Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-29
TINE TO COME OFF.

vile and malicious charges and insinua-
tions against the president of the
United States since the war began.
Some mistaken souls have dreamed
that there was partisan capital to be
gained by such attacks, in spite of the
lesson that the civil war and the abuse
of Lincoln ought to have taught not
only all Americans who were observers
in that period, but those who have read
some of the history of those troublous
times and since. Most of these malig-
ma Mt assailants of the president have,
however, quieted down since war has
actually begun, if not convinced of the
presidents jealous patriotism, as al
most everybody is, at least satisfied
that it is not good politics from any
standpoint to continue their senseless
rawlings against the peoples chosen
leader in this emergency. There is a
disposition on all sides, now that the
nation is thrilling with q common pa
triotic impulse, to be a little blind to
the past faults of these misguided
mouthpieces of partisanism, and to
overlook their mistimed zeal for party
when all the ends they aimed at should
have been their country's. There is,
however, an occasional incorrigible
who appears not only 10th to confess,
even by %judicious silence, past error,
but determined to make a record for
"copperheadism" with no excuse OF
sympathy for the nations foe, as might
be the case in the civil war. Such an
one is the Canton Leader, edited by
Arthur Linn, an old soldier of the late
war, and present commandant of the
Soldiers Home of the patriotic state
of South Dakota, by grace of the ap-
pointing power of a populist governor.
The Leader of April % published two
days after the ultimatum of the United
States had been sent to Spain and dip
lomatic relation between the two ma
lions had been cut off, the following
paragraph:
"Two months have passed since the
Maine and her gallant crew were de-
stroyed in Havana harbor, and Nc
Kinley, Hanna, Elkins and the Wall
Street gang are bowling for peace"
That this wa not an accidental pub
location or done through inadvertence
is shown by the character of other
statements on the same page. For in
stance, this:
"James Buchanan and William Nc
Kinley will go down in history to-
gether. The first was naturally weak,
and the last a putty man in the hands
of towards without honor or con
SCIENCE"
Here is another of the same sort:
"Where are the fellows who we're
bowling about national honor when
they were buying McKinley's cleo
tom"
How does this sound against the
commander-in- chief of the country's
army and navy when war is actually in
progress:
"Perhaps some one will tell us that
Wall street and Mark Hanna don't own
Mckinley"
These infamous assaults on the pres
ident were all made last Friday, since
war actually began, and coming from
an official of the state, have Il charac-
ter and standing they could not pos
sess, coming from a private citizen.
We are not ready to ssbelieve that the
populists of South Dakota, or any
other state, are willing to endorse these
outrageous assaults. Whatever charges
may have been made against the popu-
lists in the heat of campaigns they
have never been accused of deliberate
disloyalty, and such attacks as these
upon the president of the UhitedS States
are nothing less. Theyfare as vile as
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