Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-26

means and the leadership on the floor
The craftsmanship of ways and means is
what McMillin really wants, and be may
get it by striking his banners to Mills at
the eleventh hour. MoMIliin would
make a good speaker. He Is debater
Of the sledge- 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-
meutary aptitude and mental facility
that made Mr.. Carlisle great speaker.
He would certainly not be like MIR. Car
Isle in undue fairness to the Republican
side.
Gen. Hatch has been chairman good
while of the committee on agriculture,
and has accomplished some e gantic leg
islation for farmers. He passed the oleo-
margarine bill, for instance. He Is a
wise, far-seeing old fellow, whose name
may attract a good manv farmer votes,
but he with Outhwaite. Breckenridge and
Blount are regarded as in the fight for
craftsmanship.
Mr.. Bynum is q great favorite. He is
a swarthy, six-foot hoosier, constitu-
tionally lazy, but withal very shrewd.
pugnacious and skillful. He is good
lawyer, aud ranks well as parliament
tartan. He is trying to keep the maptie
OF Thomas A. Hendricks from trailing on
the ground and is training in the speak
ership race for the presidential purse
the national course.
Until the tariff quest ion came to the
front so exclusively in congress Judge
Gate IoI IN
be speaker-probably when MIR. Carlisle
He is as popular rs any man in
congress. Not even the rasp-
ing quarrels last session pro-
voked him into saying ANYTHING to make
an enemy. Yet he displayed q courage
and force that was admirable. But he
seems now to be handicapped by other
candidates from the South, against which
he can hardly make much headwav. BY
all the reciprorities of political life, MIR.
Mills cen claim from the South what
until lately it was supposed would be
freely gwen to Crisp. Whatever the re-
suit of the fight may be, he will have one
OF the four first committee chairman
ships-probsbly that on judiciary. He
had that on elections in the FIftisth con-
gress, and, it is understood, does not
want il again.
Very few votes are credited to Blount,
BrecK inridge or Outhwaite. None of
them possess the spine or cerebrum es-
sentisl to the place they aspire to. Mr..
Blount is a steady-going member, iu-
valuable on a com mittee where there is
a good deal to be rememb ered, and no.
body else cares to bother with details
Mr.. Breckinridge would adorn the
speaker chair, but for practical BUSH
ness would be us much out Of place as a
rose in pitch kettle. Mr.. Cultivate is
an eloquent talker, but is afflicted with
columnar infirmity of tbs vertebra. He
will do we'll if he keeps his name in the
hat through two caucus ballots.
Professor Wilson has not said he was
candidate, and he may say positively
that he will not allow his name to be
used. But he possesses static advant-
age that may make him the coming man.
His state is the borderland between the
Democratic party North aud South.
Though he served in the Confederate
army while he was yet boy he Is in full
touch with Northern Democrats aud is
uuobjectlonaple on either side of Mason
and Dixon's line. He is probably the
coolest and most clear-headed man in
the house He never shows the least
slgu Of heat under the must savage at
tacks Nobohy dislIkes Wilson and
everybody would like to give him any
thing he wanted, If he would only ask
for 1t. But he is believer in silent
merit and Of the notion that it is in bad
form to go out hunting for recognition
with brass band, If the majority want
him for speaker the majority must uu-
cork itself. for. the professor doesn't
carry political cOrkscrew. He was on
the ways and means committee in the
Fifrieth congress, as were also Messrs
Bynum, McMillin and W. c. p Breck-
inr;dge. JULIUS A. TRUESDELL.