Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-04
THE sPEAKERsHIP.


THE sPEAKERSRIP.
There is no denying the fact that
the several candidates for the speaker
ship Of the national house Of represents
tives, Thomas B. Reed Of Maine, is in tn
lead; and that unless the West and Soutl
shall combine in disregard Of party t
defeat him his election is as certain a
It would be disastrous to all the interest
Of the country, the prosperity of whicl
would conflict with that of the grea'
money kings Of the East. That Reed ii
the arch enemy Of silver no n will
dare deny, for a reference to his record
in congress is as conclusive as it is mimi
cal. Mr.. Reed is well known in Montana.
having taken part in our recent canvass
at the instance of Sanders, Carter aud
others who worship him as the devil does
some Of the methods which they intro
duced then in our politics and the dis
astrous and d~isgraceful consequences of
which the state is now feeling and the
extent of which no man can foresee.
That Reed is a thorough parliamentarian
and a very brainy man no n will deny
and hence he is the more dangerous
with reference to the interests of which
he is the avowed enemy, and these inter-
ests concern no part Of the country more
than they do Montana. That being true
our people would naturally expect that
Representative Carter would use every
effort to defeat such a man for such a
place, but on the contrary, and we in
tend that all Montana shall know it,
this man Carter has admitted that he
will vote for Mr.. Reed, and it is well
known that he Is working live a beaver
to influence others to do 80. Such a man
is Tom Carter, than whom no man ever
promised more and did less. Last fall,
IS everybody will remember. Carter an
nounced his ability to clothe the sheep of
Montana in golden feeces, and that he
had but to whisper in the ear of Secre-
n tne 1eau markgT woum Db the lee
That the facts are different, and
hat the people Of Montana were de-
by the tricky Carter are matters
which are now as familiar in every l
ousehold as the framed invocation, I
God bless our home" To such decep- q
on MIR. Carter now adds a direct blow d
) his constituency, while with his other II
he pounds the caucus table as he q
rays that Mr.. Reed may be placed in a d
that means great injury to our IL
'osperity. pl
The Financial and Mining Review has pl
is to say Of Mr.. Reed: Is
The Sun newspaper OF this city, deign. l
3 with possible irony, to admit that Id
ere may be Western candidates for the Sc
sakership OF the next House of Repre- fu
ltatives, the equal OF Mr.. Reed in
rains. energy and personal beauty an
Is, "but Tom Reed of Maine is likely to nes
the chair, all the same, for the reason. vie
the first place, he has been the caucus the
ninee for speaker in minority years,
custom and decency entitle him to the
.nination, and that means somethinp.n II
xactly SO, the nomination by a caucus nnb
lis party to the speakership this year mo,
Id mean his election, and that would
= a meaning portentiously antagon. -.
TO great Western interests. 1t would
n an arrangement OF the committees
anking, ways and means, internal i'm. pun
'ements, and last but not least. Liz
he committees ON coinage and does
mining, adverse to the vievs whic
20 and interests OF the West and South. in it
ding the Pacific Cast states. With rant,
Thomas B. Reed in the speakers THE
'nere would be no hope OF the enact the l
during the next congress, of any spleel
cial laws in regard to our mining IT, :
Vi 'ne mouse rom Noun
@ 'n' f'sn' 10 remain house
the long congressional record OF
, -.nvw,s. h.. a...m ing pr
dustries of the Western people. We a
witness, also, the jealous advocacy po'
Reeds pretensions to the speaker. anu y
oy such papers as the New York Luz WI
and nearly every other East. p, have tt
that is conspicuous for it's special ton of
lion to bi-mstallism even to the ex.
in operation in the United
and for an obdurate advocacy Of The
en'S system oased exclusively on met in
any a.' 'neSe journals strenu- ceedinl
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