The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-08-17
CHAMP CLARKS LETTER
Depew Charged With
Too Much Loquacity.
LOSING VOTES IN NEW YORK
General Dicks Abuse of The
Congressional Record.
LOSING VOTES IN NEW YORK
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN METHODS.

h6f fU6IlUAN UAMfAlGN MEIdUUS.
Speeches Printed and Scattered
Broadcast at Public Expense-The
Tariff the Mother of Trusts-How
Congressman Lentz Tanned the
Hide of General Grosvenor-The
Only Republican Opposed to Trustu.
Monnett Turned Down by His Par
ty]ohn ]. Lents.
Especial Washington Letter.]
Alas and alack! My heart is heavy,
and my lachrymal ducts are in full
flow. Wherefore? Because my bonny
friend, the suave and gifted Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Junior senator from
New York and orator laureate of the
Republican party, is accused by divers
and sundry newspapers not having the
fear of God before their faces, but be-
ing instigated by the devil, of having
talked too much at the Philadelphia
convention a la the famous Parrot.
These irreverent scribes not only make
the general charge of too much loquac-
ity against my distinguished friend,
but they cruelty specify and declare
that when he undertook to boost Gov
ernor Roosevelt's military record by
referring slightingly to the Seventy
first New York regiment he put his
foot in it and lost some thousands Of
votes to the Mckinley ticket in New
York, for, as the officers and men Of
the gallant Seventy-frst can't get at
the brilliant Chauncey at this election.
as he is not candidate, they will even
|up things by clawing the hide off his
principal, Colonel Roosevelt, and while
they are at it Of Major Mckinley also.
r'Sweet is revenge!'
At the Public Expense.
How persistently and successfully
Republican statesmen stuff ballot
boxes is a matter of common knowl-
edge; but it Is not SO well known how
Extensively they stuff The Congression-
hl Record, the daily paper of con-
gress, published and circulated through
the mails at the public expense.
In this bad business the name Of
Hon. Charles Dick, alias General"
Dick, representative in congress, secre-
tary to the national executive committee
and successor to Hon. George B. Cox,
the hoodlum chief, as Ohio's national
committeeman, like that of Abou Ben
Adhem, ''leads all the rest" take
of my chapeau to General Dick. con-
fident in the belief that in padding
The Congressional Record he has set
the pace for all coming padders--a
pace which no other may attain.
General Dick is a man Of parts
many parts-and plays many parts.
He is fast coming to be the Pooh Bah
among the McHannaites; but oratory
hs not among his multitudinous accom-
plishments. He wins his victories by
manipulation and by being the chief
gunner Of Mark Hanna's fast firing,
long range, disappearing checkbook.
General Dick has not hitherto aspired
ito speak in public on the STAGE" but
nobody can ever guess what ambition,
preposterous or otherwise, Is germinat-
ling in the brain and heart Of an Ohio
Republican From "Fire Alarm" For.
aker down to some infant puking and
pulling in its mothers arms Ohio Re.
publicans all expect to be president OF
to bag something equally as good"
SO, while people were praising Gen
eral Dick as the silent statesman, all
who read The Congressional Record
of June 9, published two days after
congress adjourned, were amazed tt
find that 1t contained what purported
to be speech by the general, filling
almost 72 columns of The Record
Representatives were astounded be.
cause they knew that he never deliver
ed any such speech in the house. Il
he spoke at all, it was briefly, undel
the five minutes rule, but the chances
are that he never spoke at all. HI
wrote, or he made his secretary write
71h broad columns In The Record
Wherefore? Not for his health; not al
b literary exercise; not for fame. Non,
of these. The general was doing bust
ness. He was loading up The Con
/ gressional Record, published at tn,
public expense, with enough campaign
rot to make book as big as McGuf
4ey's old Sixth Reader, to be printed
ht the public expense and circulated
through the malls free by the million
TO induce people to vote directl.
against their own interests by votinl
Tor William Mckinley. There are NOR
words in this 20 called speech by Gen
eral Dick than can be found In all tn
Pseehes pf pemosthenes o. Patricl tricl