The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-02
HAVE IT IN FOR REED.
Tho Ex-Speaker will Have q Tough
Tlmo of It
IN THE NEXT HOUSE OF CONGRESS.
All tho Candidates for Speaker Smile
and do not Suy Much, but IL Mr.
Reeds Head Ever Gets Under the
Gavcl They will Smash It With True
Democratic Flgor...Springer's His
torical Headquarters.
sp,esnl pt,pn,ch I, d. ln,d,laener.

Special Dispatch 10 h. In,d,igenen
WAsnISGroy, D. G., Dec. lit Is be.
coming evident that cx.speakcr Reed
will have to fight his way through the
approaching session. II will bo an easy
matter, however. There arc number
OF Democratic congressman who share
tho idea OF Representative Whiting, OF
Michigan, when lie says: ~ am for
tho candidate for speaker who will give
Tom" Reed the biggest drcssingdown."
The hold.ovcr Democrats have reason
10 chaio over tho wounds which the cx-
speaker gave them, and many OF them
want q presiding officer who will re-
taliatc.
On n tour OF the candidates. head
quarters tonight your correspondent
asked each OF the five speakcrship as
piran.s the question: "lf elected speak
cr what consideration will you give 10
Mr.. Reed?"
ANSWERED WITH A LOOK.
When candidate Mills was asked tho
question lie answered with look.
Mills suffered more than any man on
tie floor OF tho house from Reeds cx-
coriations and business-like rules. "I
am not speaker yet, although ! may
be-" said Mills, "and ii | am, we'll
then with 4 sinister smile, he turned
away.
Candidate Mcmillan is one OF the
quintettc OF aspirants Tor the gavel who
possesses in conspicuous degree the
power OF conversation and talks with
vOlubility upon every subject with his
callers, yet, when he was asked the lead
ing question he seemed strangely diff
dent and disinclined to talk. "AIr.
Reed will be pushed to the front by his
own party" he said coldly, and would
say no more.
Candidate Crisp, the most genial OF
all the candidates, became Immediately
taciturn. 81 have no Doubt he said,
that Mr.. Reed will receive that consid-
Grafton to which his ability entities
him"
Candidate Hatch. "Flrmer" Hatch as
they call him now, laughed dcrisively;
then checking himself, replied with
mock gravity: "NIr. Reed will un-
doubtedly get more consideration than
he will relish"
srRIHGER's HooDoo.
"You might as we'll withdraw from
the race, Springer, for you are hoo
dooed," declared Representative Owen,
OF Ohio, as ho glanced around tho Hi.
nois headquarters to-day. Mr.. Springer
did not understand how he was hoo
doocd, so Owen went on and explained: !:
This very room is tho one in which
john G. Calhoun died. He wrote his
famous notification message here, and
lived here up to the time OF his death.
Then i'll that room," continued Mr..
Owen. pointing to tho ante-room in
which Springer holds his private con-
sultations, Henry Clay died, so you
have two ghosts keeping you company,
and that is enough to hoodoo any can
didate."
What Brown said was historically
true, for it is we'll known that the
Springer headquarters are made up OF
the rooms in which Calhoon and Clay
died. But the Illinois man was not to
be disconccrted by Browns funeral
humor. "That's Just what we want" !"
replied Springer. "We want to get
used to corpses SO as to know how to
handle Crisp and Mills, after their
funeral ceremonies have been held at
the caucus oil next Saturday"
The Crisp crowd appear to be con-
fdert; yet, though they refuse 10 deny
that their candidate is from local
necessity protectionist, and the Demo-
cratic party is Il free trade party, how
Crisp can win under the circumstances
every other candidate declares he can.
not see.
MILLS TILE FAyoRITE l: BETTING.
The fight appears to yet bo between
Mills and Springer, with Crisp ahead oi
tho latter as first choice. At NIills's
headquarters to-day any amount Of
money was offered in favoring tho
Texan against tho field and no takers.
That tells the story, SO far US public
opinion goes.