The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-08
POOR MR.. MILLS!
The Last Drop Added to the Free Trade
Leaders Cup of Humiliation-Mr.
Randall is King-A Senator.
ial Fisticuff.

Randall is King-A Senator
ial Fisticuff.
G. +. Scott In the Capital-Commonwealth.
WASHINGTON, d. c., February, 81
Poor Mr.. Mills!
AS he sat in the House on the morn.
ing OF Washington's birthday. with
his head on his hands and his face
when he lifted it, heavy with disap-
pointment and humiliation, he pre-.
sented picture that must have moved
even the hard hearts of his enemies to
pity.
Only year ago this man was the
proud and aggressive leader of united
and confident party. Now fallen SO
low, alas, that none are poor enough
to do him reverence, while the party,
divided and defeated, knows not which
way to turn to escape from the wilder
ness into which he led it. 1t does
know though that it no longer wants
HIM for its leader. That has been an
parent for long time and it was DEM
onstrated beyond appeal at the caucus
on Thursday night. Mr.. Mills had
called the caucus, determined to make
one last desperate effort to retain his
supremacy. 1t was held, and was well
attended, and when it was over the
scepter had departed forever from the
hand of Roger @. Mills. With fatu-
ity which has marked his course SO
often in the past, he refused even then :.
when the caucus had demonstrated it
beyond question to every one else, to
believe that his case was hopeless, and
30 put it to the test the next morning
in the House. with resolution to re-
turn the Senate its tariff bill--a reso-
luton which received just twenty
eight votes!
Poor Mr.. Mills!
But there is a pleasant, poetic justice
in the fact that the scepter which Mr..
Mills was not strong enough to WELD
has returned TO the hands from which
he wrested 1t year ago. Samuel ].
Randall has come to his own-or
rather his own has come TO him. II
have been read out of the democratic
party twice." he said grimly at the
Thursday night caucus, 'but / have
always managed to get back" There
was no doubt the next morning when
the House opened, that he was "back.n
There was the light of victory in his
wonderful eyes and its glow on his
priest-like face and the old time ring
in his voice as he introduced one after
another the resolutions that the caucus
of the night before had been called to
kill, and saw them carried through
by overwhelming maiorities. From
this time to the 4th of March, Mr..
Randall is king.
The right ear of w. E. Chandler,
the "little, -but.O h-my!" Senator from
New Hampshire, was the cynosure of
all eyes as he sat in his usual seat in
the Senate chamber on Saturday. The
story goes-perhaps it has already
been in your columns-that at meet
ing of the committee on post trader
ships on Friday, Mr.. Chandler made
some remarks about Senator Joe
Blackburn to which that son of chivai-
~ took very violent exception and
which he resented by laying hands
upon Mr.. Chandeliers off ear aud drag
ging him from his seat. He was
making preparations, it is said, to
spread him over the adjacent wall
when other Senators interfered and
persuaded him to forego that pleasure.
The committee stood adjourned with
out formal motion on the general
parliamentary ground, remarks local
paper, that fist fight operates as an
adjournment in any deliberative body.
and strenuous pledges were exacted
that no whisper of the occurrence
should get into the public press. 1t
was evidently too good for somebody
to keep, however, and SO everybody is
looking at Chambers ear.