, 1875-06-12
THE SPEAKERSHIP.
How the Various Candidates are Entitled
10 Ranh iu the Coming Race.

| rlean from various sources the
following notions of the Speakership {:
Kerr is probably the strongest at pres
ent. His locality is not alone a favor
able one, but the Barlow Belmont
Marble corner Of the Manhattan Club
is working for him. lie made 4 visit
to New York not many months ago,
and was greatly .tcted and caressed by
the cotcrie, and was also waited upon
bv Jay Gould, who will hereafter re-
uuire to have a hand in National poll
tics. This assistance from the East
may provoke ire as well as give
strength TO Mr.. Kerr. Sam Cox re.
lies upon Holman, of Indiana, TO help
a diversion for himself (Cox), and he
expects support from Ohio and New
York. Meanwhile Randallis not idle,
although very philosophic. His wife
is a lady from Sing Sing, near New
York, aud he has associations in this
city which take him TO the Manhattan
Club as well. | believe that he is
now in the West looking for his
chances. Wood is not travelling much,
but he has an office in the American
News Company's building, Nassau
street, New \ Iork, where he is punCtu-
ally in attendance every day from one
o'clock TO three or four z. NJ. There
he receives calls, and the newly elected
Congressmen generally visit New
York and stop TO see the great Philip
Won Artevelde and Due de Mozart.
Then his elegant carriage and span
pull the visitors out TO Woodlawn, at
Seventy-sixth street and the Grand
Boulevard. The Martel brandy is
good, for have sampled it. Forty
years Of eventual leadership look
down upon the guest like the forty
centuries that exclaim from the Pyra-
mid>ii The little, straight, old man,
standing like a silver arrow, relates
his "reminiscences well Of Albert Gal
latin and De Witt Clinton, George
Law and Captain Vanderbilt, Martin
Van Buren, and Silas Wright. Before
| was born, in 1910, Fernando Wood
was elected to Congress. There he
messed with William c. Rives, Old
Bill Allen, Millard Fillmore, Lynn
Boyd, Judge Clifford and others. He
knew Calhoun and named a son for
him. Fernando Wood says that when
he came to New York the blocks of
marble were heaped around the unin-
ished City Hall, which was probably
the earliest of civic buildings to fol
low the organization Of the Govern
ment. lie has been elected to seven
Congresses, beaten but once, and has
been elected Mayor of New York
three times out of six runs.
Charles Woolley, of Cincinnati, was
here few weeks ago, and he, although
a democrat, expressed the belief that
the republicans still held the inside
| position, but that the situation for
1876 was very much involved. Mr..
Randall was solicitouS when here that
the liberals should enter the demo
cratic organization, as the wings had
done in 1886. Randall believed in a
short session of Congress, to adjourn
as early as May, and the most economi-
cal appropriations. The free trade
question Is assuming 4 prominence it
has never had since 1S42'f6. Kerr,
Wood and Cox are all free traders.
| find democrats Of 4 mild type, like
Congressman-eeet Ely and ex member
of Congress Roosevelt, who would
not touch free trade in 1870, now
radical that way. Woods theory is
that commerce is the best protection
to manufactures, and that TO recover
power on the sea again is 10 illimit
ably widen the market for our fabrics
and tools.