New-York tribune., 1875-12-02
DOM PIATT on RANDALL AND BOTH

SOME DTFrIDENT AND DIsiNTEREsTED REMARKS
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: In your issue of the 22d Of this month
find the following your Philadelphia correspondence.
should have found 1t earlier but for the melancholy fact
that the journal founded by Horace Greeley" has
ceased to exchange with The Capital since the death of
| that distin guished man. The paragraph reads:
The the friendship Of the lobby for Mr Randall
started in Washington newsppeT whose sSr & 6an az cd
from Treasury for what army Officers sad was nqt
in appropriation bill
Now the above sentence. which refers to the under
signed, H. after deducting three errors, the truth
| The first comes In on the assertion that
favored the appropriation The fact Is l not only
opposed, but. through James A. Garfield, killed
tho appropriation. The second. that Mr. Randall
fought that expenditure, when, II / remember
rightly he favored it, the job being OF Philadelphia
The third and that the process was not
worth Sj 900. Whx used 1t not worth five cents
This is about the truth as your enterprising
reportoral pendryer comes so ought not to com
plain. And do not Come to think OF 1t, am erateiu
to him that he did not spell my Dun, and make
erroneous illusions to my diplomatic experience.
The only candidate for Speaker who can claim laurels
for attack on the process good against mOtn'
mold, and mildcw, also magcly water repeuent, was
the Hon g. s. Cox, in of his most brilliantly witty
efforts that only convulsed the House. but awakened
those yrtuous suspicious peculiar to that body when
it notes "a large appropriation In which the members
thereof have no personal interest
In the abstract which somebody elses abstrac
ton the House Representatives, Is the most vrtuous
body organized.
on ought according to your truthful and
enterprisng correspondent dating from Philadelphia but
really suspect writing this horrible vortex Of po
litical niquty to oppose the Hon y y az candidate
for Speaker But do not. wish tho Democracy had
enough to elect him. But 1t has not THIS some
what noted political organization seems to have lost al
its instincts of in s loss of principles, and VIII
probably repeat the House the folly it was guilty OF IN
Ohio.
while it is OF my affair, or as they say on the "a
cdc slope when fellow gets his head punched or his
body perforated for bowling AT the wrong funeral this is
my corpse, being no Democrat but an irritating In
dependent, am yet opposed to the elevation to the
speakcrshp of SIR sam Randall for the following sound
reasons:
The country In this crisis demands statesman for
that place next in power and importance 10 the Pres
dency.
The Hon. sam Randall is not OF that sort.
lie IA the candidate MI Tom Scott and his elevation
looks to large subsidies This Southern coored is
rather well concealed under the accumulated fuel but
the tracks leading thereto very evident.
lie " the candidate OF the nat.oniss, and although
shrewdness Is not very striking quality Of that silly
faction has sheep enough to know the voice OF
the shepherd
He Is the candidate Of this corrupt Administration and
the organs thereof have been ndsereet enough to adyo
cafe his selection far and near
He favOrs protection not from any conviction based
on principle, although that would not help hlm IN the
estimation OF sensible man, hut because is in aid 0i
the sclsh greed or Pennsylvania Ills arOr IN this
direction to have made him one of dozen
colsplrat0rs. who, having night sessions 10 themselves
a.1neutpd the tariff violation Of tnclI oath Of Olce
tie law. ana all dccencics OF legislation.
Ilo last Winter Mr.. McCartce'5 hcnchman on the
1our tie House and IN committeeman ana favored
that official IN his attempt break down all safeguards
To The integrity of currency In return for certain
heavy contracts given by NcCartee for stun known as
hbrr paper that Is manufactured BY Mr. RandalPs con-
stuent5.
lie Is the average Congressman who cannot look be-
y0nd the selfish interests OF hs own district and fails
even 10 sec those interests clearly honestly mau or
ordinary ability he was suspected Of reading
bGok-he never uttered sentence cared to hear, or
had a view any subject cared t0 remember. While
breaing the current of IN his own district ana
state Ar sam Randall made feeble effort it is said. in
favor OF sound currency IN Pennsy iNana. ana then
failing swung round with the stream that swept To
destruction
As between tho statesman and the demagogue the
Democracy is open. TodIy sam Randall would defeat
Jefferson Tom Benton Slas Wright. The Democracy
would not be the fOrloIn. dsOfgtnzed, eyertoDe
defeated faction 1t capable OF higher aims ana
efforts. If 1t fails in fight against Grant, what can II
expect when called upon 10 oppose BrstOw Blame, or
Wdshburnel
Why not RI serve sam for the Presidency
WaSh,pg0n Nov. 30, 1873. DOSN PIArT.