The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-07

sell Win advisers and started on q line
OF policy in legislation that was sus-
tanned throughout the six years during
which he presided over the house. 1t
came to be understood that q coterie OF
advisers who were looked upon rs tho
confidential associates OF Speaker Car
Isle resumed tho practical direction OF
legislation and Democrats OF equal
prominence, both from the North and
the South, found themselves in great
measure excluded.
The open fight was made upon Ram
dali, with tho result we'll known. At
the same time tariff reform" Demo.
Gratis not go radical MS Carlisle, Morri-
son, Mills and Mcmillan, found that the
freezing process had been applied 10
them.
NOT RADICAL ENOUGH on FREE TRADE.
Democrats like Crisp, OF Georgia,
Oates, OF Alabama, Hatch, OF Missouri,
and Cultivate, OF Ohio. found that
their opinions were not particularly
desired when Carlisle and his friends
were arranging affairs in the house,
ind they discovered that they were
particularly shut out when the sacred
cause OF tariff reform" was being pro-
NOTED. Crisp was put in charge OF the
election committee; Oates was given
the craftsmanship OF the judiciary com-
mittee; Hatch the committee on agri-
culture, and Outhwaitc the Pacific rail
roads committee. These were all i'm
portant positions, but the gentlemen
who had these specialtics assigned to
them soon came to understand that
s'tariii reform was 10 bc handled by
an exclusive body.
IT WAS OPPRESSIVE.
Carlisle placed Mills at the head OF
the ways and means committee, and
gave places on it TO McNIillen, Breckin-
ridge, OF kentucky, Breckinridgc, Of
Arkansas, Wilson, OF West Virginia,
and Bynum, OF Indiana. Turner, OF
Georgia, also had 4 place, and William
l.. Scott was provided ior similarly when
he established himself as tariff re-
former" OF the Carlisle Mills. Cleveland
brand. The combination soon became
known about the house as the ways and
means clique. 1t controlled everything
and shaped everything while Carlisle
was speaker. This sort OF thing was
oppressive to the men who found them
selves practically excluded from partic-
patton, except TO the extent OF voting,
OIL the Issue OF tariff reform.
FACrloSAL FEELING.
1t bred feeling that would have re-
suited in an open revolt had the Demo-
Gratis elected a majority of the members
OF the Fiity-frst Congress. Carlisle
would have again been Il candidate for
speaker, and nothing could have pre-
vented n strong fight being made against
him. AS it was, the Republicans or
ganized the house, and Mr.. Carlisle re-
ceived the empty honor OF renomina-
ton by his party when it would have
been foolish for those who did not cn-
dorsc him TO oppose him. The whirli-
gig OF politics gave the present house to
the Democrats. In the meantime Car
lislc had been elected to the senate
and Mr.. Mills came up as the natural
successor OF Carlisle and claimed the
honor on the platform OF "thc logic OF
tho situation" whatever that may
mean.
He even denied tho propricty OF any
other Democrat opposing him. To Il
new member who approached him for
tho first time during the present can
vass ho said: "Thc meanest thing l
know about the Democratic party is
that it is making no fight for this
place"
WHAT MlLLS's ELECTION WOULD MEAN.
As the representative OF the old ways
and means 'junta' the prominent
Democrats who had been suppressed
for six years knew that Mi!ls's election
meant 4 continuation OF the supremacy
OF the clique. Mills, they knew. would
be more intolerublo than Calislc, and
their own interests, rs well as their self
respect, demanded that they prevent, ii
possible. his election. 1t was for this
reason that they rallied about Crisp. It
tells plainly why the fight is so bitter
and is likely to be long drawn out.
ENTER, MR. CLEVELAND.
When it was seen that Mr.. Mills was
not going to have tho walk-over for the
speakership that he and his friends ex-
pcctcd, extrancous assistance came to
his support. Carlisle, though in the
senate, came out openly and declared
for him, adding the weight OF his great
name TO tho cause OF tho Texan. Clevc-i
lands friends saw in the situation q
possibility that the same sort OF q fight
might be made on their leader when he
came up before the next national
administration. Dan Lamont hurried
to Brooklyn and compelled tho
four Democrats from that city to not
only pledge themselves to Mills, but
further compelled them to advertise
that fact by kilograms to others. Two
members OF Clcvolauds cabinet, Villas
and Dickinson, FASTENED to Washington
and put all tho pressure at their. com
mand upon the Democrats from Wis
consin, Michigan, and tho Northwest
generally. Bayard, another OF Cleve-
lands cabinet, took Causey, OF Della
ware, out of his pocket and sent him to
Washington to vote for Mills. Every
Cleveland influence that could be used
was brought to bear.
cEIsr NOT a SECTIONAL CANDIDATE.
Theold ways and means combine be.
hind Mills are FIGHTING for their former