The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1891-12-04
FROM THE CAPITAL
PROsEdSat Polk and 1zessrA Tli-
man and Ayers Pay she Presa-
deaf q CAL.
Ehs SPeaksrsAip Csatess Fight SGTl
sa--.The Pre- Cslsags - Silver
Ths Presaasatss ueasasS,

called GA by President Polk and Messrs.
J. T. Tiiiusan and H W. Ayers, of the
national farmers' alliance but In tea
minutes from the time those gentle
men entered the portals Of The white
house there wers dosen political
stories con >erning their visit dying
along Newspaper row. none with =
hrnleI foundation than the imAgins-
ton of the relatsr. Your correspond
ent saw the trio just, after their inter-
view with Mr.. Harrison and in re-
spouse 20 questions was smllingly
Informed that they bad merely called
as dutiful aad patriotic citi1ens to pay
their respects 20 the president- There
Is reason to believe. however. that they
took occasion while paving their re-
speets 20 say something about the
vacancies ON the interstate commerce
commission. and the desirability Of the
alliance having = representative
| thereon.
Although this IL the last week Of the
speakership campaign there L. just as
much doubt - ever as to who IL tn be
speaker of the house. Each one IF the
I've active candidates. there number
of dark hOrses-will tell you that he is
confident of being the man. and that
confidence is reiterated by each and
every one OF the friends of each can
didAte. fsur of them are dead wrong
in their calculations, and maybe all
five are, as It would create no great
surprise IL, In case OF q protracted
fight Ia the caucus, all Of them were
dropped and some man like Wilson of
West Virginia, nominated. Things
are very lively around the several
| headquarters; members are coming in
on every train and Il is expected that
they will NIL be here by Wednesday.
Then Il will become largely . question
of management The senators are
taking sides in the contest 20 con
siderable extent, and Crisp Is credited
with having secured Germans Active
aid. II this be true It adds largely TO
Crisp's chances Of winning, as there Is
no man In congress who approaches
German has = manipulation Of men.
Springey Is apparently developing
more strength than anybody had given
hin credit for havingi there L. . big
delegation from Illinois here working
for him. Henry George Is an interested
spectator Of the fight, and while he
says he has no influence with any of
the members he IL nevertheless doing
lots Of talking fer Mills. Jerry Simp-
son is seen every where and he says
that the alliance men will not vote for
n candidate of their own, but some of
the alliance members from the south
have already announced .heir inten-
ton of going into the democratic
caucus. and IL will not be surprising IL
| thew all do so Candidates for minor
house offices ara multiplying and 1t is
noticeable that many of them are ex-
members of the house. Some body
said once that an ex-cOngressman
always became an Office older or =
lobbyist, aud he was pretty near right.
With few exceptions they become one
| or the other and in some cases both
The silver question Is 81 wing the
democrats as much trouble a. the
speakership. The free coinage demo
crats, under the lead of Bland. OF sill
| yer dollar fame, are on the rampage,
and It is said that fearing that they
may get left in the nomination of
speaker they will introduce the resOlu-
| ton in the caucus before the balloting
/ commences pAcuSiuE TIC hONSO ~ k-@SS
q free coinage bill. This the eastern
members of the party do not want done.
II such resolution comes up in the
caucus it will certainly be carried by =
decisive majority. While there are
lots of democrats who are perfectly
willing to have the silver question let
alone for awhile there are n few who
will dare to vote against such resOlu-
ton If il is brought up in caucus
If President Harrison signs the
treaty now in his possession and the
senate ratifies It, the United States will
have absolute free trade with one
country and that country will have the
same with as. The county IL Hawaii,
which has had . representative here
for some time engaged IN the negotia-
ton OF this treaty. Probably HegOtja-
ton has been the foundation upon
which the numerous stories about the
4 annexation Of Hawaii have been built
The ratification of this treaty would.
as far as commerce IL concerned, put
Hawaii on precisely the same footing
ss any state In the union.
President Harrison has about CON-
pleted his message 10 congress, being
now engaged In revising and polish
ing IL mp with the sbls editorial assis-
lance OF private Secretary HalfoFd
whose long experience IS . managing
1 aHxss.- xnakas him a vafuHksia sssfsf ant