The Evening critic., 1881-12-02
NOTES OF THE SPEAKERSHIP,
A Democratic View.

across o patriarch of the Democratic camp
in front of the National. He strokod his
long locks, meuowed by about sixty-five
winters, and thus he spako:
The outlook? Well, so far as l can see
Hiscock is losing ground and may be sub.
stantially counted out of the fight. Tho
Speakership will go to the West, my boy.
just as sure as you live. l never saw
time when the Western men were so much
of unit on this proposition, and as evil
dence of this, learn that these Western
members who are going to give compli.
mentary vote to this or that Eastern candi-
date, simply do so in order to crafty some
personal feeling, and, whom these little
courtesies have been attended to, they all
mean to wheel in for one of their own
Western men,"
"Who will he be?"
"Oh, the situation has u mixed look :"
replied the patriarch. 81 was talking with
Sam Randall the other day, and he said in
answer to my question as to his opinion,
WELL it will be tariff man. can't say
anything more This point may be con-
sidered settled. Hiscock had sold himself,
body and soul, to the Pennsylvanians and
New England men early last spring, and,
if the political situation had remained the
same as then, he would have had walk
over. But the members don't fancy the
idea of giving everything to New York.
Now, as to protection, Keiier promises
everything. Dupnell is copious with
pledges. too, but he has small delegation,
and he will be further compromised by tho
fact that Minnesota is not tariff State
while Michigan is. | say Michigan, be-
cause Burrows. in remote contingency,
which is possible, at least, could bring up
a heavier delegation than Dunnell, and
have the further advantage of pronounced
pr0tectionist constituency. Just between
us, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that
Window, who is jealous Of Dunnell, were
trying to knife him in a quiet way, but
guess old Ramsey can neutralize this"
And Kasson?"
of all the Western men. They try TO prod
him on his tariff record, and some of them
don't like the fact that he held member
ship.in the Golden Club, as Garfield did
But, then, fthey fight him for the Speaker
ship on the point Of his infidelity, they
have sense enough to see that he might be
a hard horse to carry on the floor. See the
point So fancy that great many of
them, in view of KassOn's eminent fitness,
will accept his record rather than take the
other horn of the dilemma. Well know
better tomorrow night how the cat is 60
ing to jump. Just now, rs it seems to me,
I'd take the field against the favorites, but
Kasson appears to lead"
And still They Come.
Another Richmond is in the field for the
Doorkeepership of the House, Col. Lucien
Peyton, of Lynchburg, Va. The Colonel is
an old gentleman Of pleasant address and
may prove formidable in the present scram-
BILE, from the fact that he is backed by Ma.
hone and the Readjusters. 1t is fashion.
able time of the year, on a close vote, for
the Readjuster to come out of his hole and
announce himself. The Colonel claims the
combined strength Of the Readjuster- Re-
publican forces of his State. He'is at 1928
+ street.
See Where It stalks!
What does this Keim movement for the
clerkship mean?" queried THE CRITIC of a
Grant striker to-day.
What does it mean? Why, don't you
understand that the Cameronans in Penn
sylvania propose to knife Mcpherson at
every turn? Don't make any mistake on
the Grant business being dead. It's the
hveliest corpse you ever saw in this
locality. Mcpherson has always been a
bitter and implacable iactionist in Penn.
sylvania politics, and carried his preudices
and enmities into national politics. When
he tried to rule and stack the cards for
Blaine at Cincinnati Don Cameron held his
clans in line so long that Hayes slipped in.
There has always been bad blood between
Don and Mcpherson ever since the latter
appeared in politics, and they never let up
on each other. Keim is run in now as a
Grant.Cameronian figure head Just to kill
on MCPHERSON by splitting the delegation"
will it win p
mo doubt oft. Keim can't do more than
put McP. in his little grave, and this means
n boom for Rainey."
Soon another Grant man hove in sight
and was grappled by The critic
'Rainey?' ~ said he in reply: "Why, don't
forget the circumstance that Rainey stole
some Grant votes in South Carolina for
sherman, and the Old Guard don't propose
to forget 1t, either. Rainey will see this
coup d'etat coming home to roost. We
can't touch any man who pinned his faith
to John Sherman's coat tail at Chicago"
Hon. a. VI. CIapp
made the remark this morning that II
looked like Kasson or some Western man,
and he was also free 10 say that he thought
Rainey should be elected clerk, not only
ON general principles advocated By the
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