Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — WEST 18 SURE TO WIN. [ARTICLE]

WEST 18 SURE TO WIN.

Either Hopkins or Henderson Wilt Be the Next Fpe <ker. A Washington correspondent says that as time passes on the opinion grows that the speakership will go to the West. Old politicians assert that Sherman is becoming steadily weaker and that there is no longer the slightest Chance of his having a united East behind him. Between Hopkins and Henderson, this correspondent asserts, the chances at present seem slightly in favor of the latter. Hendersou’s election would be a continuation In power of the “Heed” element. Henderson is a joember of the Committee on Rules, which runs Congress. It makes orders of business under the rules or it refuses to make orders. It suggests changes in the rules and then steers them through. Of eonrse, if the House does not like the work of the Committee on Rules, it can reject it, but it seldom docs so. Many elements of popularity arc held by Henderson and some qualifications for the speakership are admitted to be his. Hia loyalty to the administration is not less thgn his loyalty to the rules of the Honse. Hopkins, it is claimed by many, would make: a better Speaker. As between Hopkins and Henderson, the East would be pretty evenly divided. Both have-warm personal friends among the Eastern members, and it will be as difficult for the managers to throw the Eastern vote as a whole to either as it would to combine them for an Eastern candidate. The seven Republican Congressmen from Kansas claim that they control the contest for speakership of the nations:! House of Representatives as between a Western and Eastern man. Four of the seven are for Henderson of lowa, ri*o for Hopkins of Illinois and one, Cjjrtis, for Sherman of New York. A caucus is to be held within ten days and if the majority ptfea Henderson irili have the sevea Kansas votoa. These votes, the Kansana claim, will be the balance of power between the East and West. Edwin McSortle, laborer, found dead to a St Louis tenement honse M *■ass.iasvaax uvuoci . -v. ■' ■ r^.’ 4 ,. -1