The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-05-19
The Speakership.
How the Various Candidates are Emit
tied to Rank in the Com
ing Race.
COLONEL CHARLES WooLLEY GIVES HIS
OPINIONS.

OI lSIoNSs
"Gath'' writes from New York to
the Philadelphia Times concerning
the Speakership and other things
He says:
I CLEAN from various sources the
following notions of the Speakership:
Kerr is probably the strongest at
present. His locality is not alone a
favorable one, but the Barlow Bel
mont Marble corner of the Manhat
tan Club is working for him. He
made visit to New York not many
months ago. and was greatly teted
and caressed by the cote'ie, and was
also waited upon by Jay Gould, who
will hereafter require to have hand
in National politics. This assistance
from the East may provoke ire as
we'll as give strength to Mr.. Kerr
Sam Cox relies upon HOLMAN, of In
diana, to help diversion for himself
Cox, and he expects support from
Ohio and New York. Meanwhile
Randall is not idle, although very
philosophic. His wife is lady from
Sing Sing, near New York, and 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 mnch, but he has an of
flee in the American News Compa-
nys building, Nassau street, New
York, where he is punctually in at
tendance every day from one O'Clock
to three or four p. m. There he re-
ceives calls, and the newly elected
Congressman generally visit New
York and stopto see the great Phillip
Won Artevelde and Due de Mozart.
Then his elegant carriage and span
pull the visitors out to Woodlawn,
at Seventysixth street and the Grand
Boulevard. The Martel brandy is
good, for have sampled it. Forty
years of eventful leadership look
down upon the guest like the forty
centuries that exclaim from the Pv-
ramids. The little, straight, old
man, standing like a silver arrow, re-
lates his "reminiscences we'll of Albert
Gallatin and De Witt Chuton, Geo.
Law and Captain Vanderbilt, Martin
Van Buren, and Silas Wright.
Before | was born, in 1910, Fernan-
do Wood was elected to Congress.
There he messed with William C.
Riyes, "Old Bill'' Allen, Willard Fill
more, Lynn Boyd, Judge Clifford and
others. He knew Calhoun, and namad
son for him. Fernando Wood says
that when he came to New York the
blocks of marble were heaped around
the unfinished City Hall, which was
probably the earliest of civic build
ings to follow the organization of the
Government. He 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, al
though Democrat, expressed the
belief that the Republicans still held
the inside position, and that the stu
alton for 1876 was very much in
Volved. Mr.. Randall was solicitous
when here that the Liberals should
enter the Democratic organization, as
the Wings had done in 1856. Ran
dali believed in a short session of
Congress, to adjourn as early as May,
and the most economical appropria-
tions. The Free Trade question is
assuming prominence it has never
had since IS42-46. Kerr, Wood and
! Cox are all Free Traders. lind Dem
ocrats of mild type, like Congress
man elect Ely and ex-member of Con-
gress Roosevelt, who would not touch
Free Trade in 1870, now radical that
way. Woods theory is that COM
merce is the best protection to man
ufactures, and that to recover power
on the sea again is to illimitably wi
den the market for our fabrics and
tools.