The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-10-15
HOW THE SUN SHINES on MILLS
Editorials from the Now York sun,
Democratic Paper. of sept. 23 and 70.
The Flag of Defeat.

lfNeW IOrk cuu, Sepb. Si.l
"Man that is born of a woman" observed
the great sage, "is Of few days aud full Of
trouble"
If tho Hon. Roger O. Mills had been
present he would have said that the cause
of it was the tariff. No one will doubt
that he would have said it who hears the
long and bitter walls With which the
Texas statesman is filling the air of Ohio.
Mr.. Mills is in the immovable gloom of
crank on calamity. In the United States
to which every civilized natl On is looking
with hourly greater intentness as the most
prosperous and blessed country on the
globe, Mr.. Mills hears only the sounds Of
wretchedpess and complaint, and the
"scourge that is driving contentment out
of so many homes"
This is sort of mania that will not
elect a Democratic president in 1899, If
that is what Mr.. Mills is interested in He
may invite the country to 60 crazy with
him, but the country won't go. Mr.. Mills
and companions in pessimistic philosophy
had better go back to Texas.
Mills Hoists Again tho Flag of Defeat.
New York Sun, Sept. 1871
The explanation of Mr.. Mills extraord
nary performance at Mansfield on Satur-
day night should be sought for in the
pTcscuG COuUlblOu VI his OWu CduVaSS lOF
the Speakership of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the Fifty-second Congress.
rather than in the requirements of tho
Democratic party in its Ohio campaign.
For weeks and months the Texan has
seen his prospects waning before the
growing Importance of Judge Crisp as
candidate for Speaker. This is particu-
larly the case in the South and Southwest,
where Mr.. Mills had expected to en-
counter no rival strong enough to
be troublesome. For the sake of
the vote of the Southern and
Western delegations in the next
House, Mr.. Mills has gone so far as to base
his pretensions chiefly upon his record as
an advocate of the free coinage of silver,
showing back the tariff issue and his historic
services to the cause of free trade to second
ary place in his political autobiography.
This brought him for time into antagon-
ism which his old partner, the Hon. Gro
yer Cleveland, who kept harping on the
old issue, to the exclusion of everything
else; but Mr. Mills apparently cared little
for that so long as it seemed that he could
command the Southern aud Western votes
as the great Southern representative OF
free silver.
But the movement in favor of Judge
Crisp for Speaker has gone on steadily in
the South and Southwest in spite of Mr.
Mills frantic efforts to call attention to
himself as the free silver leader. He has
waved the argent shield in vain before the
eyes of his fellow Southrons. 1t was ouly
last week, for example, that the New Or
leans Times-Democrat reported General
Catchings, of Mississippi, as predicted that
every vote of that State In Congress would
be cast in caucus for Crisp next December.
In the same way Mr.. Mills has witnessed
the almost grotesque failure of the
attempts of his constant friend, Major
Jones, Of the st. Louis Republic, to stem
the swelling tide of Judge Crisp's popular
ity with the Missouri Democrats. On all |
sides in the South, where he is best known,
the Corsicana claimant has heard himself
described as statesman unfit by temper
ament and inadequate in ability, to exer-
else the duties Of the high Office to which |
he aspires. His pose as free coinage
man has not helped him in the very sec
tions of the country where alenc it could
be expected TO promote his interests. In |
plain English, Mr.. Mills has been
forced to haul down his free silver flag
and hoist something else in its place.
He has done precisely what might have
been expected Of a person Of his narrow
shrewdness and rather ordinary intel
lectual resources. The indiscretion of the
managers of the Democratic canvass in
Ohio in inviting Mr.. Mills to speak in that
state has given him an opportunity; and
the discomfort of Mr.. Cleveland under his
cruel treatment by Major Mckinley and
the Republican leaders, has afforded Mills
hint which he is not slow to turn to &C.
count.
The Texas candidate for Speaker has
torn off his silver trappings and come out
in sight of the country as free trade can
didate, pure and simple; appearing Incl
dentally as the heroic rescuer of Grover
Cleveland from the embarrassing position
which he has occupied ever since Major
Mckinley kidnapped that plump person
and carried him off for exhibition upon the
Republican stump as a witness against
Governor Campbell and the Democratic
platform.
The Mansfield speech of Hon. Roger @.
Mills, declaring that the silver issue is of
no consequence, and that the tariff issue is
the sole issue, was, for reasons personal to
Mr.. Mills himself, about as humiliating a
performance as ever was witnessed In
American politics. In that respect, how
ever, it is of small public interest. In an
other view, it is humorous in the extreme
In the face of this years abundant har-
son of such prosperity as it has never
before experienced, and making happy and
hopeful every citizen who can see an inch
beyond his nose, the Texas free trader has
the astonishing audacity to tell the Ameri-
can people that they are in "the valley of
shadows;" that 'in every part of the land,
north, east, south and west, there is wide
spread discomfort and every manifestation
of unrest;" that complaint is coming
from every quarter that the life struggle
is growing harder, and the way is growing
darker" that 1--WE ourselves have brought
all of our troubles to our own doors; the
guilt Is ours, and the atonement must be
made by ourselves" and that the only
way out of "the valley of shadows" the
one means of escape from @the scourags
that is tormepting the land and driving
contentment out of SO many homes" is to
rally again around the old banner of FREQ
trade, under which the Hon. Grover