The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Great Speakership Con,est-fhe
Several Rlchmonds.
What They are Each Handicapped
blythe Result.
The Cream Of the Capital Gossip.


contest for the speakership. | have Oh
served, however, that one OF the candidates
for this high office has a prominent con
gresham In each state supporting him,
When we reflect that there are as many
committees as states, ana that the speaker
appoints the chairman Of these commit
tees, and that craftsmanship gives NJ.
O. clerk and comfortable apartment in
the capital, the relations ofeven.s ami facts
TO one another become apparent and sig
nificant. Randall is the Machiavelian can
didate. He has often practced all the arts OF
q candidate, and however widely he may
differ from his party on the tariff and Other
questions, In reference to which he will
organize committees and thus shape legisla-
ton, he still wins southern support.
NoNoroiIsT.
He was the suplist OF Tom SCOTS agents
He has stood by Gould and Huntington
from the beginning, only lodging on trlilng
questions. When great game Is played,
Randall always plays the deuce" and
serves the monopolists with unwaverng
fidelity. In fact they send him TO congress
because he eau more successfully break
dewn the theories aud policy and purposes
Of the democratic party by striking II from
within, than If he were an open and con
fessed enemy, meeting his enemies in an
open field and In tair fight. Randall IL
the veritable Trojan horse sent over
the walls and into tho very innermost
stronghold Of the party by Its iiercest,
deadliest enemies. Hut Philadelphia and
the monop0lists have all the none" and
Randall knows how to trade in chairman
ships OF committees and 1t oy no means
surprising that Randall Al his private sec
retary c;.ted few Jays ago, has one con.
gressional supporter In each southern
state. =,
propose TO carry with them ths anli'mo-
nopolies and greenbackcrs and the foreign
vote. should DO made speaker. 10 Talk OF
Handalis elevation, IN view OF these neces-
sities, 10 sheer madness: Ana don't YOU
remember, that Randall so played his re-
publican cards when speaker IN 1916 that
he converted democratic majority OF sew
enty-six in the house into wretched min
ority, mewling ana pukinB IN Hayes
arms.
THE SEVERAL AsriRASTs.
am led TO speak oil THIS matter because
oi the appearance OF an article IN tue New
orleans Iimcs;Democral, WHEN does ITSELF
anu MT. .. D Gox sross u justice ls' MI 0ox
s.~,'ns,.;Ip .arsaa, ,ha na,ioa,i,;,w Sr
the Mississippi and designed to relieve the
Iow,snds FROM devastating noous' whence
could the Times. Democrat nave derived its
IMPRESSIONS MI; Uox mas .iten riuieuiea
rive. anu narpor DIS as noSt nosuiu anu
.uoss corrups; Ete,yoouy nnum' my
s 'n,s ou"aao ,,nan , uu.
never nns he vo,eu VI spoh.n. "salns. my
pIvpos,ion uon,ep "',nf wy . IN. m,n.ia
t'en'v scno, .ne vmoy,o. .no m,ssis
sppI, anu 4 VI. wa WIZ nnuo oPeancr
Me writer OF TINS nappens 70 know ihat nc
woulu 70 oIgAhiSe 'ne coinmitlees that tne
AppiopIia'i4ns ior the Miss'sslppi would
e.0hu VI snc,I oMh nneits anu not pe
wv,SnseI uown WIN proposiuons 700 ho
su'u 10 70 approsea ny common ueoency
~ "'erateu Wy common honesty. MT
Oyh WAS never party 10 iog'
TnU,,mn. scnomo I'LL ~, PUBLIC pianuer.
Nc. auu nsIuoI Dn's oecaine ~ ias' 80 III
,,Mous tun' nons ~ AlI WAS ehsoteu ~ tne
~, sss sv.s,om Mn, anu aoWeVer mucn proper puH,
10 wo!ns suneIeI, tne country anu pubic
nonssty were Wen pieasea' uhnappIy tue
,sSa .n congress s9uRht 70 nuke ths gen
ulu1 ncrHs vi the ue,hhhos Vi tho missiS.
slppi tnc means LOT the consumaton OF
countess schemes OF ropbery and wrong
ana tnere was no help LOT ". Mr..
wa, ike inc pest men III the
mouse, voted the lop , out
Of the pole OF recognition mr.; E'lis, OF
louisiana, requested, ana MI. Vox stated
during the discussion OF THIS question ~
.the last SESSION ,nat the Dill involving the
improvement Of the river would have car
ried forty.two more votes, Mr.. Cox's among
the rest, II there had not been tackled on to
u countless swindles. In truth some OF the
oeht and most effective speeches In behalf
Of the improvement OF great western rivers
ever made In the house fell from the lips OF
g.. y. Cox. Mr.. Gibson, OF Louisiana,
selected Mr.. Cox TO deliver the address on
the La Sale resolution.
OTHER CONGRESSMAN.
The Mississippi has no iruer friend OF
wiser than that excellent gentleman
from Arkansas, Mr.. Dunn. He will
tell the country that MIR, Cox not only voted
sippi and against their diminution, but that
Mr. Cox made the best speeches and mos,
effective In behalf OF the great rivers per
feet improvement.
Mr.. Cox twice sent resolutions to the com
mittee on rules requiring the commerce,
committee to report two river and harbo
bills; one, Tor the Mississippi; the other
for the smaller streams, creeks an,
branches. He said that his purpose was h
perfect the navigability OF the great river a
that Of an arm of the sea and that he wishe,
TO sepcrate II, as a great national necessity
from petty Jobs and eleotioneering expen
ditures. MIR. Cox then predicted nj tn
first session of the 47th congress the partia
or total failure Of the $40 0oO, 900 river an,
harbor bill, Six millions were not used b,
the war office under this bill aud the eigh
million bill Of the last session failed in tn
senate. Hence nothing was gained bu
much lost by this confusion OF great an,
triling propositions, the scheme Involving
the enactment OF triiiing and wrongful
appropriation by the force and weight O
wise and just measures from which the frs
could not be separated. MIR. Blackburn
voted with Mr.. Cox on this issue In tn
Forty.ti ith congress, and with him signe
the protest against such measures as di,
n of record AS voting against these stupend
GUS river and harbor bills. Randall was 4
anxious 10 DO approved In this behalf ths
he telerrsphed Cox 10 find A "pair' for hir
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