Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-12-24
WARRINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
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From Our Regular Correspondent.l
WAsHISeroS, Dec. II 1891.
The presidents annual message to con-
sress is beyond question one of the ablest
and best written messages ever submitted
to congress; it contains not q single Sou
tencs OF partisan politics. and yet it's state.
ment OF facts. showing the condition oi
every department OF thegovernment and oi
the country at large, presents the strongest
Of arguments for retaining the Republican
party in power. for the simple reason that
the country owes it's present general and
unprecedented prosperity to the wise lesis-
lation OF the last Republican congress and
the farseeing statesmanship displayed by
the present administration in carrying out
that legislation. The portion OF the mes.
sage relating to foreign affairs Ia calm and
dignified, and yet bristling with true Ameri.
cauism, the kind that every true American,
whatever his politics, must endorse. 1t re.
commends the adoption OF q constitutional
amendment providing for a uniform method
OF electing congressman and presidential
electors that would put an end to such dis
graceful gerrymandering schemes a. that
which has been adopted by the Demo.
cratic legislature Of Michigan, and it pro.
poses a non-partisan commission appointed
by the supreme court to consider the evils
connected with our present election system,
which shall proceed with candor, calmness
and patience upon the lines Of justice and
humanity, not OF prejudice and cruelty"
The idol has been shattered! Cleveland
no longer occupies the pedestal OF the JOSS
OF Cleveland was preceded by one Of the bit
terest and most vicious fights that ever
took place in the house Of representatives
not excepting the great fights, in which the
opponents were oidifferent parties, and was
participated in, either personally or by
confidential proxy. by Cleveland. who was
represented by host Of followers includ.
inson; by Hill. who was specially repre-.
sented by Tammany crowd, which shouted
early and late for Crisp, and by German,
who personally pulled the Crisp wires from
the first. Now the attempt is made by GER
tain OF the Democrats to deny that the
speakership contest had any presidential
aspects, but while the deadlock was on the
prominent Democrats who thronged the
corridors of the capitol. gave the whole
thing away by their frantic appeals for
votes; the issue was squarely made that
the election Of Mills would mean the nomi-
nation OF Cleveland. and OF Crisp an anti
Cleveland man, and upon that issue and
no other did the Democratic representa-
tives divide. 1t ia significant that it re-
quired combination of the field to beat
Cleveland and it means that there is a prob
ability OF another contest, i'm which the
anti-Clevelanders will fight for the place
from which Cleveland has been driven, the
opposing forces being led by German and
Hill respectively, two men who are past
masters i'm political chicanery.
From mutterings already heard the elec-
tion OF Crisp to be speaker OF the house will
be costly one to the Democratic party.
This will first begin to show when the an
nouncement OF the committee chairman
ships, which with the exception OF the COM
mittee on rules and that on mileage, will
probably not be made until after the Christ
mas recess. Neither Mr.. Crisp nor any
other man could satisfy the diverse ele-
ments, which by combining made him
speaker. Just think OF a man trying to
please Charles A. Dana, Tammany Hail.
Governor-Senator Hill, Senator German,
Jay Gould and the moss-back Democracy
of the south at one and the same time. and
you have faint idea OF the task under
taken by Crisp. Long-headed Republicans
regard the election ofCrisp as a very fortu-
nate thing for the Republican party, for
while Mr.. Crisp is personally a clever and
popular man, he represents all those ele-
ments which elected him, and the demands
of those elements which he will be compelled
to a certain extent to accede to, will each
add to Republican chances Of victory next
year.
Tammany Hall has already made a for
NAL demand for the lions share OF the 157
places under Housed Doorkeeper Turner, the
representative and ex-ice-man, and there
is little doubt about it's getting them. 1t is
the first time that this notorious organiza-
ton has attempted to take part in national
politics in Washington and it's interference
is bitterly resented by those Democrats
who are not in partnership with it, or un-
der it's baneful domination, but they are
powerless.