The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-05-04
The Speakership--Again.

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The Washington correspondents viii not
drop the subject Of the speakership Of tue
next House of Representatives. They are
! in constant communication with the ONCE.
holders in the House, whose positions are
ali in danger Of being changed II a change
takes place in the speakership, and so II IS
not surprissns that the correspondents learn
to feel an interest in the subject themse'sees'
II sAYLsn should be Speaker an ONO man
could hardly be Sergeant-at-Arms, anu 90
Tuoxrsos and all his clerks are Interested IN
tho 6esna. Of SArL.R. II BLACKBURN shoaio
=. sneaker ApAMs's chances for the clerk
chin would be diminished, and so ADAMS
.nd his all clerks, it may well be supposed,
,,,o onr;ous not to see Kentuckian electeu
Sneaker. Thus it comes about fhat IN IN tue
offices connected with the House there IS a
constant flow OF conversation on this SUD-
feet, and thus 1t is that the Washington cor
RESPONDENTS devote so much OF their tsme
to speculation upon it. - 80
As to ADAMS, we may say that ne VIII al
most certainly be renominated for Cierk;
and therefore that BEAcKBrRN will not be
nominated for Speaker.
The latest reference to the speakership
which we have seen is in Wednesday'sNew
York Herald. whose Washington CORE
spondent writes as follows: ..,...:..4..,
alt is said that the southern Democrats
intend insisting on controlling the question
of the speakership OF the next House,
which. il will be remembered, in the last
Congress they left to their fellow-Democrats
in tho North and West. with the result OF
Mr.. kerr's election. They did this from
feeling that with their recent accession TO
power it would, in view OF the presidential
election. be good policy as we'll as in good
taste to allow their claims as q majority
of the dominant party in congress
70 lie in allowance, but with the
comrlete restoration Of the South to its
constitutional place in the Union there are
now mo sectional differences, to be recog-
nized. The country is a unit, and candi-
date from the South has as good right to
the speakership as one from the North.
Hence it is proposed to run Mr.. Goode, OF
Virginia, in opposition 20 Mr. Randall from
the North and Mr.. Morrison from the West,
and let the best man win in the caucus.
The movement is said to have the support
OF Senator Gordon, OF Georgia, and to be
undertaken out OF friendship to President
HAYES. who would ind southern Speaker
better supporter Of his policy than a
northern Democrat ~ ..... .. .. ......s
We don't credit this story, and Tor seve-
eral reasons First, We have no doubt that
the Virginia delegation, including Mr..
GooDE, will vote in caucus for Mr.. RAN
DALI, who, we think, will certainly be
nominated for Speaker. All the Democrats
who approved of his course in the last
House ought to vote for him. Secondly, we
do not believeth Senator GORDON has ever
expressed himself in favor OF such move
ment. He has nothing to do with the or
canization Of the House, and his interior
ence would be n sort Of intermeddling to
which be is not given. And thirdly, as Mr..
RASDALL's rulings made Mr.. HAYES Presi-
dent, he is the last man in the Union who
ought to plot for RASDALL's defeat; and we
don't credit the story that the President has
done so. ..., 81. .r = .,..',.,. -..
The South has as good right to the
speakership as the North; but that is not
the question involved. Oregon has as good
right to it as either the South or. the
North. But this is not the question. Who
ought to be Speaker? is the question to ask
Let him be the right man, and no other
cuestioo mood he asked