Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-10
A NEW DARK HORSE.
Wm. L. Scott Believed to be Ttldeh;s PO'iti-
cal Heir.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
A leading Democrat from the interior of the
State, at one time member of the State Sen
ate and for years high in the councils of the
party, was met by accident yesterday. During
the conversation that followed, the subject of
who the next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency would be came up incidentally.
The Press man spoke of the belief, fast gain
ing ground among the Philadelphia Democrats,
that Randall is the coming man.
81 am sorry to think they are mistaken" was
the answer; sorry because Randall eminently
deserves the nomination at the hands of the
Democracy. But he made frightful mistake
at Harrisburg in securing the defeat of the
unit rule-a mistake which have reason to
know he to-day bitterly regrets. If the unit
rule had been adopted, such was the temper of
the convention that the delegates to Cincinnati
would have been instructed for Randall, and
united delegation to the convention for Randall
from his own State would have gone far to
give him the nomination. Too late he sees his
mistake. A divided delegation is the result,
and no man can hope for nomination who
appears before that convention with those, who
above all, should be his supporters, split into
fragments"
''Who, then, do you think will be the win
ming man ?"
Zone who has not yet been brought before
the public, but who, nevertheless, has been in
training in quiet for year past. mean Will
liam l.. Scott. of Erie"
but where will he get his strength ?''
'Pll tell you. The fight in the country to.
day is against the overwhelming power of or
ganized capital as represented more particu-
larly by the national banks. 1t was their
money that saved the national government to
the Republican party in 1872 and 1876, and it
is their money that cries for third term to
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party have, at length, become shrewd enough
to know that the country is waking up to the
enormous danger of concentrated wealth to the
continuation of our republican form of gov
eminent, and they propose to make this the
biggest issue of the coming campaign. But,
poor as church mice, the Democracy must have
money with which to fight the battle and this
they will secure from the great railroad cor
porations, who have become from variety of
causes, the bitter enemy of national banks"
''Then Uncle Sammys 'bar'p will not again
be tapped?"
''That bar'l is good deal of sham. hap
pen to know that the major part of the money
put up to elect Tilden over Hayes never came
from him. Why, l know that Scott went to
Vanderbilt and said: L want $4,000 from
you to help Tilden along But said Wander
bilt, Pm no Democrat NO answered Scott.
nor Republican either; and want the money
and the next day Vanderbilt gave the money in
bank notes. 1t won't DO, SAID he, as he
shelled out the roll. so have any checks in
such matters Scott, 1 repeat. l thoroughly
believe to be the coming man. His Democracy
is above reproach. He has himself abundance
of the sinews of war. being worth way up to
ten millions, and the largest controller of rail-
roads of any one man in the nation except Jay
Gould. Besides this, his public and private
character is without stain. l am just up
from Washington, and the way the wires are
heinz Oulled ther re- for Scott ia a canton. i be-
lieve, beyond all doubt. that he, above all other
men, could carry old Pennsylvania with a
hurrah, and where, OH wherel would the Re-
nm blican party be then?"