The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-23
WATTERSON'S IDEAS
ABOUT THE sPEAktRsHIP CONTEST.
us Claims thA. Carlisle will Pass usdsr the wire
Winnsr-Hha, Randall Is Advised to Do-The
Tariff QasstIOn IN thsN Campaign.
No "Oid Tieksr for Tildsn.

Tariff QatstIon in the NIX. CAmpAlsn.
No "Old Ticket" for Tlldsn.
NEW YoRK, November 22.-Henry Wat
terson, OF the Louisville Coarier.JoUrnal
said tonight:
II think the chances are that Mr. Carlisle
will be elected Speaker. The defeat OF MIR
Randall is certain, more certain than tht
election Of any man."
"If Mr.. Carlisle is elected, what will haF
pen?"
"The ways and Means Committee will bt
organized in a way that will make it certain
that revenue bill will be brought In
early in the session. Such bill is indis
pensible to the Democratic campaign next
year. The questions are whether the Dem
ocrats will stand and fight or run and later
on have to contest with the Republican
party on ground OF its own choosing
whether the Democratic party will meet In
National Convention without doing come.
thing 10 the way OF discussing leading ques'
tions, s,crystallizlnga q policy and formulatinga
platform. Mr.. Randall Is 10 favor OF shunn.
ing the tariH, sending 1t TO the rear. Nc
man can do that; the tariff question is at
the front, and Is there TO Ltay. Il will
down at no mans bidding. The point fol
Democrats now Is to consider whether they
will meet 1t or run away from It. - 1876
1880, and in the last Congress on the pas
sage OF the present tariff act, they met the
question. That act received but one Demo
cratic vote in the Senate, and thirteen In
the House, the latter mostly Pennsylva
mans, under the lead OF Mr.. Randall. The
Democratic party can not elect Mr.. Randall
without reversing all its enginery, setting
the clock back four years, and taking III
leader and policy directly from Republi-
cans. Mr.. Randall is making fatal mis-
take to 60 before the caucus.
VERY KIND, VERY.
His true course would be to accept the
Craftsmanship OF the Committee Of Appro'
priations and the leadership Of the House
which would now Mr.. Watterson signif'
cantly emphasized the word "now"l be
freely conceded to him. After his defeat
he may be treated as he treated his
competitor in the speakership contest foul
years ago, Mr.. Blackburn-he may get
nothing. THE election Of Mr.. Carlisle
would mean the embodying Of careful
revenue reform measure, upon which dis.
cueaion will be had in Co1greey, and from
that discussion the issues OF the coming
campaign will take shape. There are many
aspects aud degrees Of opposition among
Democrats as TO the tariff, these should be
be freely considered and debated to the
end that some fixed and coherent policy
on which the party can be fully united in
the Presidential contest may be reached.
There is no more danger OF split in the
Democratic party on the tariff question
than there was in 1916, when Vice Presi.
dent DAllss gave the casting vote in favor
OF what ia known as the Walker Tariff, an
anti-protection revenue measure.
TIE GREAT ISSUE.
"You expect the tariff to be the great
question next year?"
"The effect OF the present agitation and
the result Of the contest for the Speaker.
ship will make it 80. The question drives
at the root Of all business andall Demo.
Gratis propose to discuss present topics Of
interest. The old questions arising out ol
tho slavery agitation and the is3ues Of the
war are, in my opinion, as dead as Julius
Cn.lr. There are clats OF politicians
who are too ignorant or too lazy or too
malis snant to let old sores alone, and the
pro- ectionists will make common cause
with them, because they dare not discuss
the tariff question upon fair terms. The
intelligence OF the country will reject this
sort Of thing. People in the West are par.
ticularly aroused ss to the questions OF
business, and they mean 10 discuss them
to the exclusion Of Others"
"Wiil the old ticket lead the Democratic
forces in the new departure-the new Ell.
fort for yictory?"
THE OLD TICKET.
II saw Mr.. Tilden to-day" continued
Mr.. Watterson, "and he laughed, as he
always does, at the talk about the old
ticket, He said good many people SEEM
ed to favor the old ticket, but he was
against 1t. He is in the most excellent
health, and enjoys life, and he considers
these blessings more highly than he would
the Proficiency. The diseussion Of the old
ticket is time vested. MIR. Tilden said he
would not 60 to Washington II all the men,
women and children in the land would vol.
unleer to escort him. The West and South
arc solid for Mcdonald"
"Is Mr.. Tilden supporting Mr.. Randall?''
" don't know. never discussed the
speakership with Mr.. Tilden. As he Is
loyal to his friends, and ss Mr.. Randall has
been his friend. should ray that Mr.. Til.
den probably sympathizes with the Penn.
sylvania candidate In his contC1t. have
an idea that Mr.. Tilden concerns himself
very little about the organization OF the
House, as 1t does not concern him in the
least. He is probably not kindly disposed
toward Mr.. Cox, and he does not know Mr.,
Carlisle very we'll"