New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-24
TuR sPEAKERsHtp.


Ohio ss their candidate for Speaker, were sctuated
solely by desire to cctclliste favor and dsarm oP-
position to the greatest extent consistent with fide-
iy to their PRINCIPLES. Their candidate in the ast
House, GALUsHA A. GROW Of Pennsylvan was
passed over, mainly because il was found moro dit
feult 10 concentrate him than 90 Mr. sherman The
votes Of Members in partial sympathy with their
views, hut not fully identified with their organiza
ton. In proof that such is the fact, we need only
point to the votes for Mr.. Sherman and against Mr.
Grow on the irst ballot Of Messrs. L. Joy Morris,
Niward, and olh.r nominees of 1.-The Peoples
:. Party" of Pennsy sylsanis-gentlemen who would
naturally have preferred to vote for one OF their
colleagues bad none other than personal cons'dera
tions had weight with them. Mr.. Grow has been
longer in Congress than Mr. sherman, is more con-
spicuous IS Republican, has cansassed effectively
for the Republican cause, from Maine and
Connecticut 10 Minnesota. and is a more
decidedly pronounced Republican than Mr. sher-
man; if oiairus were to be considered, Mr. Grows
were decidedly strongest; but Dir. Sherman was
more acceptable to other than strictly Republicans
as we have stated. and therefore he was made Tue
candidate for speaker-wisely, as we then thOugoi
and sin think. Popular in manners, courteous ln
| bearipR. never having said harsh or irritating
word to any one, sor uttered a sentiment to which
spy could reasonably take exception, there ls no
| Republican on that floor whom independents could
mere readily support or Democrats consent TO see
| elected, than John Sherman. And, if tee Demo
Gratis of the House had been asked at the outset to
| pane that Republican Ahom they would most
willingly see elected we are confident he would
| have been the man.
And yet, on the fmsy prete1t that be had signed
Recommendation OF the cheap cOmpend of Hell
pers 4" Impending Crisis to Republicans for
general diffusion and perusal, the fact that Mr..
Sherman is the Republican candidate is made the
pretext for keeping the House uuorganized and the
public creditors unpaid II is in vain that they are
told that Mr. Sherman had never seen The I'm
pending Crisis" when he, at the request of
trusted friend, sigred that recOmmeDdation-had
never seen either Crisis or Compend when he was
nominated for Speaker. The cavers don't want
to be satjsfed-they wanted pretext for row,
and this must serve for want of better. Had
Mr.. S. recommended the circulation of tract
made up entirely Of extracts from Mr. JefersOns
writings respecting Slavery, their pretext would
have been more specous than it is; for those
writings are far more +" incendary" than Helpers
Crisis But the naked fact that he had never
seen either Crisis or COmpend, and probably would
never have looked into either but for j. b. Clark's
bullying resolve ought to be conclusive. And yet
The ". Y. Times sees fit to say:
The absolute possibility miseasancs the
csp,s now yond doubt the leaders and Of
party constituting the stronge united body Of voting member
has % to sH5e I s m Sps s sI q Sos s
na.us parties at all 10 be quarreed with Il
The Den oer ms, that to the victo belong the pos
bit the thresholds Of political power must no, e Judged
the days Of their poverty and Il er exile,
theuye 'hs fesh pots of Efypt 70 be elPeced They
lsied With solid devotion. Had
.asn u M sopSoefs Ss sesisred and majority Of
the House ngh. long since hsse sosed s ssctga 's pc r.
Sherman OF Ohio had sIossy suffered himself to be idel-
in the South which southern people ia the Res-
eDt excited condition Of their feelings ehoose TO regard as
put sr sherman in precisely the same P0sion IsSsy 70
by who had openly eyowed himself oen on eayns
slavery the Free States by the national force se
ude l. not at an question The Sou,hern people hold this
stde and Mr sherman and Mr. shermsns supporters know
odse iSr the high office which they wih him to FIJI i,ysry
uueh Ike asking the Republicans OF Newfok to send Nh
Was there ever such tissue of fallaciesl Who
has "ofered Dir. Sherman to the South a candi-
:. dat" for Speaker If nobody, then where is
the parallel to "askiug the republicans OF New
81 York to send Mr.. Charles Conor TO Congressl"
Suppose the Democrats of New. York chose to nOni-
nate Nr. O'COnor for Congress, would the Repub-
icans be justified in preventing election because
they don't ike bis sentmeDts9
There is a minority IN the House apparently ad-
verse to the Republicans, though composed in part
of Members chosen by Republican votes. If that
majority prefer some other man to Dir. Sherman
for Speaker Why don't they elect him The Re-
pubhcans want Republican Speaker--want Alr.
Shel mau-but, so far as party interests are
concerned we should make more than We should
lose by such a combination against US. Ii the ad-
verse parties will combine and elect Mr. Bocock,
Nr. Nnlson or Mr. Gllmer, we shall feel more con-
fdent of choosing the uext President than we now
do. And if they can't combine votes enough to
elect by majority, why not pass the Plurality rule
and elect somebody at oucel That would drive all
the stroeglers to ore side or the other, or count
them out-at all events, it would put in the
Chair that man whom the largest number Of Mem.
bers preferred TO see there, We can poll no more
votes for any other man than for John Sherman Of
ohio-prObably Lot SO mauy-therefore (aad for
other good reasoDs) We stick To him.
If our adversaries poll larger number. why
not pass the Plurality rule and DO rrl If they
can't wty do they keep the public business at