The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-05
A CASE OF HAD TO.

CASE OF HAD TO.
An Open Letter to Mckinley
HOW is this paper-when driven to con-
slider what by paradox is termed your hon
esty-to construe concerning your pose in
ant to point the finger of conviction at a
president. This paper is an American long
De1ore It's Democrat, and would be blithe
since your address is the White House
70 call you an honest man. That epithet
OF worth lies not within swoop of the pos
sible, however broad it's pinion, however
VIDE Its flight. Your own party pals don't
cali you honest when they talk of Carter.
IL Is IN sooth! fact black and sinister.
and one we'll worth the argument Of your
amDlIion' that nowhere in all the wide flung
ranks Of Republication can be found man
or paper who dubs your action honest in
the Carter case. Now what do you saw?
Here's false caitiff, clothed with the com
mission and the uniform of an American
army officer. He embezzles 50. 500. 900. He
Is charged with the felonious abstraction Of
$l,6OO,O0O, as being populations of the two
years next before the charge board of
fellow officers, thirty Of them, Otis at the
mead, hear the proof, and call him guilty
Iney sentence him to dismissal-to the
breaking of his sword. They demand that
ne De stripped of epaulette and stripe:
ana that his spurs be hacked from his Grim
lnal heels. Particularly they mark him
Tor nve years penal servitude; the statute
destiny OF felons. All this was eighteen
Keep him free today. You can't evade.
you can't deny this charge You are a
lawyer, as well Hanna pawn and an
american president. BY what name does
nawkins' or Hale, or Wharton, or Bishop
describe your Carter action and your cheat
OF plain Justice in his instance? What is
ne who shields criminal? Is he not ac-
cessory after the fact? And saving some
excuse OF love or blood, morally as bad as
the criminal himself? 1t is not alone The
the million lips OF the public. You should
reply to tor Hanna should-before YOU
peg those ballots needed to build for YOU
second presidency. If you were police
man 70 CLOAK crime. you would be dis
missed the force. Were you a Judge on
the bench, you would be impeached. You
are so far personally fortunate that YOU
nold presidency. Mud on the White |
House is mud on every man. Therefore YOU
VIII not be dismissed, and you'll miss i'm |
be thrust again into that Canton obscurity
to the end that its narrow walls confine
your dlsrepute and keep it local.
why 90 you screen Carter?-Carter, a
criminal tried, convicted and whose five |
years cell is swept and waiting for his |
striped clothing? Folk say it's because |
you're craven; that you are caught in the |
snare OF venal friends. They say that Car !
ter Is not alone. That his comrades of |
crime were railroads and big companies and |
nuenced' by these to deride Justice, defy |
law, and dig safety for Carter from the (
very dirt itself. Also, they declare that |
your brother, Abner Mckinley, is retain /
ed in the matter. This last may we'll be
true. The question of Abner MCKINLEY Is
to have much 1900 asking, and he's, in his
money making. to be one of the malodorous
minor issues of the near campaign And
wherefore no? Is he to trip
s iGm POVERTY 10 i. without nnhss sufficient
The devil from dancing there to bullying
millions, and no questions asked? You do |
common Curiosity injustice to pretend il.
They declare that Abner Mckinley is to
he Carter case, of counsel. That Of itself
gives the Carter affair but a bleak and
10 pedestal of high repute, and he touches
out to tarnish. Why, man! a local paper
lid but print that Abner Mckinley was now
md then partner of ex-Secretary Carlisle,
md that gentleman-himself blue grass |
,xile for his cabinet deeds-furiously
threatened suit for libel. Carlisle held him
elf as one deeply stabbed, and forced the
estless imprint to retract it's charge Car
isle was called a partner of Abner Nc |
<inley! He couldn't have gone higher in |
ne angry air II he'd been called horse
hief! This may offer some hint of how |
even callous-look on your |
recious relative, and any name or thing |
hats linked to him. Be aware of this: !
lou are to be beaten with many Carter |
than Carter should himself |
ave donned-in the campaign coming on
he Verdict.
The foregoing appeared in the Verdict /,
I Sept. rs, and before the close of the
Jeek the daily papers of the country,
q prominent headlines, announce that J,
ne president has confirmed the verdict ;
the trial commission in the Carter
ase.
What the country most needs is a ,
republican paper of the Verdict stripe
, show up the Crokers, Hills, Whit
eys, Germans, Growers, .Carlisles and !,
thousand rich New Workers. who to- +.
ay call themselves Republicans. but
no will be Democrats when the Demo- :
'ats are in power.
With two such papers, each showing
p the iniquities of the party opposing,
le public would get light.
This article should stampede horde
Republicans who have been taught :,
lat the Republican party could do no
rong and that in that party were a
und all the God and morality people, a
ass this along to some good Republi- r.
IN neighbor. E. A. r. IL