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

Colonel Roosevelt is sworn in as vice
president on March 4 and would then
resign, whereupon Colonel Roosevelt
would be sworn in as president. In
this way everything would be AMIGA
bly, arranged in this particular in
stance, and everybody would acquiesce
in this plan for carrying out the will
of the people as expressed at the polls
last November, though nobody would
be certain that Roosevelt would have
a legal title. But, to suppose a case,
suppose that a Democratic president
We're now in and Mr.. Mckinley, the
president elect, were not president now
and a Democrat serving as secretary
of state. If Mr.. Mckinley, the presi-
dent elect and the Democratic presi-
dent should both die and the secretary
Of state who succeeded should deem it
his duty to hold on as long as ne could,
or suppose, instead of the amiable Colo
mel John Hay, some Republican were
secretary of state Who was avaricious
of power or who didn't deem Colonel
Roosevelt fit for the presidency and
should succeed to the presidency by
reason of the death of his chief, then
what would happen on March 4 and
who would be president after the 4th
Of March? I submit this question to
those who are fond of solving such
problems and have the leisure for in
dulging in such luxuries, which 1 have
not.
Really, in the events referred to the
presidential succession would be as
puzzling as the relationship Of children
born to a father and his son by the
marriage of the son to a widow and Of
the father to the widows daughter, a
mathematical problem for which no
one has ever been able to give a salts
factory solution.
Civil war and revolution have fire.
quently hinged on muddles much less
important than this question Of success
sion, and it seems to me the imperative
duty Of the next congress to pass a law
to clear up these muddles or any others
that may arise in the presidential sue
cession.
Congressman Kitchin.
Coming to congress seems to be q
confirmed habit with the Kitchin fam
lily Of North Carolina. What's more,
they make tiptop congressman after
they get here. One Of the ablest and
brightest young Democrats in the
house is William W. Kitchin Of the old
Tar Heel State. He is handsome, ca
pable, industrious, vigilant and is uni
yersally recognized as a growing man.
His father was a distinguished repre-
sentative in congress. In the next con-
gress w. w. Kitchin will sit beside one
Of his own brothers, also a representa-
tive from North Carolina. The other day
on the apportionment bill Judge Lin
ney, e. Confederate soldier elected as a
Republican, made an entertaining but
very bitter speech about the recent do
ings of North Carolina Democrats.
Kitchin replied with a great deal Of
vigor and courage. He didn't dodge,
beat about the bush or whip the devil
about the stump. He took the bull by
the horns and made a speech which the
i Democrats applauded to the echo and
with which many sensible Republicans
sympathized. In replying to Judge
Linney he said inter ALA:
He might have told you that the same spirit
that thrills the white man in North Carolina
thrills the white man in Indiana, where recently
white mobs lynched two negroes for numbering Z
white barber. He might have told you that the
spirit that thrills the white man in North Caro-
lima is the same that thrills him in Pennsylvania,
the home OF the gentleman who IL 20 anxious to
investigate these matters.
He might have gone to Illinois and found that
wherever the white man looks to the blue sky
the spirit Of superiority and progress stirs within
him. He would have told you that under the dis
graceful and shameful regime inflicted upon the
people by the Republican party the white men
did rise In their might and hurl them from power.
The gentleman wants to know II that 10 fair.
Was the election conducted fairly3 / tell you, in
the light Of . sound philosophy, In the eye Of
civilization and Justice, it was fairer and juster
than the diegraceful regime that made that revo.
luton necessary.
The white people there have done no more than
such people would do in any community.
New Senator From Colorado.
The election of tile Hon. Thomas
Patterson. of Colorado to the United
States senate adds an unusually strong
man to that body. 1t is rare indeed
that three men of the intellectual
strength of Tom Patterson, Governor
Thomas and Ex-Governor Adams COM
pete with each other for the same seat
among the conscript fathers. It is
really a pity that all three Of them
could not be elected. Patterson has for
q quarter Of a century been ranked as
one Of the foremost lawyers Of the
western country. For 10 or IL years
he has also been editor Of The Rocky
Mountain News, the leading anti
Republican morning paper of that
whole section Of country. He is in
the very prime of his mental and
physical power and will take HIGH