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And If He Does So His Protectionist Constit-
uents Will Endeavor TO Retire Him to Pri
vete Life-Mills Confident of Success.
Bynum Playing for the Charmanship
ofthe Committee on Ways and Means.
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CRISP IN A DILEMMA.

| Must Come Dat Boldly for Against Free
Trade-Bynum's Price for Withdrawing.
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WASHINGTON. Nov. SO.-Little change
| has been noted in the speakership con-
| test within twenty-fOur hours. Mr.
| Mills is apparently yet In the lead. and
| he has the largest number of Sec
| ond- choice votes. His reserve strength is
| believed to be far in advance of any other
candidate. Mr.. Crisp. of Georgia. is re-
| garded as q waning candidate. Crisp's dis
| trict has enjoyed great manufacturing
boom within the past year. 1t owes its
| prosperity to protective tariff. Crisp
| must. therefore. favor protection. mild
| though it may be. If he is the least tainted
| with protection he IS not in line with the
vast majority of the Democratic members
of the House, four-ffths of whom are out
| and-out free e-traders. and thus he is be-
| tween two fires. Should he desire the
speakership more than a continuance in
| Congress he would renounce all tendencies
| toward protection; but if he would prefer a
return to Congress rather than a single
term as Speaker he would hold to the best
| interests of his district and lose his present
fight
| Mr.. Springer, of Illinois. continues to
| play fast and loose with every one, claim
ing to be every and anything for the pur-
| pose of antagoniZing no one. hoping he
may be the compromise candidate. Mr..
| Mills yet stands pat' on the Cleveland FREQ
| trade and anti-silver platform, believing
| that the ex-President's power will pull him
through. Hatch, of Missouri, and McMil-
lin. of Tennessee. ore understood TO be
| playing for committee positions. The first
wants to be chairman of ways and means
and the latter of appropriations Bynum
| of Indiana. Holman of the same State. Nc
Millin, Hatch. Crisp. and half-dozen 9TH
| ers besides Mills expect either tho chair
manship of appropriations or ways and
| means, if net Speaker. Should Mills be
elected Bynum will probably be chairman
of ways and means and Sayres, of Texas
| chairman of appropriations.
| An Associated Press dispatch says: All
| FIVE of the avowed candidates are now in
| Washington Mr.. Hatch. of Missouri, and
his principal workers having arrived to-
day and taken h eadquerters at Willard'S
| Hotel. The expressed views and desires of
| the candidates show plainly the one un-
| mistakable fact IN the contest, namely,
| that no candidate at present has q sufficient
| number of absolutely pledged votes to
make his election certain. Messrs. Crisp
| and Mills are each very sangulne of win
| .llng, and each e. presses belief tnGt the
contest will be short, sharp and decisive
| Their aim Is to bring about the withdrawal
| of some of the other aspirants for the
| speakership. Il and with the votes to be thereby
indeed, not on the first ballot Messrs
| Springer, MoMillin and Hatch express
| themselves as of the opinion that the tight
in caucus will be of considerable duration.
| Each of these gentlemen says he ia in the
| fight to the end, and each sees i'll pro-
longed fight fair chance of ultimate vic
| tory.
The friends of Mr.. Crisp said to-day that
after eliminating ali uncertain votes they
| figured ninety-twO votes on which they
could count. This list they said, did not
| include large vote they expected in case
any of the oJher candidates should with
draw. nor some twenty-five or thirty votes
| which they classed as unknown. They say
| MIR. Crisp is the second choice gilmore Con-
gressinen than any other candidate. They
| expect at least one hundred votes on the
first ballot and prophesy Mr.. Crisp's cleo
tiOn by or before the second ballot. Rep
resentative Catchings. one of Mr.. Crisp's
principal lieutenants, says they transferred
| eight votes yesterday from the doubtful to
the certain list. and he WAS certain Crisp
| was we'll in the lead. He did not believe it
that would prevent MIR. Crisp's election.
Mr.. Mills is in excellent spirits and conf
dent of election.
How many ballots will there be" he
| was asked.
only one" he replied.
And yourself the SpeakerP
"Of course"
This is in brief the dialogue between o
reporter and Mr. Mills to-day. Mr.. Mills
also said that everything was progressing
satisfactorily, and things were unmistaka-
bly, shaping themselves in his favor. He
had quite q long consultation with Mr..
sherman Hoar. of Massachusetts,. to-day.
and the New England delegation is conf
IDENTIFY looked to swell the Mills vote. Mr..
Mills has number of the ''young men" on
his side, and they are working industri-
onsly. Mr. Mills himself would not say
anything about his strength In figures. but
there can be no doubt of his confidence.
Ho did not think il best to make any claims.
| Mr: Springer had quite an array of friends
at bis headquarters, and others are ex-
pected from Illinois to aid him. Mr.. Davis.
one of his workers, said their presence was
TO show that Mr. Springer stood as a repre-
sentative Democrat of the growing North
west. and that he was strong. not alone in
his district, but throughout that section.
Mr.. Davis said that Mr.. Mills and Mr.. Crisp
claim so many votes that it leaves nothing
for Mr.. Springer, but nevertheless Mr.
Springers friends expect all of the votes OF
Illinois and nearly all of the votes of Mich
igan, Wisconsin,, Minnesota and Iowa, be.
sides others from Ind lana and elsew here.
Mr.. Davis thought the fight would last
some time in caucus, and that Mr. Springer,
starting out with good vote. would gam
as the fight progressed.
This is very nearly the same way in
which Mr. Mcmillan viewed the canvass
The Tennessee candidate also looks for a
great, stubborn contest and In such ight
he believes he has very good show. He
said the claims of about q hundred votes
for Messrs. Mills and Crisp were famboy-
ant. but he thought this natural. and had
only good words Tor them. He gained on
other working supporter to-day in the ar
rival of Representative Stockdale. of Mis-
sissippi Mr. Mcmillan said that besides
Tennessee's solid vote he expected to got q
good part of the votes OF Kentucky, Louisi
ana and West Virginia, together with vote:
from Virginia, and scattering votes from
other States.
It's expected that there will be about 23t
Democrats who will 60 into the caucus or
Saturday. The candidates themselves are
not expected to vote. which will reduce the
number actually participating in the bal
lots to 225. One hundred and thrteer
votes will. therefore. be necessary to secure
the nomination.
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