Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-09-11
SOME ANCIENT history,
,esnsresamsa eeeesaa aives Oath sen,,
tetats af Lessl lutersst,

,QanGressmea kobesan 0tyes Oath nam,
te,ass at LesA, latsr,.,,
The following Ia from aa,hs letter ~
las, Sundays Cincinnati EaqNi,sT
asked Mr, Robeson II he had no, take,
acme pafl while In eonsress In alecllnp
aenerM kelfer ~ speaker. ile said Thai
~ hAd ana gave the following general
AFTER aarnelds election ,hers was an
interval between hls Inauguration and The
mee,ins et Me congress, and IN thai inter.
vh 0siheld was killed, before he was
shot " July, Mf, Blaine spoke 10 me in
tAvcf o. making Mf. iliscock. Of Now
tuft, she speaker, l was naturally ap,
pnecd 70 itlscock for sound personal aid
political reasons, | had been member
OF urheral Grants cabinet and during
thHt time Hlscock had run on the
1feeley. democratic ticket lie had dc.
huunced Grant aud his administration, |
recognized The existence os two factions III
the republican party after the eDntest Of
1850, when Grant was again candidate
~ seems that some man OF Grants mlll,ar,
tknnnle Nh nld be taken IN b, M. They
Nsie 4 aag "a asfess with the sonthefn
hairaflai AND mrlot generals. and Thought
" It0l,t btot W. ShNutN w tuuAltN WFlttNt
and stand 10 person who had mere back.
bone a. party leader than Garfield
Though GARFIELD was the leader OF con.
gress, he was not generally up ~ the line Of
the majority there, and ives disposed %
ccnclllate and recede about half way ON
many measures OF party exactnes. Blaine,
however, argued with Eie that President
0Ariield ought 10 have a congress whose or.
Rsnisation would be harmonious with him.
self. AT last gave up the point and said
that l would vote for Hiscock. made
this statement upon the ground work Of
blalne's argument that good party govern
ment required q speaker who would be
agreeable to the party president In the
meantime Garfield was shot and fingered a
long while, and Arthur became president
ttcn felt that my promise did not hold
Eood ss TO Mt. Hiscock. In fact, from the
nature OF that promise felt called upon TO
support speaker who would be In harmo.
ny with The president namely, General
Arthur. therefore told Blaine that his
argument was my influence 10 support some
other man than Hiscocs. After Garfield
left congress there was no question of Kei-
fer being the leader there lie represented
the army and strong republican western
stSte, which had an almost united dele
CATION on the republican side. He had
given satisfaction to his constituents and 10
his fellow-members. He seemed to me to
he the most available man In sight to run.
He was elected, and, In my judgment. the
congress over which he presided was one OF
the most successful congresses the republi-
can party ever held. when you consider the
fact that the democrats had maintained not
long before nearly two-thirds majority.
and had been several times In control OF
the house. The difficulty about Keifer
turned out TO be that he had very thick
skin and that he was very pugnacious. His
skin was about rs thick rs that of any man
l ever saw. He had come up from plain
class, though he was an educated man. We
wanted to take care Of him on the floor,
and were ready TO do so, but he would not
let us, he insisted upon doing his own fight
ing-on answering back and taking up any
thing 10 his umbrage from the chair. That
and his thick skin were the only defects
OF character that could see. Mr.. Blaine
set against us the republican press.
II that press had given the usual support
expected of party press, that congress
would have been triumphant. for it passed
more legislation of an important character
than almost any congress since the war,
and was one of the most hard-working con-
crosses ever assembled at the capital.
know that was only absent two days dur
ing that whole congress, when was called
away by q family event We changed the
time of meeting from IL O'Clock to IL In
the morning, and we often sat there late in
the evenings. We passed the Utah bill,
the tariff commission bill and the bill to
alter the representation and the census,
which may be of material value In the
pending election. 1t will not be necessary,
Rr instance, for us TO carry California aftr I
this. We were previously required TO
carry Connecticut, New Jersey or Indiana,
and California. The increase OF the north
ern republican populations made the pass
age of this bill most valuable matter of
marty saeacityr