The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-04-27

VA ~ HoSS RtISOtiHt1Iy ksa1Sie lR SGU.
er.ily Known.
Philadelphia special: When good
Democrats and good citizens generally
read in the dispatches from Washington
that Congressman Samuel j. Randall
had refused to support the policy of the
president, that he had introduced q bin
of his w to reduce the revenue and
that he is delaying the legislation of the
house by declining to report bills from
his com mittee on, appropriations, do
they ever ask themselves, Who is this
great Boanerges WHO sets himself above
president and party, this mighty son who
will rule or ruin, this o-called Democrat
who can always be found acting with
the trust ~monopolists upon every meas
ure of vital importance to his partyY' $
Ii Mr.. Randall ever was a lawyer
and ever practiced at the bar the fact
has been forgotten--it must have been
so long ago. He once did have an office
at No. 6l5 Walnut street, but his single
is no longer TO be seen there. This
Office was in n little rear room on an
upper floor, ungraced By law books,
where he met those Of his constituents
who were most influential in controlling
primary elections, What, then, it may
be asked, does he do for a living? The
answer is, he follows politics, and that
is his sole means of livelihood. He is
not a business man, nor a lawyer, nor in
any profession, but he is purely and
simply a politician. That is all he has
done for thirty years. From the Unitel
States government he has drawn S125, 900
in salaries, and that has been his chief
means of support. The sum of SIS, 900 d
year would seem to be a small one for O
public man to live upon while rearing a
family and keeping up a house il Wash
ington and one in Philadelphia. But
Dir. Randall does not live in Philadel-
phia, and it is doubtful if any of his
family have been for years il the district
he is supposed to represent. His resi-
dence here is a fiction, and he has nc
more interest in the place, outside of his
grip upon its politics. thar he has in
New York, Boston, Chicago or San
Francisco. His family does not live in
the district, nor in Philadelphia, and has
not for years. and IS quite unknown
here. Mr. ~Iandall's only connection
with the district consists in the fact that
in his frequent visits to the city be goes
to some hotel within its limits and reg.
listers his name. This is supposed to
give him the right 10 vote there.
The fact that the ex-spcaker really
does not live in his district ia not the
only peculiar thing about his rcpresen.
tation of it. lie is not atsxp2yer in it,
and it is doubtful if he owns IN inch of
ground in the city. lie secures his RICH,
to volc by paying to the city the mag
n~ifcent sum of 50 cents every two years
as a poll tax, and considers this quite
enough 10 qualify him to sit for it in
congress and TO legIslate for it.
In the light of these facts Mr.. Randall
may seem rather a curious representa-
tive, but for a genuine curiosity his dis
trict goes ahead of him. 1t is of the
pronounced shocstring order, aud runs
III II narrow strip along the Delaware
river for several miles, taking in the
Third, Fourth. Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh,
Twelfth, Sixteenth. and s~eyenteeth
wards. All of these are strongly Dem.
%ocratic, with the exception of the Fifth,
and, indeed. they comprise all the Dem
%ocratic wards of the city save two,
They are III known as decaying wards
ihat is, wards in which the population is
being steadily pushed out by the advance
of business. the district is rotten, as
the following figures for The five con,
gressionai districts in Che city, gives pop,
n~iGtion and the number of assessed
voters, will show. In number Randall
district is the Third: