The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-02-01
hour.
Warning to The G. o. p.

4 8EHlnS TO the NJ. U. r.
The Petroleum Gazette, IAN indie.
pendent oil and gas Journal" as it de-
scribes itself, and really with a decid-
ed bias for Republican principles and
schemes, can't stomach the Hanna
Payne ship subsidy job and prints
these great headlines, which must
cause the Junior senator from Ohio to-
vince: 1.-THE Delusive Ship Subsidy
Bill; Oyerfed Snake Is Coiled Within
Its Complicated Folds; How the
Scheme Would Work; Oil Men Are
Particularly Interested In the Defeat
of This Ubiquitous Measure" Then
through column after column it pours
a broadside into this latest and most
stupendous scheme to loot the treasury
"a scheme of public plumber utterly
unjustiiable as either a business or a
moral proposition which will take
$1S0,000,000 Of the peoples money and
give it to a few greedy spectators.
Further along The Petroleum Gazette
sounds this clear and unnistakable
warning to Republicans:
Some Of the Washington dispatches have indi-
Gated the desire. and purpose Of a few Republicans
peculiarly interested in the ship subsidy bill TO
attempt to give it the force of a party measure
and thus push it through. The Republican party
has never advocated in any platform or conven-
ton such a subsidy measure as the one for which
1t is attempted now to make it responsible and
for which it certainly would become responsible
II the bill were permitted to pass. In fitting ex-
preston Of the sentiments of the rank and file Of
the party the Republican conventions and plat
fOrppcH hnuoE II g. E-,,. = a l.
growth OF the American merchant marine, but
the present bill is worse than a travesty as to
being in accord with those sentiments. It were
better named a bill to check than to promote
American shipping and foreign commerce. The
many millions of dollars it would bestow on those
neither needing nor deserving it were better locked
up or even destroyed, for then they could not be
applied, as they could be under the operation Of
this bill, to curb what might otherwise be the
healthful and rapid growth Of American shipping
and commerce, a continuance and improvement OF
the conditions summed up by Mckinley. In view
OF the conditions which have been described thus
by the president it is an open question whether
tho mass OF the Republicans Of the country favor
the passage of a subsidy law now on any condi-
tions whatsoever, much less the passage of such a
subterfuge and imposition as the one now under
consideration. They need but to become inform
ed, as they will, Of the rottenness of this meas
ure to place the responsibility where it belongs il
viz "a pGSoLueS q law. AS 10 the Republicans
identified with the oil business let not the mis-
take be made at Washington Of Understanding
the number OF them. Let it not be forgotten that
the OIL regions are no longer limited to a little
area, but now are included and growing in a doz-
en- states. II those intrusted at Washington with
the carrying out of Republican policies 80 betray
the trust as to permit the passage of this obnox-
ious bill it will bring speedy and general re.
proach both upon them and upon the party and
will cost them dearly. Through its representa-
tlves at Washington it is the duty Of the Repub-
ican party to defeat this bill. The. Republican
majority in congress is ample to do this, and if
1t is not done there can be no shifting Of the re.
sponsibility.
Mark Hanna's Cunning,
Some time ago, when it was an
nounced that Senators Richard Frank.
lin Pettigrew, William Vincent Allen
and Marion Butler had formed IN al.
lance, offensive and defensive, to
fight the subsidy bill to the death, it
was whispered about Washington that
Senator Hanna had threatened to have
an extra session Of congress called If
his pet bill was killed by the trio
aforesaid or by anybody else at this
session. In reply to that it was said
that no administration would dare ia
call an extra session for the sole pur-
pose of passing a ship subsidy bill
Now 1t is limited that in order to avoid
that unpleasant and hazardous situa-
ton n at the same time to force an
extra session Of the next congress in
the spring ESQ that it may be as far
ahead of the next election as possible,
In order to let people forget, Sena,
tor Ham Is now 81 engineering things
In the senate that some Of the neces.
cary great bills will fail, and that
the extra session will be called os.
tensibly to pass them, but really to
pass his ship subsidy bill. There's
cunning for you, also strategy. The
proponents Of the bill are afraid to
pass 1t at the regular long session be.
cause 1t is too close to the next cleo.
ton. See?
Presidential Succession.
The sickness of President Mckinley
has been regarded with unfeigned and
widespread uneasiness for two rea
sons: First, because he Is q most
amiable man, personally very popular
not only with Republicans, but also
with Democrats. This is the simple
u~nvarnished truth. Second, because
his death at this particular juncture
would leave things touching the presi
Dental succession In a fearful middle
Mr.. Mckinley is not president for the
term for which he was elected accord.
Ing to the general idea on the 9Th OF
November, to which he was really
elected By the presidential electors
on Monday, Jan. IA. He doesn't begin
that term till March 4. Consequently
Colonel Roosevelt is not vice president