The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-07-19
RANDALL'S POSITION.
The Philadelphia Times, which is a
Randall organ, says in q recent issue


Randall organ, says in recent issue:
Ex.Speaker Randall was in the city
yesterday, his face nglow with the fresh
ness of country health. In answer to
the suggestion Of New York journal
that he was candidate for President
and might go out of the contest for
Speaker to enter the Presidential race,
the ex Speaker answered good humoredly
but with unmistakable emphasis: II
am Democrat and nothing else. My
name will go before the Democratic
caucus for Speaker, and know enough
to feel certain that | will be its nominee
for that Office. If there shall be any
bolt, it will not be by my friend of mine,
and nil statements to the contrary are
entirely without warrant. | am not n
candidate, directly or remotely, for any
other Office than that of Speaker.
That's all have 70 say" And with
pleasant smile and polite bow, the ex
Speaker passed on.
This settles the unreasonable abuse
which has been uttered against Mr.. Ran
dali, and shows that he is, as the INTEL
LIGENCER has always contended, true
Democrat and valuable member Of the
party. He will not bolt, and will not
permit his friends to bolt, the Democratic
caucus. The fight for the Spcakership
has to be made in the caucus, and those
who are allowing their zeal to carry them
into personal abuse of Mr.. Randall
make great mistake. The iniusticc
which they are doing him will surely re-
&c: iii his favor. He is I: pure H,an per
sonally, and n thorough Democrat in his
fidelity to the party. Any charges to
the contrary will only strengthen Mr..
Randall, for. they will be shown to be
incorrect, which will produce n reac-
tionnry sympathy for the ex-Speaker.
The real objection to Mr.. Randall, and
in our mind it is fatal objection at this
time, is that he IS not in sympathy with,
b,.t in direct antagonism to. his party
upon the tariff question, which will Ger.
tsinly be an important issue in the next
canvass. If Mr.. Randall is elected
Speaker by the Democratic House of
Representatives, then it seems to US that
tho real strength of the fight for tariff
reform will be lost to the Democratic
party. 1t will not do to make platforms
and yet put men of hostile views in
Offices where the promises of those plat.
forms arc to be performed. The country
expects the party which champions
revenue reforms to put none but revenue
reformers in the offices which have power
in regulating the revenues. The Speak
ership is such an Office. Mr.. Randall is
not revenue reformcr, 40 far as the tariff
is concerned. He voted for the present
tariff law, which is to be the object OF
criticism and attack by tho Democratic
party. Therefore he would be most
unfortunate selection for the Speakership
in the next Congress.
This is our ground of opposition to
Dir. Randall, and not that he in no Dem.
ocrat, as some of our contemporaries
contend. It il as unreasonable to say
that he is no Democrat as it would be to
say that John G. Calhoun or Andrew
Jackson were not Democrats because the
one was the father Of notification and
the other its most resolute antagonist.
Both were fully recognized Democrats,
and yet no man who favored notification
could have voted in Democratic Con.
vention to nominate Jackson for prom.
inent Office without siultifying himself.
nor could any Democrat opposed TO
notification have voted for Mr.. Calhoun
without the same result And yet when
the notification issue was settled any
Democrat might have voted for either
Of these distinguished men without any
inconsistency. Mr.. Randall is at this
time in q similar position. He differs
from the mass of his party on the tariff.
This does not make him a Republican,
but no Democrat who favors tariff re.
vision can consistently vote for him now.
When the tariff has been adjusted his
abilities and his services 10 the party
will undoubtedly be rewarded. Until
then the national party ought not to
put him in any position Ia which he
could influence tariff legislation. The
extent of our. opposition to Mr.. Randall
d that he ought not to be elected Speaker
or President or 10 n isis
Nu,e. For any of II 5si i've,
judicial or diplomss 31 blink
he wonld ;be not so1l Iss| ss3t H1t nj
most desirable appSi s9s
IS We would like sef sSsinst