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The Speakership.
Washington Correspondence Chicago Tribune
ADMINISTRATION Organ

Washington Correspondence Chicago Tribune,
administration Organ
How comes it that the Texas Pacif-
ic lobby feels strong enough to bold
ly enter the contest for the Speaker
ship, and how does it happen that Mr..
Goode is willing to be a candidate
for Speaker on platform which he
knows has been denounced in the
strongest terms by the Democratic
Conventions ofevery Northern State !?
I think l can shed some light upon
this subject. In the first place, it is
no secret that the Administrator is
in favor of the Tcxas-Pacific job
One of the conditions stipulated by
the Southern Democrats, who bar
gained with Stanley Matthews and
Charley Foster, was that Hayes
should pledge himself in his inaugu-
raj address to favor material aid to
the South. Hayes did SO pledge him
self in his inaugural. 1t is no secret,
either, that Hayes favors the election
ola Southern Democrat to the Speak
ership. The Southern Democrats
who were willing to assist him to
elect a Republican find that they can
not deliver the votes they promised !;
but they tell Hayes that the next best
thing is to elect Southern Demo-
crat who will be friendly to the
fraudulent Administration. Hayes
believes this, and is acting in
accord with the jobbers who
have set up the job. The influence of
the Federal Administration is be-
lieved by the Texas Pacific lobby to
be worth a great deal, and this has
given them confidence. But there is
another element which they have en-
listed from which they expect great
assistance. Certain Northern Demo-
Gratis are willing, in the face Of the
universal condemnation of subsidy
legislation by their wing of the party,
to help the Texas Pacific lobby elect
q Speaker. The leader of these re-
creant Northern Democrats is William
r.. Morrison, Of Illinois, and his ac-
tive lieutenant is William NJ. Spring.
err of the same State. Morrison, it is
well known, is the man who managed
Mr.. Kerr's campaign for the Speaker
ship two years ago, and secured for
him certain Southern votes by pledg-
ing Kerr to make the Committee
on Pacific Railroads to suit the
Iexas-raciiic interest. He has under
taken again to manage another cam
paign for the subsidy jobbers, and
has brought out Goode as the most
available candidate. The Southern
men are to be appealed to to support
him as representative man Of that
section, and it ia supposed that this
will have some effect. Singularly
Ienough, Springer, Morrison's iieuten-
ant, was one of the leaders of the FL
libusters who attempted to defeat the
Presidential count. Springer urges,
az one Of the reasons why Randall
should be defeated, his course az
Speaker in not ruling that all OF
ISpringcr's points of order were well
taken.
No one now expects an Admins
tratiOn Speaker, much less Repub-
lican Speaker. The President, un-
|doubtedIy, at one time hoped, posi-
bly, thought, that the coming House
might be organized in support Of his
policy. II was with this expectation,
undoubtedly, that tho noted letter to
Gen. Garfield was written, acquies-
cencc in which on the part Of Garfield
lost him the Senate seat which he was
then certain TO have secured. But
now the President does not expect
an organization of the House in the
interest Of the Administration. The
friends of his policy are confident
that moro efficient support for admin
istrative measures can DO found in
the House under Democratic organi-
cation than would be possible if the
Question of Administration Sor anti
Administration should be forced up
! on Tia Dcmncrafic caucus.