The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-03

One OF the most gent and steadfast OF
Republican ncwspG 'appens to be pub
liShed just west Of tao mississippi River.
We are speaking OF the Globe Democrat OF
st. Louis. That journal states with accu-
racy the sole principle which ought to
determine the votes OF Western Congress
men for a new Speaker
THE West wants to put man in the speatership
who is In harmony with the sentiment of the Repub
lcan party in this section all the important ques
tons of national concern. II wants to choose man
who stands with the Administration. 1t is necessary
that there should be entire harmony in Republican
councils at the present time. We are on the eve OF
great national campaign. In choosing Speaker
man should be selected who stands with the ma
jorty Of the party and the Administration on the
great issues that before the country at this
ment. and which will be before It until after the
election
That is the sort Of Republican Speaker
the East wants, too.
Is Gen HENDERSON such man? The
| question is of considerable Importance, be-
cause of the two conspicuous Western can
| lidntcs for Speaker, he at the present time
! is forging ahead the faster. The General
| got Ohio's fifteen votes on Thursday, or got
II more or less binding lien on the same.
Is Gen. HENDERSON the sort Of Speaker
the Globe Democrat describes, fully repre-
scntnG tho majority sentiment as to ma
tional policy In the Far East, and standing
shoulder to shoulder with the Admnistra-
| tion on all the great issues that will enter
into the Presidential cleo ton next year?
| Evidently our esteemed contemporary
does not think SO. 1t expresses with frank
ness its apprehension that Gen. HEN
DERsoN If elected, will turn out to be more
in line with Mr.. REED than with Mr..
Mckinney on these questions; that he will
accordingly misrepresent the West, which.
as the Globe Democrat truthfully declares,
sis in favor. by large majority, of the
United States retaining the Philippines
1t Is true there has been is yet no distinct
avowal from Cen HENDERSON that he Is with
the Administration on the subject Of Ameri-
can expansion. Mr. HOPKINS has thought
it proper to define his position with exact
ness, and his position is quite satisfactory.
There is time yet for Gen. HENDERSON.
Perhaps the Iowa candidate Is even at this
moment framing in precise and forcible
phrases the declaration which will assure
tho Republican party that il elected
Speaker he will be a help and not an OBJ
stacle to the furtherance OF its policy.
The elements in the canvass that are now
counting foc Gen. HENDERSON are sectional
and local combinations, personal popularity
with his fellow members, long il not par
ticularly illustrious parliamentary expert
cnce, and, perhaps as much as anything else,
the natural desire Of some Of the Congress.
men to choose a Speaker old enough not to
belikely to stand long in the way of younger
asprants for the same exalted office.
II he should get himself elected on the
strength OF these qualifications, meanwhile
hiding or supprcssing his real opinions on
vital questions; If he should turn out, after
election, to DO in opposition to the senti
ment OF his party on the greatest question
of ALL one thing is dead certain. The situa
ton will be quite as unpleasant for Speaker
HENDERSON as for the party which has beer
beguied or buncoed into putting an OBJ
structionist in the chair uhen it thought II
was getting n representative Republican
, and a straight Administration man.
, The place Of the unfortunate KEIFER II