Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-29
SPEAKERSHIP CHANCES.
THE BUSINESS MEN RANDALL'S
LAST HOPE.

Senator Beck Working for the Viva
Voce VOte-No DesertiOns from Car
isles Ranks, and His Chances Best
A Laugh Over Ex-senator GOrdaa,s
Letter
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-Out of all. the
gossip concerning the Speakership there
has been no new developments except
that Senator Beck is working to get =4he
Cox and Carlisle men to join in demand
ing uiUd UOce vote in caucus. This is
intended to put members on their reeard.
and to exclude office selling tactics. All
the candidates are willing to enter into
this arrangement, but members are shy
about giving themselves away on theairst
vote. The promises given are withgut
prejudice, and members are too ready to
desert to the winning man to yield an
absolute allegiance to any candidate in
advance of the caucus.
Upon inquiry it is learned that the let
ter OF William Walter Phelps to exc
Speaker Keifer relative to the new de-
parture in party methods by the Repub-
lican Congressman was not private. 1t
is expected that all of the correspondence
will soon he made public.
LYNCHBURG, Va, Nov. 28.-The NelCS,
which has heretofore declined to express
preference for Speaker. this morning
strongly indorses Senator Gordon's letter
IN favor of the election Of Randall.
Washington Specials.
The paid attorneys of these roads are as
busy as beavers for Randall. They Join
in the cry of the Pennsylvania manufac-
turers and are shouting that the business
interests OF the country are demanding
Randall's election. 1t is all bosh. 1t is
the veriest twaddle. Do the great bodies
OF business men of the country favor the
abolition of all internal taxes? Are they
oppressed and burdened by the tax on
whisky and tobacco? DO the great COM
mercial interests of the country desire
non-lnterference with the restrictions and
burdens imposed upon trade and com
merce by unequal and eXOrbitant customs
duties and by the navigation law? To
ask these questions is to answer them. 1t
is an audacious assumption and a daring
misrepresentation to say that the ''busi-
ness interests" are in favor of RandalPs
election, and no considerable number of
the Southern members will be deceived by
this Randall wall.
While the Randall men admit that Mr..
Carllsle'S chances appear to be best, they
are full of reports about delegations
broken or to be broken, and are Yentur-
ing sanguine predictions of a change to
take place to Mr.. RandalIs benefit. All
the great business interests of the coun-
try, particularly those which come within
the class that needs protection to make it
profitable, will, the Randall men say,
make themselves heard and felt before
saturday, to prevent so dire calamity as
the election of Carlisle. The Randall men
DO not care to show canvass yet.
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Mr.. VIM. r. Morrison called on Secre-
tary Chandler to-day. When his bust
ness was finished, Mr.. Chandler said to
him: "WhOm are you going to elect up
there, prOtectionist or free trader?'
Neither" said Mr.. Morrison. ''We
are going to elect MIR. Carlisle, a man who
believes in moderate reduction of tariff
duties and greater reduction when the
demands of the government permit"
Then Mr.. Chandler laughed and re-
marked:
''Well, the funniest thing in this cam
palgn is John b. Gordon's letter. He
wants you to continue to be revenue re-
formers, but to pretend that you are not
until you capture the Presidency. He
wants you to creep up on us. That would
sound very nice up in New Hampshire on
the stump"
Mr.. Morrison answered: "You're a
good-looking man, but you don't look like
man that can be crept up on"
a*
The Randall newspaper boom of Satur-
day has about subsided. The smoke
cleared away, but the Randall gains are
not observable. Mr.. Carlisle's friends say
these doctored Associated Press dis
patches announcing changes of newspa-
pers from Carlisle to Randall are all
false. The truth is that not a single
newspaper heretofore supporting Carlisle
has changed to Randall.
Carlisle was asked to-day about Phil
adelphia paragraph, in which it was said
Carlisle is the only man in our history
who has had monetary stringeney named
after him. Mr.. Carlisle says this referred
to the attempt to get up a scare over his
three per cent. funding bill, which was
afterwards advocated and passed as a
Republican measure.
Mr.. Springer received to-day from the
White House conservatory an enormous
basket of flowers nearly as large as a side
board. Some of his joking friends say
that the word REST was picked out in
bold letters in the centre of this Offering,
but this is libel. Since the reception Of
this handsome present Mr.. Springer has
been called the administration candidate.
One indication of the strength OF Car
Isle is the fact that none of the members
whom he has claimed on their arrival
abandon him. This is not the case of
other candidates.
The contrast between the Northern and
Southern school of politicians has seldom
been more sharply marked. If RandalPs
name was presented on the strength of his
personal popularity his following, outside
OF his own State, would be insignificant.
His strength lies in the belief that he rep
resents the future of the Democratic par
ty, If it has future.
RandalPs assurance is not abating, but
his boom of last week is diving away.
There is less disposition among Southern
men to support him. The Georgia dele
CATION will be fair test of RandalPs
strength in the South.
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