The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-24
Behind Mr.. Mills.

Behind Mr.. Mills.
The latest phase OF the contest for Speaker
IL very interesting. The management OF MIR.
MILLs's canvass has apparently passed into
the hands of the Mugwump free trade news
papers OF the stripe of the Mem York Times.
and tho eagerness with which they are vol
unteering instructions to the Democratic
members Of Congress as to their duty when
the caucus meets is an indication OF no little
political value. 1t shows what the election
OF Mr.. MILLS would mean.
The principal organ Of the free trade and
income tax candidate is now beyond all
question the Nep York Times, journal
about as well qualified to speak for the
Democratic party as the late ZAcHAR1AH
CHANDLER would have been, or as the Hon.
WILLIAM Z. CHANDLER OF New Hampshire
Is. with both Of whom the Times was not
long ago conspiring to defraud the Democ-
racy Of the President 1t had elected. This
Republican and recent Mugwump. but in
veterate FREQ trader, makes the significance
of tho Mills candidacy as clear as can be- in
the impudent remarks here subjoined:
What part do the i've millions of Democrats
who went the polls year and voted for tariff
form Congressman propose to take in the SpeaEershp
contests They tremendously stirred up about the
MCKINLEY bill about the favors to trusts and about all
the hundred and abuses Of tho robber tariff They
lifted up their voices in protest and the voice like
an earthquake. 1t turned this country upside down
They elected to the House of Representatives so many
Democrats that when Congress meets week from to-
day the Republicans will be crowded into a corner.
Neither party ever had great majority in the
House. No party ever spoke ont on public question
with more startling distinctness.
Now that the Congressman who make up this big
majority are to begin their work. will tho voters who
elected them sit IN stupid silence and their COM
mands impudenty dsobeyed, Are they willing to see
themselves and the country trcked and cheated out Of
thu reform they thought 1t worth while to get
digiousy excited about last year! And are they
tent to hand the legislation Of the session and the
making of the issues for next years campaign and the
management of their party over TO the gang that Is
now actively opposing Mr. MILiss candidacy for the
speakership!
1T is the same old band OF traitors and assassns
that lived in the Democratic camp fed Democratic
meat and always thwarted the Democratic will and
parayz the Democratic hand in the days when
SAMUEL J. RAspALL-a man far more honorable than
most of his followingwns the Devils Advocate the
Democratic side of the House.
I'VE recognize in the group that is using and abusing
Mr. CRIsrs perfectly honorable ambition the old ugly
poisonous Influences that in the two Presidential
pagns of 1884 and 1888 and III many state campaigns
and in every recent session OF Congress Washington
have been exertcd to balk and betray the Democratic
party. There is the influence that through Senator
GoRxAS reaches to JAMES O. BLAINE and his highly pro-
tected interests in West Virginia. There is the JOHN r.
MCLEAN influence. always BLAINE influence, and in all
circumstances hostile to the Democratic party There
the CHARLES A. DANA influence. the potency and ef
feet of which upon the Democratic organism be
planned only by reference to rattlesnakeS There Is
the DAVID D. Hill influence. the influence that beat the
of the RASDALL strpe-ony handful all told but
skiiful In tricks and intrigue.
these the and these are the influences that
at work to rob the extraordinary tarln reform VIC
tory OF 1880 OF its fruit and effect For Mr. CRsP they
have no particular regard. He was the conven.
lent instrument Mt hand and they took him up. They
are making use OF him to strange the Democratic
majority in Congress this winter and to guide tho
party to defeat the election OF 1892 II they
allowed to win over to the support OF Mr. CRIsr in
bers sufficient to elect him Speaker Democratic mem.
bers who were sent TO Washington with the most
emphatic and explicit instructions to their
and their influence to correct the abuses Of the tariff
their success will be ample but unwecome proof
transitory nature of the political emotions OF the
American Democracy. Still, II the American Democ-
rscy has anything TO say about the behavior of its
servants in Washington there remains full week in
which to make itself heard
We print in full and without the slightest
change the frcnzied appeal in behalf of Mr..
MILLS and free trade in which this former
partner OF the two CHANDELIERS and j. MAD
1sON WELLS OF Louisiana undertakes to say
what does and what does not constitute
Democracy.
Analyzc the argument for MILLS as the
representative of free trade. First. we have
the frantic lie that the Congress elections
Of 1900 meant nothing but tariff reform In
the sense which the Mugwump free traders
and Mr.. MILLS of Texas understand that
how the country rang with denunciations
Of the Force bill, the extravaganza OF the
Billion Congress, the insolence of the Re-
publican majority in the House under the
leadership OF THOMAS b. REED of Maine.
the attempt to stihe free speech in the ma
tons Legislature, and to bring the ballot
boxes In every Congress district under Fed
sxal control for the perpetuation Of Repub-
ncan rule. can size this lie for himself.
Every Democrat who remembers who was
fighting and who was skulking in the CAM
paign Of 1890 can afford to laugh at the lie.
Then the free trade organ OF the free trade
candidate proceeds to attack and insult In
his behalf the very Democrats who carried
the country last year for the Democracy:
the very Democrats who are now looking be-
yond MILLS and his policy Of chronic disas-
ter to policy Of union and victory In 1892
Senator GoRMANis insulted by the MILLS
and free trade organ. and In his person is
insulted every Democrat who remembers
GoRMAN's splendid services to the party.
and honors him as a leader who leads to
victory. The memory OF SAMUEL j. RAN
DALI. beloved by every Democrat. hated by
every Mugwump, is next the object of this
free trade Republican venom. Then comes
Mr.. CRISP of Georgia. whom the Demo-
Gratis. as distinguished from free traders
Of the MILLS and Mugwump stamp, are
proud to reckon in their number; Mr.. CRISP
Is q candidate for Speaker. he has not de-
clarad hirnpaH FIR ahaoluta freq trade and