New-York tribune., 1883-06-20
SAMUEL cox REDIHIVUS.

SAMUEL COX REDIPIFOS.
THE TRIBUYE's candidate for Speaker Of the
next House is now, we rejoice to say, on the
home stretch Mr.. Samuel Cox, as we learn
from published telegram, is now IN Indiana,
with his face pointed toward New ork. lt ID
hoped that he will arrive in time to take part
in the celebration of the Fourth of July at Tam
many Hall. 1t would be pretty melancholy
Fourth of July at the Wigwam in Fourteenth
ST. il Samuel Cox were not there with either
sLong Talk y or a Short Talk" or Mt least
few interlocutory remarks. The occasion this
wear. too. will be of unusual interest. The
Long Talk ~ will be given nv Governor Butler
of Massachusetts, who, for reasons needless to
recite. has been absent from the councils of
Tammany for more than twenty years, and 1t
would only he in the natural oIlcr Of things il
Mr. Cox should follow him in a" Short Talk"
after which Governor Butler might sing lis
favorite hymn, "Shoo, fly, don't bodder me-"
The absence of Mr.. Cox from these interesting
ceremonies, which might properly conclude
with tableau in which Mr.. John Kelly wonld
stand between Butler and Cox, with one hand
on the head of each, pronouncing over them
- Bless you my children " would be almost
calamity. We feel confident that Samuel will
be here, and that he will sit on the stage at
Fourteenth-st. and writhe under Governor
Buffers broad bat ambiguous smile.
The present telegram from Indianapolis con-
tains the first intelligence that we have received
from our can lidate for several weeks. When
last heard from he was in North Carolina. lie
had previously been in Washington, and there,
under pressure from local scribe, had per-
mitted it to he drawn out from him that the
New-York delegation would be solid for him
as Speaker that he already had votes enough
pledged to give him the balance OF power ana
that his friends already considered him as good
IA elected. Leaving Washington he plunged
into the Businesses of North Carolina, and for
weeks he made no sign. Where he has been
during this period we have not the slightest idea.
No more do we know where Samuel Randall
has been. or where Carlisle, or Blackburn.
Burrowing, we presume. All tho candidates for
Sneaker have been out of sight. Did we soy all
No. not quite all. Springer has-but 1t Is
mistake to treat Springer as serious circum-
stance The serious candidates during this lime
have been swimming so deep rs to never KICK
ripple to the surface, and we are proud ana
hapDy to say of our own candidate, Samuel COX,
that he has been swimming just as deep as any
of them. He took header in North Carolina
five or six weeks ago, and never made sign till
Yesterday, when some one sang out, There she
! blows !" and pointed toward Indiana.
Oueer. too, that he should have broken the
surface there and at Indianapolis, where the
chances are about ten to one that banana
skin could not lie on the sidewalk fifteen min
utes without tripping up a candidate for Presi-
dent. But he did come up precisely there. We
| do not know where be has been nll this time.
! We do not care to ask. We have confidence in
HIM to that degree that We DO not doubt that he
| has used his opportunities to the beat.
Doubtless he has been through the South
and made clean work Of it. IL would not SUI
prise us to learn in the course of day or two
| that he was the second or third choice of great
many Southern Democrats, and that, putting
J these with the New York delegation, he was
more sure than ever of the Speakership or if
not that, of q balance of power which could not
fail to give him IA good place on the commit
tees" At indianapolis Mr.. Cox permitted him.
self to be drawn out Not fully, to lie sure,
but enough to disclose his own confidence in
the result. Being questioned, he said with great
frankness that he would certainly go into the
@caucus with the solid support of the New York
delegation, anu tndI hc "ouiu haho 'ho liNcli-
a. est fight he knew how" Interrogatrd further,
he answered with still greater candor IL do
not care to ruin my own chances by discussing
those of others am fighting for Cox" This
is our own Samuel Cox-our candidate. The
rest of them pretend to be fighting for the party
or for some so-called principle. Our candidate
fights for Samuel Cox.
we grow fonder Of him as he grows older and
develops. He represents the Democratic party
better than any other man. He openly avows
his principles aEvery man for himself" ETC.,
| etc