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Show THE HONOR AMONG ST. LOUIS THIEVES. The disclosures mado by Charles F. Kellj, speaker of the House of Delegates Dele-gates of the Sf. Louis city administration, administra-tion, are startling enough. But there Is the suspicion of tho guiding hand In theni. The boodllng bo shamelessly confessed Is merely a detailed amplification ampli-fication of what was already known. But there Is an element In the story Mr. Kelly tells which Is grimly humorous. humor-ous. He declares that when the Delegates' Dele-gates' mot to determine how much they would demand for their votes, they would send out the one considered most honest among them, to get the money; ,'that they were seldom deceived about the hopesty of the one so selected, as with rare exceptions ho returned faithfully faith-fully with the coin and distributed correctly cor-rectly among the distinguished gentlemen gentle-men who were entitled to receive It. "There was a high sense of honor among us," goes on Mr. Kelly, "and we were seldom deceived. We almost always al-ways got the money due us," or words to that effect. The grotesqueness of this view, the unconscious parody on decency and honesty which he emits In this sort of talk, would be as delicious in fiction as It Is scandalous In actual life. The Idea of calling the division of boodle hon- csty, and of associating "a high sense of honor" with the division of thieves' swag Is as ridiculous a travesty on the J true meaning of words a3 could be con- j celved. Mr. Kelly's "mind has evidently been thoroughly perverted; ho Is a fit subject for the study of the alienist, or the biological expert on the deterlor- ' at Ion of the human- rac, J |