Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-24
REED'SLAST CHANCE
Only Two Contested Election Cases
to Be Disposed OF.
The Democrats Spent No Money to In
fiuence the Election Because They
Had None to Spend.
The speakership Should Go to the south, Not
The Speakership Should Go to the south, Not
Because II Is the South But because 1t
Presents the Best Nan.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, Nov. 23.-Cougress-
! man Moore came in last evening from
his home at LAGRANGE to see two OF bis
sons who are at school here. he will
return TO- morrow to his home, and on
Tuesdaseswiii start for Washington,
! tgfasss, as q member of the committee
ron elections, he has some preliminary
work TO do on the only two remaining
contested election cases to be disposed of
at the coming session. They are the
cases of Gen, Somebody, whose name he
had forgotten, from Florida, and Mr..
Anderson of West Virginia. He thinks
that Reed will kick both men out aud
seat the Rel ublican contestants Con-
gress convenes in u few days aud the
solons are already moving towards the
capital.
During a rather lengthy conversation
Mr.. Moore discussed the political situa-
ton quite freely, and like the rest of us
admitted that he was surprised beyond
measure at the result. Said he: 81 was
in Congressman Flwoer's office just be-
fore l left Washington, and had an
hours talk with him about the political
outlook. You know he is chairman of
the national -mocrutic congressional
committee. l found him, as l thought,
admirably posted as to the conditions In
the various doubtful districts of the
country. He seemed TO know
JUST HOW WE STOOD,
and said that making due allowances, he
had figured out a Democratic majority ct
the approaching election of thirty. He
also SAID that he had not spent one dol
lar to influence the election of any man,
for the very good reason that ne did not
have it. The utmost that had been done
was the distributing OF a mass of cam
paign literature. So you see, the
victory was won wholly by the people
without any aid whatever from the
party
I,asked him for his views on the speak,
setship, ana whether it should go TO the
North or the South?
ITO NEITHER said he. 'There
should be no North or South about it.
In the minds of the people there is none.
SECTIONALISM is DEAD
everywhere but in the minds of the
cranks and party bieots, and they don't
count now. l am not an admirer of
Grover Cleveland, but will do him the
justice to say that he destroyed section
aIism, at least to u greater extent than |
did any other man. In my opinion, the !
South should get the speaker, not be- |
cause it Is the South, but because it pre- |
sents the best man for the place. There |
is Mills, whose management and gen. |
eralship in the Fiftieth congress was ad-
mirable in the extreme, who carried |
through the house the Mills bill with
skill and tact, Il thing that,
perhaps, no other man, save Carlisle,
could have done. During the late cam
puign he abandoned Washington to evan
gel re the North, and he did it. Every
W here the people
FLOCKED TO HEAR HIM,
and more than any other man did he
by his speeches to knock the
props from under the tariff monopoly
and the e. o. p. That he would make
an admirable speaker goes without say
ing. II there is better material in the
party than Mills it is Crisp of Georgia.
He has no superior as cool and level
headed man in the chair. But he is
young and he Is keeping quiet. Bount
Of that state, who is rafting around ut a
lively rate, has no show, and he knows
II. He is really after a craftsmanship of
some important committee.
'Wlll the force bill be resurrected at
the approaching session?'
1.-The Republican party, sir, will stop
It nothing to retain their hold on power.
I is mere question of expediency
which they will determine for them
elves. II they think the passage of that
ill will strengthen them, the wicked
lie 80 of it will not deter them a moment
rom the attempt.
THE ALLIANCE.
The subject of the Alliance was sprung
lpon the statesman who expressed some
pinious rather unfavorable to few of