Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — WHO WILL BE SPEAKER? [ARTICLE]

WHO WILL BE SPEAKER?

What the Leading Candidates Claim for Themselves. Some of Them Evidently Making Wild Calculationr. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Daily News.] There is a prospect that the canvass for the various offices in the House will begin earlier this year than usual. All of the leading candidates intend to be here by Oct. 15. A gentleman who is watching the canvass of the three leading candidates for Speaker regards Randall as the leader. He will have the twelve votes from his own ; State, the New England vote, except that of Collins, from Massachusetts, who is for Cox. nine from New York, four or live from Ohio; all of West Virginia, three from Virginia: the vote of Delaware; the majority of Illinois; Wisconsin and Michigan; one each from Nevada and Arkansas; three from Missouri; two from Tennssee, three or four from Texas, three from Louisiana, all bnt two of Alabama, four from Georgia, three - from South Carolina and North Carolina < each and three from New Jersey. t Carlisle claims the nine from Kentucky, ; eleven from Missouri, five from Arkansas, j five from Michigan, tweri e from New York, one from Massachusetts, two from Virginia, I the majority in the Ohio and Illinois delegations, six from Wisconsin, one from losra, all of Louisiana except one, all of Texas except two, all of Mississippi, three of Alabama, one of Georgia and a part of North and South Carolina. Cox claims twenty-one from New York, five from Michigan, six from Ohio, four from Indiana, one from Missouri, two from California, one from Massachusetts and a large scattering vote throughout the Bomb. Carlisle claims to have over ninety votes pledged Cox believes he has rixty-eight, while Randall is confident of over seventy. As theye are only 191 votes, it will be seen that some of the candidates are misled, as they all claim large strength in New York ana duplicate each other in enumerating their individual strength. Randall is now making much the closer canvass, and, as he has the money interests of his party back of him, is drawing to his standard the doubtful voters who are anxious for One thing, and that is to go with the winning man. There are three candidates for the Clerkship of the House. These are John B. C.ark ‘ of Missouri, John D. C. Atkins of Tennessee, and Edward L Martin of Delaware. All are ex-members. Stilson Hutchins is sometimes mentioned as a candidate, but he is makirm no canvass. The contest will be between Clark and Atkins, with the odds in favor of Clark. The latter when in Congress was a bitter opponent of Sam Randall, He is not opposing Randall now. carefully avoiding any complication with the Speakership candidate-. There are three candidates for the office of Sergeant-at-Arms. Ohio furnishes two, ex-Congiessman Leedom and John G Thompson, the old Sergeant-at-Arma The Suestion between these two men will be ecided by a vote in the Ohio delegation. ; The third candidate is Gen. Ccit, of Con- , necticut, a gallant soldier during the war, who has never held office at Washington. He'labors under the disadvantage of being comparatively unknown. Two Eors named Dennis Shea and George j Marshall engaged in a scuffle at Holyoke, I Mass, and Marshall was thrown to the ground, dying almost instantly. The doctors say that his death was caused by asphyxia. the lungs being gorged with . blood, while one ventricle of the heart,was empty. ’ ■ . ', Arrxa a severe thunder-storm near Montemorelos, Mexico, a shepherd who had gone to shelter, while returning to his flock, discovered and killed in a field a fish over five feet long, which apparently had fallen from the cloud* j Can’t get drunk on water’ Nonsense! Go onayatching trip and tee if you cant.