Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-01-19

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senator and repuaed owner Of the IA
nous bonanza known as the CandelsriR
mines In Mexico.
"a majority Of the people Of this
state are aware Of the manner in which
Burns discharged his duties as an %
holder; all are aware of his present s .
atorial aspirations, but only a few huye
q knowledge of the facts concerning tn
manner in which he obtained eontr5l Of
the mines in the state Of Durango
Mex, and which are estimated to be
worth anywhere from $50, O00. 600 t.
$50, 600, 900. Here and there may be
found a man who has an indistinct re-
membrane Of hearing that Burns oc-
cupied a cell in a Mexican Jail at some
time in the past and that his imprison-
ment had something to do with his con-
neotion with the Candelaria mines {
In the Prisons shadow.
Neither these men nor any one Of
the 100 Legislators who will be asked to
cast their votes for Burns within the
next month knows that the shadow Of q
Mexican prison cell still hangs over this
senatorial candidate, and hat only the
doubtful termination Of q civil suit
stands between him and the re-enact-
ment of criminal proceedings that once
before branded him a felon.
There are on file In the office Of the
secretary Of state at Washington docu-
ments that tell the official story Of
Burns connection with the Candelaria
mines, his arrest and Imprisonment for
the fraudulent appropriation Of anoth-
er's property, and the proceedings by
which one court after another reaiirm-
ed the justice Of his conviction and con-
frmed the sentence Of imprisonment
Such portions Of these documents Is
have to do with Burns immediate par
ticipation in this alleged fraud by which
the title TO this vast mining property
passed 10 him, as well as the history Of
his arrest and imprisonment, will be
quoted here in full.
What The Calls opinion of other Re
publican candidates for a seat In the
house Of the ancients may be / do not
know, but / do know il would be re-
freshing to have the opinions Of Mr..
Grant and Colonel Burns, Republican
statesmen both, upon the San Francisco
Call. a Republican organ, and promise
them that should they honestly and
publicly unbosom themselves as to the
fitness Of the editor of that paper to sit
in the senate Of the United States / will
cheerfully and carefully embalm their
seething, bubbling. suiphurous words
in these letters. for / have an abiding
faith that the 0 Republican politi-
clans express opinions about each other
the better of the country viii be. More
freedom to their tonguesl
Hall Caine.
When our great civil war began, !
was q small boy, living in Washington
county, KY. Twas too young to squeeze
into the army N any terms, Parties
were about evenly divided. One com
pany went from that county into old
Frank Woolford's First Kentucky I'M
ion cayalry-one Of the best fighting
regiments that wore the blue. Another
company Joined the brigade Of General
John a Morgan, the beau sabreur Of
the south
One of the commanders Of the Wash
ington county company in Woolford's
regiment was Captain James Pankey.
He-was rich and the worst tempered
man in all ''the dark and bloody
ground" He was ~"crosser than a cross
cut saw" After the war was over he
concluded to run for justice Of the
peace. Being rich and not needing It,
possessing manners beside which those
Of a grizzly bear would have been con-
sidered Chesterfeldian, his neighbors
marveled much as to why he became a
candidate. Finally one, more ooura-
geous than the rest, took him out into a
quiet and sequestered place and said,
captain Pankey, your neighbors and
friends are DESTROYS Of knowing why
you make this race" The old soldiers
eye fairly blazed as he replied, 'sBy
the Lord Harry, sir. I am making It
because / want an opportunity to ex-
press my opinioni" Same here.
have just returned to Washington
from a trip into Pennsylvania, where I
lectured several times to large audiences
on Picturesque Public Men" To
while away the time on the train |
bought one of Hall Gaines books. / am
sorry to say that ! read 1t. i ought to
have known better, for / had read an
other Of his works But this was 50
highly recommended that / invested 80
centa ] regret that half dollar more
than any that ] ever squsndered in 4s
years OF t~abernacling In the fash, which
Is saying a good deal; but it's not the
90 cents | so much mourn, but the time
lost In reading IL. Every chapter was
siekening, nauseating. but as all the
papers are raving about il I waded on,
hoping at last 70 find something worth
reading but 1t was not there. Ny half
dollar / can replace, but "a hours Of
good time are gone-never to return.
Like gruf Captain Pankey, l want to
express my opinion. and 1t IL this
Hall Game is an ass No such people
as he describes ever lived, and it's a
gcdsend they didn't and they don't
OF al the dreary drivel ever committed
BY pen 10 paper l think ''The Deemster'
would take the blue ribbon in any lit
erary show. Not a human character In
it-an mean, idio.ic selfish, cruel or 50
good as to be impossiblel
Religion R~idieuIed.
The trouble with Hall Game Is that
be has a morbid desire to make The
ministry Of God ridiculous He always
hugs in a preacher or a priest and then
uses his utmost endeavors to render him
preposterous His design evidently Is to
make his preposterous preacher stand
as a type Of all preachers and priests
thereby bringing ridicule upon religion
generally. OF course II goes without
saying that into the pulpit and sane
tuary occasionally goes a man with un-
balanced mind. with abnormal ideals
with monstrous vanity. but 10 undsr-
take to make him stand for his class IA
diaboiical nonsense.
Religion does not demand that q man
shall hn al HE natural impulses. de-
sires and affections The same God that
atahlishe4 raffode. -~...S - "