Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-11-29

number the places Of other members, before
the official announcement is made after Mr..
Reed has been formally elected Speaker
M. Reed will have more trouble in properly
placing the new members, and will have to
rely largely upon the advice of others, as
many Of them are entirely unknown to him
However, he is a rare hand at correctly
sizing a man up after talking with him,and
he will meet all of the Republican members
before he takes his seat as Speaker
Its not necessary to do more than men
ton the fact that less than fifty Senators
and Representatives have yet arrived in
Washington to make it plain that the mum
erous stories sent out puportiug to tell
what the Republicans are going to do are
merely guesses founded upon the opinions
Of individuals. Whether the Republicans
will attempt to reorganize the Senate is an
open question and will remain such until a
caucus considers the matter and decides
what shall be done. 1t may not be nee
essary for the Republicans of the House to
hold a caucus to map out policy, but it
would not be surprising if they did, as the
leaders of the party are especially DESTROYS
that whatever is done shall be in the line
of party policy and that there shall be no
bushwhaclklng on the part Of those who are
more intent upon achieving personal motor
iety by making sensational speeches than
of advancing the welfare Of the party as
whole.
There are several reasons-all good
why the talk, which has been INDUCED in
by cuckoos, about Mr., Cleveland punish
ling ex Speaker Crisp for his silver views
BY having the Democratic nomination for
Speaker If the House and the consequent
leadership of the Democrats in that body
given to some cuckoo instead of to Mr..
Crisp, has been amusing to those who
know the financial status of majority of
the Democratic members of the House 1t
is only necessary to mention one of these
reasons "a majority of the Democratic
members hold precisely the same views
that Mr. Crisp does, or at least they did
when last heard from by their constituents.
Of course it is possible that the administra-
ton can control some of these votes by a
iudicious use of patronage, but it is not at
all probable that it will care to go into a
contest of that sort 1t might end not only
with the nomination of Crisp by the Dem
ocratic caucus but gall might be added to
the bitterness by the adoption of silver
resolution That Mr. Cleveland would like
if he had the power, to go into the whole
sale punishment of those Democrats who
do not agree with him is doubtless true, but
his time will be so fully taken up with
lodging the missiles SHE'D at his head from
both Senate and House that he will have
no time to devote to furnishing others.
1t is seldom that such absolute indiffer-
ence is shown by Senators and Representa-.
tives a week before the meeting of Con-
gress as to what recommendations the
Presidents message may contain as exists
among those now in Washington This
Indifference is not confined to either party.
Everybody seems to have arrived at the
conclusion that it makes no difference what
Mr. Cleveland may say or leave unsaid;
that it is the wisdom of the Republicans in
Congress that must be depended upon and
not Mr.. Cleveland's Message.
Some of the candidates for the minor
House Offices are trying to turn it into a
sectional contest-this office for the South,
that for the West, the other for the East,
ETC.. but it is not probable that the caucus
will make its selections upon that basis.
There has been too much sectional politics
in this country. The Republican party has
always proclaimed itself a national party,
even when one section was solidly arrayed
against it, and it is not likely to endorse
sectionalism in any form now.