The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-19
THE CAUCUS.
THE FEEBLE OPPOs sITI0N TO RANDALL
IN THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS
CALDwELLs DEFEAT.
The Louisiana DeIega atisn-spOfYOrd and
Eustis Certain Of Admission-The
Only Republican Represen-
tatlve from Louisiana.

Only Republican Represen-
tatlve from Louisiana.
Especial Correspondence N O. Democrat.l
The EBBITT HOUSE, /
Washington, October ii, 1877.
1t seems to have been pronounced case Of
great cry and little wool. refer of course to
the contest over the organization of the
House. After all the rumors of wars; after
all the dark intimations Of treason and STRAIT
agem; and after all the brief hours strut OF
the little candidates In their masquerade
panoply of strength" and chances - it must
be said OF
THE CAUCUS
that 1t was most commonplace affair, which
never once rose to the importance OF con-
test; much less did it assume such proper
tions Of desperate struggle as had been by
many anticipated. So far as discomfort has
existed, it was indeed loud, but in no case
deep. Ii there we're any fierce resolves or
solemn determinations they evaporated on
that easy first ballot in which
MIR. RANDALL
quietly walked the clear track The Demo-
cratic party is still the Democracy There
are no chasms in it that child just able to
walk in the faith of the fathers could not step
over with impunity. Some personal aspira-
tions have been dashed and some heads have
been smitten-not with the cudgel of defeat
but with the stuffed club Of mere disappoint-
ment. Of course some of the smitten heads
are sore, but none of them are broken.
know this to be a fact, because have felt of
them and the skulls are all Democratically
solid.
Nor will there be any fire in the rear to-
morrow when the verdict of the caucus comes
up for affirmation in open House. Some mem-
bers may not be there to vote for Randall,
but there will be enough to elect him, and
that is all that the National Democracy cares
to know. Those who stay away, If any do,
will have to settle the matter with their con-
stituents, and hence it is no business of mine.
Some Of us may have preferred other men to
Mr.. Randall, but hope all of us preferred Mr.
Randall to any other man who was not
Democrat. At all events this is not the
proper time to settle any family feuds.
As to
THE REFLECTION OF MIR. ADAMS,
it was q surprise to most people here and
doubtless likewise to the general public 1t
WuS ULouks huoub Ny LIlO ulOuSuGdIy ItStub-
ment of q dozen men who had been confident
ly counted for Caldwell, and, as explained in
a telegram, was an act OF retaliation. Mr..
MorrisOH'S remark to me in an interview q
week ago that the friends of Caldwell could
hardly hope topull their candidate through
unless they helped the opponents of Randall
to begin q general slaughter of the old ticket,
turns out to have been significant The dele
cations from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi
and North Carolina as theextent OF Randali's
vote showed went for him r1v
quite solid. These delegations wanted
Caldwell chosen Clerk. So the delega-
tlons of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Mis-
so souri, which were tha largely against Ran.
friends on the angry spur of the
by voting solidly for Adams. | sup
pose this balanced the books. Statesmen are
made of clay, and the ordinary passing re-
sentiments OF our common nature decide re-
suits as often as weightier considerations do.
There has never been any complaint of per-
sOnal inefflcieney, much less of corrupt prac-
tiee, on the part of Mr.. Adams in his admins
tration Of the duties of the clerkship. He made
some mistakes, which great many members
thought grievous. In dispensing Che patron
age of his office in the last Congress. But it
Is decidedly probable that he will profit by
experience and omit to repeat them Adams
Is good fellow; never wanting from his post, |
and always affable and obliging In the dis
has incurred in the past has been justly
to certain of his subordnates-al
fact which is probably more of a misfortune
than a fault. Ii he profits by experience, /
DO not see any good reason why he should
fail to command reelection so long as the
Democrats retain control Of the House. But
this sort of comment is not profitable use
Jf space.
Changing the subject to matters of more
particularly domestic interest, let me say
chat for the first time in sixteen years
LOUISIANA,
The garden of the South, is represented in
Congress by a delegation that is In all essen
tials respectable, and in many particulars
eminent, both as to character and capacity. |
That
sPoFFoRD AND EUsTIs
will be seated in the Senate need not be Sc
riously doubted. The only question now is
whether they will be sworn in at once, or
compelled t. wait still useless delay and
fully up to the Senatorial standard OF the
present, and immeasurably beyond that Of
,he late past. Mr.. Spofford has already, during |
MS two weeks stay, made q deep and most |
public that gathers here. Mr.. Eustis had |
already made himself known and re-
'pected. When two men like these come |
20 honor. the places SO long usurped and dis |
yraced by the cattle that have preceded |
hem, the change is sufficiently radical to
mark an epoch. khe two men will make an |
admirable Senatorial team, for that each |
seems particularly endowed with those ele.
nents OF usefulness which the other may
ack; 50 that they may work together for the |
rood Of the State and without getting in each |
,thers' way.
In the House the delegation will stand five
Democrats to one Republican; for
ACKLEN
will displace Darrall as soon as committee
an be formed to examine and report
lpon the case. Mr.. Acklen will enjoy the dis
inction OF being the youngest member of
he Forty-fifth Congress, at the outset,
With plenty OF opportunity to win all other
pecies Of distinction. But the honor of being
elected to represent the sugar bowl district Of
louisiana at the age of twenty eight is not to
'eHghtly estimated. / have but one apprehen-
ion for Aeklen's future. Men like him have
ome here in by-gone years, young, rich,