The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-11-12
TO SILENCE SECTIONALISM,
URGING A NORTHERN MAN AS
SPEAKER REEDS SUCCESSOR.
A Suggestion That the Important
Chairmanship Should Also Go to the
North and the Reasons Therefore.

the reasons therefore,.
Especial Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. |
WASHINGTON, Nov 1O--It is quite
evident that the Speakership OF the next
House is going to provoke a long contest
between the numerous aspirants for that
office. The formal declaration of Mr..
Mills that he is candidate will, per-
haps, embarrass some of the other gen
tlemen from the Sou.h, who have al
ways affiliated with the Texas leader on
the tariff and other national q1estions.
In view of the fact that Mr.. Mills has
expressed desire to enter the Senate
two years hence as the successor of Sen
ator Reagan, his friends fancied that he
would not aspire to the Speakershp.
He, like many other public men, is am
bilious to preside over the popular
branch Of the national legislature, which
position, in the estimation of the general
public, is next to the presidency. We're
It not for the fact that the Democratic
leaders do not wish to give the Republi-
cans pretext to raise the sectional is
sue IN the next presidential campaign.
there would be no serious objection to
the selection of Mr.. Mills as speaker.
He has we'll earned any distinction or
promotion the Democrats in the House.
can bestow upon him; besides there is
not Southern man reelected to the
next House who occupies such COM
manding position as he does. In gen
eral scramble for the honor Mr.. Crisp
would hardly care to give way to his
colleague, Mr.. Bount. Mr.. Breckin-
yield to his friend Mr.. McCreery. Mr..
McMillin has no intention of withdraw
ing IN favor Of General Hatch, of Mis-
souri, and Mr.. Springer will hardly feel
like yielding to Mr.. Bynum. But if Mr.
Mills should insist upon making the
fight it is probable that the Southern
men will unite upon him il preference
to any Of the other gentlemen named.
| Sensible men will say that it is too
late to raise the sectional issue, and the
friends of Mr.. Mills will insist that
| Texas, the banner Democratic State of
the country, shall be recognized; yet
there is no use trying to disguise the
fact that the Southern question entered
somewhat into the defeat of Mr.. Cleye-
land two years ago, and it might be re-
| vived in the next national contest,
should Southern man succeed Car
Reed. Conservative men, who are as
deeply interested in the success of the
Democratic party two years hence, be-
lieve it would be good politics to select
the next Speaker from a Northern or
Western State. The South cannot Justly
complain, for in Carlisle that section
was represented in the Speakers chair
for three consecutive terms. The Office
is a most tempting one, and no man
should be criticised for aspiring to it,
but there are circumstances surrounding
it which ought to prompt men to sacri-
flee personal ambition for the good and
future prosperity of their party
1t is quite true, as remarked by Sena-
tor Barbour, that a Southern man has as
much right to aspire to the speakershir
or any other Office under the government
as man from the East or the West. Il
is only a question as to whether it il
good politics at this time to DO so.
there was such man in any of th,
/ Southern delegations as Mr.. Carlisle, i
would be useless to attempt to ignor,
the fact.
: The Charleston News and Courie
gives wholesale advice when it suggest
, that not only the speakership but th
j, championships Of the most importun
! committees be conceded to the North
Whether or not the Southern member
follow this advice, it certainly will b
:, the part of wisdom for them to make
J most generous division with their n ortt
ern associates. The Northern Demo
Gratis will equal the Southern Democrat
in point of numbers, and although s
many of them will come
to the House of Representatives fo
the first time, some will come wit
l. an experience of service in State Legi:
latures and great familiarity with pu
lie speaking. 1t would be very su
- cessful and very polite act to put c
~ prominent committee places the alb
lg and brilliant young Democrats fro
I'd Massachusetts,. There is satisfactol
or evidence that sectional feeling on a
Il. count Of the civil war and issues allie
he with that contest has now but fail
ed people. The Reeds, the Chambers, tt
be Hoars, and demagogues of their stIil
~ have these feelings pretty much to ther
ed selves, now, and as they belong to IL
cir class which never fights until the battl
v. are over, they will sing the old famili
ic- tune so long as voice is left them. b
although they cannot appreciate it, t.
chorus has been steadily growing sha
oWy and indistinct. 1t is not IN this {
rection that any important point can
made on the cry that Southern Den
=, Gratis will monopolize the Speakersn
~ and the leading committees. 1t is
f. plea..that the great manufacturing a
full business interests of the North are Z
ha properly recognized.
d. Ignoring the fact that the South
rapidly forging to the front in manuf
turing, the Republicans insist upon no
/. ing it up as an exclusively agricultu
community and as having no represen
tive men competent to deal with
re- great questions of industrial and bu
ere ness interests. One Of the telling poi
G made in the last Presidential campa
are in all the manufacturing centres of
East was that Mr.. Mills, the chairman
the committee on Ways and Means g
the author Of the tariff bill bearing
name, came from the agricultural st
of TeyaS which had scarcely manuf