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

The probabilities in the case are
that the census was not fairly taken
in Kansas and Nebraska, and that it
was taken unfairly for the: very pur-
pose Of making such declarations as
Hopkins made. One of the Texas
delegation told me the other day that
those who knew the most about it
maintain that there are at least Co.,
600 more people in Texas than are
shown by the census, and have no
doubt the same is true of Missouri.
Need of Moral Disinfectants.
Nobody appointed me either spiritual
or legal adviser to the Kilkenny cat
Republicans Of Pennsylvania who are
just now filling the circumambient at
mosphere with fur, bits Of cuticle and
ear splitting caterwaulings. Neverthe-
less as a sort of amicus curin cannot
resist the temptation to advise them
to read the psalms of David, especially
the one beginning, Behold, how good
and how pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity" l take it
that Brother Wanamaker, who is SUI
perintendent Of the largest Sunday
school on earth, knows where to find
that Scripture. am not so certain as
to Brother Matthew Stanley Quay, but
il he doesn't know he can call on
Brother Joseph Croker Sibley, who
is a famous Scriptorian. The bizarre
capers cut by the Pennsylvanians are
liable, indeed quite likely, to scandalize
and demoralize our illustrious and puts.
SAINT fellow citizen, the sultan of Sulu,
and his numerous array Of wives, and
to cause the Digger Indians to go on
the warpath.
What is most needed at Harrisburg
is q bountiful supply Of moral disin-
fectant, such as quicklime. The way
the Republican newspapers talk is
simply astounding. The Philadelphia
Inquirer Quay, in speaking of the
fight on Quay, says:
At some future day, when this controversy is
ended, it may become the province Of The In
quirer to relate the history Of the fight that has
been made upon Quay. That history is romance
Of politics, series Of crimes against public de-
cency.
Now, that is rather tough on the SUI
perintendent Of the largest Sunday
school on earth, for let it be remember
ed that Brother Wanamaker is the
head and front, the heart and soul, the
great gyastacutis of the anti-Q uayites,
and If they are guilty of a series of
crimes against public decency Brother
John is the chief of sinners. There is
no escaping that logic, dead sure pop.
happening Quay's Enemies.
After that scathing exordium The
Inquirer throws the harpoon into the
enemies of Quay in this savage fash
ion:
to name governor snd to beat Senator Quay.
Insurgcnt agents brought into the state in 1895
methods so corrupt and so debauching that they
were simply appalling, and yet from that time
until the present these crimes have only grown in
intensity. It has been the plan Of anti Quay
agents not only to deceive the public, but to buy
delegates to conventions and to buy members OF
the Legislature with cash. Never was corruption
greater than at the present moment. Men pledg-
ed to Quay have been offered $4,000, $4,000 and
10000 each u break away from him, and all this
has been done under the hypocritical guise Of Ere
form"
Now, submit to q candid world
that that is a sad business for apostles
Of purity and sweetness to be engaged
in, and it is a well known fact that all
Republicans are ex officio such apos-
ties, for have they not themselves time
and time again admitted the soft i'm
parchment? Aye, more have they not
announced it from the house tops to
all the world? Their logic stated in
syllogistic form runs thus: "The earth
belongs to the saints. We are the
saints; therefore the earth belongs to
US" Now, to have one faction Of the
saints charging the other faction with
all the crimes in the calendar Is cal
Eculated to produce ruction in saint
dom.
Worse and More Of It.
Yet there is more and worse to fol-
low, for The Inquirer veheIaently ex-
claims:
Never has there been such treachery against an
Individual candidate or against q state, for the
Quay traitors are traitors against the Republican
party Of Pennsylvania. For be It remembered
that Quay has not been candidate By his own
selection. He = the candidate d the Republican
party.
Il II Of course q self evident proposi-
ton that man doesn't want q thing
which he strives for with might and
main for over two years. TO hear
The inquirer tell It, Matthew Stanley
win have to be lassoed Ike wild
Texas steer and dragged to Washing
ton and held down In his curule chair
while the oath Is administered to him
that Il, always provided he secures
the senatorial election for which The
has not been . candidate BY his own
selection. !" But * i plain, unsophisti-
Gated Democrat from out of the west
may be permitted to PROFOUND 4 cues