St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-28
BACKED BY DOODLE.
There Is a Deal Of Money Be-
hind Thomas B. Reed, Of
Maine.
He Is Now Solidly Backed by
New England and New
York.
The Railroads Are Also
Strongly in Favor Of the
Maine Man.
It Is a Case Of Control by the
It Is a Case Of Control by the
Great Trusts ALI
Around.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 27.-The Repub-
licans of the West are again becoming
convinced that the protection-fattened,
capitalistic East does not intend to let
the control of legislation cross the
mountains and take up its dwelling
place on the prairies. 1t is tonight
more apparent than it was yesterday
that Mr.. Reed will be the speaker of the
house Of the Fifty-first congress. He
has gained SO rapidly in the last two
days that little short of a miracle could
now beat him. His lines in the East
have been frightened up until he now
presents the solid front of New England,
New York and Pennsylvania. In addi.
ton to these he has been gaining in the
West. He has more votes In Kansas. In
California, and even in Iowa, than his
rivals gave him credit for. AS the
day of the caucus approaches and
the lines are drawn tighter and
tighter the power underneath
the surface in this struggle is com.
PEELED to show its hand. That power Is
money. Reed is the ideal candidate OF
the trusts, of the corporations, of the
Investing classes. Through these he
has won the active support of Platt,
Quay, Sawyer, Spooaer and other
powerful agents. The city of Washing
ton il this mament full of Reeds work.
ers from New York and Boston capital-
lists and the representatives of capital.
A Michigan member reports that he was
to-day approached by
NO FEWER THAN FIVE
of these brokers. who asked him to vote
for Reed the moment Burrows was out
of the way, saying: 1--WE are the
friends OF the West, we send our money
out there to develop your country and
to build your railroads. and all we want
is protection ia our rights. We think
the election of Mr.. Reed would be q
sign that vested rights are to be
fully protected from legislative
dangers There is no longer
any doubt that Reed is the
railroad candidate. Friends of the
other candidates have for some days
been at a loss to understand why
certain of their fetluWwurkers have
grown cold In the cause, but now they
think that they can perceive the cause
of the difficulty. Wherever there is a
meinUer of congress at all amenable to
railroad or captaiiStic influences. there
in four cases out of five is Reed sup
porter. either ayowed or under cover.
In almost every state of the West-even
in lUwa-there are congressman
who can scarcely wait until the
sectional candidates are out OF the
way befure rushing into the Reed camp.
The ST. Paul, the Northwestern and the
Pacific roads are concerns whose influ.
ence is being hourly felt in this contest.
Some of the Western Republicans who
have INDUCED i'll hopes of progress in
the party, of relaxation on the tariff
question and of the triumph of Western
Ideas with reference TO railways and
trusts, are very much diSgusted to find
the very Influences against which they
contend in policy working i'm their very
midst to take their colleagues from
them. If Reeds candidacy stands for
any thing, it stands for
CHINESE-WALL TARIFF
except on some of the raw materials
which New England. New York and
Pennsylvania need IN their line of busi-
ness, for auti-grangerism and for the
protection and propagation OF trusts
and all such forms of organization OF
capital. Yet here are Iowa congress-
men and Nebraska congressman and
Kansas. Michigan anu Wisconsin con.
greSSmen representing granger con-
StitueucieS, SO impatient to get away
from Cannon. Burrows and Henderson
that they cannot conceal their eager
ness. To-day the friends of the West
ern candidates have been tracing
out the associations and proprie.
turSiip of these recreants to the West,
and almost without exception they have
discovered that railway or trust inter-
ests control them-the condition OF
affairs which the friends of Judge
Gresham discovered when they tried to
nominate that eStimable gentleman for
the presidency. They discover that the
flies, the plutOcrats. the trusts,
investors. the railway and other COrDOr-
alton manipu!atorS are i'll control of the
Republican party, and that al efforts
tO WrtSt that control from them must
prove futile. 1t is remembered that
Judge Gresham himself saw this mOre
plainly tnan some of his admirers, fOI
he told them very early In the cam
pagn that he could not be nominated
for the presidency because the corpora
ton influences were against him. There
is Il pretty strong conviction that Reed
Will win the nomination on the second
or third ballot OF tie caucus to be held
next Saturday. His Eastern strength is
stalwart and seemingly untiinching
column of nearly sixty votes, thanks to
the influences sroktn OF above, and the
friendship of Piatt and Quay and the
other bosses.