The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-10-12
The Congressional Campaign.

The Congressional Campaign.
Next to the re elecion of Senator Pettigrew, the success of the
fusion candidates for congress is most important. Before another
month has passed VILLAIN Jennings Bryan will have been elected pres
ident of the United States, and while the president sa tower of strength
within himself yet it is necessary that a S many congressman be elected
to sustain him as possible. For this reason, The UNION advocates the
election OF Gov Andrew E. Lee and Judge Joseph B. Moore to rep.
resent South Dakota in the lower house Of congress. We are not vo-l
ting for men this year, kind reader, but we are voting for what those
men represent, and no more valiant service can be rendered the great
Nebraskan than that which lies in electing men who will sustain him
in his battles for the people and the restoration OF popular rights.
This sort Of service can be participated in by the humblest and most
lowly citizen of South Dakota, and no matter what may be your per-
sonal disikes or prejudices as to the fusion congressional candidates,
bear in mind the principles for which they stand and support them
heartily. And THE UNION wants to add right here that Judge Joseph
B. Moore is going out of the Hills with a majority of at least 1909
votes over Martin, while every indication east of the river goes to how
that Andrew E. Lee will make the sarnew winning race for congressional
honors that he made for governor.
AS to the republican candidate for congress from the Hills, Eben W.
Martin of Deadwood is unfit to represent this state. He W an ardent
silver man when it was popular to be such. Today he is preaching the
gold standard because it is popular, he imagines, an wants Office and
wants it bad. In 1894 this same E. w. Martin championed the move
to reduce the wages Of miners in the northern Hills. Martin has been
charged with having made the declaration that "s1 a day was enough
for any miner" that the union scale of wages was too high and that
it only gave the union miners $50 much more money to throw over the
oA Ah "iSnSJ. NAeAiu oShhSS AhohhS, all SuSA oldlCmCuI Ills
denisl may Or may not be true, but let us b5il the events Of 1894 down.
Who represented the company which undertook to reduce wages in
18942 Ehen w. Martin, present republican candidate for congress.
Martin don't deny that. Who sought to have the union miners indict-
ed for their march to Anna creek at that time? Eben w. Martin, re-
publican candidate for congress. Martin don't deny that. Who stood
for the reduction of miners wages from the unio, scale of So. so Fer
day to the scabs standard of S. rs per day? Eben, ". Martin, republi
can candidate for congress. Martin can't deny that. No matter wha,
this man Martin SAID in I894-it is WHAT HE ACTUALLY DID that counts,
consequently his denial of the statement credited to him is Of little 81
no consequence. Now, what about Judge Joseph B. Moore, his oppo.
nent? Moore worked at so much per day in the mines. He is TODAY
a member of the miners union. When Martin was upholdine scat
wages in 1894 Moore was fighting the battles Of the miners union
Moore won. Martin was defeated in his attempt to prosecute the me
who stood for union wages. He has been sore at the unions eve
since. The company which Martin defended was driven from this sec
ton and union wages have prevailed ever since, but not through any
help that Martin has given.
As to Charley Burke, the c her republican candidate for congress
he is a child'o the republican machine eastof the river. He was elect
ed to congress in 1898, has drawn his salary and wants the lob TO
another two years. True, he has spoken on measures introduced b.
ADLER men than himself. He has voted on these measures, too, but tn
poorest stick Kin the lower house has done a S much. He has no meas
ue which he himself introduced and for which he secured passage
While Senator loettigrew would push measures through. the senate
they died IL the house because Of just such cong ressionali incompetent
as Chas. H. Rurlse. Such is his record, and on it he asks reelection
Because Burke was a child Of the machine east of the river, the How
ard Spirit, a republican newspaper, refused to support him, declaring
THAT s'there was no pretense that Burke represented anything Or any
body except his boss" "A. B. Kittredge.
Now, WHO'S K,tredgeP HE'S the republican boss Of South Dakota
the hired attorney Of the Milwaukee railway corporation and the ma
who fought the late railway rate law and gave a new lease Of life 10 III
passenger and freght-rates robbery in South Dakota. He's the polt
cal daddy of Charlie Burke.
There they are-Martin and Burke. One a champion Of scab labo
and an enemy Of the miners union. The other an incompetent moth
ing, moulded in the hands of a political boss. Support them if 20
want to, but The UNIoN believes that South Dakoto furnishes bette
stock 70 represent her in congress than either Of these two political Al
robats. who bury their honest convictions and repudiate their hone
llviews for the sake ofliyinpsat public expense. M #
Green is doing Just what Head Couns Prevented i Tragedy.
lsel Northcott is doing. il one is Timely information giyfna Mrs de
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