New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-06
PART II.
PAGES II TO IL.
MIR. SPRINGER'S CHANCES.
WILL SOME ONE ELSE GET THE LEADER
SHIP OF THE HOUSED
THE sANGAMoN STATESMAN PREPARING TARSs
MEASURE THAT is LOADED FOR BIG GAME
NO MORE popGuNs" FOR HIM.

NO MORE "PoPGUNS" FOR HIM.
(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.1
Washington July 5-Eyerybody In Washington Who
feels an interest In the prospects OF the Democra"o
party or In the welfare and prosperity OF the
Two widely different things-is asking: "whats the
matter With Springerl Why does he remain silentF
Nobody seems be OF the fact that the sangA
mon statesman has been hard at work ever since tne
expiration Of the LID Congress in the preparation OF
a great tariff measure with which he purposes to
electrfy the country and incidentally To vindicae n
right to the craftsmanship Of the Committee on ways
and Means, which the quidnuncs seem UNANIMOUSLY
disposed to wrest from him. Springer has taken ns
party at It's word and he proposes to oner IL oi.
which, II enacted, will destroy Protection roo' ano
branch. lie win fire no more "popgun" cartridges
against that "citadel OF iniquity"; not be. IL y
understood that when he visited the Worlds Far az
Chicago and gazed upon the gun from krupps
foundry, he softly whispered to himself: Ihats '1ss
about the Size Of the tariff bill am buiidne' ana
with which Will astonsh those fellows In Washington
when Congress assemblies
No. "there's nothing the matter with Springer"
He Is ready and eager for the fray whether II Deghs
I'm August or September and he expects to lead aS
chairman OF the Ways and Means Committee. Whas
If he say, only little more than year ago. 'nae
Grover Cleveland. II nominated, cannot be eiecteo"t
Did not Crisp and Bourke Cochran and scores, nay
hundreds Of other Democratic leaders, who are now
istration saw the same thingf Why then, should the
Administration which is coaching" Judge Crisp In the
matter of the House committees. object to sprneers
reappointment as chairmani And VIII the coming
sneaker who owed his first election TO that office, ac-
cordine 10 Grover Cleveands parsans to the Sansa-
mon statesman turn his back upon him nowf
There IS not q more fluent radical and sincere
indeed there is an ADLER Free Trader In Congress IMAM
william NJ springer. Moreover he Is the original
rioneer tariff reformer" OF his generation, compared
with whom Cleveland, Carlisle and the rest VINO nave
adopted his opinions are OF mere mushroom ero"'n'
Mr. Springer, when Chairman OF the Cohmooee on
Ways and Means, and I'm poor health, louhd uine "
write compile and cause to be published volume VI
moro than 400 octave pages, entitled "Iarln he-
form the Paramount Issuen In this exhaustive and
valuable work the fact appears that on February y
1871 more than twenty-five years ago, the author'
who was then q member Of the lower mouse OF .as
Illinois LEGISLATURE offered resolution declaring u'a'
all systems Of taxation for protection ana al ciass
legislation and monopolies are wrong IN prihcipie anu
contrary to the spirit OF free insutuons. IN iooo
note the author modesty observes that the Foregoing
=. embodes I'm effect the policy affirmed by the Demo
cratic party at the National Convention In Chicago 70
1aoJ, From the doctrine he then espoused springer
has never swerved. He has preached IL ana 'o'eu W
estab n II during the last eighteen years as mem
Der OF the House OF Representatives, Must 50 npS
and experienced and Jealous a FreeTrade statesman
be sent to the in order TO give room 10 uiere
tvro so to speak, whose service I'm Congress- like that
% Mr.. wilson, OF West Virginia, covers period OF
only eight years
But it Is objected to Springer that he Is freq
silver man. Well. so Crisp and Bynum and NC
Mln and Breckenridge and nearly all the ONE, oner
Democratic leaders In the House Of representatives.
Al least they only five or six months ago.
when most OF them voted against the consideration
NJ the b to repeal the bullion purchase provisions
Of the existing Silver law. It Is said they nave M
springer also has changed his mind 9 on that au9: +:
Nc and moreover the Ways and Means Commit
tee which he expects and deserves to be CT On
will have nothing TO do with the framing OF Dill 70
repeal the silver Purchase law, or with Its manage
mani In the House.