Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-09-24


Minnesota. Virginia, North Carolina,
Missouri. and Alabama.
Mr.. Springer is known in the House
as the ''irrepressIble. . He is full of
resources and ready at all times for
parliamentary duel. You can knock him
down but you can't keep him down.
Nobody knows this better than some of
Mr.. Springer's party associates who
disliked him and who tried to degrade
him, in the Forty eighth Congress. by
having him assigned To the chairman
ship of an obscure committee known
as the Committee on Expenditures IN
the Department of Justice
Ordinarily chairmen of committees
of this character never call them
together. But Springer wasn't that
kind of chairman. He began at once
the investigation of certain United
States Marshals at the preceding au-
tumn elections And he did this so
thoroughly and with such excellent re-
suits, that before the close of the Con-
gress he had given his committee an
importance second only to those pre-
siding over by some of the distinguished
democratic leaders. In the next Con-
gress be was shifted to the Committee
on Claims. 1t has never been much of
committee before, but Springer's
restless energy soon placed it in the
front rank. And the rigid scrutiny he
gave to all the bills that came before
him saved the Government millions of
dollars, that less conservative chair
man would have allowed.
Mr.. Crisp, of Georgia, is likely TO Sc
cure a considerable share of the Middle
States and New England vote unless
these localities decide to combine upon
one of the other candidates. Mr.. Crisp
is lawyer and good one. Moreover,
ne is good fellow if one may apply so
familiar term to a gentleman of his
natural dignity. His democratic OPP
ponents allege that he is not as sound
upon the tariff question as be ought to
be. but that argument is nonsensical.
He is in full sympathy with his party
on all the great issues of the day. He
is broad guage, conservative, clean.cut
legislator and in his private relations an
agreeable and cultivated gentleman
Although living in state which is
strongly tinctured with the doctrines
of the Farmers Alliance he fought
them resolutely and won his reelection
to Congress Notwithstanding their
stubborn opposition. He is forty. six
years of age and in the very prime of
his intellectual and physical manhood.
The democratic party would make no
mistake in eleyating him to the
speakers chair.
William Henry Hatch, of Missouri,
is the one candidate who will more
nearly represent the farmer elements
than any of his opponents. When Mr..
Hatch became mem Der of the House
eleven years ago he was placed at his
own request upon the Agricultural
Committee. Four years later when the
Democrats had carried the popular
branch of Congress he was made chair
man of the committee which position
he filled for six consecutive years. Dur
ing the past decade his name has been
prominently associated with all the
more important granger legislation.
When you speak of the scholar in
politics." people instinctively turn to
William L. Wilson, of West Virginia.
He is forty-eight years of age but he
would readily pass for thirty. He was
one of the professors at the Columbian
Law College in this city while yet a
Young man of twenty-five and he sub
sequently hlled the chair Of president
of the State University at Charleston,
w. V. He has been for many years a
! close student of political economy, and
it was his intelligent advocacy of the
principles of tariff reform which caused
bis constituents TO select him as their
representative in the lower house of
Congress His career since then has
been a brilliant one Nearly half a
million copies of his tariff speech dur
! inc the consideration the Mills tariff
bill were distributed throughout the
country within thirty days after its de-
livery. Although slight in figure and
boyish in appearance. his speeches are
! full Of force and vigor Tie is modest
painfully so-and Ike most modest men
is universally popular Ii the Repub
hcans were asked to select the candi
date. heir choice would fall upon Mr..
/ Wilson by 4 lsrge majority.
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