The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-30
Richmond on De ck

Things all W nlnSolI as tH6 nONetty
candidate for president. There is at
least one other unique statesman in
our long cattg CORY of commonplace
and mOnOtonUus politicians. and the
star of destiny is beginning to travel
in his direction. He is not as able a
man as Butler, perhaps, but he is quite
as picturesque. and to the extent of his
opportunity has made quite cheerful
impression upon the country. HIS
home Is in the far west, near the conti-
mental water shed, and he blends ma
jestically with that stalwart brother
hood Of mountain peaks. when is at
once the dIsmay and the delight of Colo
RADIO. 1t is not 100 much to say, in fact,
hat in a geological aspect he trivial
lzts all competition to the level of the
ordinary pebble. and yet he is nothing
if not also chOicely bOnatical, and those
acquainted with him are in the habit
of hkening him TO that tender and beau
tiful plant called daisy"
We are speaking, of coure, of ex-sen-
atOr Tabor. He is the man who is
looming up IN this matter of the presi-
dency to divide public attention with
Butler. The movement i'll his favor is
not of local origin either, and cannot
be attributed to state pride in distln-
guished citizen, as it is to great extent
the explanation of the Butler boom.
Colorado is no doubt just as proud of
Tabor us Massachusetts is of Butler !;
but she does not feel SO willing to spare
hun from her landscape for national
uses. So covetous is she of her right of
possession IN him that when a grave
public eXigency demanded that he be
sent to " ashlngton as "a senator, she
could only be brought to consent to his
going for thirty days; and even as it
was, she grumbled and protested, and
was not satisfied until he got through
and returned to lean again upon her
system and be her own particular
thing, as it were. is easy to under
stand that she would never suggest the
IDEA of depriving herself for four long
and precarious yearf of citizen whom
she would have let gone, as Juliet said
TO Romeo,
"No farther than wapton's bird
Who let's it hop little from her hand,
And with silk thread plucks it back
again,
So 10 wing jealous of its liberty"
and therefore his nomination for the
presidency comes not from his own adj
mirlng and cberiSbing state, but from
The far away ana loving heart of New
Jersey.
The journal that has done itself the
honor to specify tins new candidate re-
jOices in the feliCitouS name, Statesman
aud is the organ of the eastern anti-mo-
nOp0lists. There is an emergency on
hand, this paper says, and Tabor's can
ddacy is the expedient to meet it with.
He has startling talent and purity OF
character" 1t announces by way OF in
formation to those who may not hap
to know him personally; and he is
also "lhe possession of young wife un-
surpassed IN beauty and intelligence
and queenly bearings" Furthermore,
he is director of the Overland Rail.
road ompany, of New Jersey, which
proposes to crush out the despolsm of
monopoly and redeem labor from "the
iron heel of money power" by con-
Structing gigantic independent line OF
railway from the Atlantic to the Pa
cite. A man thus equipped is clearly
the sort of a person that is needed
when there is an emergency to be- seized
and made sick and ashamed. Given
sterling talent, pure character, hand
some young wife, and directorship III
railroad from the rising Of the sun to
the going down thereof, and man ought
to accomplish almost anything. Com
pared with candidate so ricly endow-
ed, Butler ceases to tower in such Il
solitary way, and shrinks to the con-
dition of being at best only one in a
case of two of a kind; and hence, from
this time on, he must expect only half
as much interest to be manifested III
his caldidacy.
1t is a little singular, we feel moved
to add. that in recounting gifts and ac-
qulrements of its candidate, the New
Jersey paper should have omitted to
speak of his nightshlrt.. The States
man must surely know that any eulogy
of the illustrious ex-senator is incom-
plete which fails to take account Of
him in the robe de NUT sense. 1t was
by that sign more than any other that
he compelled popular notice and har-
monlzed his presence with the difficult
traditions of the government during
his brief and brilliant career IN Wash
lngton. The night-shirts that lie wore
at that time are recorded in history as
having cost him $3.50 apiece, No SJlJ-