Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-06
THE sPEAKERsHIP CONTEST.
FolltIcIans Trying to Learn the ReIa-
i've strength OF Randall, Carlisle, and
CoX-The Unpopular Postal Note.

AS election day approaches an extra
ordinary degree of interest is deyeloped
IN the Speakership fight that is expected
10 Degln IN earnest within a fortnight.
IoItlclahs VINO are interested for what
they may get out of the contest. and more
or less humble citizens who only watch
the struggle for the place, are alike but
tonhollng all the people they meet to as
certain whether the chances of Randall or
Carlisle, or Cox are the best. With the
politicians it does not take long to dis
cover who the inquirer is for. If he is a
Randall man he will speedily express his
contempt Tor the suggestion that it is pos
sloIe that Cox or Carlisle may win, and
he Will go on to explain how suicidal it
would be for the Democratic party not to
select the recognized defender of the ultra
pr0tectl0n Idea when the Republican
party had been winning for years with
the cry of protection, and the Democratic
party should be admOnished that in order
TO win next year it must abandon its
glbberlsh about tariff ''for revenue
only" or "Only for reYenue,v and listen TO
the popular demand for all the protection
tnat American industry can stand.
UnOOunded confidence in Mr.. RandalPs
success is the characteristic of
all RandalPs takers here, PerhaDs
the air of confidence may be assumed. A
Democrat who has watched MANY contests
for the Speakership said to your corre-
spondent day or two ago: ''All this talk
about Randall being as good as elected is
dun. sam Randall ALWAYS did DlaV a
bluff game. Whenever he has been a
candidate 1t has been the regular thing to
see 1t declared, here and there, all over
the country, that Mr.. Randall had nothing
to do but to come here and take his seat
under the big eagle in the House of Rep
resentatives. l say it is bluff game, and,
to use poker expression, Randall is bluff
ing on two deuces. That's about the state
of his hand" While some of Mr.. Ran
DALI triends--including not few Republi-
cans-are, or pretend to be confident,
there are others who have lately become
exceedingly doubtful about his ability to
WIN. They say that Mr.. Randall has
closely canvassed the House, has dill
gently called for votes from new members.
and having received number of more or
less positive promises, has endeavOred to
discourage his competitors by creating
the impression that it will be useless to
try to beat him. The unmitigated Penn
sylvania high tariff Republican is almost
sure to be Randall man if you sound
HIM. To this unseltish patriot the talk
that encourages hope in the breast of the
advocate of somebody else. be it Cox or
Carlisle, is hereto fit for the stake or
the rending.
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inspired so much confidence in his power
to win among his friends, but unpreiu-
diced men are disposed to believe that his
chances tor being Speaker are quite as
good as those of Mr.. Randall. At all
events, Mr.. Carlisle's friends are sure
that the opponents of Mr.. Randall will
number, all told, majority of the Demo-
Gratis, and that they are not men who will
be influenced by the hope of places on
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SentatIVes OF infant American industries
in Pennsylvania or Massachusetts that
cry for increased protection, or
by the agents of railroads that
tremble lest Congress shall take
from them the right to hold public lands
which the companies have not earned
through neglect to perform their part of
the agreement with the United States by
which they were able to come into exist
ence. These men, who are, or naturally
would be, for Mr.. Carlisle and Mr.. Cox,
are to come from the West. The advO-
Gates of the election of a tariff reform
Speaker turn their eyes to the West, there
fore. From that section, they say, rather
than from the South, must come the men
who will have no sympathy with the de-
mand of the East that taxes shall be kept
up to the present rates in order to insure
protected manufacturers the profits
which are nothing short of a subsidy eX-
torted from the consumers of all sorts of
products. 1t remains to be seen whether
this view will be expressed and acted
upon by the representatives from the un-
trammeled West. They may reach the
capital in the bravest spirits. Some one
old in the service may tell them that Mr..
Randall Furnishes, and that it will not be
well for the newcomer to throw away the
chance of getting a fine place on the COM
mlttee list merely for the sake of express
ing by vote his personal belief that the
country may have too much of even so
admirable thing as high protective
tariff