Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1885-02-19
THE VEST PULLED DOWN

Nearly everyone in Dakota is familiar
with Senator Vests speech in the senate
denouncing Dakota and her people, and
also his personal attack upon Col. Donan,
formerly Of the Fargo Argus. In a letter
from New York to the Argus Col. Donan
replies to the attact in a very forcible man.
ner. We quote below but port ion OF the
! repli. He says;
And who is this fellow that aspires to
led the national councils in the persistent
denial Of all these just and reasonable Pc
titions2-Who glories in the shane of in.
stigating and defending these fagrnn,
outrages upon a noble territory anu Its
nearly half million citizens?-Who strives
to trampls under swInish feet the pearls of
, peoples rights and dearest in,erests?--
Who f.oths at the mouth at every mention
Of Dakota's name, and delights to empty
the slop- buckets Of his senatorial malignity
and falsehood upon the fair fame OF as
! queenly region, and as worthy race of
| men and women as evtrthe III shone on?
Who and what is he?
4 lIlliputian cow-c Use lawyer from a
regiUn which is better represented by the
Younger Boys il the Minnesota penitentia-
| ry, than by him in the United States senate
| He represents, in the natl MS loftiest
council malls the blind and brutal bour-
bonism of state which is hineous blotch
upon the m,ps OF civilization. He
represents and illustrates all that is worst
and most besotted of the James Boy and
Train Robber State Missouri, which can
onize Quantreli and Bill Anderson, enrolls
Jesse James among the noblest of her dead
saints and heroes aud exhibits Frank
James at her fairs and festivals as the
highest type of her living manhood-Nis-
| souri,, whose last governor, In order to get
rid Of one OF her eminent representative
and assassins, had to go into an assassina-
ton partnership with nother-Missouri,
whose soil was crimsoned last year with
the blood of hundred and sixty eight muir
ders and assassinations, while she execut-
ed scarcely half dozen of her red handed
ruffians- Missouri, where murder is so
common and human life so cheap that,
who n a man shoots and kills another on
Sunday, he is simply fined dollar for vio-
lation of the ordinance against tle dis
charge of firearms on the Ssbbath-Mis-
souri,, whose official record OF thievery, in
her repudisted county, city. town and
township debts, shows damning
aggregate of over 10000, ,000-M Missouri,
which, with the rich resources of a glorious
empire in her soil, climate, forests and
minerals, lies an undeveloped. savage
wilderness, dark. sluggish, ignorant and
barbaric. in the very heart of the republic
Missouri, the outlaws paradise, the ely
stun Of cut -throats and brigands, the hog
heaven of midnight raiders and political
thugs; this is the state he fitly represents,
for, to disgrace it would be impossible.
He still spells Nation with small ''n,"
state with big "S," negro with two ''g's,"
and yankee with I'd" If he ever org
mated one useful idea, suggested one SEN
sible or beneficial measure. uttered one
lofty or patriotic sentiment, or performed
one worthy deed, in all his worthless life,
history has failed to record the fact.
AMI this pestiient little blatherskite,
this representative of barbarism end de-
fender OF obsolete heresies, follies and
crimes, is the fellow who. frantically wav-
ing above him dilapidated confederate
flag. surmounted by the black piratical
pennon Of Kukluxism, throws himself in