Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-20
Crisp, Suave and Courtly, in
Council With Tammany.
THE MILLS OF THE GODS
OF Things Political Are Grinding Out tie
Partisan Opposition
Exceedingly Fine-TisurinS on the Speak
ership Contest-With Springer, By
mum and Hatch Out OF the
Way, Mills Has I64.
The SpeakerSh!p.

Specia! TO the Gazette.
WASHINGTON. Nov. I9-Members OF the
house of representatives are beginning 20
arrive in the capital but they are not here
yet in sufficiently large numbers 10 make
the headquarters of the candidates for the
speakership rs lively rs they Will be week
hence The contest is just now being car
RED on with greater activity out of Wash
ingtOn, that is, by advertisements of one
candidate or another. The opponents Of
Mills, as u matter of course. Were neceSSa-
rily very active and in their own way are
undoubtedly arranging matters so as 10
make as many obstacles as possible for him
to overcome.
Every friend of Crisp is hopeful that all
the men who have expressed Il desire TO
be elected speaker Will remain in the race.
The reason is obvious. Whatever support
Crisp can get before the break he must
have now, and ii is well known that he
must depend upon men who are opposed
very decidedly to the election of Mills. He
would like the assistance of men who are
naturally inclined to vote for Mills. but he
would prefer to see those men who cannot
be obtained for HIM voting for Bynum or
Hatch or Springer if they will not vote for
Crisp.
The Mills men can see without being told
that the candidacy of Bynum, Springer and
Mcmillan is weakening Mills, and that
standing as candidates these men are play
ing into Mr. CriSp'S hands. whether they
intend to do that or not. The whole Demo
cratic vote is 30. According canvass made
by one of the men opposed to Mills and
who does not give mills any more notes
than he can help, the strength of t.e
different candidates is about as follows;
Mills, SO; Crisp, II; Mcmillan, 80;
Springer, Is; Bynum, l6; Hatch. - If
Bynum and Hatch should announce
that they were no longer candi-
dates, about all OF McMilan's votes,
all of Springer's and BynuIn's. and possibly
Hatch's, would go at once to Mills, where
it would be now. if it were not for expecta-
tion that the "favOrite candidates. are 10
be assisted By complimentary votes.
The withdrawal of these men would give
Mills g vote of at least l64 on the first bal
lot. \ majority of the full caucus will be
lis votes. 1t may be expected that it will
be the object of the supporters of the men
opposed to Mills to encourage each other,
and the Crisp men will do 50 as long as II
seems possible to secure another vote for
their man. This will become apparent at
once to all members who arrive here, and
reliance will be placed for the rest upon
handling the men after they are brought
within reach of the persuasive voice and
pleasing manners of the Georgia mothers
candidate. Great interest is manifested in
political circles here over the visit of Crisp
to New York. Il is said he went there to
close an agreement with Tammany Hall for
the support of the New York delegation in
the speakership contest This has been in
tensitied by the action of Mills in also going
to the Empire City.
Mills left Washington last night and
Judge Crisp returned here to-day. 1t is
claimed that Crisp has sixteen votes of the
New York delegation pledged to him, and
if this be so and the unit rule be enforced,
Crisp will receive the votes of twenty-three
Democratic members from New York.
Ex-Representative Gibson of Maryland
has opened headquarters from which TO
conduct his contest for clerk of the house.
Ex-Clerk Clark, formerly of Missouri, is
again a candidate. Nathan +. Crutchfield
of Kentucky, who was clerk to Speaker
Carlisle, will also be a candidate. He is ev-
identity not afraid of the record, which
shows it has become tradition to elect an
ex-member of the house to the clerkship.