The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-07

Organizati.n of the Next House OF
Representatives-ih ne Democratic
Csucus-RandalI VIII Open IL with
the Heaviest VOte-GOOde-B Black
burn-WiIIium X. Morrison for
speaker.
Charles Selby (Richard Randolph Mac
Mahen) in the Wheeling Register.
The next House of Representatives
will be organized with small Demo-
cratic majority, sufficiently strong, how
ever, to pace the controlling power in
legislative matters outside the Repubii-
Can grasp. The first prelude, after the
caucus, will be the selection OF Speaker.
Both wings go into the tray each with
its own candidate. In olden times. when
political parties were cut up into Wings,
Republicans, Free Soliers, Antl-Slsvery
and Pro-Slavery Democrats, the election
OF Speaker was hand-to.hand
war. To-day, our politics being
narrowed down to Republican,
ism and Democracy, the contest Is neither
long nor fierce. Some time before left
Washington l had sD interview with
the venerable Alexander Stephens In
abiding to the Speakership Mr.. Stephens
said, "Slr the real battling Is done IN
caucus. | shsll never forget 1886 and
1888. No less than four parties held
caucuses. each with All army of can
dldates tor the Speakers chair. Even
when the House assembled there was still
a dIminutive army in the field. Long
and earnest WAS the struggle In 1886
we were seven days in closing
on n candidate. To-day the Speaker
ship is settled very briefly. The Kerr
Blaine contest was matter .. thirty
minutes"
have not followed out the workings
OF the Republican sspirants closely
enough to give you an exact measure
meat of the anticipatiOns of their promi
neut candidates, but this much l can say,
and upon the best authority, that there
will be anything but war OF roses"
between Charley Fosters admirers and
Garfeld's supporters.
Garfield wants the chair. = He gave
Senator's desk to Stanley Matthews, At
Hayes suggestion, and disappointment
will 20 hard with him. Banks, of Mass,
is now in Washington, pumping the sd.
mlnistration. Hayes, to gain Bsnkss
influence for jim Garfield, has promised
the "Old Stentor' TO look after his office
seekers.
The Democrats will stand by their own
party man. The reports of intrigues,
plots, and underground work In behalf OF
Foster amount to moonshine.
Samuel Randall will open the caucus
with the largest vote. Hewitt, ot New
York, and Randolph Tucker, OF Virginia
hold up his weakening arms, for Randall
is growing weak beyond doubt. Does it
not seem strange 10 YOU that he should
be so zeslously supported by Tilden?
Randall could have blocked the wheels
OF the mighty juggernsut-the electoral
compromise-just MS readily as Beebe
executed his war dance, and thus kept out
HAYES tor the Ex-Governor. Hewitt /:
Rsndsll's stoutest pillar, Col. Pelton is
not the weakest. Tucker first became
identified with Rsndsll's interest
through his brother Beverly Tucker, in
the contest with Kerr for the Speaker
sbip, and has adhered to him ever since.
With all his culture, ability and sristo-
cratic tendencies Tucker is liable to be
influenced BY men less and meaner than
himself. Hewitt, Pelton and the men
about MIR. Tilden have cultivated him
and he Is much under their control.
Hewitt is an ironmonger and protec