Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-27
ANYTHING TO BEAT REED.
The Speakership Contest 10 Getting
Very Warm Now.

very warm Now
There il more warmth being generated in
the speakership contest. The western men all
along the line are getting very firm and deter
mined. There il great deal Of feeling ct the
way they say the Reed folks are trying to
dragon the New York and Pennsylvania votes,
regardless Of personal preferences and pledges
II eastern men were to be allowed to
vote their personal preferences, they say,
there would be no desire on the part of the
west to make sectional fight Of It. and they
would vote east and west without any thought
OF dividing line. But being confronted with
q solid castor nearly as solid the sectional
pressure can make it-they will fight the battle
out on the lines Mr.. Reeds friends have marked
out. There is considerable indignation, es-
pecially among the Ohio men, at the part SEN
ator Quay Is said to be taking in the fight
QUAY Is ACCUSED
OF trying to force the entire Pennsylvania vote
over to Reed, though, as the Mckinley men
claim at least ten OF those votes are pledged to
the Ohio candidates. 1t is not known as yet
how far the attempt Of Mr.. Quay will succeed,
but there are two to four Of the Pennsylvania
Representatives who it is asserted will vote for
Mckinley, no matter what pressure is brought
that Judge Kelley has gone over to the Maine
candidate. They say that Kelley, Harmer and
one or two others certainly will stand firmly by
Mckinley to the last
BAKER NOT FOR REED.
It was said yesterday that Baker of New
York had telegraphed to some one that he
would go with his delegation for Reed A
STAR reporter asked Mr.. Baker il this was
true, and he replied that he did not favor
Mr.. Reed and intended to vote for
Mr.. Burrows. Flood, 1t is said, will hold
out against Reed also. Tomorrow night
Mr.. Belden is to entertain the New York dele
CATION at dinner, and it is his expectation to
force them all into line and have the unit rule
in good working order by the time the toasts
are through with. There is
ONE ADVANTAGE MR.. REED SEEMS TO HAVE
over his competitors-that of having three
leading men representing New England, New
York and Pennsylvania, who are able to cen
troll their sections, to work for him with q good
will. Representative Lodge, who controls the
New England vote, is working with all his
might for the Maine candidate. Quay, who is
credited with the power to throw the Penn
sylvania vote where he chooses, is another Of
the Maine mans lieutenants, and Belden,
another Of his most earnest friends will hand
over the vote Of New York pretty nearly solid
If not quite so.
TIRE DIVIDED WESTERN MEN.
There is no western candidate in the field
who can command all the sections Of the west
in this way, and at this moment there is no
means OF telling what particular one of the four
would be the beneficiary should Mr.. Reeds
forces be broken, but every one of them declares
with all the positiveness that he can put into
the declaration that he can hold his forces to-
gether as long as it is necessary to defeat the
Maine man. They all say that the west will
western men come in the more confident their
candidates become. If they are not
can defeat the Maine candidate
even II he has all the east behind him: but the
question is. are they sure of their menu The re-
suit seems to depend altogether on this. Ii the
west holds together nearly as solidly as the east
appears to be, the speaker must come from
that section or from a border state.
COMPLIMENTARY VOTES.
Mckinley, Burrows, Cannon and Henderson
each says he has no complimentary votes; that
every vote cast for him is cast for the purpose
of electing him if possible. On the
other hand, they assert that q
large proportion Of Mr.. Reeds votes are
merely complimentary and will not stay with
him longer than the second ballot Some Of
the other candidates claim to have the promise
of votes after the second ballot, which before
that will be cast for Reed.
THE FIGHT Is GETTING STEADILY WARNER
as it goes on, and nearly every western man
who arrives jumps into the fight with an earn
estness that is interesting to observe. Many Of
them are fighting for nothing on the start but
to defeat Reed, and the other candidates cannot
tell who they are for. 1t has been said first
that the members from the new states were for
one candidate and then for another. The fact
seems to be that they are not yet for any one.
They intend to keep themselves free for awhile
yet
One OF them said to STAR reporter last
night that twenty-four hours before the caucus
would be time enough for them to decide how
they would vote.
THE SOUTHERN MEMBERS
seem to be following the same
plan. Thus far the only man
they have come out for is Mr.
Adams for doorkeeper. They keep his candi-
dacy to the front and say nothing on the sub
ject of the speakership. Last night they held
a conference, but did net decide for whom to
vote among the speakership candidates.
One of Mr.. Reeds friends said today that
they were counting on 16 votes from Pennsyl-
vania, but that it was possible that two of this
number would not hold. They were sure of IA,
he thought.
The republican members of the Pennsylvania
congressional delegation will meet in the room
of the House committee on rivers and harbors
on Friday at pm. A leading member of that
delegation and an ardent supporter of Mr.. Reid
said today that-he did not think any effort
would be made to enforce the unit rule.