Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-02
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New YORK, March 81 saw Samuel j.
Randall on the street day or two ago,
and stopped TO speak with him. He has q
very affable, friendly address, like an old
school-mate. His black eyes, which seem
q little near -sighteh, shine and turn liquid
as he speaks to you. He does not dress
with much care, generally in black clothes,
of which he has two suits, one for ordinary
and another for particular. In congress
he keeps himself clad In the best
suit, but when he goes about dur
ing the recess he has something
of the look of farmer, square shouldered,
heavy set. with large ribs and frame, and
does not turn toward high company. He
is like Dan Voorhees,, Abraham Lincoln
and many other such men, democratic in
their social propensities. He likes men as
they are found IL q state of nature, instead
of men as they are put up by little social
coddling, and are bypOcriteS to each other,
and constantly watching each other to see
If there IS. not some sign of breeding
lost. Randall is without any mean
affections in his heart. He may cater
little too much toward fellows of no pres
emf use to him. But he perhaps remem-
0ers that they were of use in his poorer
days, when he had the weakness of those
same men. Looking back not with the
eye of austerity, but with that Of human
sympathy and pity, he has kept his old
friends all the time, and from his youth up.
That he is a perfectly honest man his
biiterest enemy would not impugn,
at least TO matters of the public money.
Randall never fears al investigation, yet
l dare say he has made many a slip IN
point OF consistency to accommodate a
friend, to help some manufacturer who
was in 3 tight place, or some old chum who
wanted q messengership. Randall is one
of those men whose devotion 80 party is
his main point of patriotism. He is never
looking over into the other party to see
where he might make good terms and
have soft place. I believe his
father, Josiah Randall. was a Wing. But
the Randall boys had strong preiudices
against radicals and abolitionists, and
they kept their traditions, mistaken rs
they might have been, during the whole
war, ana when in course Of time the Dem
ocracy carried congress again, Sam Ran
dali became speaker after q brief inter
vel.
I do not think Randall is any purer than
his rival Carlisle. They are both men of
judge, has the best trained mind,
willis Randall has the BEST trained
address. 1 should say that
Randall was a little more cunning than
Carlisle. or. rather, that Carlisle was not
or oil Sc 81;
like about his party methods and his
grasp of political ipstrumentaiities. Ran
dali is deficient in some of the larger
qualities OF Carlisle, snch rs indifference
TO envy and jealousy. Randall has q
slightly factional nature. He dislikes
promptly, and can not quickly forgive
with candor. Carlisle is too much engaged
with the abstract right and wrong of
things to take men into consideration
at ali. Randall went at politics like Cos
sip and follower and has picked it up as
he went along till he is pretty adept, keen
and plastic to party management. Car
Isle has trained himself on the floor and III
his books to matters of principle. The one
was educated among The lawyer Offices Of
Kentucky where IN obstruction is always
delight. The o-her was reared IN a busy
CITY, where industry mas a million wheels.
He has kept his eyes on the eE-
terror Of things and regards statesman
ship as keeping those wheels going. The
other man regards craftsmanship to be
balancing rights, ascertaining elementary
truths, keeping the c0mpasses and bar
ometers IL good order. Sam Randall is
not SO much busted with the scientific il
struments, but is watching the storms and
the shore with the naked eye. Yet each
man may be deceived in the other. Carlisle
may take the helm of that house and fine
himself far inferior 10 the practical par
Humanitarian who has been equal TO tbs
speakers responsibility so long.
I rather ike both men, and 1t seems to
me that Randall is in his best situation as
speaker, and Carlisle i'll his BEST situation
or the floor.
l hardly see how the appointment of an
Ohio man to old HOwe's place is going to
give moral enlargement TO the party in
Ohio. But, on another ground, it might
be good enough, as, for instance, Gov.
Fosters ability to help, with his business
sense and social standing, the rather child
ish administration to popular respect. The
Washington cabinet has the predatory,
rowdy element now in Hatton, the sharp.
shifty, slippery element in Chandler, the
servlle, grub stake element IN Teller, the
dull ancientrespectability Frelinghuysen,
the young and terminating responsibility
in Lincoln, and the old Shakspearean
comedy element, something between Pan
toufe and Faulconbridge in Brewster.
Business insight with integrity is needed
there, the quality the president solicited
in the late Governor Nor
gan. If the president would talk
the appointment over with Folger, he
could not greatly err. John Hancock, of
Texas, would make a good appointment
and would take the place. A Southern
man, his sense of the benefits of the Union
over the destructive childishness and fem.
mime caprice of his secession neighbors
made him an exile. He never fired sc
much as q paper pellet at the Union.
GATH.
The State Treasury.
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