New-York tribune., 1880-06-21

messed in ST. LOUIS IN 1876. when the same crowd
went out TO defeat Mr.. 1ildcn, and wero beaten
themselves.
AN ACTIVE CANVASS FOR RANDALL.
GGAurYING sUCcrS, EtpoEIrp BY HIS rErrNrs-
ABOUT Fifty VOTES TNlTC1fn "N TIE llr>r
BALLuT-ruE WALLACE QCATEL m:NEwrp-
DRAWBACKS.
lBY TELEGRAPH 70 THr TEiDCNEl
CINcI>NATI, june IA great amount Of hard
work has been done to-day in behalf Of speak
Randalrs candidacy. Agents OF the Speaker. either
with or without ms apprubati0n, have been actively
canvassiug and say that they have met with grail
fying success Tn" number of Randall men ~ tie
PrunsylVania delegation ~ not put quite ~ high
Tonight as 1t WAS twrnty-four hours ago hnt the
Speaker frnd,still claim that from twenty-five 10
thirty men from the keystone Statr Will vote for hm
on the first ballot. besides these there are sad 70
be two Randall men IN the Nrv-.Irr-ry d"l"rltiou
Ntx from Mas7lrhuscit, a.! the delegates from N"w
Hampshire and scattering ones from several oihrr
States making ctwcrn tfty and sixty votes IN all
on the first ballot This /, not very much of boom,
| but It n nucleus bgrcT than some that have IN
| former Conventions developed mt" an unexpected
nomination. SPEAKER Randall would be II iEuch
stronger ct'dda'c than he ls # he could couIn nd
| tho solid support OF his own STATE. In fact, the
division IN tie Pennsylvania delegation - likely To-
stand IN tie way Of the nomination Of anV man from
|
peace was patched mp between Speaker Ran.
dali aud Senator Wallace at the Harrisburg
! Convention but the truce was Of short duration.
The old quarrel Is said 10 havo broken ont again
with increased bitterness, and Senator Wallace is
reported to have said that the Speaker shall never
| be nominated II he can prevent il. his would
seem to destroy Eandal's chances If he had any
for although the quarrel in the Democratic party in
Pcnnsy yauia cannot lie of equal National import
amce with that bet twcrn the Regulars and ammlny
in New-YoIk, since It does not endangrr
| the loss OF State, IL will be effective
| In preventing either from accomplishing much
| IN n National Convention. lIanCnck can no
more have the united support of Pennsylvania than
| Randall. An Interesting Suggestion was made by
| Pennsylvania this evening which Is gwen for what
it il worth The gentleman said that the Randall
movement was not IN earnest at all, but was simply
n "bllnd." "Dont yOn Sec" said he, THAT it
would never do for Pennsylvania delegates to vote
for a man connected with the Standard oil monop-
oy7'
TIE SOUTH HOSTILE TO RANDALL.
III one respect Speaker Randall is weak candi-
date before the Convention. He cannot expect 10
receive much support from Southern delegates.
Since he has presided over the Ilonsc Of Represent
talivcs Mr.. Randall has made few friends and many
enemies in the South lie has sought to make rep
utntiou for himself as an economist, and while his
cheese parIng policy has been mos, severely felt III
| the executive departments, where the public buSi-
| ness has been delayed and tie people have been cm
barrasscd, the South, which has been unit " for
the old flag and appropriation" has felt the dis
! COuTagIug effect Ol hlS squeezing. The ADprOpria
ton Commuters of both This and the last Congress
have been noted for their stingncss and the Suuth
has found them often standing IN tie way Of liberal
grants for its benefit
| Mr. Randall has also been opposed t0 the cnOr
nous appropriations for internal improvements in
the South, for which the Representatives from that
section have been 50 clmn0r0us. lle has been in
favor of moderate grants, but when il has been pre-
| posed to hcgin scores of new public buildings or 10
dig out the channels OF nunbrrlcSs creeks which
never carry enough water to float fatboat nor
through country which has or over will havo
much commerce, the Speaker has more than Onco
quietly sat down upon" such schemes. For this he
deserves the gratitude Of the country, but IT Will
| not bring him Southern votes IN the Convention.
| The South ~ opposed 10 Mr. Randall for another
| reason. lie IS IA prOtectIOmst. majority of his
party III the House Of representatives, both in this
| and the last Congress have desired to pass tariff
bill by which tue duties on many articles OF homo
| manu- lacture, such rs iron, salt aud wOOcn
goods shonld be repealed or. greatly reduced,
| and the Southern portion of the party has
| been almost unanimous In its demands Tor such
legislation. Speaker Randall could have con
| strucicd u Committee OF Ways and Means that
| would have reported such II bill aud the House
might very probably have passed 1t. but he did not
do it,. In the last Congress he placed Fernando
Wood ut the head OF the committee, but the chair
man found himself III minority, and when he con-
structcd his Tariff bill the committee deliberately
tore III 10 pieces anu Gu II 10
a shape that 1t was laid upon the tabio and killed.
AZ the session lust closed tho committee voted
early to report no important measures For
Democrats hold Randall responsible az well
as for their failure to reduce the taxes on whskey
| and tobacco much lower than thoy now are.
RANDALI's DILEMMA
Nothing could be moro awkward for Southern
Democrats in the South. or, for that matter. Tor
Democrats in any part Of the country except Penn