Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-16
RISE UP, SAMUEL.

The Talk About Electing TiIden President
Second Time-What Was Said at the
Chicago Iroquois Banquet.
[Chicago Times, April H.
| Outside of the political significance of
the banquet itself, more of an insight into
the coming presidential contest was de-
veloped during the day. Chicago is the
first in the field to show which way the
Democratic political straws are blowing.
Yesterday afternoon there were gathered
at tbs rooms of the Iroquois club knot
of political statesmen who will WELD
tremendous influence in the preliminary
work of setting up a Democratic candi-
date for president. The expression of
opinions of the visiting statesmen shows a
preponderance of feeling in support Of
Tilden boom.
Congressman Brodhead, of the Ninth
Missouri district, who at one time doomed
up as possible Democratic candidatessfo
president, talked freely with reporter for
| the Times. Il think" said he, sthat there
is no doubt whatever of Mr.. Tilden's deter
mination to enter the presidential race
again. While / have not seen him lately,
and am not conversant with the state of
his health, do not believe in the stories
of his mental incapacity to fill the position
of president. Mr.. Priest, of st. Louis, who
has lately had a conversation with the
statesman of
GRAMERoY PARK,
intimates that Mr.. Ti!den will seek the,
nomination. look upon Samuel J. Tilden
as a man of great intellectual ability. He
is by all odds the most sagacions, far
seeing and worthy candidate that the.
D emocratic party can put up. The contest
of Samuel j. Randall, of Pennsylvania, for
speaker of the next house of representa-
tives, means that he is the candidate of
Mr.. Tilden, and will be supported by him.
The organization of the next house, with
Randall as speaker, will give direct bear
ing on Mr.. Tilden's presidential campaign.
| He can stand on a tariff platform that
comedies with the most ardent free trader.
The principle of protection is not what it
formerly was. The reasons that may have.
existed for protecting manufactures in
their infancy do not prevail! to-day in the
minds of right thinking men. They need
no such fostering care as the Republican
party would have the country believe. The
true object of tariff is to impose duty
on foreign importations in order to obtain
revenue sufficient for the needs of the
government and not to protect class of
meu. If there are Democrats to-day who
are avowedly in favor of high protective
tariff, it is not going to divide the Demo-
cratic party. Henry Clay set himself up
as the father of protection, but the Demo-
Gratis lived under free-trade rule He,
further declared that Missouri was Dem
ocrat1c state, and bid fair to continue such
unless the feeling now prevailing in favor
of prohibition came to successful issue.
he said he knew of
LEADING DEMOCRATS
in the state who were supporting pro-
hibition measures and favored the adop-
ton of q constitutional amendment look
ing to that end, but he thought prohibition
wrong in principle, and according to his
belief it was the last thing political party
ought to NEEDLE with.
''Do think the movement in the inter
est of Tilden for president means any
thing?" said Congressman Sparks, of the
Sixteenth Illinois district. Yes, l think
there is good deal in it. I have been
in politics good many years, and learned
are blowing. But this gathering is to de-
velop the issue that is coming before the
country soon, and that is the enunciation
of the true tariff doctrines. The Demo-
cratic party will make no uncertain sound
on this matter. We shall cease to uphold a
few rich men, but all the tariff we want is
one for revenue alone, and if Samuel j.
| Tilden is to be the standard-bearer he will
stand on this platform. and 1 think he will
be..willing to do So"
Mr.. Sparks thought the present tariff
law was unconstitutional, the senate hay
ing no right to originate revenue bills, al
though Democrats like
SENATOR BAYARD
we're great sticklers for the privileges of
the senate, end had come to believe that the
senate could act unconstitutionally in these
matters. Mr.. Sparks said the senate did
things every day which it had no right to
do, and that was to put in new items for
raising revenue in house bills. While the
senate has the power to add to the items
agreed upon by. the house, it had no right
to create new provisions of that char acter
| Congressman Springer was not inc lined
to think Tilden wanted the presidenc y. He
he'd not talked with Hurlbert, who knew
all about Tilden's wishes. ''There is no
knowing what day may bring forth, how
ever" said he.
'It is said Randalrs candidacy for speak
er will De supported by the Tilden inter-
ests."
eff Randall is elected it will signify that
the death stroke OF tariff reform has been
inflicted. His election means no reopen
ing of the subject, because it will injure
the monopolists who want protection. This
cry of the iron and steel men that the pres
ent law is working injustice to them, is all
nonsense. The tariff was not revised by
that bill any more than the New Testament
was revised. The compilers of that revis-
| ion knocked hades out of the book, but
congress never knocked hades out of the
tariff laws, by any means"
Everett Wheeler, of New Y ork. the head
of the Free Trade league, said ''that the
main object of the banquet was to develop
the coming issue, tariff for revenue, but
it may be that considerable Tilden capital
will be made. Tilden is moderate man
on the tariff question and think that he
is with US on tariff for revenue only.n
NO." said William Henry Hurlbert. of
New York as he w0rked indue4riore1z -.