Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1893-02-17
The Leader.
Washington Correspond ndence.


Cleveland legion Of p)utocracy. Harri-
son even appoints democrat to the So.
preme ludgeship. Radical republicans
are bowling, crazy mad! Papers will not
give one tent h of the sulphurous eruption.
Lest il be suppressed we send 9 copy Of
J. S. Clarkson's telegram to Houk:
Hon. John c.. Houk.-H Harrison's be-
trayal OF republican principles and aband-
onment of the helpless republicans OF the
south by the appointment Of jackson
to the supreme bench is an outrage that
no self-respecting republican can either
endorse or forgive. | have sent protest
| to Sen. Cullom one of the old time repub
/ lican leaders. Please see it..
| j AMEs s.. CLARKsON.
Honk southern republican. responds
in even stronger language. But it is Of
no use to protest. 1t was fixed up in
New York, with the full knowledge OF
Grover Cleveland and both the military
centralization in this country, and the
silver brick case entered into consider
alton, and party interests did not. The
proof Of this will appear before Cleve-
lands first three months are over. 1t is
plutocracy or the people-and Cleveland
is plutocracy .'Sfya' published Cruthes
lin his prophecies Of Cleveland and En-
pire, six years ago. Cleveland and Carl
isle talked Jakson before Harrison did,
aud Wall st. played the game. .-.-s-.s,s5
Outrageous falsehoods have been scat
tered throughout the west about Sen.
Kyle stating that he voted against bill
to permit settlers to prove up tree Claims
rs homesteads after term Of years. The
absolute fact is that Senator Kyle Of
South Dakota, was the father of the bill.
and Sen. Pettigrew, the man who smoth-
cred Kyle's bill. The Ind. News Assn
has looked the matter up on request OF q
South Dakota Journal, and Pettigrew
does not appear well on the record.
! The bill was first introduced by Kyle
Dec. 222nd, 1891; read twice, and referred
| to com. on Public Lands which Petit
grew was a member. Here Senator Kyle
|appeared and urged favorable report.
Motion therefor seconded, with an appar-
ent unanimous sentiment when the chair
man, quickly and for purpose, referred
the bill to this man Pettigrew, as a sub
com He smothered it for over six
months and then killed it, single-handed,
with an adverse report. He introduced a
bill Of his own, however, had it referred
to same COM. and in four days(D had Il
favorable report-but Pettigrew knew,
everyone knew that no bill could pass
|then-congress adjourning in = few days
The two bills were identical. Pettigrew
killed the bill, and in manner not credi-
table,
The street was simply stunned again by
the gold shipments which are TO occur
tomorrow. It had been calculated that
the decline in sterling exchange below
the profit point Of shipping would act as
check. But France and Austria offer
premiums on .gold'!!! Think of that,
Neditate.
The Ind News Assn positively asserts
that at this very hour, France, Silver
a5O-a- head nation, is paying inteCest-in-
transit, to draw in gold while the trained
idiots on this side Of the ocean kill silver,
have S1O-a head money, and-lose their
gold!
The silver war has begun in congress.
Cleveland has reiterated the declaration:
"Repeal the Sherman act or have an extra
session.!
National Cordage Co. earned SO. GOO, 600
met the past year. This statement is
on authority.
nradiutant-general, in Oregon, wanted
the loan of few state cannon to boom
the inauguration March 4. Gov. Penney
er took the adjutant down in heroic meter,
thus: mo permission will be given to fire
state cannon over the Inauguration of a
Wall ST. Plutocrat for president of the
United States No more remarkable de-
clarat,on has ever been uttered since the
bells rang outin '7G. 1t was not the man.
but the official, who thundered doctrine
previously born of poverty and fear! No
more is heard through the press of the
horrible Saar miners strike in Prussia
If is clear case of International suppress
ion of news through a plutocratic cesor-
ship. By the same method the public are
kept in the dark in this counry regarding |,
great movements. Spain is boiling over
with revolutions; Italy at fever heat; seven
bombs have been exploded within two
the Prussian court advising war
as remedy against scores of the frozen
corpses of the starved which lie under
hedges; military guarding Belgian fact
cries, and bread shops barricaded: f.
nancial crash imminent-when banks are
overloaded with money and discounts easy;
baker wagons seized and looted right in
the street of New York City; and cen
tralization of military power near the
large cities of every nation. England is
in desperate shape-and yet with every
factory prosperous" Mobs of men, $50
wretches at a time, beg to be arrested for