New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-09
WORsT END FOREMOST-AS USUAL.


Our friends the enemy appear to have achieved
their regular annual bunder 1t is the testimony
of their own most capable organs that the blum
der is fatal one, though these organs have not
been by any means as loud as some of the " more
money! papers in denying the sincerity or party
good faith of those who have opposed them.
But the defeat of Mr.. Mills, after all the organ
lied, persistent and tremendous efforts made by
Mr.. Cleveland and his former Cabinet officers
and his political managers and his band OF Free
Trade devoteeS, is indeed blow which may
change the future of parties.
MIR. Cleveland can no longer have the prestige
of the predestined candidate, but, it Is plain, will
have to fight hard for nomination, and to meet
angry and implacable resistance within his own
party. Governor Hill, Tammany Hall, Senator
German, Senator Brice, the money making
stockjobbng subsidy fayoring and speculative
end of the party, has the upper hand in leglsla-
ton, and the southern end of the capital will
ring with cries for more money and an appro-
priation." If reputable Democrats do not like
the crowd, they can inquire why MIR. Cleveland
helped it to victory in this State. Ii they do not
like the prospect, they can thank Mr.. Cleve-
land himself, and other gentlemen who profess
to be devoted to principle but were not willing
to risk a fraction of their party popularity by
refusing their cOuntenance to the Tammany Hall
combination when it seized the State COnven-
ton That was the time to fight for funeral r"
but now the combination has the Hins and the
whip and is going to drive.
Free coinage must have come forward prom
nenty as THE TRIBUNE long ago predicted, no
matter whether one man or another was chosen
TO form the committees. But it will certainly
got far more prominence, take up more Of the
attention of Congress, bring out in far stronger
light the tendencies of the Democratic party on
monetary questions, and do far more to divide
the party, with Mr.. Crisp than Mr.. Mills in the
chair. The latter had discovered that the party
could not hope to win in Eastern States ii 1t
fooled with this question, and therefore would
have done what he could to suppress it. 1t is
the customary Democratic blunder that he is
beaten, and with him those who hoped to fight
for principle, and not for more money and an
appropriations So "The New-York Times" says :
The election Of Mr. Crisp by the coalition of the
demagogy of Hill, the spoilsmongerlng Of Tammany
the proteetlonism of German and Brce, the halfcor
rupt halfianaical freesilver movement and the old
South must inevitably "glve pause to the men who
have believed that the Demociatic party would be a
fit insrumentality for the accomplishment Of tariff re-
form and the clean and honest administration OF the
Government , But those to whom the trl-
umph of this cause is the controlling object OF pofti
raj action and 10 whom parties only instruments
for or against the cause, WILL for the present. be forced
to assume position OF armed neutrality.
1t begins to look as if the Democrats might
not venture TO nominate any candidate from
New-York with another from the same State
hostile to him. The ugly temper and bad blood
which the SpeakeIship contest has excited Will
not make it easy to secure united support next
year in this State or Connecticut for candidate
representing either of the Eastern factions. Yet
without this State Democratic success with any
candidate would be extremely improbable. There
are likely to be stormy times in the House at
this session, and Judge Crisp will need all the
powers he possesses to keep his mob OF new
members in discipline. But he will have the
advantage of a we-poised temper, and OF per-
sonal sympathy with the free-silver and more
money extremists who probably constitute the
large majority. He was undoubtedly better
man for Speaker of the House than Mr.. Mills,
and those who proposed his nomination on that
ground alone deserve respect. But they blum
dered beyond measure when they sought or con-
sented to receive for him the sort of support
which finally gave him most of his votes and
turned the scale in his favor. There are worse
things than being beaten, and Mr.. Crisp, as
the Tammany ll-Gorman candidate for
Speaker deserves commiseration. He won, and
for him and his party it would have been better
if he had not.