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

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Got Through With Him.
FUR FLYING IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Fight Of the Republican Factions
over quay an outrage ON Public
Decency-Saints and sinners In q
Regular Kilkenny Mix Up-Wana-
maker & Company Charged With
sorreachery to the state''-Lynching
Suggested as n Remedy For Brib-
cry OF Legislators - New Senator
From Idaho.
Especial Washington Letter.
There is an old Scriptural saying
whose force the Zion, 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." Top
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 either
to make friends for himself or for his
bill. but appeared. really to be seeking
trouble. IL TINT really was his object,
only was his bill defeated by very
large majority, but he himself was
handled in q very rough manner in the
debate.
Mr.. Sutherland's Shot 1t ME-. Hopkins.
In explaining why Kansas and Ne.
braska each lost member Of congress
under his bill, Hopkins said:
The trouble i not With the bill reported by the
COMMITTEES, but with the condition existing in the
ssats Of Kansas itself. Kansas has been cursed Tor
ten long years with Populism. 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,
q II was ten years ago, has been aggard in the
facs Of the ststeA that form the republic.
4 lying alcngside o. Kansas. Is suffering, not from
this bill Of the committee, but from Organism
and Populism In that state. The same conditions
that have stagnated the energy and the enterprise
3 o. Kansas are operating in the same way In the
statA d Nebraska.
a Mr.. Sutherland OF Nebraska, who not
Il only looks like William ]. Bryan, but
y speaks q good deal like him, In answer
I ing Hopkins AZ Far as Nebraska Is con-
cerned, delivered this shot at point
4 blank range:
II were to indulge in that kind o. argument
and thank God very little Of II has been used on
Y. thts hoor-l might ray that, according to the
II gentleman's bill. the state Of Ohio has lost .
4 member. L that due to McKinleyinf That ar
h Sument would be just % pertinent % that Bryan.
ism has lost Nebraska representative. u Il
. not soi
This was received with delight BY,
n every one ID the house with the excep-
\ ton Of Mr.. Hopkins, for even Repub-
licans who have any sense know that
the reason why the population OF Kan
~ and Nebraska increased SO little
was because Of severe droughtsb etween
1880 and 1891. Sutherland really
claimed o. Infatuated that the census
ID NebraAka was not fairly taken.
!: Here are hin words and figures on that
\ point:
NsW I want 70 CONS Is IL question Il uou,,la.
tea. According to tie censua returns, ~ ha6 "a
- per0tation o. ,o6s 90 and in 100, accord.
II ~ ~ ~ eeass r4turn1 Ne had populatdonSo IA
~ ~ ~. Il ~ tnezsass q only p;ea1 II uls
ean yem attention % III vpts duriHe Tia LAT
- -. g ~ 80 g Ns6sa ws claim