The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
JUDICIOUS AND EXQUISITE
LYING.

SOO1O1OOO AMI EAHO1OllE
LYING.
For this noble art, in it's perfection,
commend us to the Pioneer Press
every time. In its issue of May 8, 1895,
there appeared on the first page, these
great head lines:-(a friend sent the
paper to u.s.
STOLE FROM THE STATE.
NORTH DAKOTA POPS TOOK EVERY.
THING IN SIGHT.
An Inventory of the Supplies of the Ma
tiOnal Guards in the State House at Bis
marck Shows q Shortage of Tents and
Other Articles-One State officer Appro-
priated Stove for the Use of his Faith
er-in-Law, Which He has Been Mott fed
to Return.
We turned with fear and trembling
and read the special telegram from
Fargo, of which this was the trumpet
blast of announcement: Here it is:
Fargo special, May SIN an inter-
view in tonight's Forum, Col. Tulley,
chief of supply of the North Dakota
National Guard, says: Maj: J. S.Cole,
commissioner Of supply, N. D. N. G.,
returned from Bismarck this morning,
where he has been on my order to take
a complete inventory of the military
supplies stationed in the basement OF
the capitol and the state arsenal. Talk
about shortage of the state finances,
but 1t seems the militia property did
not escape some Of the Pop state Of
II ol,3c
seems to be shortage of tents and
appropr lated a stove for use of his
father-i n-law, which he has been mott
fed to return. There was a great
hustling among the "Pops" when Maj.
Cole arrived in Bismarck, to return
the property that they had appropri-
ated, belonging to the state mill
tia. l believe that if they had
been allowed two more years
of their rule and ruin scheme
the entire militia property would have
been fairly distributed Throughout the
state among the followers of the Pop
proclivities.'
Now observe, this is Especial" from
a special Republican liar, about some
thing in Bismarck, several hundred
miles distant, as to something that
somebody said to somebody else. And
this somebody told somebody else that
there "seens to be- shortage in some
OF the militia property; he does not
say that there is, or what it consists
Of, but there seems to be; and he does
not say who took the missing articles,
if they were taken; but he states,
without a word Of proof, that they did
not escape "sone of the Pop state Of
fcers." Which one? Was it the COVER
nor or the stenographer? And what
was it that was taken? Oh! A stove!
He appropriated it for the use of his
father-in-law, and the "father-in-law
has been requested to return it. land
it does not appear that he has refused
to do so. And if he does return 1t how
much worse off is the sovereign state
Of North Dakota by tho use Of that
stove during the winter? And if there
is any one thing that man would be
justified in lending to his father-in-
law, in the blooming climate of Bis
marck in January, or even stealing for
him, if necessary, it is stove.
And that is all the justification
there is for those terrible head lines:
-"SToLE FROM THE STATE. NORTH
DAKOTA POPS TAKE EVERYTHING. IN
SIGHT," Somebody borrowed stove
to keep from freezing. Nothing was
stolen-and everything in sight was
not taken, not even the lying militia
officer, Major J. S. w. @. B. Cole, com
missary of supplies for N. D., N. G..
N. f., N. 2. etc, high-cockolurum
"Malish:" that noble force, invincible
in peace and Invisible in war; war
ranted not to leave home unless their
own neighborhod is invaded.
And the alphabetical maj or of the
enigmatical troops ex presses his belief
that if the Populists had two years
more they acoatld haze stolen some
thing!! This is on the principle of the
fellow who got drunk before break
fast, and came home and said to his
sleeping wife,-"Mary get up, and give
me something to eat. I have had
nothing to eat since last night at sup
per, and TOMORROW WiU be three doys!'
And this is the kind of trash and
trumpery these debauched rascals use
to blacken the good name of as noble a
set of reformers as ever blessed the
United States. They put forth pro-
digious head lines to gull the unfor-
tunate fools who read their lying
sheets; and there is no more truth in
them than there is ice in the Internal
regions. And What is it all for? To
blind the voters SO that the awful rob-
berries may go on until the whole land
is swallowed up by bankruptcy. And
when lying will not kill off the Popu-
lists they have other devices; Read
this:
'"They have a way of disposing of
Populist officials out in Oregon that is
unique. King county elected Popu.
list county treasurer. Before the time
for him to take the office the county
board raised the bond to $500, 600. AS
honest was he and would not be used by
the bankers, they would not go on his
bond, and, being unable to give the
bond otherwise, his Republican prede-
ceSSor and the banks are holding on to
the office and the funds"
1t is simply a lot of scamps and
scoundrels trading upon the past glor-
les Of the grand old Republican party,
like fellow who wraps the American
flag around him and goes out to steal
horses, singing: