The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-19

citizens Of this great republic believe
that Wanamaker ct al. could render
Pennsylvania no more valuable service
than by killing the Republican party
in Pennsylvania dead as smelt
The Inquirer does not propose that
its readers shall be in doubt as to some
of the personages at whom it hurls its
darts, as the following shows:
We're it possible to overthrow him what would
result? The domination Of the state by repu-
dated political highwayman of Philadelphia, Da-
yid Martin. and by political slave driver and
contractor of Pittsburg, William Finn
That's specific enough, heaven knows.
Hemp Mt Harrisburg.
But let no reader jump enormously
and prematurely to the conclusion that
The Inquirer. and other Quay whoopers
up have 1t all their own way when it
comes to writing and publishing words
which blister and burn. There are
others-e. g., the Philadelphia North
| American, Republican reform organ.
In one issue III great big, black head
lines. 1t says: arthur McEwen sug-
gests that the use Of hemp at Harris
burg. while it would be a crime and not
to be considered, would be less danger
GUS to civilization than the bribery of
Legislators" There you are! That's
| about as if Victoria, queen of Great
Britain and Ireland and empress of
India, should say to Lord Kitchener,
Don't butcher any Beers, but If you
do, I'll make you a dukew But who is
Arthur McEwen? He's one of the
most brilliant newspaper men in Amer
ican-not an irresponsible nondescript
or bravo who does his stunt for mere
pay, and here is some of what he
writes from Harrisburg to the Phila-
delphia North American, of which he is
editor and Of which John Wanamaker
| is proprietor:
| When the news spread the other night that the
Rev. o. r. 'Washburn elected to the state senate
as Democrat Populst, Prohibitionist and re-
former in general, had gone over to Quay, the re-
| mark that he ought to be taken out and hanged
| to lamppost was made freautntly. and few were
shocked by the suggestion except gentlemen who
profit by conduct like Washburns. But no one
seriously proposed putting him to death. In some
| ways we are surprisingly law abiding people.
Law abiding, indeed! Mr.. McEwen,
you knew when you wrote that para
graph that you were melting people at
| Harrisburg to lynch Washburn, and
you depended on the seductiveness of
! your style to accomplish your purpose,
but the Republicans of Pennsylvania
are even a meaner spirited set than
you thought; so Washburn still breathes
the free air Of heaven, and, while ii
will take a good deal of the space of
this letter, ] propose to quote from Mr..
McEwen a marvellous picture of the
| degeneracy Of Republican Pennsylva.
mia. It is worthy of q place in every
scrapbook in the land. AS an argu.
ment by indirection have never seer
its equal anywhere.
Remedy For Bribery.
Nobody questioned that Washburn had been
bribed The man who should have expressed doubt
| on that point would have been laughed at 0.
fallen under suspicion Of being Quay worker
| with a turn for destinations hypocrisy. How much
| Washburn got for rafting to the side which hi
fought at the last session was debated with inter
| est Ten thousand dollars seemed to be generally
considered his price.
4 OF course do not know that Washburn Wal
bribed / do not know that he has slept sine,
coming to Harrisburg do not know that M
4 Quay has taken drink since the new centur,
l was ushered in, or during the nineteenth century
for that matter. / never saw Mr.. Quay take .
drink, or Mr.. Andrews bride anybody, or Mr.
4 salter STUFF ballot box, or Mr.. Ashbridee pocke
/ rake OF from Mack McNichol contract, but
do know that judges and juries every day hans
4 men for murder on no stronger circumstantia
evidence Of guilt than exists in the case Of wash
burn, and Washburn is in the same boat exactl,
ing to Harrisburg, the air Of which ID laden witt
4 the stencil Of corruption, have gone over to Qua,
and on whom honest men turn scornful backs.
Assuming that Washburn was bribed assuming
that this parson who before his election to the le
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