Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-11
Mills Getting There.
SPECIAL to the Gazette.

SpecIal 10 Ine Gazette
WAsHINGToN, Nov. 1O-Nills has come to
Washington to open his fight for the speak
ership. From many indications it
will not be a fight. Unless the
sentiment of the Democratic party is
very much misunderstood the majority for
Mills will be so large before the caucus
meets that the other competitors for the
prize will withdraw and permit his election
to be made by reclamation. Mills
has not attempted to make
the usual canvass of members to ascertain
how they intend to vote. He had some
correspondence with the new mem bers, and
from some of them he received assurances
Of support. He has canvassed with many
of them and from their own lips he
HAS DERIVED MANY PROMISES
that he has no doubt will be fulfilled in the
caucus. He is not inclined to solicit votes
for the reason that he intends to be
elected speaker with free hands. 1t is
his conviction that the approaching session
is to be one of prime importance TO the
party i'll the election next year, that its rec
ord should be so made up as to command
the same confidence in the party thai was
expressed in the election Of 1890, and that
the election of that year expressed the will
of the people as to how it should be made
up. From a general look over the field
Mills can see that he will have from
the outset very considerable
support even with half dozen candidates
opposing HIM and drawing
WHOLE STATE DELEGATIONS
after them. Beginning with his own
state of Texas, he will have eleven
votes. Missouri may cast her COM
plimentary vote for Hatch and then vote
perhaps for Crisp, but Mills may expect, if
the contest lasts until the third ballot, to
get the fourteen votes of that state. He
viii probably have from the start majority
- ALL, t.,
which state he has won the consideration of
of all men as a fearless and honest advocate
of tariff reform, he will receive the support
of the Democrats just as they supported
Boies for the governorship, and they
will present him for the vice
presidency as the fit exponent
and representative of tariff reform. Min
nesota will probably follow IL the same line
sand vote for Mills. III Wisconsin he will
pick up most, if not all, of the eight Demo
Gratis from that state, The Michigan men
may be divided at first, but it is probable
that the tariff reform sentiment of the Dem
ocratS in that state will bring seven more
votes to Mills. Mills will have supporters
from Ohio aud in New York he will have
so large a share of the delegation of twenty
three that it will not take long to wean
others from
THEIR TEMPORARY ALLEGIANCE
to other candidates. In New England he is
very strong, and will look for
twenty out of the twenty-fOur
of that delegation. In Pennsylvania
with an influential leader like Mutchler at
the head of the Mills column it may be ex-
Ipected that the list will soon be strength
'ened by ten votes. New Jerseys five
Democratic votes viii be with him when
the caucus decides who shall be
speaker. With something like 100
votes here indicated as in sight to begin
the contest. and others from the Southern
states, making altogether one hundred and
twenty-five to one hundred and fifty, and
with the other Democrats distributed be-
tween half dozen other candidates, there
does not seem to be much cause for appre-
hension on the part of the friends of Mills.
Crisp will be his strongest and
MOST PERSISTENT OPPONENT.
He has warm friends who will support him
upon grounds that are reasonable from their
point of view, but illogical and unsound
from the point of view of the Mills men.
Springer's friends. and those who will vote
for Bynum as speaker, will naturally, go to
Mills when it becomes apparent that the
men of their first choice cannot get there.
Mcmillan, too. who will have other
votes besides those from his own state of
Tennessee, is now in the way of Mills, but
Aeaf be less so by the time the caucus
meets.
Mills, Mcmillan and Springer, the last
named adorned with the invariable button
hole bouquet, were all in sight from News
were in excellent spirits while
talking over the election and
the approaching speakership contest, which
all were agreed should be conducted in such
a way as to leave no contentious to wrangle
over after organization.