Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-27
THE ALLEGED DYNAMITE
PLOT"
ImpOssibiIity of Amy Such Schem
Having Been Seriously Considered.

ImpOssibiIity of Any Such Scheme
Having Been Seriously Considered.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati En-
quirer recently created a sensation by
stating, in what has been STYLED the
"Dynamite" dispatch, that during the
last session of Congress the Democrats
had agreed upon a revolution scheme to
GUST Speaker Keifer from the chair on
| account Of his arbitrary rulings
in the contested election cases. Mr.. Ken
ma, of West Virginia, he stated, was to
mount the platform and put a motion that
| would serve the purposes of the Demo-
Gratis and declare it carried. Keifer, it is
alleged, heard of the plot and was pre-
pared to offer armed resistance. Keifer
/ has been interviewed on the subject and
maintains an oracuar reticence. but
prominent Democrats deny that there was
any such scheme ON foot. The Enquirer.
of Wednesday last, says further in regard
/ to the matter:
"Our regular Washington correspond
/ ent, after reviewing the struggles Of the
! House, in the contested election cases.
and especially the Mackey- O'ConnOr case.
says of the Dynamite dispatch:
''ln all subsequent election contests, the
| Democrats refrained from filibustering
| because they well knew it would only in
! yOlve a repetition of what had already
| been gone through with. 1t is therefore
/ fair to assume that the details of the al
! legged plot could have had reference only
| to the Mackey-0'COnnOr contest, If there
was any such scheme as is outlined in the
| Dynamite dispatch it was indeed, as the
writer says, the best kept secret of the
! session.
Upon any other theory than that Ran
| dali, Kenna, Carlisle, Cox, Tucker and
other Democratic leaders deliberately plot
ted revolution, there is no way in which
the plot alleged could have been contem-
plated by them. This for the reason that
it would have been impossible to have car
ried it out. Kenna might have quietly
walked up to the Speaker and slugged
him, taken his gayel and submitted any
question which suggested itself to him:
but his occupancy of the chair would in
such cases have been Just SO long as it
would take the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest
him, or some other member to knock him
down. The revolution could not have been
brought about peacefully, because the De
mOcrats did not have votes enough to de-
pose Keifer, and the will Of the majority
rules in the House of Representatives
Some features of the alleged plot are ludi-
crOus enough for comedy. Take. for
instance, the section which assumes that
the Republicans were to be dazed by the
motion some Democratic member was To
~
posted in advance and was ready to strew
the floor with dead men. And vet with
such foreknOwledge, both himself and his
party, aggressive and well disciplined.
were to be upset by motion, which they
knew was coming, and meanwhile, Kenna,
in the role of usurper, was to take the
helm.
mo one knows better than Speaker
keifer that no such plot was ever serious
ly considered, and he could as well have
given ii a sqqare-tOed denial as an eYasiye
one. 1t makes him figure, however, in
the sense of one who put down a rebellion,
and he probably prefers to thus pose as a
hero rather than spoil the story.
1T is true that kiefer was told in ad-
vance that the Democrats intended to
offer a resolution to depose him Il was
not Blackburn, however, Nhe told him,
1t was Samuel ;. Cox (Sunsetl of New
York. If Mr.. Keifer Will tell what Mr..
Cox told him the public will get an in.
sight into the terrible plot which was an
foot to give him a chance to make .
slaugllter.pen out of the House of Ron.
resentatives with some first-class Damp
Gratis as yictims.''
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