The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-02
REED AND ANTI-REED.
Alleged Fierce Opposition to the
Speaker Of the House.
Some Bitter Invectives Against Public
Men Of All Parties.

be IL known by these writings that two
septs or clans have house experience now
the Reeds and anti Reeds. These latter
be "A growing folk; they wax and multiply
Today, by grace Of one OF the anti Reeds
went behind the scenes, cs II were They
sfe--the anti iRecds-plotting against the
Whites. at least In 30 far as Tom Reed
may bo regarded as representative of the
| house Caucasians. Their hope is to beat
| heed for the next speakership.
The country and these good people, it IL
feared, will have no such luck, but they
| don't knowit SO today they lay plans &c
that daring, dazzling end, and the whisper
huttcrs from rctcllious lip to lip, "Reed
must he defeated"
Naturally the anti Reeds, plotting revolt
against the fat tyranny of the czar. turn
now TO Hanna. They want administra.
tion aid and countenance. With White
House backing they claim that Reed can
be ovcrbornc.
This is in half sort true II Mckinley
(Hanna), with a bundle of patronage and
all the moral or immoral force of foui
years occupation of the White House ahead,
were TO invade the house battlefield and
opposing itself TO Reed, call its friends and
hire It's Hessians--if, say, the administra
Reed and call for his destructiop-it would
In all chance be the last Of Reed. He would
bprn like tussock of straw, go down like
bundle Of sticks. The man has yet to be
found who, in search of house or senate SO.
lection for any perch, can face the charge
OF an administration coming In.
Mind, say, coming in" Cleveland
Is tho most beaten and despiscd thing in
congress today. He is not half the power
with house or senate that belongs to the
meanest messenger on the rolls of either
body. Yet recall an extra session day
not four years ago, when, TO repeal the
Sherman law, hc-curlod house and senate
about his Iudgy fingers as woman might
her hair. He but dangled venal bunch
OF patronage before them, and house and
senate fell on their knees. Cleveland but
pired his appointiyc tune of Office and sage
statesmen" of both branches scrambled |
after him, even as did the rats follow the |
Pied Piper OF Hamelin.
And therefore, say again, in view of |
strong per cent of house willingness tt |
fay Reed Of his lions hide of speakership, |
that IL an alliance can be made with Han |
ma Reeds peril is acute
1t Is Reeds own fault that trouble js |
brewing for him. Reed is not so big when |
one goes close 10 him. He is improved by
distance. He has verbal trick for smart |
and biting epigrams. He thinks bullet |
fashion He Is strong forenscally. Blu,
at the last Reed is several matters that dc
him no credit unti that do him no house
good.
Reed Is no politician. His sending Joe
Manley To St Louis TO sell him out of o
presidency Is ono proof of this. He offend.
needlessly. MorS than one house Repub |
hcan has fclt his sneer More than one
waits only an opening for safe revenge
Then, again, Reed has tyrannized and
given himself to dwarf meanness and
small expressions. He is often ruled by
spite, spleen aud bent TO little despotisms
lie VIII in spirit of acrid caprice refuse
TO recognize members. He will gag and
render tongueless and helpless men who
have something TO say and real mission
to executes This Is tyranny, this is car
Ism, and this has bred him foe and feud To
an extent beyond Reeds power to do jus
tice 10, should they all combine and hun,
him. And this they today threaten to do.
Reed s smallIess of soul exhibits itsell
In many OF his rules Reed never read
where the wise man said, 1.-The world IL
too much governed, +" or, If he did, he die
not care. Reed is "a prey to a kind oi
Yankee pigheadism that passes law Just
because IL can and enforces 1t Just because
tt interferes with the ease, comfort and
JOY OF other men. In instances Reed closes
the back lobby OF the house against the
presence of newspaper folk just because ht
can. Reed makes "A rule against sinokira
In the corridors of the capitol, where smoke
would be about as offensive as on the un
fenced plains of the Texas panhandle, lust
because he can. Reed, in fact, has mar
Tor petty annoyance and measly trick
that has succeeded in earning him the dis,
regard OF four-fifths Of the house Republic
ans and everybody besides.
Aside from that, he has heaped particular
insult on such as Boutelle, and that son oil
thunder is in state of fume even now.
Hopkins OF Illinois he has also needlessly
arrayed against him, and this latter is o
stih and dangerous man, who, with less oi
heed glitter, has more than Reed s brains
The number whom Reed has insulted and
soured among house Republicans might be
made to fill u column.
Yes, there isa powerful house contingent
mat only waits general call to arms &c
AXE the field against Reed and depose him
rom bis speakCrship. Ii this contingent
ma II Is trafiicking for 1t in Cleveland al
his very crisis-can gain the coarse and
glowing countenanoe OF Hanna, rest assur
ID the War is on.
Hanna may not be hard TO win to sch
'rusados. He is another who has been
nubbed By Reed. All through the cam
'aign Reed ignored Hanna and overlooked
Mckinley. Following results, Reed would
iot visit Canton. AS he returned from the
oast, Reed went by Canton like some lie.
lite of politics on the other side OF the par.