The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-04-13
SCORES CHAUNCEY DEPEW
Governor AItgeId Exchanges Com
pIiments With the Orator.
Calls Him q Legislative Corruptionist-
Accuses Him of Deliberate False
hood In His Statements of
the Strike Last summer.

Snaunc DepeW IN a speech at ChiCa-
go, in which the governor was criti-
cised severely for his conduct during
the strike last summer.
Governor Altgeld said he had not read
the spsech referred to. He was told
that in substance the speech of Mr.. De-
pew said that the governor "a surren-
dered to the strikers and with the
mayor of Chicago had taken his In
instruction from the leader of the
strike. The governor denied these
charges and delivered himself In the
following vigorous hammer
Some years ago l listened to Mr.. De-
pew for two hours and came to the con-
clusion that sc long as the Lord In
sisted on limiting human life to about
three score and ten years two hours
was all the time that h average man
could afford to spend out of the forego-
ing allotment on Depew.
A deliberate falsehood does no harm,
but has a certain dash about 1t which
challenges admiration. He claims to
keep Informed on current events.
Therefore he knew that although fed
eral troops were on the ground three
days in advance of any serious rioting
and during the whole of the trouble,
biN liol VII y SlSNCiil dGl /,
but proved to be an irritant and did not
prevent the ditching of a train or the
throwing Of a brick Had they done
the one hundredth part of what Is
claimed for them, it would not have
been necessary to order out the state
troops. Yet the mayor found that the
federal troops were useless to him in
enforcing the law and he was obliged
To - Sk flr. a SciS Ia ,,aha frpp, t1n ctata .a
M Depew knows that in a few
hours after state aid was asked the
state troops We're on the ground, al
though solsfe of them had to travel over
$50 miles to get there. He also knows
that inside of a few hours after arriv-
ing on tine ground. they, together with
the Chicago police, stopped the rioting
and restored order. The state troops
and the Chicago police did more in a
few hours than all the federal troops
did during all the time they were in
Chicago.
Had he been ignorant of the facts
and then made such a statement, it
would have been a blunder, which for
him would be worse han a crime. But
the knowledge of the fact thai every
syllable that he uttered was a fabrlca-
ton not only changed the character OF
the performance by lifting 1t above the
commonplace. but brought it INTO har-
mony with what has apparently been
the philosophy of his llfe.'
He is the most conspicuous product
OF the doctrine, DO evil that good may
come of it, that this country has ever
seen. He first attracted attention many
years ago as a lobbyist at Albany,
where he for a long time was engaged
in the highly honorable business of put
ting metaphorical collars on the New
York legislators. SO that to the public
they appeared to belong to the Wander
bilts and the New York Central rail-
road.
According to reports, this business
was reduced to such a science that
whenever the New York Central rail-
road wished to buy a Legislature they
did not even stop to negotiate with him,
but simply put him OF the scales and
weighed him. A train of slime and cor
ruption was stretched across the state
from New York city by way of Albany
to Buffalo, and from there it spread over
the whole country, c%orrupting public Of
%ficials, %polluting legislative halls and
even filling courts of justice with its
odor. This was the beginning of the
flood of corruption which is today wash
wbo,e severn fahr;c
"No man could ha n dealer T., .b,s
,errosv without so;,inp hjs fnpars and
r am told thot since that time Mr. NJ
now has newer bean Coo, ,vi,bor+ ha
vas wearing gloves
mo, Mr.. Depew would not do so vul-
gar . tbinp nc 90 to nrison IN tho oor-
trarv ba made a,I@tbis , stanning stowe
10 greatnass Ha wranned the star :.
and strinas about him He bac.,na a
red- o,.ato, Ia chan..a
his calendar On 40 to make The FoI,rth
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civ ho,,rs Far tha ra,nainder nf INC 700
ond tban no started ro,.t h white house
msnhsaouantIy the yandarhi,ts Ana.
,nr him To he a rraat ~convanianca wade
him nrasidant of the Nav work Cantra1
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