The daily gazette., 1877-10-10
The Contest for Speaker
NOT 4 DELEG1TT0N BUT WILL
GIVE VOTES FOR MIR.
,e-9 RANDALL, .s.sre
MANY DELEGATIONS SOLID FOR HIM
THE LATEST ATTEMPT TO COMBINE
AGAINST HIM CERTAIN TO FArt-'
ir g ALIvELY CONTEST FOR THE 1fH.I'
..a.,., b CLERKsHIP--THED DEsPoN- 4.t-e.
DENCY OF Mr.. ADAMS'

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DENCY OF MR.. ADAMS
i3Yr'l14H rN FRIENDS. ~ P'-.lll
-tfW fWAsHINGToN,t Oct. S.-There iS still
very little excitement over the Speaker
sh' p contest. a few more members ar
rived to-day, but there are still very few
here. M. Cox was the only member
from New York State in the city to-day.
There are only three from Pennsylvania,
none from New Jersey, and but two
from Virginia Thus far the members
who have arrived report in Mr.. Randalls
favor, There is not a single delegation
from which he will not get some vot :,
and eight large delegations are solid for
him. He hfsevery vote from New Eng
land, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Delaware five out of the six from
Maryland; West Virginia solid three
| from Virginia under all circumstanc. =,
and all except one if Goode is not a can
didate; all from North CarohnaG two
| from South Carolina, and all from Geor-
gia and Alabama. Louisiana will give
MIN one certain, and probably three, Tex
as all except one, Arkansas the same
Tennessee all except one, who may go
| for him. From Missouri he will get
two certain, and perhaps more. lii
nois will give him two, even if Morrison
is a candidate, and 81 if he attempts to
transterhis strengthto another to beat Ran
| dali. From Wisconsin to MichiganRandaN
will get two votes, and from Indiana one.
He will get two votes from Kentucky,
even il Blackburn is a candidate Ii
| Blackburn gets out of the way Randall
will get four votes from that State. From
| OHIO Randall hes four votes, with Sayler
off the track. From New York he will
get three votes If Cox is a candidate, and
all but two if Cox comes out of the fight.
Mr.. Hewitt will not be back in time for
the caucus. He wrote to his brotber-lr-
law, Mr. Cooper, to get him pair " -th
some friend of CoX's. Mr.. Cooper Nv
Cox, and communicated to him Mr..
Hewitt's desire, and Cox promised a
pair, but on Saturday last he wrote to Mr..
Cooper that the best he could do was TO
get a Republican pair for Mr. Hewitt,
which was not what he promised. w..
The opponents of Randall are despon-
dent aud desperate. Mr.. Sayler Is not
here, and his friends who represent him
do not enter into any of the despicable
intrigues which some of the other can
didates are engaged in, to effect combi-
nation against Randall. The latest dc =
vice of NJ orrison aud his lieut.. Springer,
is to have each of the candidates oppol- =
ing Randall namea man to represent hi %,
these men to be a committee to decide
who is the most available man to beat
Randall with. Blackburn and Morrison
have agreed to this, and Cox is not
ready TO decide until he he hears from
John Kelly. Goode of Virginia and Say
ler are not here. The former has ex-
pressed his preference for Randall, and,
lif he is not candidate, will vote for
him, Sayler will not agree to any such
arrangement, The attempt at combina-
ton will, therefore, fail + but even if it
should succeed, Randall will! go through
without trouble, for the simple reason
that not one of the candidates against
him can transfer his strength. If Sayler
was to join the combination, he could
not deliver four votes from Ohio, and
Morrison would be unable to deliver
more than his own and Sprlnger's. Cox
could not deliver three votes from New
| YORK, and Blackburn not more than two
from Kentucky. The election of Randall u
is, therefore, an assured fact.
The contest for Clerkship is more ami
mated than that for the Speakership.
The friends of Mr.. Caldwell of Alabama
! are here in force and are making very
: active canvass. He will poll more votes
from the South than the incumbent, Mr..
Adams. The friends of the latter are
r rather despondenr this evening, but, still
} hopeful. The contest will be close, with
{ the chances in favor of Caldwell The
l reported agreement of nineteen memoe1s
: to stay out of the caucus is foolish story
} started by some irresponsible scrlboler'
: The Southern Democrats are in nowise
: inclined to leave their party organZa-
r ton. They are not disposed to accept
the suggestion ofthe Fraudulent Admin
, istration in selecting a Speaker. They
/ generally agree that they owe debt OF
gratitude to Mr.. Randall, and they mean
: to pay it by supporting him for the
/ Speakership. AS to the selection of the
z subordinate officers of the House but lit
: tie has yet been said. Although there
, seems to be no opposition to Thompson,
. the present Sergeant-at-Arms, there W
be lively contest for Doorkeeper, but
nothing can be predicted as to the'result
} at this writing.