Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-12
SPEAKER MILLS.
The National Capital Beginning
to Assume New Life.
FORECAST OF THE CONTEST.
Mills Greatest Strength Lies in the Fact That
His Reputation is National.
Congressman Culberson Talked of for 4 Pos
ition on the New Circuit Court of Ap-
peals the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
FORECAST OF THE CONTEST.
The Question of the Hour Now.
Special to the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-Lively times will
soon succeed one of the tamest and quietest
| summers ever seen at the national capital
| II 1t had not been for few big national and
| international gatherings like the ecumeni-
cal Methodist conference, the city would
have been as dull for the last six months as
a crossroads village. But that condition of
| things will speedily terminate. In the
course of the next fortnight the hustle and
racket preliminary TO the organization of
the next house of representatives will open
in good earnest. OF course the speakership
fight dwarfs every other phase of that po-
itical event The GAZETTE'S readers are
as deeply interested in the contest for that
high office as the people of any section of
this Union, because Texan is numbered as
among the leading candidates.
Without bias or undue fayOritIsm ! have
no hesitancy in predicting the election of
Roger Q. Mills. He is opposed by several
able men, any of whom would WELD the
gavel ably and to the credit of the party,
but there is no one of them that represents
in his own person the great cause for which
the Democracy has struggled so long and
valiantly to such degree as the statesman
from Corscaua He has more national
prestige than all the others put together
He is pre-eminently the apostle of tariff re-
form, its strongest exponent, and he has
carried the revenue reform banner further
and waved it more detiantly than any man
II the Democratic party, North or South.
He has little OF the Suavlter II m0dO, but
plenty of the fortiter in re. We're he pos
sessed of little more of the former he
might easily have had a walk-over for the
speakership. Mir. Mills takes no trouble to
conciliate. He is even accused of being
misanthropic and unsocial. Certainly he
isn't mixer anu as for the arts of the
politician he isn't acquainted with the ru6i-
doesn't
newspaper row. to snake hands with the
Spondents, as some of his competitors
do. In fact, he shuns the profession and
rarely accordS an interview. For these and
other reasons few of the newspaper men IT
the capital are friendly TO Mills The sys-
tematic booming of Judge Crisp of Georgia,
who is doubtless second in the race is
largely due to the fact that he is a great
favorite among the men of the press. That
their aggregate influence is powerful is not
to be denied, and doubtless Mr.. Mills would
have done better in not ignoring so great a
power.
Still there isn't much doubt about his
winning. He is second choice with many
who will abandon their favorite as
soon as it is demonstrated that Mills is
away in the lead. Again, there will be a
great many new men in the next house
These novices in national legislation have
heard a great deal more about Mills than
any of his rivals. Springer, for instance,
is as avowed tariff reformer as Mills, and
has been in congress almost as long, but in
the minds of the people he isn't so thor
oughly identified with the principle. The new
men are also ardent believers in the ideas
to which Mills has given such great promi-
hence. They think that to elect Mills means
Endorsement of the Democratic doctrine,
and, per contra, to turn him down. is
virtual weakening on vital issue, an aban-
Comment of the cardinal article of party
faith.