New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-28
SPEAKER
,Br TELEGRAPH TO THE TErBUsE.r


Washington, Sept 27.-1t is understood that each Oh
the Democratic candidates for the speaEerShp mas
taken steps to have The Congressional Record ana
other sources of political information in Washington
carefully and thoroughly explored In order to discover
weak places In the record Of his several competitors
which may be assaed with success when the proper
time shall arrive and ii Is asserted that several OF tue
investigations have already yielded promising results
The ammunition thus collected is to be Kept carefuiy
secrcted and guarded until the eamratgn opens here
in earnest early in November. Then matters VIII De
made extremely Interesting for those accidental states
men, the newly fedged Democratic Congressman VINO,
much to their surprise and amazcnent as 10 'ha
OF everybody else rode into Office on the tidal Vave OF
lying and Misrepresentation which submerged SO many
Congress districts last year.
They will be regarded as fair game by old stagers
like Mills. Springer, McMilln and Hatch, and the
genial and willy Crisp. As each whispers into their
willing ears sweet hints Of charmansfps and promises
of honorable and dlgnifed places leading commit
tees he will likewise murmur God bless You hecoi-
ect the friend. COLLINS the friend, not Short snorts
very well as far he goes, but the real friend Is
COdin-not Short" That the contest is to be nerce
and bitter as well as hot Is already evident In con-
versatlOn with Tribune correspondent, warm friend
and active partisan of one Of the candidates said:
al observe that many OF the newspapers OF our
party as well as Senator Mcpherson and other leading
men, are bestowing high praise upon Mills for what
they call the courage Of his new departure on the
question OF and unlimited silver coinage; others
interpret the alleged departure to mean thai ne
and Cleveland have formed an alliance Both ex-
plantations sheer nonsense. Mills has undergone
no conversion on the siver-colnage question lie
stands Just where he has stood ever since he entered
Congress; Just where he stood when he voted with
Bland and the rest Of us for free and unlimited silver
coinage in the last Congress Just where he did all
through Cleveands Administration. He does not
like Cleveland, and he has formed no alliance with him
and his Wall Street and Mugwump friends. If Mills
Is elected Speaker he will make Bland chairman Of the
Coinage Committee, and give that committee strong
majority OF the freecOlnagc men,"
"well how do You explain his new departure as
you callitl"
ooh l did not call 1t that His reason is plain TO
everybody who knows what desperate efforts he is
making to secure pledges OF Northern votes In the
Speakership There will be fourteen Democratic
votes from Ohio in that caucus. have heard THAT
owens and Haynes, who voted for free coinage in the
last Congress and were the only Ohio Democrats re-
elected last fall except cultivate, pledged to him,
after casting complimentary vote for the later who is
also q strong free-coinage man. The other eleven
Democrats from Ohio are not all in favor of free
coinage, and Mills wants all the Ohio votes and he
expects to get them, with the help OF Cultivate and
Tom Johnson of Cleveland, and exCongressman foder,
who is slated for the Office OF sergeantaArm of the
elected Governor of Ohio but his chief concern is the
election Of Roger O. Mills to the Speakershp You Will
never hear a word from his lips against free and u
limited coinage after the New York and Ohio elections,
mark my words"
"Your candidate, of course, favors itl"
"Certany he does and all the other candidates
No man can be elected Speaker who does not favor 1t
and pledge himself appoint strong freeconage COM
mittee In my opinion bill for the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver will be passed by thc House before the
middle Of January"
It IS fact that all Of the candidates voted FOR free
silver coinage in the last Congress- all OF them had
done before They are no more devoted to free trade
or revenue REFORM they prefer to cal it, than
they are TO free and unlimited silver coinage, and an
overwhelming majority in the House heartily agrees
with them. 1t may be that the New England Demo
cratic Representatives, and most Of the Democratic Rep
resentatives fOm New-York, New-Jersey and Pennsyl
vana will vote against 1t, but they Will have 70 vote
for Speaker who Will appoint strong free-c coinage
committee unless they bOlt the Democratic caucus; a
thing which OF them will have the courage TO 40
II they vote for the CorscaDa Golden with the nope
that he will be more conservative the silver 4ues-
ton than Crisp or McMllin or Springer or Hatch Or
Bynum, they will be sadly disappointed III the part-
sans Of any OF the candidates are trying TO pick flaws
in the freesiver free-trade record OF any OF The
other candidates, they are simply wasting time In
It is whispered that Mils's record in favor of the
reimposltlon Of tax on incomes Is to be used against
prove 10 be a boomerang The only candidate who has
not voted for in the last dozen years Is Bynum, and
probably he would have done the opportunity had
offered In 1870, Hatch, McMlllin Mills and Springer
all voted to relmpose the income tax. Messrs. Bynum
Crisp, Outhwalte and Wilson were not in Congress
at that time Five years ago the efforts renewed
Which was supported by himself Crisp McMflln,
Cnthwaife and Wilson Messrs Hatch and Springer
voted against It, not because they had changed their
minds on the subject, but because the amendment II
adopted, would probably have killed the Oleomargarine
bin which both Of them were strongly advocating and
earnestly supporting.