Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-24
News by Telegraph
 FRgM ALL QUARTERS. EXCHANGING VISITS. COurtesles Between the CaT- didates for Speaker. THE STATE OF TIE CANVASS. All Three Men Confident
 of Success. CHINA'S QUARREL WITH FRANCE. No Chance Now of Avert
 ing War.
CHINA'S QUARREL WITH FRANCE.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The BpeakershIp All the Candidates
 Hard at Werk-The Situation One of
 Delightful ty-Congressman
 Eaton Out in an Interview.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-With perhaps six ty Democratic members in the city the con- test for the Speakership is assuming propor- tioRs where work becomes effective and where issues are made to some purpose. The attempt made to revive the sectional issue has apparently died 'taborning" and may now be said to be out of the canvass All the candidates are discouraging it and Mr. Randall goes 50 far as to say he would pre- fer to be defeated rather than to be elected on sectional issue. The other candidates are equally as emphatic. AS yet the contest has not developed sufficiently to justify any of the candidates in claiming his election as certain. MT. Carlisle's friends have the ut- most confidence in his success and this conf dence increases with each report received. MT. Cox, it would seem, has much greater strength than has previously been allowed him by the other candidates and friends of his claim that he will receive 8 large acoes- sion of strength from North Carolina and OSASA SAANS ASS been counted. An active friend of MT. Ran- dall speaking on the subject said: ''It will be either Randall or Cox. If Randall is not elected Cox will be-" Some of the friends of MT. Cox calculate strongly upon his being the most available compromise man in the event that neither Randall nor Carlisle can win. The Randall men still retain the ut most confidence ir his election. The fact that several influential papers in the South and Southwest are out for him now, while oppoaing him early in the campaign, points to his increasing strength. Senator Eaton, of Connecticut, 8 member of the present House, is out in an interview this evening to the same purpose which has attracted con siderable attention. Speaking of what he terms the free trade element he says: s'If the House is organized in the avowed interest of that element of the party that seeks to disturb the present business tranquility of the country it will matter little whether the Democratic candidate for President shall be Samuel J. Tilden or Joseph B. McDonald, for neither could be elected The Democratic party cannot afford to adopt policy that is offensive to Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania. New York, New Jersey and my own State, Connecticut. If it does, the count of 1884 1in be settled in advance. The contest now going on over the Speakership is but the preliminary trial of the leaders and representatives of the Democratic party, aad it is for them to say whether they will con- tinue to be political suicides or will advance to the enlightened and progressive senti- ments of the present day" The other can didates are not disturbed by this and Mir. Morrison says if the election of Democratic House did not mean tariff revision, we might as well have Republican Congress.
 MT. Randall tonight visited MT. Cox and MT. Carlisle at their rooms, and spent some time with each. Messrs. Cox and Carlisle had earlier in the day called on each other, and Mr. Randall. The personal relations of the candidates continue most friendly.