Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — Randall Has a Hard Road to Travel. [ARTICLE]

Randall Has a Hard Road to Travel.

The closing hours of Congress were enlivened by a little colloquy between Randall and Hewitt, in which the New Yorker gave the Pennsylvanian a pretty thorough overhauling. Mr. Hewitt urged Randall to vote against the conference Tariff bill, when the latter got out of temper and told Hewitt that he had been fighting thd battles of the Democratic party for twenty-five years and wanted to be dictated to by nobody. Hewitt replied: “Yes, sir, I understand how you have been fighting the battles of the Democratic party for years. If packing and assisting to pack the Ways and Means Committee in the interest of monopolies and against tariff revision and the people for years means fighting the battles of the Democratic party, you have been doing it. You have done more, sir, to keep the Democratic party out of power than any other man in the country, and I tell you, Mr. Randall, you will meet your Waterloo in the Democratic caucus which assembles to elect a Speaker for the Forty-eighth Congress” With Hewitt and Cox, who will be influential in the New York delegation, against him; with the New Englanders dissatisfied at the cut on the wool tariff; with the West urging either Morrison or Springer, and the South united on Carlisle or Blackbtirn, Randall’s road to the Speakership is up hill all the way there. 1