Din ing tils la illianl and useful career
he lias advocated only true democratic
principles; and while In his advocacy
of them Ids voice uttered no uncertain
s mint, it cannot he said that he was
ever actuated by the blind partisanship
which controls and dwarfs so many of
our leading politicians, who would
otherwise be statesmen of no mean
proportions. In the last congress he
was conspicuous for the manlv posi
tion which he look as a mcuihci ot the
conference committee on the tai iff' hill, j
Himself tree from the inlluence of j
selfish and sectional interests, he)
strove single-handed in the interest of ;
the whole country to have some of the j
worst features of the robber tariff re- j
pealed. IDs work then, so lavas the j
forty-seventh congress was concerned,!
was, of eomse, “loves labor lost."
But it made him more than ever Un
acknowledged leader of the revenue
reformer# among the democratic mem
bers of congress. And when the elec
tions of ISSJ brought such a sweeping
democratic victory, it was generally
understood that he would represent
that element as their candidate for the |
office of speaker of lire house an office j
which is only second iu importance to ,
(hat of president.
