The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-01-09
MR. CRISP'S TROt BLES.
SCENES OF OLD BABEL TO BE
REVIVED BY THE DEMOCRATS.

SCENES OF OLD BABEL TO BE
REVIVED SY THE DEMOCRATS.
Numbering Into Iruth-CarDat Prices
and Carpet Wool Dangerous Tariff
1inkering-Some New I0dustries-En-
glIsh Comments on the Presidents Mes
sage-Faragrnphs and illustrations.
The Speakers Troubles and Faiiares.
Il iS moi worth Nlile 10 Crlticisc
Speaker Crisp's assignments minuteiy.
His supporters are doing that with sutfi
Gent yigor ana acrimOny. 4 large ma
.ority Of his chairmcn, a remarkably
large majority OF the chairInen of inn
p0riant committees. are from the South,
but he was forced to handle the tools
that he had, ana out OF an essentially
Southern party he could not make a
Northern organization To- save his life.
If representatives Of less than third
Of the whole people have now much
more than half of the power, that is
what the voters determined upon a
year ago, for il Is Of the very essence OF
Democratic supremacy.
No one doubts that the WAYS and
means committee is expressly arranged
tariff bill, and Mr.. Springer VIII be sus-
tanned in that purpose by those who
wish to make the tariff question as little
important as possible next year, and to
shut out Mr.. Cleveland from the presi-
dental nomination. ON this very
ground the shaping OF the committees is
savegelv attacked by other Democrats
besides Mr. Watterson. Tie appropri-
ations committee - relatively strong,
and will help Mr.. Holman to carry 5ut
his ideas Of economy. The committee
on coinage, with Mr. Bland as It's head,
is unmistakablv for irec coinage Of sill
yer, and viii DO what / can to carry out
the ideas If Mr.. Crisp's faction in that
respect. The committee on commerce,
with MIR. Mills as its chairman, is OF no
practical Importance, but the commit
tees Whigt have charge Of the great ap
propriation6, the river and harbor. the
pensions, the war and navy comnittees,
are in such hands that iihcTality toward
the South at least may be expected.
But it is absurd fer some OF the
Speakers friends to complain that he
has selected for many OF the important
places men who have not shown their
fitness for such work hitherto. The
criticism has in truth curious force,
for the Speaker seems TO have carefully
avoided IN many cases the men who
have been charged with a particular
duty or branch OF work uLder previous
organizations, and has sCttnem Ia other
work, While selecting other men for the
places they were supposed to be best
qualified To i'll. Beginning with Ar.
Mills, whose friends thought lie knew
more about the tariff than anybody else,
the Speaker found Alr. Springer for the
committee on ways and means, and set
Mr.. Mills 10 other and unfamiliar du
tics. In precisely the same way most
Of tine Democratic members who have
been active in the work OF particular
committees III past years are carefully
sent To other committees to see what
they can 10 there
lnc friends " lao berate Mr.. Crisp for
this seemingly whimsical selection for
get one important fact. The Democrat
L. party under every previous orranlZa-
ton Of the House has been Il dreadful
failure in the conduct Of business. If
Mr.. Crisp had the good sense to reCog-
nil" this fact he only needed courage TO
shake them up" all around. 1t is a
supreme Justification OF Mr.. Crisp's pc
Cuiiar selections that the active Demo-
Gratis III the House. with whom he has
been associated for years, and whose
capacity or incapacity he has had abUn
dant opportunity TO Judge, have in fact
been tried in places for which they
proved they were not fit. That was at
least a sufficient reason for trying them
in other places for which. perclancc,
they might have some sort of fitness.
II ybo2y supposes that this eXpla-
nation Is offered III l.umoror IN lest, let
him remember how things were in the
House when SIR. Carlisle or Mr.. Ran
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single important committee which did
its work thoroughly. faithfully and IN
teIligently.- York IrjtUae.
Blunaering into Truth.
The New York Times, which WAS con
verted t. Democracy during the Mug
wump bolt of 1854, has biundered into
an assault upon the Bourb0pS of Wis
consin. 1t states that the Democrats .
this state are highly delighted over
President Harrison 5 remarks on the
sin Of gerrymandering, and thus cX
plains the cause of their qualification:
Tie Republican legislature at the last
session conceived ANA enacted a scheme OF
rcdistrlctlng the stat which audaci0uSly
ignores every constitutional requirement.
ana Is rs tlagrantiy TN Just in partisan
sense as amy on record. For example, the
constitution requires that the districts shall
| latlan. Tie true basis Of population tor
legislative districts IS 1855. one OF the
new districts contains 3>,N0l people, an
other -, 1i3. another 80: and another
5.S23. some counties are divided i'll the
most ridiculous fashion. their townships
being set oft To piece out districts IN other
counties. contrary 10 common custom and
general convenience. Every district aD-
pears To have been formed mon
q careful study Of party advantage. The
Iniquity OF the juggie appears c0nspIcuous-
Is in the rearTan9emtnt of senatorial dis
triCtS. So that l6S.h04 people who partici-
pated II the senatorial election of 1890 may
vote tor senators again IN lA92. Whli. 2Sl.-
2lN people who voted GCr senators in i>NS
Will not have an opportunity 10 do 81 again
untll 1871. Senators elected in ih3C Will
represent for two years !S7.122 people who
had no voice in Their election. or 16N. >0A
Will have two representatives from 1892 to
lNHt. and .$f 2iH people must 60 unrepre-
Sented for that period tll this injustice
i carefully adopted To preserve power IN
the Grand cid Party.
This statement Of the situation would
he 4il right if the editor of the Times
had dis rihuted the delight among the
Republicans and heaped his condemna-
ton upon the Democratic legislature
which was guilty Of the outrageous ger
rymander. The Republicans Of Wiscon-
sin are not political thieves. and during
their long control of the state We're
guilty of no such outrage a. partisan
gcrrymander. But the Times is 10 be
forgiven because OF the strength of It's
denunciation Of gerrymanderinE. The
Democrats Of Wisconsin deserve all it
has indirectly launched at them.-Ere5t-
,Itl u Wisconsin.
Carpet Prices and Carpet Wool
There Is no doubt that many Demo-
rrats, and especially the Mugwump por-
lion OF the Democratic party. stand
dazed at the wonderful operation OF the
Mckinley bin IL touching the prices of