The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-12-26
BLUNDER AS USUAL.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY PUTS ITS
WORST END FOREMOST.
Ell Perkins and Roger q. Mill's Boy
Charley Hold Conversation-Carpet
Cheaper Than Ever.-WiIl Make Our
Own Laces-MisceI Pointers.
Worst End FOremost-As Usual.

own observation-disclosures iOlnteTs.
Worst End Foremost-As Usual.
Our friends the enemy appear to have
achieved their regular annual blunder.
1t is the testimony of their own most
capable organs that the blunder Is a
been by any means as loud as some of
the "more-monev" papers III denying
the sincerity or party good faith of
those who have opposed them. But
the defeat of Mr.. Mills, after all the
organized, 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 foture of parties.
MIR. Cleveland can no longer have the
prestige of the predestlned candidate,
but, it is plain, will have to fight hard
for a nomination, and to meet angry and
lmpacabe resistance within his own
party Gov. Hill, Tammany Hall, Sen
ator German, Senator Brice, the money
making, stock -iobbing, subsidy -tavoring
and speculative end of the party, has
the upper hand in legislation, and the
southern end of the capital will ring
with cries for more money and an ap-
propriation." If reputable Democrats
do not like the crowd they can inquire
why Mr. Cleveland helped it to victory
in this state. If they do not like the
prospect they can thank Mr.. Cleveland
himself and other gentlemen who pro-
fess to be devoted to principle, but We're
not willing to risk q fraction of their
party popularity by refusing their
countenance to the Tammany Hall COM
bination when it seized the state con-
vention. That was the time to fight
for funeral" but now the combination
has the reins and the whip and is going
to drive.
Free coinage must have come forward
prominently, as the Tribune long ago
predicted, no matter whether one man
or another was chosen to form the COM
mittees. But it will certainly get 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 ques-
tions, 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 if it fooled with this ques-
ton, and therefore would have done
what he could to oppose it. 1t is the
customary blunder that he Is beaten,
| and with him those who hoped to fight
for principle, and not for more money
| and an appropriation. So the New
York Times says:
The election of Mr.. Crisp by the coalition
of the demagogy Of Hill, the spoismonger-
| ing of Tammany. the protectiOnSm OF
| German and Brice the half-corrupt, half
| fanatical frcc-Silver movement, and the old
| South, must inevitably give pause to the
men VINO have believed that the Demo
| cratlc party would be fit lnStrumentalIty
| for the accomplishment OF tariff IefOrm
and the clean and honest administration
| of the government. But those to
| whom the triumph of this cause is the con
| trolling object OF political action, aud to
whom parties are only instruments tor or
against the cause, will for the present, be
| forced to assume position of armed ncu-
| trality.
| It begins to look as if the Democrats
might not venture to nominate any can
didate from New York with another
| from the same state hostile to him. The
ugly temper and bad blood which the
speakership contest has excited VIII
| not make it easy to secure united sup
port next year in this state or Connectl-
cut for a candidate representing either
of the Eastern factions. Yet without
this state Democratic success with any
candidate would be extremely improb-
able 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 IN Db of new mem
bers IN discipline. But he will have the
advantage of a well-poised temper, and
of personal sympathy with the free-silv-
er and more-money extremists, who
| probably constitute the majority. lie
was undoubtedly better man for speak
er of the House than Mr.. Mills, and
those who proposed his nomination on
that ground alone deserve respect.
But they blundered beyond measure
when they sought or consented to re-
ceive for him the sort of support which
| finally gave him the most votes and
turned the scale in his favor. There
are worse things than being beaten, and
Mr.. Crisp, as the Tammany Hall-Hill.
German candidate for speaker, deserves
commiseration. He won, and for him
and his party it would have been better
! if he had not - NcC York Trijune