people. He had told all hit friends that be would enforce the laws: but all candidates said .that and they supposed Folk wat like the rest.. He surprised them by meaning it . The orat or who nominated him m the convention laid the usual stress, for oratorical pur poses, upon Folk't pledge to enforce the laws. When Folk afterward put him in jail for "Doodling," a great many people taw the joke, but the orator did not tee it, Ed" Butler, who wat the organizer of the election thugt" for the Democratic machine in St Louie, and who dic'.ated mo t of the nominations, telle hit little tale of woe at followt, according to Nr. Whites ; ,- - , I "It wat like this: I wat going to nomi- nateaman named Clark good fellow, and all right, 'a far '' I know, when , in comet Harry Ha wet to my office one day an' savs. 'Colonel, how bad do you want that man Clark?' An' 1 says, 'well I dunno; I've promised it to him.' 'Well,' Harnr tav. 'I got S young feller name Folk I want to have it' That wae Har ry's wav. He wanted to be a leader. An', fie knew he could n't beat me fair; to he done it the other way. 1 says, 'well, I'll tee Clark and tee what he tayt.' And I teen him and he tays he didn't need the office particularly, and I, tayt, 'well, if you don't, Harry HawetV got a young feller name Folk thafe been attorney for the Union labor fellers and tattled up their ttrike for 'em. and Harry kind o wantt to name him.' and to the next time 1 teen Harry I tayt, 'bring your little man around,' and he done it and 1 looked him over,' and there didn't . teem to be any thing the matter of him, to. I sayt all right and he wat nominated. An' look what he done tpent four yeart tryin' to put me in the penitentiary that t the kind of a man Harry Hawet it. He'e a leader now, and I'm out An' that's how he done it" Mr. Folk began operations by securing the indictments of a number of election thlevet, most of whom had worked for hit own election. Then he started in on boodling counciimen. "Within three yeart Folk uncovered in St Louis more cor ruption than had ever been uncovered at one time and place in the civilized world." Prior to that not an indictment had ever been secured in Missouri against a public official for "boodling." Folk, in four yeart time, . brought forty cases, convicted twenty of the accused, and though- the state eupreme court ordered the release of twelve of them on technicalities, the re maining eight are now ttrving time in the penitentiary. ; All sorts of efforts to atop him and to entrap him were made. Court esans were set upon him. He wat threatened witn assassination, it was said by (he corruptionistt that at toon at hit term of office wat ended they would make it impossible for him to live in Miss ouri. This last threat was to often re- (mm GOVERNOR Ex-Governor T. T. Goer hat annouced hie candidacy for the governorship before the Republican primaries. TO THE (HIDREIt j The children can write their letters to Santa Claut an J mail, them at Newlin Drug Co.'e store. ' Saved By Dynamite Sometimev a flaming city is saved by dynamiting a space that the fire can't cross. Sometimes, a cough hangs on so long, you feel as if nothing but dynamite would cure it Z. T. Gray, of Calhoun Ga writes: "My wife had a very ag gravated cough, 'vch kept her awake nights. Two physicians could not help her; so she took Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which eased her cough, gave (her sleep, and finally cured her." Strictly scientific cure for bronchitis and L Grippe, for tale by Newlin Drug Co Price 60c and $1.00; guaranteed. Tria jj.'.isfrji. SANTA (LAUSFS LETTER BOX. Santa Clause has left a letter box at the Newlin Co.'t Stationary Store for the children to mail their letters to him. RELIABLE JEWELKS AND ; - OPTICIANS ' t NEXT D03R TO POSTOFfKE MIST (0 on election day all the other Democrat c candidates on the state ticket were de feated by about 16,000 plurality. Folk wat elected by 50,000 plurality, running 6000 ahead of Rootevelt At governor. Folk, we are assured, is nnt ut.tino- down." In spite of great leg al difficulties, he hat effectually put a i stop to race track gambling in St Louis. He hat enforced the laws againtt telling liquor on Sundays, to that "the hotel bare and all drinking placet are dosed an Sun day in the first-class citiet of Missouri for the first time in the history of tht state." He has sesured -any number of sadly needed laws relating to railroadt, while vetoing bills , that were manifestly unjust to the roads and detgned as strikes." . And at a result of it all, the value of land in Missouri since Folk began operation! hat Increased twenty per cent the annual immigration hat Inoreated twenty-five per cent the Sunday business of the local street-cart has increased twenty-five per cent the Monday deposits in the savings banks "have increased re markably," and the number of arrettt in the three citiet where statistics are avail able h;s decreased twenty per cent, tnd the Sunday arrettt have diminished forty per cent So much for what Folk hat done. At for the man himtelf, Mr. White givee ut this discription: "He it a smallish man In stature, being a trifle lett than five feet seven in heigh', but tome day he will be stout He it of the sack-coat size and build and temper: ment at Roosevelt itbut finding him telf a public man, he dresses the part in what we of the West call a Prince Albert coat a garment which seems to give citi zens confidence in their officials. And leadt one in to the core of the man's char acter caution.' If the word 4oxy c?uld be knighted Into polite diction, it might be applied to Joseph W. Folk. For, though intrigue-it foreign to hit nature, and though he never walks on hit toes, and hat no stomach for thamt and pretenses, every step he takes it taken with direc tion; every word he tayt it weighed care fully though hardly painfully at a ttupid man's words are doled out to cover hie ignorance; and every act public or pri vate, . which may have the leaet signifi cance upon those who witness it is measured by eome wise rule. Hence the Prince Albert coat; hence his abstinence; hence hit unruffled front; hence the con ventionality of hit daily walk. Nor it thit veneer. It comes from his heart. Fear ing the effect on young men who might see him smoking, Folk hat given up hit cigar and pipe. He it at modest as a girl, and yet he it worldly-wise enough to know the force of the example of a public man,'' and he willingly sacrifices his com fort that he may not violate this trivial obligation to the people. , Hit language is as clean as a woman's, and it comes from a carefully weeded heart Add to the picture of a frock-coated, smooth-faced, clear-eyed, thy-mannered, self-deprecating young man, a black toft hat and a boyish smile playing elusively over a countenance regular and oval, and it needs but a few touches to make it live." He it. furthermore, "deeply pious, with out being in the least sanctimonious and without any cant" He ie "rigid in his observance of conventionalities," though not in the least punctilious about formali ties. He it goodnatured and genial, but never humorous, . sarcastic or flippant His dominant passion is public service, but be "seems to have no confidante, no advisers, no board of strategy." His honesty seems to Mr. White the result of a deliberate conviction, of faith or creed, I CHRISTMAS SALE peated that he concluded that hie onhr 1 that honesty is the best policy. Intellect- chance of safety' lay in completing the I ually he is not yet at big at.he is morally; work he had begun and totally destroying the power of the corrupt forces. And to he became a candidate for the guberna torial nomination. He made a whirlwind campaign of the state." Every member of the State central committee of hit but he it growing. He ie not a perton of broad and catholic culture. The effort to make him a presidential candidate is de precated by Mr: White, who asserts that not Folk's bett friends but his most un swerving enemies are those who talk the party the Democratic wat against! loudest about him as a candidate for Pre- him. So wat the state administration sident in 1 908. "To many of those who and all the politicians of note. And ' "an know him best and admire him- most hs unlimited campaign fund" was subscribed does not yet seem to be of size or of to defeat him. With no social prestige, ttrength for presidential timber; or better, Every Article In the store mm in put (OiT ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURED 1 I Dec. loth to Jan. 1st ! You' all know the sure, easy and quick road to commer cial ruin is to leave your goods in the show cases and' on the shelf. We don't propose to be caught on this road. People have ask us how we expected to sell our, enormous stock in La Grande We proved to them that our prices are the lowest and our stock of the best quality. They bought and have told their friends, and we get "their, business. Our prices sell our goods. .. We have had a 'very busy month,' but we must ; sell more goods, which is our reason for ; cutting prices. We need the money and you will be the,one to profit. GALL AND INSPECT OUR STOCK AND YOU WILL REALIZE AND APPRECIATE THE BARGAINS WE HAVE fOR YOU .. .. .. Remember we reserve no goods Watches and Diamonds Go in this sale. If you want to buy or not call and inspect our stock and I yuu will be convinced we have the Largest stock in Eastern Oregon and our Prices are now lower than catalogue houses Our store will be open "till" 10 p. m. until December 25 Repair work given prompt attention and guaranteed ISlEGRIST & GO.! Reliable Jewelers Nxt Door to Postoffice LA GRANDE, OR. eee eft