Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-28
A LULL IN THE CONTEST.
A FEW PHASES OF THE SPEAK
ERSHIP FIGHT.
An Attempt to be Made to Stampede
Cariisle's Southern Friends-RandalP
Weakness.
Washington Specials

An attempt to be Made to Stampede
| Carlisle's Southern Friends-Randall's
| Weakness
Washington Specials.
! Mr.. Randall kept away from his head.
| quarters at the National Hotel all day,
but trusty lieutenants were on hand to
shake hands with those who called. Much
amusement was caused in the Randall
camp by the statement in a New York
journal that Randall must do better this
week if he wished to be heard of in the
caucus. Mr.. RandalPs friends decline to
admit the loss OF a man from their ranks.
but when figures are suggested to them
they remark that more will be known
about the vote next Saturday than
now. Both Mr.. Randall and Mr.. Carlisle
make large claims as to their bright pros
poets in Missouri with its IA Democratic
members, and Georgia with its 10 mem
bers. For lack of any more exciting
topic the delegations from these States
have been a good deal discussed to-day,
and the result has been a general agree
ment that there is room for hard work
there by either candidate. Mr.. Randall
expects to develop some strength among
the Indiana members this week, but Mr..
Cox's friends say their candidate has the
inside track there.
friends have not met with single disap-
pointment. That portion of the Democratic
members of the next House who wrote
Mr.. Carlisle months ago that they would
vote for him for Speaker are still true and
loyal to their pledges. When they reach
Washington, before they even take time
to wash the dust of travel from their faces,
they report at Carlisle's headquarters and
grasp him warmly by the hand and say:
'God bless you, Carlisle, l am for you,
and my people are for you. Tell me now
where l can do you the most good"
This is where the warm and enthusias-
tic nature of the sons of the sunny, ge-
NAL South and West can most be seen
and appreciated and forms striking con-
trast with the cold, calculating, selfish.
trading politicians who support Samuel
j. Randall. The first named class sup
port Carlisle. because he is a warm and
true man, with principles and convic-
tlons and the courage to express them.
The latter class support Randall, be-
cause he represents organized capital,
organized monopoly, organized robbery
and organized selfishness. Carlisle
is in favor OF taxing whisky, tobacco and
all the luXuries of life, and taking off the
tax on wOolen goods and all the necessi-
ties of the poor man, while Randall is in
favor of free whisky, free tobacco and in
thrive and fatten off the hard-earned
money of the laboring classes. In a word,
the contest here at Washington at present
is between organized capital and CEN
tralization of great wealth on the one
hand, and equal and exact justice to
all classes on the other. MIR. Randall
represents the first and Mr.. Carlisle the
last.
movements of the Randallites that a
scheme of some kind is being hatched in
the interest of the Pennsylvania candi-
date. 1t is believed that this scheme will
turn out to be a carefully organized at
tempt to stampede Mr.. Carlisle's friends
in the Southern States and scare them
inside the Randall lines. Hints have been
dropped here and there of such a move
ment. 1t is said that a grand raid will
be made this week on all the prominent
Southern newspapers, and every possible
effort made to induce them to come out
for Randall. Two or three sheets have
already been won over, and more are eX-
pected to follow, il the temptation is made
strong enough. Ex-senator GOrdOn's let
ter to Mr.. Randall is reported to be a part
of the alleged scheme. The Randallites are
also trying to make capital among the
Southern members by quoting Mr.. Car
isles declaration that he was against any
agitation of the revenue question at the
last session of Congress. They omit,
however, material part of the Ken
tuckian's remark, for he said he was op-
posed to any agitation merely for the sake
of agitation. Mr.. Carlisle's friends COM
plain of this garbling of his utterance as
unfair. AS for the project to capture the
Southern vote, the Carlisle men say they
will not be taken by surprise, and that
they are fully prepared to meet any at
tack of that kind. They have no fear,
they declare, that their friends will yield
to any persuasion to desert the Kentucky
candidate.
1t is asserted by the Randall men that
Mr.. Carlisle's friends are playing a double
game-telling the opponents of tariff agi-
tation that if he is elected Speaker Demo-
cratic principles will be thereby vindicat-
ed and the tariff will not be disturbed,
while the agitatOrs are assured that if Mr.
Carlisle is elected the House will be or
ganized so as to bring in new tariff bill.
This statement Mr.. Carlisle's friends
deny, and there is no proof of Its truth
That some of the closest of the Kentucki-
ans friends have been assured that there
will not be tariff agitation in the event of
Mr.. Carlisle's election, is, however,
fact.
Mr.. CoX's boom has received a tempo
rary collapse by the announcement of Mr..
Perry Belmont that he will vote for Mr..
Carlisle. Mr.. Belmont has never pro-
fessed ardent attachment for the New
York candidate, and the announcement of
his intention to vote for MIR. Carlisle is not
surprise.
A canvass shows that Randall is very
weak in the Southern States. Notwith-
standing the claims made, unless he can
gain many recruits from the solid South
he cannot be nominated on any ballot.
Thus far, it is said, there has not been
miscalculation of the number of Mr.. Car
isles figures, with perhaps one excep-
tion; but what may result between now
and Saturday next is one of those things
which cannot be foreseen or foretold.
The remark continues to be made every
hour of the day that Mr.. Cox will show
greater strength on the first ballot than is
credited to him now,