Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-06-07
POLITICAL.

POLITICAL.
A Chat with Henry WsttersOn-
TiIden, Hendricks, the Taril
and the Speak ership.
The New York Tribune of this morn
ing says: One of the party of promi
nent Kentucky gentlemen now in thi
city is Henry Watterson, the oditOr o
the Louisville Courier-Journal. WheI
met yesterday he said that he had com,
to New York on business connected
with the Southern Exposition at Louis
vile, and he did not care to talk
politics. He was asked, however, " hat
he thought Of the contest for the Speak,
ership.
think there is no doubt of Mr..
Carlisle's election, he replied. "Ht
will be the next Speaker, and will pro.
bably give greater satisfaction to both
parties az the occupant of the chair than
any man who ever sat in it. Carlisle
isa perfect parliamentarian he has
a clear, incisive and judicial mind he
is graceful orator, entirely without pas.
sion or prejudice, and he is as just a man
as ever breathed All these qualities will
combine to make him Speaker tter
the model Of the Speaker of the II ouse
OF Commons. "
"How does Randall stand in the
race 90
81 'lon't think Randall will get fifty
votes. He surely won't get ten votes
in the South and not more than ten in
the West. don't believe he will 20
before the caucus. The objections to
him are that he voted for the Tariff
Commission bill. To nominate such "a
man and throw overheard representa-
| tive of the whole body of the Democ
racy, like Mr.. Carlisle, would be prOpns-
ferrous. The Tribune is supporting him
with actual heat, and the course Of the
Republican newspapers toward Mr..
Randall is conclusive against him."
What is the prospect of New York S
candidate"'
"Oh | think Sam Cox will get some
votes. The party might 90 further and
fare worse But Mr.. Carlisle will be
elected beyond doubt
"What will follow ."
"The House will be organized with
the election af "A revenue reform Speak
er, who will appoint revenue reform
Ways and Means Committee. This com
miftee will bring in a bill revising the
tariff on the idea Of revenle exclusive.
ly. There will be discussion in the
House and Senate on the bill, which
will practically go over the ground on
which the next Presidential campaign
will be fought. The gist of the bill and
the kernel of this discussion will be the
chief plank in the Democratic platform.
1t is just as certain that the fight will
be on the question of a tariff for reven ne
only as that the Convention meets. The
hullaballoo about the Kentuckians fail
ing to come up to the issue in the recent
lS76-a plain tariff. tf.for-revenue-only pro-
position-and 1890 which was the
same thinga little differently stated
were re-adopted. There is some objec-
ton to that phrase, and it is not nine.
The fundamental doctrine of the Demo-
cratic party on economic questions is
that all taxation must be exclusive for
the support of the Government. For
that principle, put in whatever mere
words you choose, the battle of 1884
will be fought by the Democracy.
What DO you think of Mr.. Hen
bricks nomination Of the ticket of
1852"
{" don't want to talk about Mr.. Hen
dricks, but you can put it in the strong
est language you can command that
under no circumstances will Mr.. Tilden
be a candidate next year. This can be
relied on as certain as any fact in
history. No person on earth can make
Mr.. Tllden candidate. He would not
take the nomination if the Democratic
Convention were unanimously to pro-
claim him its candidate ! 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 will not be candidate in any
event. 1t is not worth while to come
from Kentucky to New York to say
this, and it is SO certain a truth that it
seems almost absurd to to utter it, Mr..
Tilden's friends in the Wesr and South
are shaping themselves for an entirely
different set of circumstances from
those that would arise from his candi-
dacy.
" But does not Mr.. Hendricks inter
view indicate possibility that he had
consulted Mr. Tiden ~
hl' iitIuIlGhS never uiu any con-
tidential relations with Mr.. Tilden
There is nothing in their past relations
which would justify the belief that Mr.
Hendricks expressions We're the re-
suit of any concert of action with Mr.
Tilden. don't belive that Mr.. Hen
bricks has seen Mr.. Tilden since the
celebrated interview at Saratoga in
1876"
"Have the friends of Mr.. Tilden any
particular candidate %
The distinctively Tilden element
are not massed on any particular man.
Now, Mr.. Dana and myself are both
friends of Mr.. Tilden, but we pull at
cross purposes in the party. l have
not seen men like Mr.. Manning, John
Bigelow or Manton Marble, who are re-
garded as close personally to Mr.. Til
den, and | have no idea how they
stand"
Who is the leading candidate among
kentuckians ?"
mcdonald is the mau spoken of
universally. If Kentucky We're to speak
tomorrow he would he named without
a dissenting vote. We remember the
contest of 1880, when Mcdonald could
have been named had he so desired. | |
went to him, backed by competent au-
thority, drring the early hours of the
Convention, and told him he could he
l.ade the nominee if he would say the
word Mr.. Mcdonald replied that he
was in Cincinnati as the friend of MIR.
Hendricks. He could not be a cand-
date. 1t was in the presence of Sena-
tor Voorhees,. | don't know anything
about the indianapolis negotiations.
To the Public.
We are now prepared to sell at the
loWaat cash nricas a hattar aoI 1,rrar