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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