New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-22
MR.. RANDALHs CHANCES.

sToOD-A HARD-NONEY MAN FROM FIRST TO
IAsT-ms FRIENDS CONFIDENT OF HIS NoMNA-
TON ON THE SECOND OR THIRD BALLOT.
lrRoa THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF Tux TRiBuFtI
PHILADELPHIA, Nov 20.-A great many statements
have got into the newspapers oil late about MI h'il-
dal that might occasion meIrment to ms trends py
reason of the absurd they contain. If they did
not tend to do him serious injustice aud were not ne
signed to cripple him in his race for the Speakelslp
One of these statements is that he Is an lniaonlst
The currency this report has had is good illustra-
ton of how readily people forget the records OF
their public men, aud how ruInOr or a fabrication
started for political effect will ofteu outweigh the
votes and speeches of ten years. For year or two
after the battle Of Bu Run the country and the
army believed that Con- Mcdowell was drunk on
that OCCASION while the truth that he was then
and had been all his life total abstinent OF the
sturdes sort and the sole foundation for the report
was that during the night retreat he was seen To nod
in his saddle from extreme fatigue az he rode along
The foundation for the story about Mr.. KandaPs
favonnr imitation is Just ~ flimsy. His party III
Pennsylvania crazy after the OHIO rag BABY III
the late canvass and therefore, il is argued, he must
be an infatonist The truth is Mr. Randall Is aud
Las always been earnest consistent advocate oil
currency based upon gold aud silver, and no man III
Congress has a more straightforward record on the
lers and Keleys to ran the country off the road 10
RESUMPTION and plunge it into b0ttomless slough
OF paper money ever got any cOuntenance from hlm'
In 1874 he went TO the State Convention of bis
p9rtv at Pittsburgh and, with Buckalew and others,
had platform ad0pted that contained the most
terse and unequiy0cal declaration in favor of re-
turn TO specie that emanated from any convention
that year. This year he went to Erie and worked
hard TO keep the party true to It's ancient ialiH'
After winning victory in the Committee on kes0-
buttons be was beaten by trickory in the Convention
They have also a story in Washington that the
iobbers want TO have Mr.. Randall elected. Mi the
old members know that for twelve years The House
has had no more uurelenting opponent OF land
grants, subsidies, the innumerabie jobs that
slinl, into appropriation bills and the mutiiOrm
steals that generate in the lobby like bugs under
stone. than samnel j. Randall. Perhaps in making
a list of Democrats most distinguished FOR hostility
TO all kinds Of extravaganza aud jobbery, the name
Of Mr.. Holman OF Indiana might be placed lirst, but
Mr. Holman is universal objector, scekingfo pare
down all appropriations in the ratio, and oppos-
ing every project good or bad, which needs money
TO carry il on; while Mr. itaHdall takes the
harder part of investigating and dis eliminating Tho
story about the friendship of the lobby Tor Mr. Ran
dali started in Washington newspaper, whose
editor had "a finger in m0th-pIcventiye for army
clothing which took $4,000 year from the treas
nry for what army officers said was not worth
s. 0O0 until Nh Randall got after the JOB and Killed
il in an appropriation bill.
Mr. l!andalps views i'll reference 10 the financial
course to be pursued by the Democrats i'll Congress
are well known here He believes in Strengthening
the credit Of the nation by strict economy in all its
departments. The annual appropriations can, he
Thinks be cut down $50 900 600, and take, reduced
10 the extent of $4,000, 600 lie would leave a
margin Of so 600 600 between TIE total ct the eX
pendlturcs cuItaled and that of The taxes reduced
i'm order to give the Administration MOI room Tor com
paint that the Democrats seeking to embariass
il BIZ refusing snicicnt means to carry On the Tow
or1D,ent lie fayore a searching scrutiny into every
item In the volume of estimates. Where oXtraya-
CANT appropriations rest upon old laws, those laws
he would repeal, and where they depend npon the
will of Congress from year TO year, that Will shout"
be exercised in the direction otretenchment In snort
he oroposes that the Democratic House should allow
the Republican Administration funds enough to run
the Government respectfully, but with 10 margin for
stealing. As TO the currency question. Mr.. Randall
il understood to favor slow and sure progress IL
the direction of specie with no steps backward.
Mr. Randali'e friends say that lac will he over %
votes ahead of the next highest candidate on the
first ballot and that the much talked OF comilna-
tion against him is not feasible. They feel confident
Of hi. nomination on the second or third ballot
They count on 20 votes for hun at the start No
new man can be brought out, they ray, with suii-
cient strength to make head against him. Milton
Savior of Ohio Is not regarded a. Mt all formidable
Ex-Goy. Walker OF Virginia cannot get his own de-
egation to support him heartily. Both became iden-
tiled with tae imitation movement when they took
the stump for Gov. Allen in Ohio. The effort OF
some OF the feathcr-bfaned Western rag-mOney men
10 bring out man of their own extreme views
elows nabby IN the atmosphere Of Washington, nm
der the influence Of the Conservative leaders OF the
party "
A VERDICT OF $4,000.