St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-22
SILvERLEADERS LOST,
Southern Democrats Stand
SQuarely by the Admin
iStration.
kEED AND THE CONTESTS.
Southern Pacific Railroad
Lobby Getting in Shape
for New Congress.
REED AND THE CONTESTS.
HALLS SPEECH CIRCULATED
- the Tune of a Half-MilliOn
Copies--What Gosslps
Say.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 21.-As the mem
bers of the lower house of congress
come struggling back TO Washington
there is one fact very evident; it is that
the silver Democrats who devoted their
time 10 fighting President Cleveland
during the last session have had con-
siderable light on the situation, and
they are no longer so sure that the ad-
ministration is wrong and that they
alone represent the people.
The defeat of Bland in Missouri,
Fithian in Illinois, Bryan in Nebraska,
and the free silver Democrats in lndi-
ana, as we'll as Gen. Weaver in a sup
pOSedly silver district in Iowa, has
rather unnerved the free silver con-
tingent of the Democratic party, and at
the coming short session of congress
there Will be less commanding and
warning by Congressman Bland and his
followers. During the last session Mr..
Bland was accustomed to rise in his
seat, and. pointing his finger at the
sound money leaders on the Democratic
side. tell them that the people were on
his side, and would be heard from in
their particular cases at the polls.
Patterson for Cleveland.
The election was held, and the leading
men on the silver side, headed by Mr..
Bland. were defeated. while down in
Tennessee Congressman Patterson, who
voted and talked against silver. and who
had hard fight for denomination,
being opposed 10y silver man, comes
back with substantial majority. Asked
as to his views of the results, Mr.. Pat
tersOn lost no time in saying that the
Southern Democrats had made their
mistake in not planting themselves
squarely behind President Cleveland
and fighting it ont sQuarely on tnat line.
Of course this statement of Mr.. Pat
terson does not suit the men whom
# hits, but at the same time there is no
manuer of doubt that it represents the
situation South to dot Down there
the Democrats are Cleveland men, and
when it comes to electing men who are
going to oppose his policies they don't
care SO much whether they bear the
label Republican" or democrat" As
far as the actual results are concerned,
1t makes little difference.
But the late election was an eve
opener everywhere, and the anti-ad-
mlnistratlOn Democrats, who have all
returned, tell about the same story,
whether they hail from the North, East,
West or South. The causes that pro
duced the greatest amount of trouble
were the delay in passing the act re-
pealiGg the Sherman silver law, the
action of the senate in delaying and
emasculating the tariff bill and a desire
on the part of the people TO in meas
ure square accounts with the only rep
resentatives of the party they could get
at at this time.
Seeking for Democratic Seats.
Each day brings notice of from one to
haif-doZen more contests for seats in
the next congress. Nearly every Re-
publican who was defeated in the
Southern states VIII contest and depend
upon the large party majority to give
him the seat, regardless of the fact that
the majority Of the voters cast their bal
lots for the other candidate. Some OF
these argue that the fact that Tom"
lican presidential nomination, and will
want to secure as many of the Southern
delegates as possible to the next ma
tiOnal convention. will make him very
friendly TO all such contestants, on the
theory that each of these men will be
able to control his district delegates in
1896.
There are several reasons for doubt
ing such story, the best one being
that. in spite Of his bitter partisanship.
Mr. Reed is a much larger man than
this represents him to be: and, second.
the men who are coutesting are, as a
rule, the men who will have the least to
do with the election of delegates in '96.
Nearly ali Of them are accidents, all of
whose time will be needed to secure
denominations, which they will take in
the hope that lightning will strike them
again.
The Pacific Railroads
Next TO The American Sugar Refining
company the corporations most delight
ed at the defeat of the Democratic ma
jOrlty of the present house Of represent
atiyeS are the Pacific railroads. In the
present house there Is solid majority
against any of the funding schemes pro
posed in the interests of the road, and
any change would improve their pros
poets. Huntingt0n's confidential attor-
hey and manager has already made his
appearance in Washington, and no time
will be lost in setting the wheels In
motion for the Fifty-fourth congress-.
when il is hoped the Stanford estate
may be released, and Huntington and
all the others be relieved of their liabil.
lty under the California law.
One Plum Less.
Congressman Baldwin has been visit
fng all the departments during the past
week and getting the wheels in motion
again. He thinks the Chippewa com
mission will be able to complete its
work in about six months, although the
secretary, speaking from the experience
Of the office gained during the past six
years, gives the commissioners a wear
longer At any rate Hon. 'Dari S.
Hall need not prepare his papers for re.
appointment TO his old position in case
? the Republicans win in 1896. This par
ticular job-will be ended for good long
before March 4, 1897. White The office
seekers may not indOrse Maj. Baldwin's
course iii urging the abolition of sine
cures like this Chippewa commission,
the people will. 1t Is unusual for a mem
Der OF congress to take the position OF
Maj. Baldwin, but he is no "wind .iam-
ner' or accident. but a careful man of