The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-02-22

Harlan Of the supreme court were
sworn, he could testify to that fact He
has never until now been suspected of
delivering judicial opinions in after
\ dinner speeches, but recently at a
function Of that sort he made certain
remarks which until the last two years
would have been taken as matter Of
course, but which raised goose flesh on
all the administration hereabouts.
More timid souls than the great Ken.
tuckian will no doubt be deferred by
what has befallen him from making
any remarks which even squint-if re-
marks may be said to squint-toward
the theory that we are not lot of free
hooters, licensed to appropriate to our
own uses the property of all weaker
peoples ad libitum. Indeed, we are
living in ticklish times, and no man can
predict what the morrow will bring
forth. There is only one remedy
establish a strict censorship over all
speeches, congressional, postprandial
or what not.
Good Advice Wasted.
A good while ago l advised Senator
Marcus A. Hanna in these letters that
there was but one way by which he
could crush out all opposition to his
ship subsidy steal and that was by
passing law establishing and defining
the crime of leze majesty and provid-
Ing pains and penalties for the same.
He failed to take the advice and en-
deavored to accomplish MS purpose py
writing a letter to each and every Re-
publican senator to be in his place
i ready to help raid the treasury; but,
mirabile dictu, certain Republican SEN
ators got their dignified backs up, to
! use phrase more forcible than ele-
CANT, and worked themselves into a
stats Of high dudgeon. They are actu-
, ally giving aid and comfort to such pes
tiferous guardians of the public treas
ury as Senators Vest of Missouri, Tur-
ner Of Washington, Clay Of Georgia
/ and Berry of Arkansas. They have
worried Boss Mark to such an extent
that he is threatened with cerebral in
flammation. Turner has such bad man
/ ners that he actually denounced Mark s
grab as huge steal on the floor Of the
senate without any circumlocution
whatever and tongue dashed Senator
William P. FryeSof Maine SO savagely
that he took refuge in the cloakroom.
Judge Lanham ON Reorganization.
It is universally conceded that Texas
has one of the three strongest delega-
lions in the house. No reference is
here made to numbers, but to the aver
age intellectual strength Of numbers.
She has 10 representatives, soon to be
increased to 1G, and there isn't weak
man in the lot Texas Democrats are
the salt Of the earth-none better any
where. Of the big - Judge Samuel
w. Z. Lanham is one of the strong
est. He is also the Oldest, not only in
years, but in point Of service. He is of
calm, judicial, conservative turn of
mind. He is always listened to with
pleasure when he has any message to
deliver to the house. In many respects
he is an admirable orator. The other
| day he delivered set speech, carefully
prepared, on the subject Of reorganiz-
ing the Democratic party, speech
\ which has attracted much attention
! and deservedly, too, both because of
the Importance of the theme and it's in
/ trinsic merits. wish had space to
give 1t all, but can only furnish my
readers with extracts. Among divers
other good things Judge Lanham said:
I'm formulating what seems to be the
attitude Of the great majority of Dem
ocrats it would, l think, be reasonably
safe to say that in their opinion a
somewhat precipitate and abnormal
solicitude concerning the future of the
4 Democratic party seems to have taken
possession Of some who were erstwhile
in utilization with its organization, but
who have in recent years not only man
Tested an Indifference to its success,
but have aided in its defeat. They
have laughed at its calamity and SO
demeaned themselves as to be charged
with desertion of its colors in the midst
of its battles. They now step forward
and volunteer their criticisms and prof.
fer their advice. They come with off.
cious and unsolicited counsel to tell
what ought to have been done in the
past and what ought to be done in the
future.
'In Illustration of this an old friend
Of mine and former prominent con.
gresham who is and has long been q
persistent advocate Of the gold stand.
ard said to me only few days ago:
Such suggestions at this time from
such sources are like the proverbial
! shaking Of the red flag
"They bear upon their bodies no
wounds which they have received in