New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-30
LIE SPE4KERNHLP CONTEST.

| TIE SPEAKERSHIP CONTEST
Recent advices from underground stations
where the various candidates for Speaker of the
next House are burrowing with great industry
seem to indicate that Mr.. Carlisle, of Kentucky,
who is understood to represent the extreme
Free Trade wing of the party led by the shy
and silent Watterson, Las been losing strength
of late, while the other Kentucky candidate,
"JDen Blackburn, has virtually disappeared
from the field. SpIinger's prospects remain un-
changed That is to say, he has not lost single
supporter but is as strong to-day rs he ever
was. Whenever he does lose supporter he
ceases to be a candidate. and his own vote Is III
the market. 1t may be said of Springer that no
man ever had "A more loyal and devoted follow
ing-no candidate ever had better backing to
trade on For whatever else may be sud of
his candidacy, rhis Mt least is true, that when
ever he grts ready to trade eff his strength he
will be able beyond question to deliver over
his whole vote. There havr boon candidates
who have traded on larger capital. but never
one on surer. The New York candidates, Mr..
Dorshcimer, Mr.. Hewitt, Mr. Waldo llutcn-
ins, and perhaps one or two others who were
mentioned "A few months ago, are understood
now to be out Of even the dark horse class OF
competitors. When orr own candidate, Mr.
Samuel Cox--whose name we never write but
with glow of pride-wcnt South a few weeks
ago. he let tall IN moment of inadgertcnce
in presence of newspaper correspondent the
casual remark that majority Of the New-Ioik
DELEGATION was already committed to him. and
that he had n sure thing This intelligence
beng speedily conveyed to the country, the
New-York candidates from Dorsheimcr down
fastened to disappear.
The unknown factor that makes just the rip
pie of an appearance at every stage OF The
equation. like the ridge which the groundnole
leaves over the hollow behind him, is Mr.. Sam
mel j. Randall, of PENNSYLVANIA. There are
days-and We venture to say ii even at the IiSk
of losing he readers faith in our inf.llibihty-
when We almost believe Mr.. Randall has Il
" sure thing" and other days when 1t seems to
us that lac has no chance. 1t Is only fair though !
to say that these last are the days when the !
great Free Trader of Kentucky lifts up his I'M |
muzzlcd mouth and discharges upon Randall /
aud the State Of Pennsylvania his unanneacd !
vocabulary. Those are days when we tlmii |
folks are prone 10 think nobody mas any chanc
of Kentucky. When we hear what
these fierce Free Traders say, and read what
they wlitc, we are very much inclined to thinh
that Mr.. Randall can never be Speaker without
the very reddest sort OF blocdshrd between has
seat aad the chair. But when we recall history
when We see Mr.. Roger ;. Pryor practising law
in the most peaccabie fashion in our own
courts, aud remember that Mr. Wattcrson him
self after his most stormy moments at Louis
Vile sits down in Ncw-loGk, the very reverse
IF dangerous, among thuSe whom he has I'M
)alcd with his fiery D"n-we lean to the sweet
conviction that there would he no sweeping
.arnage that Mr.. Randall would only have to
walk over three or four dead bodies before
.cacliiug the chair. 50 while we are compelled
o consider Mr. Randall possibility, and. of
,ou1se, compelled to bolieye-by oUr faith i'm
he earnestncss and sincerity of Tie Courier
IOurHdi of LOuisyIe-that he can only reach
he chair over the bodies of maItyrcd Free
rraders-we do indulge :hc fond, the patriotic
rope, that the number of the slain will he
within such reasonable limits that the entire
ime Of the next Congress will not be occupied
With their obituaries.
As to Mr.. Eaton, Of Connecticut, whom TIE
TRIBUNE has, for reasons stated, set down n
he most promising Z" dark horse IN the field
We suspect lie has hamstIung himself. The
World newspaper signalizcd its entrance upon
new career by setting traps fer various
rominent statesmen Ii caught several
IN png them Mr.. Eaton, who, in his bursting
God nature stepped in. He had fair chance
ot exactly fighting, but a waiting chance. s
lie was the author of the Tarif Commission
ill., but not committed for or against its re-
ults, or committed at all upon the Tariff bill of
he last Congress- upon which all the othtr can
idates had made a record. Could he have {
ept still lie would have been very formidable |
dark horse" lie cond not. His mouth went
Fl. His scalp hangs at the belt of the new '
ditoi of Tie World newspaper. Next to Mr.. =
amucl Cox, who is our own, he was The i
'RIBUNEs candidate, and we regret that he gave
imself away. Samuel Cox alone survives the 9
APPS of newspapers and the shocks of time A
lie says little and represents less. His candl- "
acy has been treated with levity, but he re- Z
lans unmoved. If he can OILY keep still long
nough he will be the Speaker of the next
ouse And then-ah theri-what larks!
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