The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-21
THE BIG FOUR"
CARLISLE, cox, SPRINGER, RANDALL.
The Candidates for the spsaksrshIp-grry Han
Thinks he is to DO the Chosen oas-A Lively
Fight Promised Before the Battle 10
Over-strcnEth ofths Candidates.

WARRINGTON, November 20.-Mr. Ran
dali came down to Willard's about 0 o'clock
this afternoon. He met General Denver
and General MCGOWAN at the entrance at
the hotel, and while converting with them
about twenty-five persons crowded around
the doorway TO catch glimpse Of, or get
nod from, the ex-Speaker. Mr.. Mattson
and Judge Ward, OF Indiana, were intro.
duced to Mr.. Randall. He shook hands
with General Clark, Of Missouri, and Mr..
Wintersmith, Of Texas, candidates respect
lively for clerk and door.keeper Of the
House. .....n.
Mr.. Perry Belmont who arrived in this
city last night, pressed forward to shake
hands with Mr.. Randall, who devoted
about thirty seconds OF valuable time to
the young member from New York. Mr..
Belmont will vote for Mr.. Cox on the first
ballot and as soon as he is convinced that
New York's candidate cannot be elected
he will vote for Mr.. Carlisle.
In company with Mr.. Morrison, Of Iii.
nois. who is one OF MIR. Carlisle's strongest
supporters, Mr.. Belmont visited Mr.. Cox's
headquarters this afternoon. Mr.. Cox did
the honors with grace, talent and wit, and
the exchange Of compliments was over
powering,
"I only came over for day." said Mr..
Belmont 10 a correspondent. II am going
back tomorrow. There are go few mem.
bers in the city that 1t seems impossible
to tell what the outcome Of the fight will
be-"
considerable surprise Is felt here" said
the correspondent, ",hat you and Mr..
| Hewitt should be found In line for Cox, as
against Carlisle. How long do you expect
to stand fer New Yolk's candidate?'
"Well, there seems to be disposition
10 give the different candidates compli-
mentary votes," was Mr.. Belmont's reply.
"But think Cox's friends will stand by
him better than is generally supposed"
INTERNAL REVENUES.
az presume you do not agree with Mr..
Randall's views regarding the tarifi?'
"No, do not" returned Mr.. Belmont;
"Mr. Randall says he favors the abolition
Of all internal taxation. That means
cutting of sl44, 900. 900 from theIevenue,
greater sum than can be dispensed with.
It would cut of the surplus and leave q
deficit, which would have to be made up
by an increase of duties"
II understand your national bank friends
in New York do not favor the continued
rapid payment OF the public debt, which
threatens the security OF national bank cir
culation, and II the reduction Of debt
should be curtailed there would be ample
revenue for the support OF the government
with all internal taxes abolished" was sug-
gested. "Mr. Cox, too, is on record in
favor Of the abolition OF internal revenue
system.
"Mr. Carlisle's frienes do not say that
they propose 10 tinker with the tariff" an
swered NIr. Belmont. "His views, of
course, are we'll known, but he Is not COM
mitted to any policy. Mr.. Randall says,
on the contrary, that he will abolish the
taxes on whisky and tobacco"
"Do you think, in view OF the Republi-
can. majority in the Senate and the Repub.
lican Executive, that any attempt to re-
duce duties will be agitated by the cham
pions of low duties represented by Mr..
Carlisle?"
II cannot say" replied Mr.. Belmont
eyasiyely, "but II Mr.. Randall should be
elected speaker, 1t is fair to presume that
he would organizs the Ways and Means
Committee so as to bring in o bill for the
abolition Of internal taxes"
Mr.. uEwrrr's CHOICE.
Representative Hewitt, Of New York, is
bound to vote for Mr.. Cox on the first bal
lot at least. He would prefer to vote for
Carlisle first, last and all the time, as he has
a personal grievance against Mr.. Randall.
1t was expected that Mr.. Hewitt would
come on to Washington and labor in the
interests of Sir. Cox, but word has been re-
ceived at the Cox headquarters that Mr..
Hewitt is Ill. He Is great sufferer from
insomnia and 1t Is feared that lying awake
nights thinking Of the vote he must cast for
Cox has aggravated Mr.. Hewitt's malady.
The arrival Of Mr.. Morrison will give
fresh impetus, 1t Is thought, to Mr.. Carlisle's
boom. The Kentuckian called upon Mr..
Morrison at Willard's this afternoon, and
they conferred together. Much sympathy
Is expressed for Mr.. Morrison in the trying
position in which he iuds himself placed.
MIR. Springer, OF Illinois, Is an ayowed can
dfdate for Speaker. That he should not
receive all the Democratic votes Of his del.
egation on the first ballot, at least, would
be remarkable, aud Mr.. Morrison, conse-
quently, must vote for Springer while
whooping for Carlisle.
Mr.. RASDALI's HEADQUARTERS.
Mr.. Randall will open his headquarters
at the National Hotel tomorrow, Repre-.
sentative Ermentrout, Of Reading, is ex.
pected here tomorrow. He will have
parlors at the Ebbitt, and will there enter.
tain some OF MIR. Randall's friends. During
the next ten days the contest will increase
J in bitterness. A friend OF Mr.. Randall
said tonight:
"The recent elections show that the
(, Democratic party can count upon solid
electoral vote from the Southern States in
1884. We must have forty-eight electoral
votes from the North to win. Suppose
Carlisle is elected Speaker, Northern men
will say, You bulldozsd Malone In Wiz.
ginia; you elected Southern man Speaker;
you have got a solid Southern vote for
President, and We will meet you with q
solid Republican vote from the North.
But II Randall Is elected Speaker this
powerful argument cannot be made, as the
conservative siness men of the principal
cities will see in his election q guarantee
Of quiet session Of Congress, free from
tariff agitation, an economical voting Of
appropriations and an early adjournment"
Samuel ]. Tilden, 1t appears, is not play
ing ssch silent hand regarding the speak.
ership fght as II was imagined. Not long
ago Democratic lemper the Ohio dele.
CATION called upon Mr.. Tilden in New
York. The sage Of Gramercy and Grey
stone said to this member: "The way to
elect Democratic President in 1884 Is to
make Mr.. Randall speaker OF the next
House OF Representatives"
Death Of Charles sien,ens.
LONDON, November 20.-Charles VIII