Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-26
CARLISLE FOR MILLS.
The Senator Replies to Letter
from Congressman Warner
IN REGARD TO MILLS TEMPER.
The Texan as Well Fitted as Anyone to Fill the
Speakers Chair With Justice.
The Same Objection Now Raised WAS
Urged Against Mills Before His APP
poirtment AS Chairman of Ways
and Means Committee.

New YORK. Nov. 25.-Under date OF No
| vember Is, Congressman J. K. Warner
| wrote as follows to John G.. Carlisle:
My DEAR SiR-Hon. Roger .. Mills, who
| You know is Il prominent candidate for the
| Spcakership on the ground of his service 10
his party and TO the principles to the sue
| cess of which the Fifty-second
Democratic majority, I note merely
recognized the strength of his claim based
Oh his record, but the fact that every Dem
ocratic member of congress which | may
know to be in favor of relegating tariff
reform to the rear is opposed TO Mr.
that l am right in my preference II is,
however, asserted that Mills is untitled by
temperament to make dignitied and eff
fective presiding officer of the house.
know of no one whose opinion on
that matter would have more
weight with others, As well
myself, than would your own. May beg
an expression of your opinion In such re-
gardl While l should greatly pre-
fer to be allowed to use such
reply as You may send me, | shall
of course be glad to consider it confidential
to any extent you may indicate. l appre-
ciate also the delicacy of the subject matter
involved and the possible reasons for
your preferriug to be silent upon
the subject. Whatever may be your
opinion | shall not consider it either dis
courteous to myself or allow it to prejudice
me against Mills should you not an
swer this letter. l should, how
ever, place SO much reliance upon
your judgment that l greatly hope
to have the benefit of it, and know so well
the great weight that others would give 10
any expression of your opinion that | can
not but hope you will permit me to use it.
ISigned. JOHN d. WARNER.
To this letter, Mr.. Carlisle, wishing
from Washington, Nov. 81, replied as fol-
lows
DEAR SIR-Your favor of the nth inst is
just received. The charge that Hon. X. Q.
Mills is untitled by temper
to make dIgntied and effective
presiding officer of the House
does that gentleman very great injustice.
MIR. Mills is earnest and courageous III the
maintenance of his opinions, but he is just
and impartial in the discharge of his public
duties, and always accords to his opponent
the same consideration he claims for himself.
Before mis- appointment rs chairman of the
Fiftieth congress the same objection TO
which you now refer was urged against
him. and there were many who
expressed the fear that his views were too
extreme for the position and that he might
recommend legislation upon the tariff OF
such u radical character that the party
would be unwilling TO indOrse it; but the
provisions of the proposed bill and
the manner in which it was managed in the
committee and house showed conclusively
that all these apprehensions were I'M
founded. His bill was very conservative
one and his advocacy of it was able and ju-
dicious from the beginning to the close of
the discussion. If elected speaker | am
sure that the same spirit of moderation
would characterize his administration of
that Office, and that no one would ever have
just cause to complain of his demeanor
while presiding or of his general course on
political questions. Having answered your
inquiry perhaps l ought to say
no more; but l will venture to add word
upon another subject to which YOU incl
that there is disposition in some quarters
tariff reform to others which
are in my opinion less important to the
people and far more dangerous to the har-
mony and success of the Democratic
are practically united, while upon the
silver question. aud perhaps some others,
there are wide differences of opinion among
the members of your own party, differences
which can be reconciled only by patient
deliberation and the exercise of a liberal
spirit of torbearance and tolerance.
Shall we on the eve of great national test,
with victory almost within our grasp,
abandon or ignore the vital issue
upon which we are united and waste our
strength in fruitlesS controversy among
ourselves over questions which can be better
adjusted after it has been determined
what part of.their earnings the people shall
be permitted to keep. Let US do one thing
at a time and all things in their proper or
der. The first duty of the Demo-
cratic party and of all who
symuathize with it is to change
the laws under which the earnings of the
people are taken from them by unjust taxa
ton for private purposes, and whoever
proposes to postpone the performance of
this duty in order to inaugurate war
among ourselves over the silver question
or any other question is not a wise coun-
sellor, and would not make a safe leader.
Yours truly,
Signedl JOHN G. CARLISLE.