New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-30
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
.,,,..,,,1 ,1.cs nnrrING IN BROOKLYN.


A STIRRING SPEECH BY CONGRESSMAN cox
The Hon. S. S. Cox delivered one Oh MS
characteristic and stirring speeches at the broOSs
",, q. nIr,oavs last evening to an audience which
ara the snaoous Building leaving scarcely one-na ~
.Ae people seated. Long before the meeting NA 80 ,
% order the crowd inside made the nan hois' ooD
natient stampincs and cries for the speaker VI 1891,
ing while the mass outside hnea ,aro % an
n,ock the upturned faces shining wltn Iho hlo
o,so calcium Night. On the stage, when was nheu
in nrominent Brooklyn residents were mayor POWELL
o. s,ocuu Wm c. Dewitt, Judge Reynolds DaVi.1 G.
Aukep. H. H. wheeler, the Hon. Thomas kinsen~, I. II.
Koran. VIM. c. Kingsley, and many OTHERS. Mr.. Cox
was introduced by exJudge d. r BARNARD, the Presi-
dent Of the Constitutional Uniop Association under the
.uspiees OF which the meeting was held.
The President said that Brooklyn had registered 76ioO
TIE fun vote the city. ave have fear, he added'
what the result will be when tins immense vote is
poled."
Mr. Cox then came forward to receive an ovation IN
me shape OF cheers and hat wavngs from DIS enthus
Astc fiends He began by aluding TO the main idea Of
The caplpacn which is the burden OF newspaper cry
and the watchword OF the Liberal party" Reform"
Unhappy indeed the country which could not re-
farm itself hut believed America was not to be an
unfortunate example OF this incapacy He was no In
discriminate praiser past history and Institutions
lint there was scarcely Democrat present who could
NOT remember better days IN this country, and at not
very remote period the past We have not the same
nuserty and simplicity Of principle, the same honesty
and economy in the conduct OF public affairs that we
had then. We have an accumulation OF illgotten
a. wen as wcI-gotten wealth. specuatons in bonds and
stocks and great National debt system or social ana
political unketine unknown 10 the better days Of the
Republic. We have our President almost one-thiId OF
the year absent from his post OF duty. But all these
eued M and freshly sharpened at Cincinnati and Bat
by people who casting aside the M one ana
great idea OF reforming the body polite for the greater
Happiness Of the people. lApplause.l
sketong cOncsely their claims as compared with tha
tSSee OF the idea Of local sefgoyernmentthe Very
basis upon winch the Union is founded and without
passed on TO the the Liberal candidates for the
Two highest Offices bringing the audience 10 Iner tSet
with bumOrOusly resigned air to the october eecuOn
his hearers Into another burst OF applause by the
tute remark that the state OF New-1ork GA
81 10 lpha for models Of political purity and
good administration. il was plainly enough stated by
bound 10 carry nearly all the Southern States well as
the Pacific coast and adding TO those and TO lndlana'
the States Of Connecticut, NewJersey and New-Iork,
sS,es' iH1plSuSe He had been through 20 counties
i'm the state and had come back to report NewYork
was going by $1,000 majority outside Of Kingsbrdge and
Mr. Cox took up the various complaints against the
present Administration and reviewed the past OF the
gentlemen Oh the Graut state ucket illustrating an WIN
bumorously-ponted anecdotes which never failed to
elicit keen appreciation To the end the large crowd re-
NAMED attentive listeners aud fingered long AFTER the
speaker had retired.
RALLY IN BROOKLYN, E. j.
a meeting of the Liberals Of the Fifteenth
Ward Of Brooklyn, E. D., was held last evening at
Leonard and North seconds 10 ratfy the city, county,
aud Assembly nominations. Resolutions adopted
iudorsng the candidates each ticket, and pledgng
them hearty support Archibald M. Bliss, candidate
for Member Of Assembly from the With District in
short address defended himself from the charges which
have been brought against him. aud asserted that there
not act Of his whole career which he feared to
have investigated Mr.. Blss's remarks repeatedly
interrupted by demonstrations OF approval and at the
close Of them three hearty cheers given for the
speaker. Andrew Cunningham, candidate for Sheriff of
Kings County followed with few words, and Col.
Edward b. Lansing OF Brooklyn made an effective
speech m support Of Mr. Bliss