Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-19
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE CONTEST FOR THE SPEAK,
ERSHIP.
Judge Erskine's Successor-Mr. Ham
mond and Marshal LOngstreet-Sena-
tor Brown on Civil Service Reform-Its
Original Patentee Under Fire-Various
Topics of Interest.

mona ana marShal LOngstreet-Sena-
tor Brown on Civil Service Reform-Its
Original Patentee Under Fire-Various
Topics of Interest.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Within the
past week there has been considerable
change in the Speakership contest. The
talk and work for different candidates has
been going steadily on. 1t is plainly no.
ticeable, however, that the strength of Mr..
Carlisle is not what it was. He is a good
deal weaker than he was ten days ago.
Mr.. Blackburn has contributed good
deal to the diminutiOn of Carlisle's
strength. He has come out strongly in
his own behalf, and announced that he is.
candidate ''to stick" He has with
drawn several members of the kentucky
delegation from Carlisle, and now claims.
with apparent reason, that majority of the
members from Kentucky in the next House
Will be for him. There is a Ood deal of bad
feeling which has been engendered be-
tween the two Kentucky candidates:
though upon the surface they appear to
be the closest kind of friends and to have
no clashing ambition. Carlisle too. was
really not as strong as he was supposed
to be on the jump. His strength was eX-
fOrcibly that he was the man fittest for the
place. Again, Carlisle is no organizer:
no master of the means employed to get the
pledge of votes. Either Cox or Blackburn
is by far his superior in manipulation, and
Randall leaves them all league behind.
Blackburn is mad with Randall. Randall
degraded him to minor places on the COM
mittees when he last defeated him by five
votes for the Speakership, Thus Black
fVxrO Of
his opponents. Randall has not
talked much, but he has done that for
which he Is so pre-eminently fitted. He
has buZZed around persistently and laid
many feet of political wires. He has been
successful, too. He has gained a little
strength almost every day. He has used
the craft of his master hand to his adj
vantage at every point He is the only
man who has made any real progress in
his candidacy. But there are large
number of new Democratic members who
have been returned to the next House,
and upon what they do will really depend
who is to be Speaker, We can, without
fear that we are wrong, assume that Mr..
Randall has already commenced to write
to them. Mr.. Hammond, Of Georgia, is
not letting the fact that he would take the
Speakership if it came his way keep him
wake of nights.
SENATOR BROWNS SPEECH.
Senator Browns speech against civil ser
vice legislation that would keep the pres
ent Republican strikers now in office a
hXity there for years, has attracted great
deal of attention. The Republicans set
him up as a sort of Democratic Jaw Hub
bell. They fairly howl with rage that
Senator Brown should lead in an attempt
to prevent them reforming the civil ser
vice as the will of the people has dictated.
Thprp a rp many fa r. -D1inda1
however, who do not hesitate to say that
Senator Brown talks common sense The
Senator generally has a habit of doing
that. The Democrats as a rule support
Mr.. Brown. OF course Senator Pendle-
ton, who hopes to be made President bv
the aid of his brand new organ
in Cincinnati and upon his civil
service reform record, is shocked
at the manner in which Senator Brown has
seen hit to deal with the subject. But the
Georgia Senator has in the main the sup
port of the Democracy. The Republican
idea that the whole gist of civil service re-
form is Congressional action that will
prevent Democrats ever having any sOlace
that the places afford is pretty clearly
seen through. The vote of last November
did not mean that the present place holders
should be kept. 1t was rather whipping
of those same place holders. The Repub-
licans in twenty-three years have sue
ceeded in debauching the civil service 1t
is no reform to say that the same de-
bauched service shall be continued i'm per-
petuity. On the whole Senator Brown has
succeeded in making a ten-strike that will
have great effect in the consideration of
the many schemes for civil service reform.
Senator Brown said: Il am receiv-
ing letters from all over the country
approving my course in opposing the civil
service bill. ] have letters from Georgia.
Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania. Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut and elsewhere of
that tenor. l believe a great majority ofthe
Democratic party think as do on this sub
ject ! think the Republicans are getting
a little discouraged about their position.
Nothing could be palmer than that
in supporting this bill they there
by practically admit they have debauched
civil the service, and say it must be
reformed by keeping it az it is believe
the bill will pass the Senate by the aid of
certain Democratic votes. 1t will. how
ever, be amended considerably before it
does.
MR.. HAMMOND AND MARSHAL LONG
STREET.
Mr.. Hammond, of Georgia, is irving to
md out about the use of special election
deputies in his district at the last
elections, 1t appears that Il
special deputy was at the polls at
Valley Forge with an arsenal of revolvers
about his person, and pair of handouts.
lie sWOre at and threatened voters. I'm
der the law no special election deputies
they are only provided for in cities of
10000 and upwards-cOuld be employed
anywhere i'll Mr.. HammOnd's district than
at Atlanta. The question is how were
these special deputies in ana around Fort
Valley appointed? Mr.. Hammond has
asked the Attorney General to give him
list of special deputies employed i'm his
district. He has been informed that Mar
shal LOngstreet did not give anv such list.
He only asked for $500 IDr the pav of
special deputies. It is a fact, under,
stand, that there We're no deputies-not
more than two at any rate-in Atlanta.
The question is where We're the other
deputies stationed that they might do the
most gOOdg
UNGRAATIATICAL HIsCOCK
Hlscock, the big Chairman of the Appro-
pFlatons Committee, is the most ungram-
matical speaker in the House. He can
vie with Logan in the Senate in mixing
sentences and paralyzing syntaX. If his
speeches read in the COHQreSsiOR0I Rec0rd
as they are delivered, the hair of the pub
lie would stand on end for the cause of
education. They would form one of the
strongest arguments in favor of govern
iHSHt aiu u lHe cause OF eQuCaI1On. His
cock does not feel well unless he uses a
plural nominative to verb in the singu-
lar, and vice versa, In the mangling of
the yernacular does HiscOck live from dav
to day, And then his pronunciation. He
says "Philadelphy," git" II am an
posed" ''Legislater," and makes other
gross mistakes too many to talk of. If
Hiscock, instead of hailing from New
York, had come to Congress from a South
ern State, HIS illiIeracy would have long
ago became a national by-word through
the educated press of the North. Fsthetic
Boston would. have hOwled-if it could
possibly under any circumstances be so
indecorOus.
THE JUDGESHIE
Speaking of the matter that Farrow is
supposed to want to he Judge in Judge
Ersklne's place, a gentleman who was
present at the interview speaks as follows:
'Farrow cannot hunt for the place for
himself an1 sG keep faith. When the two
Republican Conventions net il Atlanta
the Custom House Convention and the
capitol COnventiOn'-FarrOw wanted to
get j. ID. Cunningham to take a place on
his ticket and be its candidate for Attor-
nev General. He went TO Cunningham.
and in lay presence said to him that if he
would accept that nomination he Far
row j when the question Of Erskineis sue
cessOr game up, would not only not be
very best TO get the place for Cunning
ham. Upon these fair promises Cunning
ham, who also wanted the JudgeshiD
McCay got, consented to be candidate
for Attorney General upon Farrow's
ticket -