Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — THE SPEAKERSHIP CONTEST. [ARTICLE]

THE SPEAKERSHIP CONTEST.

Wisconsin Favors Henderson, While Indiana May Prefer Hopkins, It is now generally accepted that the next Speaker will be a Western man, and that the contest will be between Henderson and Hopkins. The Wisconsin congressional delegation, at its meeting in Milwaukee Saturday afternoon, unanimously resolved to throw its entire strength to Congressman Henderson in the contest. They got together, they snid, to indorse a Western man, and show that Wisconsin was in the contest in dead earnest. The Wisconsin delegation placed the immediate advantage with Henderson, but W isconsin is only one of the middle Western States to declare for the candidate of another State.

A Washington correspondent says that the action of the Wisconsin congressional delegation has given a decided impetus to the Henderson speakership boom in the East. It shows that the men who have been in control of the House organization for the last four years are striving to retain that control in the next House. Payne of New York, Dalzell of Pennsylvania, Gnxsvenor of Ohio, Steele of Indiana, Babcock of Wisconsin, Henderson of lowa, Towney of Minnesota, were" among the more influential members in the Reed oignnization, and with Reed out of Congress they will endeavor to continue in the leadership. They have found it quite improbable that an Eastern man would be elected, and they are turning to Col. Henderson.

An Indianapolis dispatch says the Indiana Republicans are very much in favor of Hopkins, and the party managers are said to favor him. The most potent cause that is operating in Hopkins’ favor is the belief that he would approve drastic legislation against trusts, and as this question is to be prominent in the coming national campaign the Indiana Congressmen will be for him, as he is known to hold Western sentiments regarding trusts and the necessity for legislation against them. The best-posted politicians say that the nine members of Congress from Indiana win Tote for him.