Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-11
The spcakership and the Pres
ideney.
JOSEPH d. Lynch

The HERALD has steadily adhered to
the proposition that il the Democratic
party has any sense of delicacy or graft
tude, or desires to win the next Presiden.
tiai election, il cannot afford to ignore
the claims of Samuel j. Randall, oi
Pennsylvania, to the Speakorship OF the
next House Of Representatives. This
gentleman represents the common sense
idea in politics, but he represents far
more than that. Elected Speaker Of the
Forty-fourth Congress, through the
great Democratic tidal wave Of 1874, Mr..
Randall approved himself the very ge.
MUS of retrenohment and reform. Un.
der his matchless leadership, in the two
sessions OF that inimitable Democratic
Congress, there were initiated measures
of Congressional retrenehment and re.
form which roally amounted, in the two
sessions of that body, to quite sixty mil
lions of dollars--a memorable and splen-
did service to the people.
But that is by no means all in the his
tory Of the Congresses of the last twenty
years which may rightfully be passed to
the credit of Sam Randall. A naturally
virile and demonstrative parsonage, from
the date Of his resignation of Colonelcy
in the army, over twenty years ago, to
accept the position of a Democratic Con
gresham, Sam Randall has embodied
everything that was masculine and saga.
cious in the Democratic party. During
all that long time he has kept his place
in Congress, to the immense benefit Of
the Democratic party. As the Speaker
Of that House Of Representatives which
was obliged to consumnate the Hayes
fraud, no Democrat, with marrow in his
bones, can fail to recall the poignant
and manly eloquence in which Sam Ran
dali branded the fraud to which the
most illustrious leaders of the Repub-
lican party and the Republican members
of the Supreme Court, who formed con
stituent elements in the famous Eight to
Seven tribunal, of unsavory memory,
lent themselves, to their undying shame,
A few doctrinaire asses of the Demo
cratic party, of the Louisville Courier.
journal persuasion, have surrendered
themselves to the shibboleth of free
trade. II the Democratic party should
accept this "Will.o' the Wisp" leader
ship they would simply surrender the
Presidential walk-over which all intelli-
gent Republicans concede to them. The
Democratic party, as the result OF ma
tional campaign, under such leadership,
would be enabled to chronicle political
invoice of much cry and very little
wool. 1t would be grand give away,
not to the Kentucky school OF politics,
but to the Covington branch OF that
school, as embodied in Mr.. Carlisle, who
lives Just across the Kentucky line from
Cincinnati.
Every man who hopes for and believes
in Democratic success, in the next Pres
idential campaign, should pray for the
election of Samuel j Randall, of Penn
sylvania, as Speaker of the next House
of Representatives He is a moderate
protectionist, but man devoted to rea'
sonable Customs reforms. Every one
who remembers how General Hancock,
one OF the most admirable men who was
ever the candidate of any party for Pres
ident, annihilated himself by few fool
ish words on the tariff, will hope that
Randall will not only be the next Demo-
cratic candidate for Speaker, but the
next Democratic candidate for Pres
ident.