Excerpt from Political Thuggery; Or, Bribery a National Issue: Missouri"s Battle With the Boodlers, Including the Great Fight Led by Folk, Joseph Circuit Folk, and the Uprising of the People of the State
Fifty-three foreign governments, our Federal government, and all the States of the American Union are participating in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which represents a total expenditure of $50,000,000, and covers more space than the Chicago, Paris, and Centennial expositions combined. Other expositions have been international; it remained for this to be universal; it is a microcosm, - a world in miniature. Art, Education and Industry have been exploited; Agriculture, Horticulture, Manufactures and Transportation have been drawn upon for the most elaborate, beautiful and inspiring presentation of the triumphs of human genius ever offered.
At the same time, while this mammoth Exposition was in preparation, another stupendous and daring enterprise was being successfully pushed in the city of St. Louis, the metropolis of the Louisiana Territory and the State of Missouri; an enterprise which is impossible, save among a free people, with a free and untrammelled press; nothing less than the rescue of a commonwealth from political pirates and commercial free-booters. This magnificent spectacle of a free and sovereign people rising in their might and purging their government from the last taint of corruption, is, after all, the grandest exhibit to be seen in connection with the great World"s Fair.
It is not a local matter. Led by the fearless and intrepid Prosecuting Attorney of St. Louis, Hon. Joseph Wingate Folk, the people have exposed and pilloried the knaves of the commonwealth; they have uncovered a seething mass of corruption which honey-combs the nation, and finds its head in the national civil service, departments of which have at times seemed to be nothing more nor less than organized graft. It is this daring expose we here present as the exhibit surpassing all others in picturesqueness of detail and enduring interest.
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