The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-03

Have Heeded-A Candidate for the
Speakerslip.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-Represent-
ative Roger @. Mills has come to Wash
ington ahead of most Of the Republicans
aud OF his friends Of the despised Demo-
cratic minority, and he is looking ruddy
and more vigorous than he has any time
since he began his tariff speech-making
in 1888. He is willing candidate for
the SpeakershIp, but not an obtreperous
one, and he promptly announces that he
does not intend to open headquarters in
Which to ground up" his supporters.
he has heard some talk about Presi-
dent Harrison calling an extra session
of the Fifty-second Congress. He does
not consider Unnecessary and he scarcely
believes that the President will find it
judicious for his personal or party in
terest. If the Republicans are deter
mined 70 have an extra session they can
force it. An early session would i'm
pose responsibility upon the Democrats
sooner than they had expected, but they
ought not to be frightened by that pros
pect. If the Republicans hope to profit
by abandoning their responsibilities the
people who rebuked them at the polls in
November will not all die before the
next election. and they will administer
more medicine to these pretenders who
have been plastering the country with
their pictures Of the way they do busi-
ness in Congress-
Mr.. Mills has MOI yet recovered from
the astonishment he left at the result of
the election. He looked fora Demo-
cratic victory, but he did not imagine
| that the party would sweep the whole
country so completely. He had seen
..ome Indications Of dissatisfaction with
The tariff bill and intimations were
thrown out to him in the West that
many Republicans would not vote for
the men who had so mistaken the de-
sires Of the party as to attempt to revise
| the taliffup when it ought to have been
revised down. Occasionally he heard
remarks that showed that the people
were watching Reed, and thstt trey weres~
fully aware not only of his cheekiness,
but of bis tyrannical disposition. eyes,
he's very smart" man would say,
| ''but I reckon we don't want military
rule just yet, do we?
There were rather more than usual of
the common references by managers OF
the meetings to the fact that there were
large numbers of Republicans present,
but that was SO frequently heard by
speakers for both parties that it did not
at the time make deep impression.
Mr.. Mills says the people Of this coun-
| try have fondness for the under dog in
fight. The papers had been teemjng
with the reports of!how Reed was run
ming the House with his gavel, and how
his men were unseating Democrats who
had been elected, and they got tired Of
being told that he not only had the
Democrats down. but was kicking the
PROSTATE body and treadlng upon it in
its helpless condition.
''Then thele wee other things" he
added, "thank fortune, all Republican
blunders, which the people bore in mind,
when we fellows in Congress were re-
garding them as wornout questions.
Cole to think oft, l was better pro-
phet than I thought 1 was when made
my tariff speech on May I. told the
Republicans Of the House that 1 wanted
them to pass their bill and then 70 to the
people Of Illinos, Indiana and Wiscon-
sin to tell why they had puta bountyon
sugar ships, and silks, and no bounties
on things that they produced. I told
them that they would have to meet such
questions, and that the majority of l00,-
| 900 for Grover Cleveland had told them
what the people of the country wanted"
When the closing words ofMr. Mills's
speech are examined they take on new
and prophetic meaning in view of the
results Of the elections. He said:
II wont you to pass your bill and go
with it out West. Take it, with hair.
hide and wool all over it, and discuss
it there. I want you to meet the people
| whom you have not hesitated to tax
from 100 to 200 per cent. on the neces-
saries of life. I want you to confront
them and tell them what you have done,
and if l am not very much mistaken,
when you shall have rendered an ac-
count Of your STEWARDSHIP and told
them how good you have been, and how
| in their name you have destroyed their
markets, lowered the prices Of their
products, cast out the dead, and raised
| The devil, they will say to you, Get thee
behind me, Satan.'
I'VE promise our frinds that we will
examine their bill. We will discuss
some Of its provisions, for they intend
to cut off our debate and prevent US
from discussing all Of them. It needs
discussion, and will get..whatever we are
permitted 10 give it, and then, when we
have done that, you will pass it. We
will content ourselves by giving our
| votes against 1t, and when you leave this
House and Senate with this enormous
load Of guilt upon your heads and ap-
pear before the great tribunal for trial,
may the LORD nave mercy on your
souls:3
AIr. Mills and Mr.. Carlisle are now
very well satisfied that the Republicans
adopted the programme in the last ses-
sion of refusing to permit the demands
of individual Republicans to be re-
garded when they asked for amendments.
In retaining the symmetry" of the bill,
the Republicans were insuring the hos
tility Of the people, who saw that it was
a contriyance bolstered up by some sort
of combination in which there was
nothing for the common folks of the
country. Even man like Payson OF
Illinois. who spoke against the bill and
voted for 1t, could not hold his seat,
and his majority Of 2,400 two years
ago was turned into Democratic ma
jority for a low tariff Democrat Of 900.
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