The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-27
The Georgian to Be Sacrificed Partly in Re :
venge for Insults to the Texan, but Mainly
Because lie Is Not q Free Trader.
Theorist Wilson, of West Virginia, to Be
Made Ruler of the Next House,
In Which the Democrats Will Have Major
ity Over All of S2-AD Administration"
Tariff Bill to Be Rushed Through.
SPEAKER CRISP MUST GO.

Roger Qusries Mills Has Said So, and the
Texan Means Business.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26-Fur will soon be-
gin to fly in the contest for the speaker
ship of the FIfty-third Congress. 1t is not
going to be a reelection of the present in
cumbent by default, as has been until
to-day generally expected. One r oyer @.
Mills, of COrsicana. Tex, now United
States Senator, has whetted his knife for a
twelve-month for the scalp of one Charles
Frederick Crisp. of Americus. Ca. and 1t
looks as though there might be a hirsute-
less fetlock dangling at his belt when the
smoke of the battle has cleared away.
IL will be recalled that when Crisp was
made Speaker he paid q political debt to
Springer. of Illinois, by making him chair.
man of ways and means. . position win ich
public opinion accorded to Mr.. Mills.
Speaker Crisp went further and offered
Mills the chairmanship of commerce, an
inconsequential place. which the van.
quished aspirant for the speakership de-
clned without thanks. Mr.. Mills regarded
the tender as well-planned insult, and it
is probable that in such a conclusion he
was not over-sensitive He has since said
his day would come, and Crisp would 60 to
grass
1t is well known that Speaker Crisp's
plan of reforming the tariff Is not that Of
Mr. Mills. nor is it that of a majority of the
Democrats elected to the Fifty third Con-
gress. and, still more important, it is not
the plan of the man Who will 60 into the
White House on the 4th of March. Acting
hx <h2rn
Speaker who is In accord with the admin
lstratiOn and the party upon the Im portant
subject of revising the tariff, Senator Mills
has for two days in Washington been or
ganlzng raid upon Nh Crisp. He has
been in consultation with Representative
Bynum, of Indiana, who is his most
active and determined Iieutenanr.
and shortly conference of the old
Mills standard bearers will be held tor the
purpose of agreeing upon q real tariff re-
former" for the speskership, who Will be
pushed in opposition 60 Mr. Crisp. As Crisp
is Hill man, 1t is taken for granted that
Cleveland will advocate the election of
some other man than Crisp to the speaker
ship. The fight will be bitter and de ter
mined, and it looks as though Mr. Crisp
would have very hard shedding during the
next few months.
Mr.. Wilson. of West Virginia, who repro.
sents the collegiate theories of free trade:
has already been named to supplant
Springer as chairman OF the ways and
| means committee in the next House. but it
now seems probable that Mr.. Wilson will
| be selected as the Mills Cleveland csndl-
| didate for Speaker. Mr.. Wilson would be
| the ideal candidate of all the elements of
| the Democracy and of the larger element
| of the muewnmps. whom Mr. Cleveland has
| pleased by his speeches to the Manhattan
| Club dinner in New York aud by his sub
| sequent letter warning Office seekers not
| to bother HIM while he was shooting
| ducks. Mr.. Wilson is the best representa-
| tive of the so-called scholar in politics"
| that the Democratic party contains, and
| the fact that ne has actually declined VII tn
| in year O college presidency only ADDS to
| his availability as a candidate for the
speakership. His candidacy would mean
| the heabandOnment of the amendment of the
| tariff by separate bills, such as those passed
| by the last House under the Crisp Catch
! ings policy and now locked mp in the Sem
| ate finance committee. He would sub
/ stltute O general free trade assault along
| the whole line. including not only such
raw materials as wool, but cutting down
| the duties on steel rails, cutlery and
manufactured wOOlens. and involving In
| short radical reduction of the tariff
| schedule. 1t is III this idea that opposition
| to Speaker Crisp's reelection Will find its
| strength, and II only remains for Mr.. Glove
| land to abandon duck-shOOting for politics
| to show how much force the movement Will
1 have.