The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-04-18
Mr.. Randall.

We have no patience with the violent
assaults which are made upon Hon.
Sam'l J. Randall in some quarters, and
which seem to be inspired by an insane
intent TO hound him out Of the Demo
cratic party. TO oppose his election for
Speaker of the House of Representatives
is one thing, and very proper one for
those who are not in accord with him on
the tariff question, and can find another
man more to their liking to assail
him with abuse and Misrepresentation is
quite another. Such treatment of him
i'll BELTS Southern men especially.
There was time when there were but
few men in Congress from the North who
had the courage to dc nounce and resist
the proscriptiye policy Of the dominant
party. They could be counted on your
fingers end Mr.. Randall was Of the
number. When the Democrats obtained
control Of the House Of Representatives,
under his wise administration, notwith-
standing an adverse Senate, appropria-
tions were reduced from twenty to thir-
ty millions Of dollars year.
There is but one point of difference
that we know of between Mr., Randall
and any other class of Democrats, and
that is the Tariff On that question he
is further removed from the strictly
'Tarif for Revenue only reformer, than
we would like. But why make fish of
one and flesh of another? Mr.. Guman,
Senator from Maryland, from his seat,
said that nearly every Democratic Sena-
tor had deserted his "Tariff for revenue
faith, and gone off after the hesh-pots
when his immediate interests were in
volycd. Georgia has Democratic Sen
ator who is VIGOROUSLY a protectionist.
The Louisiana Democratic statesmen
clamor vociferously for high Sugar
Tariff, and the Missouri Senators are
protectionsts when it comes to zinc. The
Maryland Senator, who impeached the
orthodoxy of his colleagues, made no
secret Of his advocacy of protection so
far al the interests of his own State were
concerned, and gloried in it. If Ran
dali wants Pennsylvania interests fos
tered by discriminating Tariff, he has
an abundance of Democratic example
and we cannot understand the reason
or the justice, of singing him out FOL
vindictiye assault. We are on the evt
of a Presidential election, and it vii
require the hearty cooperation of tht
party, and a liberation Of differences t.
triumph over the Republican part.
which never fails to gather up its full
= strength when the control of the govern
ment is the stake contcnded for
Since the above was written we hay
read with pleasure in the Harrisburg
Patriot, the central organ Of the Penn
sylyania democracy, an earnest plea 70
harmony. In reference to Mr.. Randall
position on the Tariff it says;
The democracy is the party of tn
constitution and therefore cannot b
for tariff laid solely for the purpose o
: protection. Indeed Mr.. Randall, who
misrcpresented by certain Republica
journals as the peculiar champio
of projections, has declared on til
floor of Congress that tariff for protet
ton merely is unconstitutional. Thi
is so clearly proposition that it require
no argument to establish it. 1t folio 6
therefore that all tariffs must be laid fo
the purpose of raising revenue and o
: this all Democrats are agreed Protet
$ ton, however, will be an inevitable inc
dent of any tariff that can be devised b
any party during the next twenty year
= The fact being settled that all Democrat
r are united in the opinion that tariff
G must be laid for revenue and not fC
for protection, there can be no divisio
> of the democracy on principle.