Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-12
POLITICAL TALK.
Some OF the Spsaksrship Issues
Between Randall and Carlisle.
SUGGESTIONS As TO Mr.. coNKLINe.
ReyiYing the Blaine BOOm--Arthur Respect
ed but not Desired for Rencmin-
ation-SecretsrY News
Successor.

NEW YoEK, September l1.-There is some
interest manifested in the Speakersbip
contest here this week. Representative.
elect Beriah wilkins,
whom Quoted Few Days Ago.
says that with a little management the
Ohio delegation could be mustered for Sam
Cox. This is probably an exaggerated idea
obtained by wilkins from the fact that his
own district embraces Zsnesyille, where
Cox was born, and is in part the same dis
trict which sent Cox to Congress.
The issue between Carlisle and Randall
is handled by the Times as follows: "Mr.
Samuel J. Randall was opposed TO the ex-
tension of the time in which the distillers
of Kentucky could psy their taxes. Mr.. Car
Isle was in favor Of it. So was Mr.. Beck,
and so were nearly all the Southern Bemo-
Gratis in either house. According to the
New York Sun it was agreat thing for Mr..
Randall to oppose this bill, because it was a
big bill. There are millions in it, many
millions. So powerful was the combina.
ton in its favor that Mr.. Raudalls oppoSi.
ton to it is now the principle OF opposl'
tion tn him as Speaker. This is the Suns
view OF the situation.
II Is not FIatteriDg 10 Mr. CarliI SIC,
1t is not encouraging to those who wish
harmony in the Democratic party, like Mr.
Dana and the various would-be candidates
for the Presidential nomination of that
party. This extraordinary praise OF Mr..
Randall is by inference equally strong con-
domnation of Mr.. Carlisle. That gentle
man wss the author and an advocate OF
this bill with millions in il, many millions
He was on the side of the lobby. de was
lsboring for a pernicious and mischievous
measure at the dictate OF unsCrup.
ulous and interested parties. 50
were nearly all the Southern DEM
ocrsts. But he waa their leader. He fol-
lows no one. He is a clear headed, inds-
pendent, firm man, and he must take the
responsibility for his acts. According TO
the Sun they were misChievous and per-
nici.us, if not corupt, This dos not
ssem to be very promising Tav to bring
aboul rmony in the party. There may
be combinations which make it desirable to
the Sun that Mr.. Randall should be elected
Speaker. But we should say that such
con binatiCus would be essentially weak
eued by tue determined aud
Indignant Resentment OF Mr.. Carlisle,
and Of all the influential Democrats on
whom the Sun is casting its aspersious.
Moreover. we do not think our contempo-
rary is Just. The facts hardly warrant
either the extravagant encomiums it gives
to Mr.. Randall or the severe censure it
suggests toward those who differed from
him. The measure referred to failed in
the Senate, principally through Republican
opposition to it, but we should be serry
to suppose that all who favored it were as
bad as the Sun would imply. The Secre.
tary Of the Treasury sat down on the bill,
and very hard, but the then Commissioner
Of Internal Revenue differed from him, as
did some OF the men OF high reputation in
the Senate. The interests involved were
enormous, but there was no evidence at
the time, and we have seen none since, OF
the presence Of a lobby, in the offensive
sense of thot word.