The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-16
The Vice-Presidency.
From Me Syracuse, N. Y. CON-

From the Syracuse, ". Y, Courier
A Washington special to the Herald
gives as the latest ticket talked Of among |
presidential slate makers, the following:
For president, Thomas A. Hendricks, of
Indiana; for vice president, Samuel S. |
Cox, of New York. This is the ticket, it
is iDtimated, which is looming up as a |
favorite in the west
Should New York fail at St. Louis to
get the first place on the ticket, ard the
nomination for president be given to the
west, the second place will almost as a mat
ter of course be given to the east, aud it
mag be, considering the Importance of
securing its electoral vote, to the state of
New York. In such contingency, which
is by no means impossible, the suggestion
of the name of Mr.. Cox Tor vice president
| is not bad; on the contrary it strikes US as
very good, AS candidate for the
suffrages of the whole people, Mr.. Cox
would possess as many strong and as few
weak points as almost any man that can
be named in public life.
| In the first place he has always been a
| Democrat, aud q Democrat of the Jeffer.
son school. The twenty years which span
his service in congress attest his consistent
devotion to the time honored principles of
his party. la the second place Mr.. Cox
was tCdr Democrat. He voted in con-
gress for every measure looking to the
most vigorous prosecution CT the war
His record is all straight on that point,
and no one would dare to question it, ln
the third place Mr.. Cox belongs to no
section, but is essentially National Dem
ocrat, He is equally popular with the
west, which gave him birth, and where his
first political laurels were won, and
with the east, which claims him by adop-
| ton. and with the south, of which he was
as fair and square q foe when wrong, as he
has been friend when right. In him the
Democracy of all sections might unite,
assured that he represents no sectional or
lproscriptive spirit, that he knows no south
or north, east or west, but only our COM
mon country. In the fourth place Mr..
Cox meets the most exacting requirements
of the day as an honest man. During his
long period of congressional service, a
, period when official corruption has stalked
brazenly through the halls of congress and
its faint has ruined many another,
t Il period of wholesale jobbery,
Mr.. Cox has stood in the midst OF the fire
with the hem Of his garments never once
signed. The foul breath of suspiciO- has
never rested on his character In the con
gress that perpetrated the salary grab, Mr.
Cox both voted against that infamous
measure, and refused to touch the share
thereof that the law gave him. In the
> present congress Nr. Cox has still further
earned the gratitude of the party and hi,
country,in his eloquent appeal for amnesty
and peace, as against the ghoul-hkt
, harrangue Of AudersOnville Blaine and il
= his consistent and persistent efforts to re
e store honesty and economy in the admins
d tration Of the government. What othe
man who has been in public life during til
d past twenty years can show an armOr wit
e fewer punctures IN it? How many ca
e boast more honorable or patriotic record
Is We are not aware that Mr.. Cox aspires t
N or would accept the position in connectio
ID with which, according to the Herald, hi
e. name is being canvassed, but we have n
Re doubt that such nomination would /
hailed with very general satisfaction b
e. the Democracy throughout the union.