The daily gazette., 1883-11-12
THE sPEAKERsHIP.
What mr.. Carlisle has to say in Regard 10
HIS Chances.
New York World Special.

| mally open his canvass tomorrow. His
| headquarters are at the Metropolitan Hotel,
| although his private rooms are at the Riggs
House. Mr.. Cox will have his headquarters
at Willard's and Mr.. Randall will locate at
| the National Hotel. There are really only
three candidates, the minor aspirants having
withdrawn. The laae TO disappear was
| Springer, Of Illinois, who has given up try
ing to get the Illinois delegation. Mr.. Car
lisle receives the benefit of this, as q ma
jority Of this delegation are for him. Mr..
William r. Morrison is one of Mr.. Carlisle's
most active supporters and will be here
within few days to personally assist Mr..
Carlisle. The latter in an interview this
eve ing with Hortd correspondent said:
"I feel very confident of a nomination
upon the second or third ballot" "How
many votes have youl" was asked. "T am
sure of over 80 votes, and believe that
will receive at least 90 upon the first ballot.
Nlnety-slx are required TO nominate, and
feel sure that / am the second choice OF
enough men among Mr.. Cox's supporters to
make my nomination certain"
"Is it true that there Is any combination
between you and Mr.. Cox3"
"It is not true. have make q combina-
tion with no one and shall make none. What
votes have have come to me personally and
believe that can hold them"
NO COMBINATION MADE.
How did the impression get out that
there was combination between you and
Mr. Cox %
at must have occurred in this way:
| was In New York last summer with my
wife, and acce ted an invitation from Mr..
| Cox and his wife to come down to Manhat-
| tan Beach. A reporter of Brooklyn
paper, seeing us there together concluded
from our having social relations that we
must have political ones. He printed q
paragraph to that effect. Mr.. Coz wrote TO
me about It from Saratoga Springs, assuring
| me that he was not responsible for the
statement. | wrote back a polite, friendly
letter to Mr.. Cox, n which coDcclcd to
to him hls own State delegation Beyond
this there has been nothing bat mere gen.
| craltles, nothing to war; mt upan the I,art
| Of any an Inference that l would In any
event Withdraw and combiue with him
against Mr.. Randall.
can interview printed about this time
with Mr.. Cox very pl inly said that had
written to him agreeing to q combination.
This interview reached INC at the White
Sulphur 81 as. Immediately wrote to him
about 1t, taking him to task for the state
ment as coming from bim as wholly unwar-
ranted. distinctly stated in this letter that
| had not made and should not make any
combination. He replied by saying that he
| had been misrepresented. This closed the
matter so far as / was concerned"
"What is your estimate of the strength OF
your riyalsi"
81 prefer not to 90 into that"
RAEDALL's GREAT STRENGTH.
''In your canvass which do you consider
| the more formidablel"
| "Mr. Randall. He is supported by the
protection element of the country, aud l
have good reason to believe that Mr. Tilden
favors Mr.. Randall. / understand that the
railroad interests are for him. The protec-
tion Republicans all want Randall to ba
| Speaker. Indeed, there has been no candi-
date for years about Bhom the Republican
papers have been so unanimous as they have
been in their support of Mr.. Randall.
81 heard last spring that Mr.. Tilden was
going to favor Mr.. Randall. Mr.. Waiter
son, one of my friends, did not believe It,.
| When he was in New York last summer he
went out to Greystone to ask Mr.. Tilden
about 1t, and when he returned he told me
| that 1t was true that Mr.. Tiiden was In favor
of Mr.. Randall"
"What are the issues in this fight P'
"IS seems to me that there was one issue
and that Is whether the Democratic party
shall go forward or backward. would call
RsndalPs election step backward. Apro-
| per reform of the tariff is absolutely neces-
sary. 1t is o question that cannot be shirked
or avoided. The West has sent to the
House Its present Democratic majority, and
1t is in favor of a wise modification of the
tariff.
~ am q conservative man and would do
nothing rash, but with the great surplus
Il revenue that we have now something must
be done. In the last Congress the Tariff
| Commission bill, which was considered at
the time practical avoidance of the whole
| question, was passed. 1t was passed as a
Republican measure, only Is Democrats
voting for it-McPherson In the Senate and
Randall and IS others in the House. To
elect Ran iall, therefore, wold seem to me
practically turning the Democratic party
upside down by putting very small major
| fly as the head.
~ understand that Mr.. Randall and his
| friends favor the abolishment of the internal
revenue taxes as means of cutting down
| our surplus revenue. believe 1t would be
well to take off the taxes from our hats,
| clothes, shoes and the common necessaries
| of life before abolishing the tax on whiskey
and tobacco. Perhaps the whiskey tax
/ could he reduced to SO cents, but that would
not, in all probability, reduce the revenue
from 1t.
WHAT CAN BE DONE.
"Perhaps this House of Representatives
may not be able to do anything In the way
of legislation, but that is no reason why the
Democratic party should not take stand in
accordance with its traditionary principles.
The Republican party is committed to
maintain the tariff as 1t now is.
"Mr. Randall's position is that the tariff
legislation of last winter was practically
final, for you can never find time when
the protection people will admit that it is
proper for the agitation of tariff reform.
When business is good 1t must not be done
for fear of injuriDg business; wen business
is depressed you must do nothing for fear OF
preventing q reaction