The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year Number 8
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 21, 1904
COL. ED BUTLER HERE
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Col. Ed. Butler, a well known St.
Louisian, arrived in Marlin last night accompanied by his wife and grand son,
Master Edmond Linchaus.
This is there second trip to Marlin, they having spent
about seven weeks here last summer. At the time he left Col. Butler stated that
they would return again this spring for a longer stay.
Col ButIer has been in the papers and also in the
courts a good deal during the past few years. It was against him and his
friends that all the powers of the district attorneys office, held by Joe Folk,
was directed. Folk made strenuous efforts to land Butler behind the bars, on
charges of bribery, but after several trials he failed and there is now no
charge against Ed. Butler. And, judging from recent primary election results in
St. Louis Butler has lost none of his political prestage in that town. Out of
138 delegates to the state convention Folk secured eleven and the anti-Folk
forces, directed by Butler, secured the remaining 121.
Col. Butler's business career in St. Louis started in
a blacksmith shop. He has long been identified with a number of enterprises and
is wealthy.
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