The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-05-29

party. In a recent interview with Hon.
Dan w. Jones, one of the candidates
for Governor, and the leading one, he
said the Democrats would nominate a
man at Chicago whom the Populists
could support, and he thought that
they would do so.
3. Gerry Brown, a prominent East
ern reformer, takes up the gauntlet and
says:
"The Belmont interview has a mean
ing which is too plain. 1t is a hint of
either notification or secession. 1t is
a threat to appeal from the decision at
the ballot box or with traitorous gold to
prevent an honest expression of the
will of the people at the ballot box. Bel
mont voices the money power. Take
warning, men of the South and West.
"Is the question of The divorce Of
the government from the banks to in
volve the question of the disunion of
the States themselves as prophesied by
the nations statesmen in the Senate
chamber more than fifty years ago?
Will the five thousand millions
Of so-called vested rights in the
East follow the example of the
four hundred millions Of vested
rights" in the south in 1860? Is
history to repeat itself even to that
much-to-be-deplored extreme? And do
so-called owners of nearly half of these
alleged vested rights realize that they
merely hold titles to that which was
originally stolen and under the moral
law are guilty in the sight of God of all
the robbery and oppression that follow
in the trail of the crime? Will they
rebel against the result Of an election
that means mo further extension" of
the money power, and thereby invite
the emancipation of the people from
the bondage into which they have been
stolen?"
Says a recent dispatch from Wash
ington: Congressman Hall is practi-
cal!y out of the race for Congress. Yes
terday he received a telegram from the
Chairman of the District Committee in
effect as follows:
"'Will you accept denomination to
Congress with instructions to vote for
a bill for the unlimited coinage of sill
yer at 16 to 1? You can state that. al
though these are not your views, you
must yield to the wishes of your CON
stituents.'
"To which Mr.. Hall, in substance,
replied:
Twill not accept denomination on
conditions you name. Free silver is
raising hell and damnation with the
Democratic party. Will accept re-
nomination only on a sound o plat
FORM"
It anybody is raising more hell than
this same Identical Riley Hall 1t must
be behind the screen doors of some of
the dives or saloons in Washington.
The other day he got into an alterca-
ton with Congressman Money, of Mis-
sissippi, who, by the way, is another
Democrat of the flexible type, and
struck him on the head with a glass
sponge top, cutting a deep and painful
| SooA LII LID oSo1p. We SuppUSS LIZ Was
testing Money to see if he was sound
Then both men went to throwing ink
wells at each other until parted by
their friends.
This row happened in the room of
the Navy Committee in the capitol
building. Both men were members Of
the Navy Committee and the row was
the direct result Of some differences of
opinion regarding a question before the
committee, although it is thought there
is something back of that. Mr.. Money
was led bleeding out of the room and a
porter was called in to pick up the
broken pieces Of glass and wipe up the
blood and ink stains. 1t threatened to
be a pretty serious affair; but neither
of the men seemed to be good marks
men and the result was there was more
ink spilled than blood