The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-19
NO FACTION FIGHT.
Leading Democrats at Washington
on the Tariff Question
Ana Its Relation to the Party Hew
att and West -Fitz John Por-
ter's Case
Retaliation.

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 19-Randalrs
friends Gisclaim any serious division among
the house Democrats upon the tariff question.
Talbot, of Maryland, one of Randall's firmeSt
friends, said: There is no trouble in the
party over the tariff, and there won't be
any Mr. Randall and his friends are not
antagonizing any element of the party. No
doubt Randall and some others will vote
against some provisions of the proposed tariff
bill but don't believe they viii antagonize
it al whole. In the first place, Randall
is not the man to lead q fractional fight
in his own party. He is too good a Demo
Graf for that and in the second place he
couldn't command the support of his friends
if ha tried in a matter of that kind. Demo
Gratis will differ as to changes in the tariff
upon some articles, and 50 will the Repub-
hcans. There will be no contention in the
party about it. The Democrats, 50 far as |
have been able to discover, are inclined to
harmonic differences and avoid any wran-
Cling"
Ex-senator Eaton said: Il can stand on
the Ohio platform; but Why not call it the
Connecticut platform In a letter which l
wrote to the editor of the World two months
before the Ohio convention, and which he
it is now called. and of course / can have
no objection to it. do not apprehend any
strife within the party over the tariff"
Gen. Rosecrans said; NO, sir: l know of
no contention or bad feeling existing or
threatened among the Democrats of the
house There viii not be any rupture No
doubt there are people who would be glad to
see it, but it won't work out that way. Moth
inc
lation that will tend to divide the Demo
Gratis. Some of the newspapers talk about an
impending rupture and all that, but YOU
Know the papers waut to have something to
write about that will excite the public and
make them sell All the trouble existing in
the Democratic party is so microscopic that
only those anxious to have us disagree can
discover it
CINCINNATI, Jan. l9-The Washington
City special to The Enquirer has the follow
ing: The free trade section of the Democratic
party in control Of the house of representa-
tives are now ready to admit that they do
not expect 70 elect president Of the United
States on their platform next year, but that
by 1889 they will have the country so educa-
ted up to their doctrines that they Will surely
win. The declaration was made by the con-
fdential private secretary of Speaker Car
Isle.
Meanwhile, with so long a wait in pros
pect, the new outfit is not idle The New
York Sun publishes, with double-leaded en-
phasis, the programme which Col Morrison's
party has mapped out. In states that the
Carlisle Morrison ..prograume IS now COM
pletely developed and it is as follows;
The states have been grouped according to
their views on the tariff, and the next presi-
dental contest is to turn on that issue SIM
ply. As certain for protection are counted
New England, New York, Pennsylvania, New
jersey and Ohio. All the southern states are
regarded safe for free trade To the 153
electoral votes from this section are counted
the fourteen votes from the Pacific slope In
diana or Michigan-or 1876 out of the needed
POI electoral votes necessary to elect a candi-
date. Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois
and Kansas are put down as doubtful, with
strong free trade probabilities in the case Of
the first three named states.
The managers of this new party urge. ac-
cording to The Sun, that the centre of popu-
lation is going west, beyond the manufactur-
ing belt and into the great agricultural re-
giOn, which naturally favors free trade Nc
Donald is to be the candidate, and they call
themselves the "Emancipated Democrats"
The Sun adds that the situation as thus out
lined is entirely palatable to the Republican
leaders