The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-08-03
Of Shakespeare:
SnakeSpeare:
Lay on, Macduff!
And damned be he who first cries
HDldt EpnNcht


Hold! Enough!
do not propose to be driven from
the pathway of duty by it or by all
the Republican newspapers in the land.
This is our cOuntry-my country-and
intend to contribute my mite to pre-
serve our free Institutions for my chill
dren and my children's children to the
remotest generation.
Hon. Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver Is q
brilliant orator and an amiable gentle
man. am glad to count him on the
list of my personal friends, but he
knows a great deal more concerning
the history of his country than he did
before we met in debate at Spirit Lake,
Ia. He learned a lesson on that Occa-
sion which he will not forget so long
as he lives. | was his teacher. AS
these letters are intended to be educa-
tional in their nature and as other Re-
publican orators are likely to be as shy
on history as Dolliver was, hereby
set forth the incident as it happened:
l spoke on imperialism before
teachers institute at Burlingame, Kan,
Monday, June 25. Dolliver spoke there
Friday, the Goth. In my speech l lam
! basted Mr.. Secretary of State John
Hay for signing the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty and denounced it as the most
humiliating and disgraceful document
to which an American ever put his
name. which it is. At the Kansas City
convention Burlingame Democrat as.
tonished me by saying that Dolliver
answered that by declaring that the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty was simply an
amendment to and an improvement on
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which, he
said, was Democratic treaty negotiat-
ed by James X. Polk's administration!
knew that that was not true and
thought that my informant IVES mis-
| taken, but when went home hunted
up the authorities, made a memOran.
dunn of the exact dates and went to
| Spirit Lake loaded for bear.
CIayton-Bulwcr Treaty.
| had the opening and close. Dolli-
yer had the middle speech. In my
opening speech went after Hay and
his treaty with Pauncefote without
gloves. To my surprise and delight,
Dolliver walked promptly into the trap,
declaring that the Hay Pauncefote
| treaty was an amendment to and i'm.
provement on a Democratic treaty-the
Clayton -Bulwer treaty, negotiated by
James X. Polk's administration. In
my closing speech jammed the truth
| into him in great chunks, and the truth
is that tile Clayton Bulwer treaty was
negotiated on the part Of Great Brit
ain by Henry Lytton Bulwer and on
the part of the United States by John
M. Clayton of Delaware, who was not
a Democrat at all, but who was secre.
tary of state under General Zachary
Taylor. the last Whig ever elected pres
ident. So Brother Dolliver found him
self in hole, and at the White Cloud
! (Kan.) Chautauqua he stated that it
was a Whig and not Democratic
| treaty!
That Democrats may have all the
facts to thump into Republicans here
by give all the dates touching the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty. These facts
| may be found on page 234 in govern
ment publication entitled Compilation
of Treaties Now In Force, 177S-1S99;"
also in "Treaties and Conventions,
1885," page 40:
"Clayton Bulwer treaty concluded
April 10, 1850; ratification advised by
the senate May %, 1850; ratified by
president May %, 1850; ratifcations ex-
changed July 4, 1850; proclaimed July
8, 1885," 1t may be added that that
was almost the last official act of Pres
ident Taylor, as he died July 8, 1850,
from eating cherries and ice cold but
termilk. take pleasure In adding that
the man who fought the ratification
most bitterly was that immortal Demo
crat Stephen A. Douglas.
I wish to state emphatically that I
do not accuse Brother Dolliver of de-
liberately or Intentionally misrepre.
senting the Democratic party in this
matter. Dolliver is gentleman. While
generally intelligent, he was ignorant
in this particular matter. He knows
better now. instructed him. He will
never charge the Clayton Bulwer treaty
up to Democrats again. He gracefully
came down at White Cloud and charg.
ed it to the Wings, but set out the
facts above in extenso because have
every reason to believe that Republic.
an spellbinders generally make the
same mistake made by Brother Dolli
yer until operated on his understand
ing and added to his stock of informa,
tion at Spirit Lake, la.
Having Fun With Landis.
At Springdale, Ark, also let some
light in upon the intellect of Hon
Charles B, Landis Of Indiana, when VIZ
debated before the Chautauqua assem-
bly, there In referring to the sale Of
bonds under the Spanish war revenue
bill, he declared that the bonds wer,
purchased, not by the rich, but by thu
body Of the people the farmers, mer
chants. mechanics, clerks and laborerl
when everybody knew that the state
ment was all tommyrot. Springdale Il
a fine little city Id fine farming sec
ton. We had a splendid audience o
s about 5000 people. concluded to tr,
Sam Jones' plan on Landis, SO In m,
reply I repeated Ills statement az i
the people--the plain people -buyin,
|, the bonds. and asked all In that audi