The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-07
HENRI OF LOUISVILLE.
rhe Courier-Jonrnal Man Submits to
the Interviewer The Speaker
ship and the Presidency,

New YORK, June Cone of the party OF
prominent Kentucky gentlemen now in this
city, is Henry .Watterson the editor OF The
Louisville Courier-Jounal. When met to-
day he said that he had come to New York on
business connected with the Southern Exposi-
ton at Louisville, and he did not care to talk
politics. He was asked, however, what he
thought Of the contest for the speakerghip.
Il think there is Ito doubt of Mr. Carhsle's
election, he replied He viii be the next
speaker, and viii probably give greater salts
faction TO both parties as the occupant OF the
chair than any man who ever sat in it. Car
Isle is a perfect parliamentarian; he has a
clear, incisive and Judicial mind he is a
graceful orator, entirely without passion or
prejudice, and lie is as Just man rs ever
breathed All these qualities will combine to
make him speaker after the model of the
speaker Of the house of commons
Glow does Randall stand in the racer
Il don't think Randall will get fifty votes.
He surely won't got ten votes in the south and
not more than ten in the west | don't be-
heve he win go before the caucus. The OBJ
iections TO him are that he voted for the
tariff commission bill To nominate such a
man and throw overheard a representative OF
the whole body of Democracy, like Mr. Car
isle would be preposterous."
what do you think of Mr.. Hendricks
nomination on the ticket of 1884,"
II don't want to talk about Mr.. Hendricks,
but you can put it in the strongest language
you can command that under no circum-
stances viii Mr. Tilden be a candidate next
year No person on earth can make Mr.. Til
den candidate He would not take the
nomination if the Democratic convention
were unanimously TO proclaim him its candi-
date. | am not speaking for Mr. Tilden in
any way, but my relations are near enough
to him to. make the statement that he is not
and win not be a candidate in any event.
1t is not worth while to come from
Kentucky to New York to say this, and it is
so certain truth that il seems almost absurd
to utter it, Mr.. Tildens friends in the west
and south are Shaping themselves for an en-
tirely different set of circumstances from
those that would arise from his candidacy.
But does not Mr. Hendricks interview in
dictate possibility that he had consulted Mr.
Tilden"
Mr. Hendricks never had any confidential
relations with Mr. Tilden There is nothing il
OAiCll pdob iSldulOho NuICA hOulu JUSTLY IIlt
belief that Mr. Hendricks expressions wer,
the result of any concert of action with Mr.
Tilden l don't believe that Mr. Hendricks
has seen Mr. Tilden since the celebrated inter
view at Saratoga in 1876"
Have the friends of Mr. Tilden any par
ticular candidate?'
''The distinctively Tilden element is no
massed on any particular man, No, Mr.. Da
ma and myself are both friends of Mr., Tilden
but we pull at crosspuTposes in the party.
| have not seen men like Mr.. Manning, Johl
| Bigelow, or Manton Marble, who are re
garded as close personally to Mr. Tilden, anC
have no idea how they stand"
who is the leading candidate among Ken
| tuckians?"
Mcdonald is the man spoken of univer
sally. If Kentucky were to speak tomorrow
| he would be named without dissentin;
| VOTE
Considering the result in 1880, when tn
tariff was prominent, what is the probabl
outcome next yearm
"You might as well forecast horse-rac
| or the caprice of woman think the can
paign of 1880 was Pennsylvania campaign
1t was run by Randall and Barnum, hot
protectionists, who ran away from the plat
form and let the Republicans force the ISSUE
The platform of 1850 was the same as 1876
and if it was beaten it was because the i;su
was mishandled"