National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-12-02
THE SPEAKER WAR.


We begin TO have doubts of the success
of our candidate for Speaker. Bull-dozing
tactics have been adopted in the fight and
Mr.. Blackburn has been compelled to take
a back seat in order to lull the Northern
Demo cratic mind into q sense Of security.
The Bull-dozing brigadiers are cunning to
the last degree, and will not surprise the
garrison by an attack in the front. They
now propose to take the fort by stealth.
Theywfll let the Northern Democrats name
the Speaker from their own section, but
they will be very careful that he is their
man. All they care for now is that TIL
den shall own him. and, as they own Til
den, they will feel secure through their
Deed of Trust on the late Democratic can
didate. 1t was by these tactics that they
secured Tilden's nomination at St. Louis.
The West now claims the Speskership by
right OF succession. 1t named MIR. Sayler,
but the bull-dozers do not consider him
safe. Re is too honest for the emergency.
Ho1. VIM. r. Morrison they will have
none OF, because be fought them nobly
under Grant. Mr.. Morrison is Bourbon
Democrat enough to please anybody but
the Bull duzers of the South, and they
could trust him were it not for his war
record. So they were bound to choose
between Messrs. Cox and Randall. The
former, being from NeI FORK, was against
him, because Tilden is from that State,
and, as q portion of the Bull-dozing pro-
gramme is to force him into the Presiden-
tial chair, the Empire State would have too
much. Then Tilden looks upon Cox with
suspicion, beholden as he is TO John Kelly
and Tammany for his seat. Neither has
the great would be President 'by fair
means or FOUL" forgotten how MIR. Cox
was dragooned from the Speakers chair
to st. Louis to use his hcrcule&n efforts to
break up his contract for the nomination,
and lie looks upon this little giant with
distrust. He might refuse to do his dirty
work. He might fail him, through Kelly's
orders, 1.-THE most important moment.
Mr.. Samuel J. Randall, of the great
State of Pennsylvania, IS the chosen of Til
den and the Bull dozers. It:wss Randall
who tried to fight their battles against
Blaine last year on amnesty, although he
could not make much of q hand at it.
Morrison would suit Tilden better if he
would consent to play the full game, but
the Bull-dozers suspect him fully IS much
on account of his war record as Tilden
does Cox on account of his St. Louis
record. Well, it is none of our fight We
have got to be satisfied with the choice of
the Bull dozers and Tilden. They are all
a slippery, bad lot. We have thought well
of Mr.. Randall. We supported him for
Speaker last year, but he behaved SO badly
on the floor, and so meanly about sppro-
priations, that we 'fsoured" on him, and
now can only look complacently upon his
elevation to the Speakers chair, because it
will take him from the head of the Appro-
priations Committee, and leave in his stead
the great defeated, but honest, general OBJ
jector, Holman. 1t will ba some comfort
to have Holman where he can defeat all
the Jobs Of the Bull -dozers this winter BY
holding the floor for his lean appropria-
tons. We sympathize with Morrison, but,
like poor dog Tray" he is the victim OF
his bad associations.
The protection proclivities of Mr.. Ran
dali and his Janus, faced financial policy,
his salary grabbing Inconsistencies, Lave
no influence with the free traders. Tilden
and the Bull-dozers have made up their
minds that they can handle him and make
him ''toe the mark" in the anticipated
revolutionary pinch which they have in
contemplation. If they ''cstch q Tartar
it will be no concern of ours We should
have preferred Mr.. Blackburn, as a man
who would boldly and frankly avow his
sentiments and policy. He would be Fl!
representative Of his party in the expected
emergency. But he is out of the ring
Samuel J. Randall is the man.