Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-27


The chairmauship of ways and means is
what McMIllin really wants, and he may
get it by striking his banners to Mills at
the eleventh hour. McMlliin would
make good speaker. He is deDater
| of the sledRe- hammer type, KNOCKING
down all before him BY sheer force of
broad facts aud heavy logic. For q
heavy body he moves sometimes with
surprising speed. but he could not be ex-
pected to display In the char the parlia-
rneutsrv aptitude and mental facility
that made Mr.. Carlisle a great speaker.
de would certainly not be like Mr.. Car
isle in undue fairness to the Republican
side.
Gen. Hatch has been Cha good
while of the com nni;tee on agriculture,
and has accomp ished some gantic leg
isation for farmers. He passed. the oleo-
margarine bill. for instance. He lie Il
wise, far-seeing old fellow, whose name
may attract good manv farmer votes,
but he with Cultivate. Breckiuriige and
Blount are regarded as in the tight for
chairnauShlD.
MIR. Bvnum is a great favorite. He is
a swar;hv, six-toot hoOsier, constltu-
tionsllv lazy, but withal very shrewd.
pugnucious and skillful. He is O good
lawyer, and ranks well as a parliament
tartan. He is trying to keep the mantle
of Thomas A. Hendricks from trailing on
the ground and is training in the speak
ership race for the presidential purse
which will be hung up q little later on
the national course.
Until the tariff ques, ion came to the
front so exclusively in congress Judge
Crisp was regarded as SUR come duy to
ha III I;slu
should finally lay down the gavrl
He is Us popular as any man in
congress. Not even the rasp-
ing quarres last session pro-
voked him into saying ANYTHING to MAKE
an enemy. Yet he displayed courage
and force that was admirable. But he
seems now TO be handicapped by other
candidates from the South, against which
he can harily nuke much Roadway. BY
ell the reciprocities of political life, Mr..
Mills can claim from the South what
until lately it was supposed would be
freely given 10 Crisp. Whatever the re-
suit of the fight may be, he will have one
OF the four first committee chairman
ships-probably that on judiciary. He
had thut on elections in the FIftieth con-
grrss, and, it is understood, does not
want il again.
Very few votes are credited to Blount,
Brecklnrdge or Outhwaite. None OF
them possess the spiue or cerebrum es-
sential TO the place they aspire TO. Mr..
Blount IS a steady-go.ng member, in
valuable on a committee where there is
a good deal to be remem bertd and no.
body else cares to bother with details
Mr.. Breckinridge would adorn the
speakers chair, but for practical busi-
ness would be us much out of place as q
rose in pitch kettle. Mr.. Cultivate is
an eloquent talker, but is afflicted with
columuHr intirnity of the vertebrn. He
will do we'll if he keeps his name in the
hat through two caucus ballots.
Professor Wilson has not said he W as a
candidate, and he may sag positively
tfat be will not allow his name TO be
used. But he Possesses a static advant-
age that may make him the coming man.
His state is the borderland between the
Democratic party North and South.
Though he served in the Confederate
army while he was yet boy he Is In full
touch with Northern Democrats aud is
unobjeutonaule on either side of Mason
and Dixou's line. He is probably the
coolest and most clear headed man in
the house He never shows the least
sign of heat under the most savage at
tacks. Nobody dlslikes Wilson and
everybody would like to give him any
thing he wanted, if he would ouIy ask
for it. But he is a believer in silent
merit and of the notion that it is in bad
form to go out bunting for recognition
with a brass band. II the majority want
him for speaker the majority must I'M
cork itself. for the professor doesn' I
carry a political corkScrew, He was on
the ways and means committee i'll the
FIftieth congress, as were also Messrs
Bvnun, McMillin and W. G. p Breck-
iurIdge. JULIUS A. TRUESDELL.