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 a 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:
Were 1t possible to overthrow him what would
result? The domination of the state by repu-
dated political hishwayman Of Philadelphia, Da-
/; vid Martin, and by political slave driver and
contractor Of Pittsburg, William Finn.
That's specific enough, heaven knows.
| Hemp at Harrisburg.
But let no reader jump enormously
| and prematurely to the conclusion that
The Inquirer and other Quay whoopers
up have it 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 in great big, black head
lines it says: arthur McEwen sug-
gests that the use of hemp at Harris
burg, while it would be 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 duke" 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
| Key. Q. r. Washburn, elected to the state senate
| as Democrat, Populist, 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 freuuMt1y. and few were
| shocked by the suggestion except gentlemen who
| profit by conduct like Washburn'A 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 meaner spirited set than
you thought; so Washburn still breathes
| the free air of heaven, and, while it
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. 1t is worthy Of a place in every
scrapbook in the land. As an argu-
ment by indirection have never seen
its equal anywhere.
/ Remedy For Bribery.
| Nobody questioned that Washburn had been
4 bribed. The man who should have expressed doubt
on that point would have been laughed at or
fallen under suspicion Of being Quay worker,
4 with turn for ostentatious hypocrisy How much
Washburn got for rafting to the side which he
fought at the last session was debated with inter.
est. Ten thousand dollars seemed to be generally
4 considered his price,
OF course do not know that Washburn was
coming 10 Harrisbnrc do not know tha+ 'i ".
ouay has taken drink s;nce tho nar os,+ =.
was ushered in, OF during the nineteenth century,
| drink. or M. Andrews hrihe anyhaSv ~ rA ".
salter stuff ballot bo1 or M A:hbr;d.. rooIs.
4 rake 81 from n Msc<.McN;choi contrsc+ but MT
4 do Know that iudres and i,,rie. every sisy hsna
men for murder on M stronger crcns, . MI, 4
evidence Of oniIt Than .rsts n tho ~ "a =,
n N he eonn hon II
a are the ether T,ledes hreslers who s;roa 49,.
ine to Harrishnrr the .;r ~ which ~ isde,, 4.
4 the stencil of corruntion have onne over - n,,s,
and on whom honest men turn soornsnl 80
i Assuming tbat Washhnrr uas hr;hsd as.,,r,,,o
that this nsrson who before his election = ths 1.s
islature had salary Of sso wear could NOT 49,,
the dazzling price q $1,000 for his Win. ii,