The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-05-10
MIR, HACKNEY.

NIX, HACkNE I.
HE WRITES a LETTER AND 1T Is
"A HOT ONE.
he Scores the Republican Editors and
ventilates the Coming Monetary Con-
ference as q Fraud-Trying to Dodge
the Populist Landslide of go.
Topeka, Kan.-(Special)-Hon. Bill
Hackney, a prominent Republican, inc
formerly a resident of Winfield, this
state, is now at Cleveland, o.. HE
writes a letter to Capt. Pat Coney, OF
this city, in which he says:
IF there is anything in the world
more disgusting than another, it is to be
compelled to listen to the everlasting
twaddle of a cringing, coWardly
whelp who happens to be a Republican
editor, and who is afraid to say his life
is his own for fear it will reflect on
England. / wonder when these Re
publican ignoramuses will cease 10
fatigue us with their everlasting crude
financialisms. The average Republlc-
an editor hasn't as much backbone and
brains as a last years birds nest, and
they never pen a line that they do not
discover to a gaping world what IN
fernal fools they are.
81 just received by today's mail a
clipping of Joe Ady's speech at the
Baker banquet. l wonder why in the
name of sense he did not make the
same speech for the past two years.;
If he had talked all these years as he
talked at that banquet he would have
been elected United States senator and
not Baker.
81 am in the midst of a shoddy aris-
tocracy and purse-proud mediocrity,
and my mentality is offended and
tramped on every day by their igno-
rant assumption on this money ques-
ton, but l suppose I will have to grin
and to bear it until common sense and
treason regain their sway. Surely that
influence must be overthrown in the
Republican party, or else you and |
have no further business in it. We
can not shut our eyes to the fact that
the present condition is made possible
by Republican legislation, conceived
in the womb of iniquity and born
through legislative %rascality, and the
masses blinded to such ~venality and
m%endacity until they are in as de-
plorable a condition as the paupers Of
Europe.
"The question of a tariff or no tariff
had nothing to do with the cause that
made such results possible; it was the
appreciation of dollars, Or what is the
same thing, the depreciation of every
thing else, by means whereof enter
prise has been stopped, trade and COM
merce strangled and labor pauperized.
The mistakes of the past are irremedi-
lble, and the voters of America are in
10 way responsible therefor, because
the crime which made our degradation
possible had it's inception in foreign
villainy and American cupidity.
TON Reed and John Sherman, Grow
er Cleveland and John G.. Carlisle are
all of a kind and they lead the hosts of
Democracy and Republicanism today.
If they are Republicans and their con-
duct means Republican principles,
then neither you nor I, nor men who
think as we do, have any business in
the Republican party; and where in the
thunder are we to go? We believe in
protection, and Democracy and Popu-
ism do not, and the gold bugs of Lon
don and their emissaries there, through
the control of parties by such leader.
ship, prevent the amalgamation thus
far OF the opponents of geld mono
metalllsm, and as they, each in turn,
grind us a little harder under the gold
press, Republicans howl for a higher
protection and their opponents for a
lower, and thus the friends of bi-met-
allism are kept apart, to the everlast-
ing shame, disgrace and dishonor of
their country.
1t would be amusing, if it was not
SO e~verlastingly disgusting, to see Re-
publican newspapers and politicians
jumping up and down and shouting
themselves hoarse over the recent ac-
ton OF the British house of commons
n a German chancellor in reference
TO sllver-a proposition, by the way,
that don't mean anything, because
there is no such thing as international
money. Verify, the cringing, coward
~, sycophantic toadyism evinced by
the conduct of modern Americanism,
n the avidity with which they poll
parrot like watch for and enunciate
foreign ideas, as a guide for orr CON