Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-26
THE RACE FOR SPEAKER.
THE PROSPECTS OF THE DIFF.
FERENT CANDIDATES.

| What the Washington Specials Saw
About it-NOthing Positively Known
Yet About the Strength of Either Can
didate-The Sectional Issue-Eaton
Talks About a Dark Horse.
Ex-senator W. w. Eaton, who will rep-
resent the Hartford Conn. district in the
| approaching Congress, said to-day that
after having looked over the Speakership
matter rather carefully he had arrived at
the conclusion that all three of the lead
| ing candidates were abroad in the matter
| OF estimating their strength. ssThOse who
Think" said Mr.. Eaton, ''That Mr.. Cox
| will not get gOOd-siZed vote will find
| themselves mistaken when the counting
of the ballot takes place. He has, in my
| opinion, at least fifty votes already that
he can rely on, it matters not what takes
| place. Still, L do not think that any of
the gentlemen who are most often named
for the Speakership will be elected. 1t
will be some other. a dark horse will
carry off the prize"
or course it is too early to predict what
ultimate effect such things will have on
the cOntest. 1t will probably be much
less than the effect of the still-hunt work
of the railroad interests and the protective
tariff people. That certain railroad inter-
ests are working actively for Randall is
unmlstakable, as some of their represent
atiyeS are here and more are coming. The
tariff mOnOpOists will be here in great
force. The question to be settled is
whether the wishes of the large majority
of the Democratic constituents are to be
stifed by these influences. RandalPs
only hope of success lies in capturing
members who were elected as revenue
tariff men. His friends profess confidence
in his success in this Undertaking. His
opponents believe he will fail.
Mr.. Belmont does not share Mr.. Eaton's
views and locks upon Mr.. Randall's
avowed policy as tending to the most
radical revision and discussion of tariff
matters. Mr.. Carlisle's friends have
looked i'll vain i'll the newspapers for the
change of sentiment telegraphed from
Georgia III behalf of Mr.. Randall, and it
is said that somebody has been doing
some very square lying. Next week there |
will be large number of Democrats
here, when claims and calculations will
have some body to them.
Mr.. Springer of Springfield, ILL.,, the
home OF Lincoln, and a Democratic ma
jOrity in that district, have a curious be- |
lief that he will be the chosen one of the |
caucus. He occupies room No. a at the |
National, the one formerly occupied by |
Mr.. David Davis when he was the indie |
pendent Senator from Illinois. "FrOm |
this room Judge Davis went forth one |
morning to the Senate to occupy the high |
position of President pro TEN. of the United |
States Senate. Who can say that the |
great State of Illinois is not destined to
ENJOY continued honor in the chair of the
HouseT Such is the hopeful remark of
Mr.. Springer to all visitors.
The statement which has been so gene
rally published that Mr.. Tilden said to a
Democrat from Ohio that the way to elect
Democratic President is to elect Mr..
Randall Speaker, is now believed to be
pure invention or joke from the vener-
able sage of Gramercy Park. "Why, |
what senseless nonsense" said an old
Democratic member of the House to-day
in conversation with new conner. Zone
would suppose that Mr. Randall was an
other Minerva, the repository of the wis
dom and courage of the entire Demo-
cratic party; that without his leader
ship the party must necessarily go to the
'demnitiOn bow vows He has been
Speaker in two Presidential campaigns.
In the first he did as much, if not more,
than any Republican to make Hayes Pres
| ldent, and IN the second contributed his
high tariff views to defeat Gen. Hancock
on that purely local issue in Pennsvl-
Vania. With such a record it is disgust
ing to hear Mr.. Tilden made responsible
for the remark that the election of a Dem
ocratic President depends upon Mr.. Ran
dali again being chosen Speaker Mr..
Tilden never made any such statement,
for he knows from actual experience that
the contrary would be nearer the truth"
MR.. EATON's POSITION.
Ex-senator w. w. Eaton, of COnnecti-
cut, stands forth without blanket or sur
cingle, boldly declaring that he is neither
dark horse nor light horse, but hostile
to anybody who wants to revive tariff re-
vision. He is quoted as saying: 1.-The
Democratic party will in few days or
ganize the popular branch of Congress,
and it should look the truth squarely in
the face. The people will do so, and they
will not misunderstood the action of the.
party leaders, however plausibly they
may seek to hide their aims. The party
is to be put on trial for the Presidential
race of 1884, and it is not too much to say
that the Democrats will elect or defeat
their candidate for President as the COM
ing Democratic House shall be wise
or foolish in its public record
Recent signs of the peoples actions
seem to point strongly to the selection of
Democratic President in 1884, and the
| great hope of our beloved Republican
brethren is the probability of the Demo-
! Gratis defeating themselves by their mis-
use of power. If the House is organized
/ III IlG dNONtu IubCIGSJ Vi IIldU element OIL
| the party that seeks to disturb the pres
ent business tranquility OIthe country it
| Will matter little whether the Democratic
candidate for President shall be Samuel
j. Tilden or Joseph f. Mcdonald. for
neither could be elected. These are we'll
known facts to at least two-thirds of the
| Democratic leaders, and to all the Demo-
| cratic voters IN the land outside of Wash
ington, which is the furthest off from pop
ular sentiment of any other point in the
United States:
This mawksh howl about Solid South
was used four years ago to defeat Mr..
Blackburn, of Kentucky, in his contest
| for the Speakership, Just as it is now be-
! ing used to injure Mr. Carlisle, and that
Mr.. Randall was then, as now, striving to
! get the nomination by all the means
| known to Philadelphia ward politician?
! Mr.. Blackburn was defeated. Mr.. Ran
| dali was elected, and so was General Gar
| field elected President. What political
rot this sectional cry is! If Mr.. Tilden
! said anything it was that the way to de-
feat the Democratic nominee for the
Presidency next yearis to make Mr.. Ran
| dali Speaker, and that would be in strict
harmony with the facts of history.
| RandalPs followers, much as their
leader seems to deprecate such a course,
are making use of the sectional issue.
! They point to the Virginia and Mississippi
outrages, and show what weapons they
have furnished to the Republican press,
and say that, with the bloody shirt already
| lifted, and Southern man in the Speakers
chair, there will be great danger that the
Republican party North will be again
united on old issues. Mr.. Carlisle's fol-
lowers affect not to be disturbed by what
! they call this campaign trick. Phil.
Thompson, for instance, says: 1T looks
better every hour for Carlisle. We hear
to-day that the whole Mississippi delega-
tion is for him. The sectional cry cannot
hurt us. 1t will unite the South. 1t will
| turn every Southern man to Carlisle. We
are tired of being prosecuted for opinions
sake, and of being sacrificed for some
supposed Northern opinion"
| RRTDESMATDS, PRAYER ROOKC