Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-12-06
The Speakership.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.


Boston Journal
| For the element that has taken the lead
in all the pernicious financial legislation in
| the three Democratic Congresses immedi-
ately preceding the last, Mr.. Carlisle's cleo
ton is triumph. But the Carlisle victory
has yet more important significance. 1t
is declaration of independence by the
controlling element of the Democratic par
ty of that tutorship which Mr.. Randall ex-
ercised as Speaker during the greater part
of three Congresses. He ruled those Dem
ocratic Houses with rod of iron. He gave
the spectator the impression that the Dem
oeratic member, as a rule, cannot be trust
ed TO express his opinions and TO act his
pleasure. II is, moreover, a declaration
that the Democracy IN that section of the
country that elects Democratic Congress
men is going to take the party honors and
the party responsibilities. The Southern
Democrats have apparently resented the
assumption of the New York Sun that it
would hurt the party to take the Speaker
from the South. Why should not the
Speaker be taken from the section that is al
ways and overwhelmingly Democratic? Is
not the truest type Of Democracy TO be
| found where il has been nourished for half
century and where the opposition is too
feeble to check its full development Ken
lucky is to-day the best representative OF q
Democratic State in the Union. Democracy
has reached its highest development in that
State. The number of school houses is linz
tied, but in no Northern State are there so
| MANY men who own and carry deadly weap-
ons as in Kentucky Ii has a number of
leading families whose members are well
educated, but in no other State is the per-
| centage Of white persons who cannot read
and write so large as in Kentucky. The
State which is the best representative of
Democracy has been very properly accorded
the second office in the Government in point
of power. The change means that the Ken
lucky type Of Democracy is 10 go to the
| front in the present House.
Lewiston Journal
1t is now announced that the Democrats
in Congress will al once upset the protec-
tive tariff, and a tariff agitation decided
and square-cut issue as between free trade
and protection. is precipitated upon the
| country. Protectionsts will be grateful
for one thing-that in this contest they
will be likely TO have an easy victory be-
fore the people, knowing as they do that
the vote Of the Democratic caucus fairly
shows that even in Congress about one third
Of the Democratic side find themselves
| agreeing with protection and with Randall
instead Of with free trade and with Carlisle.
| There is small doubt that under Carlisle's
| leadership the House will do his bidding !:
and that we shall find the Democracy at last
shaping definite policy instead of ma
npuvreng for position. seems very probable.
| That is all the Republicans want If the
Democrats do anything, according to a ven
GRATED custom. they will upset their for
tunes. The leaders of he party are in the
wrong and left to themselves they will work
out the usual party defeat.
New York Herald
Al last there i promise of a Democrat
ic party. Mr.. Carlisle was last night chos-
en- Speaker by the Democratic caucus at
Washington. That means change: very
great and benetceut change. in Democratic
| policies. Ii means that the old fogies of the
party. the men afraid Of their principles.
have lost their hold, and the Young men Of
| the party-the men 10 whom politics mean
something more than mere office getting
have come TO the front.
Portland Press
Henceforth no Northern ..man will have
any opportunity, dependent on the favor OF
the National Democratic party, unless he is
| unreservedly committed to Southern inter-
ests and the policies marked out BY the
states which give the Democratic party its
certain votes in the electoral college The
two propositions upon which the South is
now practically united are the control of the
Southern States by their white population,
whether majority or a minority, and the
readjustment of the tariff so as to favor the
agricultural communities of the South rath-
er than the manufacturing and commercial
interests Of the North and East TO these
policies the nomination of Mr. Carlisle binds
the Democratic party.
~. y Tribune.
Mr.. Carlisle is to be the Democratic
Speaker of the next House. We are glad
Of il. His nomination, which means his
election. is an approach toward frank ex-
preston Of feeling on the part Of the Dem
ocrats. Their party has no excuse for exist
ence if it is not for Free Trade, and unless
il goes into the National canvass Of 1854 on
Free Trade platform it will be irving to
ride two horses at once. If Mr.. Randall
had been nominated. that would have meant
an effort to conceal his party's real purposes
until after the next election. Blu, now we
know that the canvass will be an honest one
conducted squarely on the issues of Pro,ec,
ton to American industry or a pairing down
Of the tariff and an approach to Free Trade
For these reasons We think well Of the nom
inaton Of Mr.. Carlisle. 1t places his party
on platform on which We shall be glad "a
fghtit.