The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-19
CHAMP 0.ARK'S letter
Hopkins of Illinois Had a
Bad Fall.
SUFFERED FROM BIG HEAD.
He Was Glum When the House
Got Through With Him.

Got Through With Him.
FUR FLYING IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Fight OF the Republican Factions
over Quay an Outrage ON Public
Decency-Saints and Sinners In a
Regular Kilkenny Mix Up-Wana-
maker & Company Charged with
seTreachery to the Safeguarding
Suggcxted ss J,e-nedy For Crib
cry o. Legislators = New Senator
From Idaho.
Especial Washington letter.
There is an old Scriptural saying
whose force the Hon. A. ]. Hopkins Of
Illinois now understands more clearly
than he did several days ago. LET
him that taketh of his armor boast
rather than him that putteth it on"
also another text, LET him that stand
eth take heed lest he falleth." Hop
kins personally is a very clever man;
but, like great many other Republic
an statesmen, he feels his oats and is
greatly pulled up by the results Of the
recent election; consequently when he
made his speech in favor of his reap
portionment bill he took no pains eithe.
to make friends for himself or for his
bill, but appeared really to be seeking
trouble. II that really was his object,
he attained it and no mistake. Not
only was his bill defeated by very
large majority, but he himself was
handled In very rough manner in the
debate.
Mr. sutherland's Shot ut Mr.. Hopkins.
In explaining why Kansas and Ne
braska each lost a member Of congress
under his bill, Hopkins said:
The trouble Is not with the bill reported by the
committee, but with the condition existing in the
slate Of Kansas itself. Kansas has been cursed for
I'm long years with Populinn. Capital has been
driven from the state: Energetic, progressive,
splendid men who sought homes there have been
driven out and gone elsewhere. That young giant,
- It was ten years ago, has been laggard in the
saca Of the states that form the republic
How ID IL In the state Of Nebraskaf Nebraska
lying Alongside Of Kansas, 10 suffering, not from
this bill Of the committee, but from Bryanim
and Populism in that ssate. The same conditions
that have stagnated thu energy and the enterprise
8of Kansas are operating in the nams way in the
stats Of Nebraska.
y Nh. Sutherland of Nebraska, who not
only looks like William ]. Bryan, but
speaks good deal like him, In answer
ing Hopkins AZ far as Nebraska is con-
cerned, delivered this shot at point,
blank range: 8
ii II ! wera to indulge IN that kind Of argument
and think God very little Of II has been used o.,
this door-I might NY that, according TO tbs
gentleman's BILL the state Of Ohio has lost q
member. 4 that due to NcKinleyimi That u.
guInent would be just % pertinent % that Bryan.
ian has lost Nebrsska representative. Is Il
not so9
This was received with delight BY
every one In the house with the excep.
ton Of MI. Hopk ins, for even Repub-
glicans who have any sense know that.
the reason why the population Of KAN
ms and Nebraska Increased 10 little
was because Of severe rpughts between
1890 and 1897. Sutherland really
claimed or insinuated that the censusI
In Nebraska WIS not fairly taken.
Here are biz words and figures On that
point:
4 Mcw 4 want % come to. IL QUESTION ii popuia.
80. Acccrding 10 the q ~ returns, ~ lid ii,
- pepalatid pk %. p1o ard n 1soo aecord.
- e ~ esnsas RETURNS NJ I'D populakin 10
- Is 1T incseese q only ., LIT ~
Sen1l Yda e. 49, - : Ai,sas{ AZ sssA