Show THE TIlE FA PA TB TE OF BOSS BRIBERS That was great gleat work done by hy the St. St Louis louiR jury which convicted Ed Butler the Democratic ic boss hoss and kin king of St. St Louis hood leIs leI's on OH a charge of bribery in connection with the tile recent lecent scandal in that city With a sentence of three years pars staring him in ill t the w face only an 1111 appeal to the tile Supreme court of Missouri stands bet between the convicted briber and th the penitentiary For yea eus is Butler has ilas made bribery his IllS prof profession So o o to speak He FIe was wai king of hood bood lers Jers until he made a fatal admission which proved his undoing undoing- Butler has for years been heen recognized as the real organizer of th the tho combines in the the- St. St Louis Council and the man who controlled all legislation in that body He lb was not deposed from flom his bis throne till in the thc public mind until he lw said Raid luring during the tho investigation gation of the suburban scandal that the gang had 1181 worked that deal leal on its own hook or oi words to tn that effect He TIe said When hen I get my fee fe-e I deliver the goods und and there then are all no mi miscues culs cul's anywhere Drs Merrill and Chap Chapman Hw whose approval was necessary sary to the passage of a bi bill in which Butler was as interested interested interested in in- testified before re the tile grand jury that Butler tried to tomake make them accept 2500 each willIe while th the thO bi bill was waR pending as Has a a. token of his esteem for their high public character Butler was indicted on two counts for attempted bribery and his conviction fol fol- foi- foi lowed But Hut the fate of Butler was that which all boss hoss bribers 1 finally nally meet Success in their corrupt practices makes them so bold that they finally filIally overstep overstep overstep over over- step ste-p prudence are me trapped in tile the meshes of the tile law Jaw lawand and e live to repent in in a felons felon's cell Tweed 1 and Kane of New e York were finally caught like rats in a trap trill Conghlin Coughlin of Chicago Wilson Vilson lson of Philadelphia and Lang Laughlin of New Orleans a all veteran ran hl bribers bers and political bosses after years Jears of rascality were convicted convicted convicted con con- and a all donned striped suits snits When hen big hig gHI game ganie le like Butler Dutler is run to earth and captured the greatest and most effective of work woi-k in tile the interest of municipal municipal muni muni- cipal purity purit is done It is a warning to not in St. St Lonis Lotus alone aone but in every f city in the Union The conviction con of oJ Butler proves that once the tile people people peo peo- are in the tile saddle m dle no 10 corrupt political boss is iH so 50 powerful that he in can protect himself from the tue d de demands IC- IC mands of the tile law Public sentiment cannot be safely safely safely safe safe- ly defied anywhere in America |