Gilpin observer., 1901-01-31

CHAMP qARK'S LETTER
Hopkins of Illinois Had a
Bad Fall.
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SUFFERED FROM BIG HEAD.
He Was Glu1n When the House
Got Through With Him.
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SUFFERED FROM BIG HEAD.
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-Wann-
maker tS Company Charged With
'"Trenchcry to the stnte"--Ly nchins
Suggested ga Remedy Tos Crib
cry OF Legislators - New Senator
From Idaho.
! Especial Washington Lettar.l
There is an old Scriptural saying
whose force the Hon. \. j. Hopkins OF
Illinois now understands more clearly
than he did several days ago. Let
him that taketh OFF his aTmor boast
rather than him that putteth it on
also another text, Let him that stand
eth take heed lest he falleth." Hop
kins personally is very clever man;
but like a great many other Republic
an statesmen, he feels his oats and is
greatly pufTed 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. If that really was his object,
he attained it and no mistake. Not
only was his bill defeated by q very
large majority, but he himself was
handled in very rough manner in the
debate
Mr.. Suth eriand'r Shot nt Mr.. Hopkins.
In explaining why Kansas and Ne
braska each lost member of congress
under his bill, Hopkins said:
The trouble is not with the bill reported by the
committee, but with the condition existing in the
state of Kansas itself. Kansas has been cursed for
ten long years with Populisin. Capital has been
driven nom the state. Energetic, progressive
splendid men who sought homes there have been
criven out and gone elsewhere. That young giant,
rs 1t was ten years ago, has been laggard in the
race of the states that form the republic.
How is it in the state of Nebraska? Nebraska,
lying alongside of Kansas. is suffering not from
this bill of the committee, but from Organism
and PopuiisIn in that state. The same conditions
dhat have stagnated the energy and the enterprise
of Kansas are operating in the same way in the
state Of Nebraska.
Mr.. Sutherland of Nebraska, who not
only looks Ike William ]. Bryan, but
SpShhs Il rNOd iihC Hill, III duSWOI-
ing Hopkins as far as Nebraska is con-
cerned, delivered this shot at point
blank range:
! II were to indulge in that kind of argument
snS THANH God very little OF 1t has been used on
this foor-I might say that. according to the
gentlcuan's bill, the state OF Ohio has lost a
member. Is that due to McKineyism? That ar
gument would be Just pertinent that Bryan
ism has lost Nebraska a representative. Is it
not SO?
This was received with delight by
every one in the house with the excep-
tion of Mr.. Hopkins, for even Repub-
licans who have any sense know that
the reason why the population of Kan
sas and Nebraska increased SO little
was because of severedroughtsb between
1890 and 1897. Sutherland really
claimed or insinuated that the census
in Nebraska was not fairly taken.
Here are his words and figures on that
point:
Now want TO 10 the question of popula.
ton According to the census returns, had in
1890 population OK ,0js 90, and in 1900 accord
ing to the returns, had population OF
l,06s, $50, net increase Of only 0G29. Let
call your GtteItion to the vote during the last
ten years in tie state OF Nebraska. We claim
that we have at least 200,0JJ more people in the
year 1890 than We had ten years ago. At the
first presidential election following the census Of
1890 we polled 2Ol,20G at the next presidential
election, in 1895, polled 232i5 votes, in
in the number Of votes in four years Of 49,.
O3G.
In 1900 we polled PAL. .i30 votes, an increase in
four years OF lS,ls5 over the preceding election.
In eight years have gained il,22i votes. And
yet. according to the census OF 1900, the entire
gain In population Is but 9,000 while in eight
years have gained 1000 votes cast at the
polls. Out in the state Of Nebraska not
satisfied with the census OF 1900 and submit to
the candid judgment of fair minded men that
when we have increase Of at least 40, 900 votes
In ten years we arc justified in assuming that
there has been q much larger increase in the pop
ulation.
The gentleman refers to the state OF Nebraska
and asserts that Organism has injured that state.
II had a son attending college who In debate
would use that as an argument. ! would call that
son home and Immediately enter him In the kin
dergarten class.
The probabilities in the case are
that the census was not fairly taken
in Kansas and Nebraska, and that 1t
was taken unfairly for the very pur-
pose OF making such declarations as
Hopkins made. One OF the Texas
delegation told me the other day that
those who knew the most about 1t
maintain that there are Mt least GOO,-
600 more people in Texas than are
shown by the census, and l have no
doubt the same Is true OF Missouri.
Need Of Moral Disinfectants.
Nobody appointed me either spiritual
or legal adviser 70 the Kilkenny cat
Republicans of Pennsylvania who are
just now filling the clrcumamblcnt at
mosphcre with fur. bits Of cutlcle and
ear splitting cnterwnulings Ncvcrthc-
less as sort of nmicus curlT cannot
resist the temptation to advise them
to read the psalms of David, especially
the one beginning. Behold how good
and how pleasant II Is for brethren to
lMrll tognihpr In unltN." | tnkn II