The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-04-01
WASHINGTON.
TIE GREENBACKERS WILL
HAVE TO ACT WITH
THE DEMOCRATS.
RANDAIl's CLOSE CONTEST
BIackburn's Desk Smothered
With Flowers. and Coin-
n,,,,. pliIHents.
pEMooRATIc BACK BONE.
WASHINGTON, p. G., March 2Sth.
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WAsHlSeroN, p. c., March 2Sth.
Ed. South Kentucklan; r
Now that Congress is organized for
Tho extra session, il is clear that there
Ina been some disappointment
among the Republicans Ut the turn
things have taken with reference TO
,he organization Of the House
~ f,enreseutatives. When the extra
session became inevitable there was
n IhastyL putting together of heads
aiming The radical leaders in accord
with the Administration, and tho
conclusion reached that If the new
Congress was assembled on short no.
ficc Il would catch the Democrats at
a disadvantage. There were four or
I've s;ck Democrats and Mr., Whittier,
of Oregon, it was thought, would not
be able 10 get here by the 18Th, the
day fixed upon. This with the active
co:oneration of q few Republican
t;reenbackers. was expected to give
Tho Democrats trouble, But "the
hest laid plans of mice and men gang
AT agiee.b Mr.! Whitaker chartered
a s,ecial train from San francisco 70
Omaha. making q. remarkably quick
trip. and arrived just in time while
tbe sick ones fastened to get well IN
= Z manner that must have made Gar
fslti and Rutherford very unhappy.
The Greenbackers are, think,
solnewhatd disappointed. also. Unless
tbeir leaders here were playing
desperate % game OF bluff they must
reaIiy have expected TO hold the bal,
ance of power, and that they would
be able to- name the speaker, inc
twenty odd votes they counted upon
however. dropped down to thirteen,
anl Ieft lie Democrats In a clear ma
;oritv over all. ltis safe to assume
now that. with a few exceptions, the
Greenback members will find that
they can.best serve the people ny
casting their votes with 'he Demo,
cafs '2itis here only that they will
find an opportunity TO- ivoEe success
6,,iv for measures of economy, anti
subsidy, and Of relief FROM the bur
dens tiat now Cypress the 2 land. II
| the people are 10 obtain reiiei withih
lthe nextstwo years it must come
Through the Democratic party,-Thero
are. evidences that the wise ones
,mnncsnro om mnno Ma Grcehbhck leaders begin
to anpreciate this, and, sofar ms their
action Congress, is. concerned, at
least / do not think they will throw
away their votes, though among them
are men whose object is to aid the
Republican party by drawing of
| IDemocratss into outside movements.
/ Sneaker Randall had a hart con-
| test for his reelection, and that no
lsuycecded in retaining his hold upon
| lid saysl is largely due to a comoi-
nation of circumstance. He is an
Admirable presiding officer, combin-
ling remarkable fairness Win great
| skill and ability. But In the organl-
zation of the committees, after his
former election, he is thought 10
have made some grave mistakes IN
retiring 10 the rear men who should
Ihaye been placed in front 1t is not
believed that he will repeat this er-
ror.T +, MIR. Randall was said 10 be the
1 Tildcu candidate and the hard money
candidate; but, in my opinion, neith-
err of these things entered into the
contest Certainly financial questions
had nothing to do with il. The is
sues were Randall and anti. Randall.
to which was added the question
whether the party wanted to elect all
4 ex. Confederate to 50 high an office.
This was negatived by the cx-Con-
l federates themselves, most OF whom
\ voted for a northern man. The man
Inv and magnanimous course Of Mr..
! blackburn, after his defeat; has ele-
valed him still higher than ever in
the esteem OF all Democrats. His
speech to the caucus was an exceed
lingly neat AFFAIR.", aud when he cast his
vote for Mr.. q Randall next day,
rounds ofapplausc greeted him from
both, sides of the House. Ills desk
was loaded with floral tributes, con-
spicuous among which was q mag
| nifcent basket of yiolets, with his
initials wrought in the centre. ,l5A
Tho chief topic of, interest hero
Just now is the widow divers breach
Of promise suit against the venerable
Simon Cameron, now IN progress.
Gen. Butler appears as Cameron's
! chief counsel, and there is always an
I expectant crowd gathered together
when Butler has anything to say or
! do. The impression seems TO DO
that thesG General will make it lively
for the festive widow bt tore he gels
though with the case. She claims
THAT Simon promised to marry her
,, aud make things comfortable, gen.
erally. and. with that understanding.
be was granted privileges which he
: shouldn't have had. In support of
This claim she presents, among other
: things. two or three rather dubious
! love letters. The naughty old man.
. on the contrary, thinks it is a case OF
4 black mail, and says no has already
paid her $1,000 rather than have a
: fuss about il. To make it still more
) warm ior The widow, they present in
court Mr.. Thos. NJ. Oliver. who was
Z, once supposed to be her husband, and
0 who 70 now alive and well. This CON-
] plicstcs matters considerably, as il is
!, hard to understand how Mrs. Oliver