The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
POUR PREND CINGE.
BURKE DELIVERS A TEMPORARY
FAREWELL ADDRESS.

no play makes Jack dull boy" and
as we are but human we intend to take
q short recreation from our labors,
which have now lasted without inter-
mission for six years. Hence we ex-
tend to our readers this temporary fare
we'll salutation, trusting that while we
are gone the criminal political and
financial elements will try to hold
themselves in check during our absence,
as their conduct will largely govern the
length Of our stay. Provided We are
successful in securing some further evil
dence which we trust will make inter-
esting reading in book form later on.
Providence permitting, we shall labor
among the heather for time in New
York, Massachusetts and Maine, and in
the early fall be back again to start
the circulation moving again in this
state preparatory to gentle seance
with the solons at Des Moines next
winter.
We shall leave with this paper sew
eral articles ahead in order that we may
not drop out of mind. Notably, an ad-
dress to the Republican voters. a Dec
grafton Day address, and Fourth of
July grafton that will make your hair
curl. Two weeks ago we published a
gentle touch up on the late lamented???
Legislature and some Of the members
of that unholy body affect to think we
were not specific enough. But we opine
they are not over and above anxious
for us to give names-and we trust our,
readers will find no fault OF that kind
with this letter.
When we were in Central America,
some time since, we remember that the
customary garment for lads and lassies
Of quite mature years, was somewhat
curtailed, and indeed many have
been seen running on the roads and
playing In mud puddles In state OF
| nature being entirely innocent of any
covering whatever.
| It is possible that some Of the men,
| bers of the late Republican Legislature
may have made the same trip, and hence
| became in a measure initiated into the
! mysteries Of semi savage toilet, which
! may or may not account for the fact
that during the late junket to the Iron
| Range certain city and country men,
bers whiled the time away by calling
the demi monde of all the houses of
prostitution together into one house
there to dance the Can Can, in a state
Of nature without even Ewes fig leaf
| for a covering. While the solons stud
led the nude in nature with the neces-
sary adjuncts of a whisky bottle, etc.
| It is nm open secret that certain
county members got pulled while in a
St. Paul house of i'll fame, and If you
want any further items just ask the
chief of police of St. Paul, or Eli War
ner If this is not fact, for 1t is possible
one or both can enlighten you on the
| subject
| Ask J. d. Jones whether he did not
| say that no bill should pass the House
| of Representatives If it was known to
be drawn by Burke.
Ask the Security Bank of Minneap-
ellis whether they have not advanced
| $50, 900 to member Of the Legislature,
and whether said member did not in
troduce one of the Kenyon Bank Ex-
aminer's bills.
Ask A. B. Robbins whether he was in
the House as member or to guard the
interests of the elevators and chamber
| Of commerce.
service from him, the State Of Minne-
|
! tons.
Ask H. F. Stevens if he is not and
has not been the attorney of the St.
Paul Title Insurance. and while we
have ever liked him as man, 1t is pos
| sible his opinions as an attorney may
have warped his judgment as a legis-
! lator.
Ask the judiciary committees of the
House and Senate whether they did not
deliberately plug nearly If not quite all
bills that Burke had drawn. Ask the
committee on Banking Of the House
whether we did not draw a large num-
Der Of banking and trust bills which
were held In said committee at the re-
quest of Kenyon, the Bank Examiner
who don't examine, and finally defeated
possibly at his instance or that of the
banks.
Ask Senator Yale if he is not the
attorney of the Milwaukee, and whether
his son is employed by the Great North
| ern
Ask D. F. Morgan If he drew the plank
in the Republican platform on railroads
and what his action was in the Senate
Whether he was not in consultation
| with Grover. OF the Great Northern
and Myers, of the Milwaukee.
Ask any man who saw the beer
wagons stand at the Cedar street en-.
trance during the session delivering
beer, how many cases went in durina
the session.
Who were the two members that CO.
so full on the floor of the House the
night of the Ives impeachment case
and who was 80 drunk he had to be
helped up stairs.
Ask certain ex-member II he die
not come down to help get q member
out of a scrape he had gotten into with
married woman.
Ask certain individual whether hi
did not borrow $40 from fellow mem
Der to go off and have an alleged gool
time-Where he went and what he did
Ask any member of the House il or
the last day they did not adopt a reso
luton asking the city of st. Paul t.
keep the Morgue open all night, ant
whether this was not a covert allusior
to the fact that the Morgue and house.
Of prostitution were in close proximity
and intended 1t to carry an idea as t,
the habits Of many members.
| Ask certain members what was tn,
object Of passing that bankruptcy bill
and whether 1t was intended to let on
the bondsmen in the busted banks.
Ask Senator Wyman what he know
about that curative act that tried t,
cut of the wife's dover on sales mad,
under execution.
Ask certain members whether the,
are SO lost to every sense of decenc,
that they have no shame for CONDUCTING
their loud, drunken orgies, and singing
ribald and bawdy songs when in tn,
same house corpse was lying read,