Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-01
RANDALL AND CARLISLE.
characteristics of the Two Leading CaHdi-
dates for Speaker of the Next House
Men of UnquestiOned Integrity and Abil-
ity Wherein they Differ from Each
Other-The Cabinet Vacancy.
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New York, March 81 saw Samuel j.
Randall on the street a day or two ago.
and stopped to speak with him. He has a
very affable, friendly address, like an old
school-mate. His black eyes, which seem
a little near -sighteh, shine and turn liquid
as he speaks to you. He does not dress
with much care, generally in black clothes,
of which he has two suits, one for ordinary
and another for particular. In congress
he keeps himself clad in the best
suit, but when he goes about dur
ing the recess he has something
of the look of afarmer, square shouldered,
heavy set: with large ribs and frame, and
does n~otturn toward high company. He
is like Dan Voorhees,, Abraham Lincoln
and many other such men, democratic in
their social p~ropensities. He likes men as
they are found in a state of nature, instead
of men as they are put up by a little social
coddling, and are bypocrites to each other,
and constantly watching each other TO see
if there is not some sign of breeding
lost. Randall is without any mean
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little too much toward fellows of no pres
emit use to him. But he perhaps remem-
bers that they were of use in his poorer
days, when he had the weakness of those
same men. Looking back, not with the
eye of austerity, but with that of human
/ sympathy and pity, he has kept his old
friends all the time, and from his youth up.
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bitterest enemy would not impugn,
at least to matters of the public money.
Randall never fears an investigation, yet
1 dare say he has made many a slip in
point of consistency to accommodate a
friend, to help some manufacturer who
was in a tight place, or some old chum who
wanted messengership. Randall is one
of those men whose devotion to party is
his main point of patriotism. He is never
looking over into he other party to see
where he might make good terms and
have a soft place. 1 believe his
father, Josiah Randall. was a Wing. But
the Randall boys had strong preiudices
against radicals and abolitionists, and
they kept their traditions, mistaken as
they might have been, during the whole
war, and when in course of time the Dem
ocracy carried congress again, Sam Ran
dali became speaker after a brief inter
val.
1 do not think Randall is any purer than
his rival Carlisle. They are both men of
moral and mental courage. Carlisle, l
Judge, has the best trained mind,
while Randall has the best trained
address. 1 should say that
Randall was a little more cunning than
Carlisle, or, rather, that Carlisle was not
coming at all. There is something child
like about his party methods and his
grasp of political instrumentalities. Ran
dali is deficient in some of the larger
qualities of Carlisle, snch as indifference
to envy and jealousy. Randall has a
slightly factional nature. He dislikes
promptly, and can not quickly forgive
with candor. Carlisle is too much engaged
with the abstract right and wrong OF
things to take men into consideration
at all. Randall went at politics like a Cos
sip and follower and has picked it up as
he went along till he is pretty adept, keen
and plastic to party management. Car
Isle has trained himself on the floor andin
his books to matters of principle. The one
was educated among the lawyer offices OF
Kentucky where an obstruction is always g
delight. The other was reared in a busy
city, where industry has a million wheels
He has kept his eyes on the ex
terror of things and regards statesman
ship as keeping those wheels going. The
other man regards craftsmanship to be
balancing rights, ascertaining elementary
truths, keeping the compasses and bar
ometers I Il good order. Sam Randall il
not so much busted with the scientific in
struments, but is watching the storms and
the shore with the naked eye. Yet each
man may be deceived in the other. Carlisle
may take the helm of that house and fine
himself far inferior to the practical par
Humanitarian who has been equal to the
speakers responsibility so long.
L rather like both men, and it seems tC
me that Randall is in his best situation a;
speaker, and Carlisle in his best situation
on the floor.
} I hardly see how the appointment of al
5 Ohio man to old Howe's place is going tt
; give moral enlargement to the party il
, Ohio. But, on another ground, it nigh
be good enough, as, for instance, Gov
Fosters ability to help, with his bushes:
sense and social standing, the rather child
ish administration to popular respect. Th'
Washington cabinet has the predatory
rowdy element now in Hatton, the sharp
shifty, slippery element in Chandler, thu
s~ervile, grub stake element in Teller, ths
: dull neutrality-suspicious. Frelinghuysen
the young and terminating respectabiiit.
in Lincoln, and the old Shakspsarear
comedy element, something between Pan
d toufe and F~aulconbridge in Brewster
. Business insight with integrity is needed
J, there, the quality the president solicited
in the late Governor Nor
: gan. If the president would tall
the appointment over with Folger, h
could not greatly err. John Hancock, o.
! Texas, would make a good appointment
and would take the place. A Southern
man, his sense of the benefits of the Uniol
over the destructive childishness and fem
mime caprice of his secession neighbor;
= made him an exile. He never fired S
much as a paper pellet at the Union.
=, GATH.
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