Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-10-24
northern Democrats, Though in a
Majority in the House, Will
Again Submittot the South.
important Committees Certain to
Be Headed by Rabid States
men From Dixie
Northern Barbons Win Continue to
Act as Mere Doughfaces- Crack
of the Overseers Whip

The few democrats who happen to be
rsnresentatives In congress from New
England are making noisy protestatiuns of
wbattbey will and will not do in the mat
ter of tho organization of the next house
Of representatives.. They protest too
much They are making record now
onJy to break it, as they have done before,
Acfs and votes speak more than words.
Mr. O'Nejll, of Boston, is reported to have
said that be will not vote for a democrat
who iavOrs free coinage for speaker. That
Is vet 10 be demonstrated Ii is possible
that MIR, 0'Neill is laundering too much
in the index. Wait until the book shall be
opfped. If Mr. O Neil has made such
declaration, and shall abide by it, the in
diratlons are that be will be obliged to
holt the democratic speakership caucus or
decline 70 vote for the party candidate.
AL present there is no democratic Candi-
date fer speaker of the next house who is
NOT In favor Of free silver. The New ENG
land democrats will obey the dictates of
the southern leaders Of the party in the
fffy.second congress, as they have in all
former congresses. The efforts Of the
northern democrats, or mugwumps, to
assert their independence will be truitless.
They will be, as Henry Cabot
Lodge has so APPLY described them,
The fy upon the wheel. The wheel
will 90 down into the mud and slush
and Sums of democratic machine pol
itics. and the northern democrat,
with his fine words, will go round With
the wheel. They have done so in the past
and the most certain prophecy OF their tu-
ture is their record. There Is only one New
England democratic congressman now
hare, and he Is actively engaged In the adj
yOcacy of a southern candidate for speak
er There is, for that matter no reason
TO dodbt that the sectional policy which
was pursued by the democrats when they
last had control Of the house Of representa-
tives will be pursued In the next congress;
or that the northern democratic congress
will submit again, as they did before, to
the absolute dominion of the south. The
record of the democratic house is now his
tory. What was it? The interests of the
north conferred largely at that time in the
committee on ways and means, the tariff
being the paramount issue; yet Speaker
Carlisle laboriously selected the leaders Of
this committee from states where manu-
features had no existence. Here is the pre-
eious coterie of democrats whom Mr., Car
isle put upon this important committee;
Roger Q Mills, OF Texas
Benton McAIillin, Of Tennessee.
Clifton r Breckenridge, Of Arkansas.
w. c. p Breckenridge, of Kentucky.
Henry c. Turner. OF Georgia.
William /. Wilson, of West Virginia
William L. Scott, Of Pennsylvania.
William D. Bynum, of Indiana.
Most OF them in this extraordinary list
could net tell loom from a jacksr9e
The tariff and silver are to pleading is
sues in the next congress. And the commit
tee on ways and means, and the committee
on banking and currency and on coinage,
will be controlled by free traders and silver
men, and will be appointed 10y the demo-
cratic speaker TO promote the interests Of
free trade and free coinage. All demo-
cratic presidents will be violated If the
democratic congressman from the north
shall not all vote for that speaker, and as
sent to every appointment that he may
make without revolt or open p0test For
that are they democrats. And If the great
interests represented by the Northern
democratic congressman do not like 1t, what
are they going to do about it?
and means in the last congress in whlchthe
democrats had control is a good lllustra-
ton Of what the democratic party means
by tariff reform. The ways and means
committee was made up 10y Mr., Carlisle
the teacher Of the tariff doctrine IN its
purity IS it was defined by the confederate
constitution. And ii is not TO be forgotten
that Mr. Carlisle was one of the chief
tutors of Grover Cleveland in tariff mat
ters Up to the time that Nh. Cleve-
land came to Washington as president be
bad never given the tariff question very
close study. Mr. Cariise's committee was
made up of FIVE republicans and eight
democrats. OF course the democrats were
expected to be in the majority, as they
were in the majority Of the house, and had
the responsibility The republicans were
taken from states Of great manufacturing
Interests, because they probably represented
those interests But six of the eight dem-
ocrats were from the south. Three-tourths
ct The democrats on The committee we're
southern men. That is, the majority Of
tbe majority. If Mr.. Wilson, Of West
Virginia, should not be counted as a south
em man, that would leave five, or still a
majority, Of the eight democrats, who
were located as Follows: Mills OF Texas.
McMGin Of Tennessee, Breckenridge OF
Arkansas, Breckenridge Of Kentucky, Iur
rer Of Georgia, or the practical majority
Of the committee in the southwest, the part
OF The country where there is the least
manufacturing industry and the least prac-
tlcal knowledge on the tariff question
hr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle, and those
Who were the guides of the party, OF who
thought they were, went into the corner OF
the country where the free-trade theories
gre not made good by any knowl-
edge whatever, and selected the
great committee that tends 10 the
ways anu means And they added 10 the
lya mel. whose furtherest northern and
eastern point was Lexington Ky, an In
diana man who was as wild On the sub-
t.ct ct revenue as q wo0ds-colt; and West
Virginia man, famous for wild; and a
FenDsy wanna capitalist, who has made
Tree trade fad, and 10 whom free trade
was a very profitable fad. in view Of the
tact that he owned ore beds in Canada
ana 2 Line IF transportation steamers from
saraaa 70 Erie. Pennsylvania and ore
ices IN Cuba. win q large interest in the
tne q steamers from Cuba 10 Philddel.
thla his is an Illustration of the man
IT "a Thieh the manufacturing interests