Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
Attempt Of Crisp's Followers to
Hurt Mills a Fiasco.
MILLS STANDS BY HIS RECORD
The Texan Making No Private Pledges Even
to His Most Intimate Friends.
John sherman's Reelection by the Ohio
Legislature Practically Assured In
Spite of the Foraker BIuster.
Some Figures.
A Mistake of Crisp's Followers.
SPECIAL to the Gazette.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-The strength of
Mills, candidate for speaker, is indicated
by the feebleneSS and desperation with
which the opposition to him begins the
fight. This will become more apparent
when the friends of the other candidates
come here look at the situation and then
attempt TO concentrate the votes of the
members on any one man except Mills.
There were some very weak arguments used
in the last spealership fight by the friends
OF Mckinley, Cannon and other men who
opposed Reed, to defeat the man from
Maine, but none of the attacks made upon
Reed was quite as poor in conception or
doomed to prove so quick a boomerang as
the one flung Wildly out to-day by an IN
wise opponent of Mills, who is a supporter
of Crisp.
The first gun in the Crisp canvass was
fired through the Baltimore Herald yester-
day morning, by the Washington cor
respondent Of that paper, in a dispatch con-
timing a talk about Senator German. Fol-
lowing it there was printed story declar-
ing that before the recent election Mills
went to New York, net Cleveland and the
editor of the Times, with Col. Jones of the
ST. Louis Republic, and that Mills allowed
the gentlemen mentioned to dictate the
names and entire composition of the COM
mittee on coinage, weights and measures of
the next house, provided he should be
speaker, and that he allowed the committee
to be made up so that it should be opposed
10 the free coinage of silver. AS soon as
Mills heard of this statement he sat down
and wrote the following:
Editor Morning Herald-My attention
has been called to dispatch sent from here,
dated November II, by your CORES pondent,
III which he charges that | went to New
York prior to the late elections at the invi-
tation of certain anti-silyer Democrats, and
that met eX-PreSident Cleveland, the ed
itor OF the New York Times and several
other strong opponents of free silver, and
Col. Jones of the St. Louis Republic; that
| pledged myself, if elected speaker. to
frame the committee on coinage, weights
ana measures so as absolutely to prevent
the enactment of free coinage legislation,
and that the names of the members to con-
stitute the committee were dictated TO me
and | agreed TO appoint them as named.
Every word of the dispatch is false. l
have had no converse with any silver men
house. | have not seen Col. Jones since
last June and then in st. Louis. l have
never had any one to propose to
me that / organize the house, If
elected, against silver legislation. In short,
the dispatch is false from beginning to end
ing Your correspondent has imposed a
palpable falsehood upon you. You owe it
to yourself to retract the false statement to
which you have given circulation. Yours
truly. r. Q. Mills
1t was apparent some time ago from re-
marks of some of Crisp's friends that some
sort of a reckless attack like this might be
looked for 1t is not like Mr. Crisp, and ne
will probably disavow all responsibility for
it. but that will not altogether remove the
impression made by this dispatch sent out
by his unadvised friends