The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-12
TOM REEDS AMBITION
HE IS PLANNING TO BE "A PREslDEN
TlAL CANDIDATE.

Must Stand or Fail As 1t Is
WAsHneroN. D. c. Jan. -[special.l-
There are too many candidates for the
presidency id this country" This remark
was made to- your correspondent BIZ q promI-
nent Republican member Of the house of
Representative in explanation of the recent
deadlock in that body on the Hawaiian
question. ''You see he continued. s.ve
have q presidential candidate right here in
the house He is q Republican and the
leader of our side In other words. the
hand Of Thomas B. Reed is seen ia this row.
Besides being himself a candidate for the
presidency Mr.. Reed is very friendly to
Governor Mckinley. 1t IS as good as set
tied in some men s minds that either Nc
kinley or Reed VIII be the Republican
nominee in 1896, and q great many astnte
men go SO far as to say that the ticket VIII
be Mckinley and Reed
ssNow it happens that neither Reed nor
Mckinley likes General Harrison. The ex-
president cOnrrlved while in Office 90 make
mortal enemies Of both Of them Reed espa-
cially being bitter and unrelenting. II did
not take Mr.. Reed long to see that ali the
stirring up Of the Hawaiian muddle ia con
gress helps Harrison 1T serves to bring
the ex-president to the front to vindicate
his administration and put him in a favor
ablelight before the country
Wherefore the Mckinley Reed influence +
has been brought to bear in tine house ln a
administration and preventing the HarrI- I
son presidential movement getting any en-
cement from this direction. All this .
has been done IN such way as not to at
tract any attention outside the house but
on the floor there is great deal Of talk
about I'd. We have all seen through the +
little game, if the country has not
tsDme leader on the foreign affairs commit
tee IS NIr. Hit Of Illinois, who was made
chairman of that committee by Mr.. Reed
while the latter was speaker Of the house. F
HIT and Reed are as thick as peas 10 q pot /
Whatever Reed thinks Hit thinks and
whatever Reed wants Hit wants, and wee +
versa. There are other Republican members (
Of the committee who fell under the Reed +
influence, and with Hit as leader they got +
u1 an agreement with the Democratic 4
ia embers of the committee which virtually
protected Cleveland and Gresham and sur +
rendered the Republican position That IS .
what the row has been about In the house. f
A Bold Fighter
ssSome of us did not like to submit to this .
little scheme to help Cleveland out Of q
hole simply to avoid giving Harrison a lit +
tie boom. One off those who took the view .
that whatever President Harrison had done +
the Republican party should be given credit i
for and that no narrow proscrlptive rule F
should be applied. was Mr.. Bouteile of .
Maine, as bold a fighter as there is ia the
house When he plunged the house into
deadlock by running counter to the agree
ment which Hl1t and the other Republicans
had fixed uu with their Democratic fellow +
mem bers of the committee, people said
B0utelIe was laundering and didn't know
what he was about But he did know.
While he IS not in favor Of the renomina-
tion Of Harrison. so tar as know, he is Tor
the annexation of Hawaii and for thor
ough Sitting of the administration policy
and procedures Perhaps you have noticed
that in this contest Mr.. Burrows sided with f
Mr. Boutelle and against the Reed-HI6H-
Mckinley programme. The significance
of this as YOU well know is that N4r. Bur
rows IS a rival of Reed for leadership on
the Republican side and for the next speak
alslip ia case we capture the house.
Mr.. Reeds Policy
without any breach of confidence. con
tinued this congressman, II can tell you
what Mr. Reeds policy IS First. it is 10
maintain himself at the head of his party
Tia the house and to brook no rivalry from
his own side of the hail. Then, in case we
secure majority in the next house, as
many of as are confidently counting on, he
expects to be elected speaker once more.
That viii be in Deem Der, 1898, and -
speaker of the house during the winter and
spring Of 1896 Mr. Reed hopes to so im-
press himself upon the party that when
the Harrison and Mckinley fCllOWings
quarrel over the presidential nomination
De may step ID and capture the prize. Fall
ing il that. AIR. Reed VIII play for the vice
presidential nomination on the Mckinley
tieket. So you can See concluded the
g0ssi per. strhat this Hawaiian
muddIe IS developing great deal Of poll
tics, and that here in the house we are play
ina our full share Of the game
The Wilson Fsil1.
What 81 to be the fate Of the tariff biIs
That IS q question which is being asked on
every side. tit is known there are enough
Democrats 10 the senate anxious to secure
portant changes in the measure TO carry
heir point IF the Republicans viii only CO.
operate with them. But the trouble is the
Republicans VIII not 90 SO. Your CORE
spondenu is able 10 state in the most posi-
tive manner and on the highest authority
chat the policy Of the Republican leaders
such men as Senators Sherman, Allison
and AIdricb is as follows. They viii help
lefeao the Wilson tariff bin, but they VIII
not help correct what certain Democrats
say are che blunders in that measure
said one of these three senators today
tIhe Wilson bill must go through sub
stan1ially as ir isl or it must not 60 through
att ali That is our position. If the Demo
Gratis are not satisfied with their own bill,
they need not look to US for help in fixing
t. up. So far as we are concerned they
must stand b-4the record as they have made
t at the other end Of the capitol We
would be great fools 70 permit our votes to
be cast fn a way that would help the Demo
.ratic party out of its troubles when we
and put the knife 81 popular disapproval
into them 1T is not our business to pro-
.ec5 the interests Of the Democratic party.
We take cur stand on thiss We viii vote
s0l Idly to defeat the Wilson bill. and if any
Democrats wish to join Us they are well
made the Democrats must attend TO that
lh4 msalves without any assistance from
1872