New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-23
THE REY1TSS1YCE or SPRIGGS.

Sprggs who begins to figure as deep, dark, I'M
known quantity in the canvass for the Speakership
once filed the trump Of fame-although the trump
seems to have forgotten the circumstance. In the
innermOst political circles of this State he is never
mentioned as Spriggs, nor as Mr.. Spriggs, nor as
Congressman Sprggs, nor yet as ex-Mayor Sprggs
But always by the picturesque, hortatOry name
Observation-Disclosures Spriggs. And, as the
general reader may suspect the name has an IN
teresting history Spriggs became its sole proprle
tor in 1875, by reclamation. By the reclamation
of the annex Democratic State Convention of that
year. 1t was Convention that nominated Horatlo
Seymour for Governor. Would Mr.. Seymour ac-
cept No one could speak definitely, so
Spriggs WAS sent from Saratoga to Deer
field to see. The mission was OF tho
first Importance, aud there was not delegate that
did not sit with bated breath until Spriggs was
heard from. At times while they thus waited the
silence was so intense that il is believed the falling
of a cannon-ba on the roofof the Convention could
have been heard with considerable distinctncss.
Well when Sprggs was heard from he just suf-
fused the delegates with ccstatic emotion He did
it with his little telcgam-"GO on and finish the
ticket" Ii had been agreed among those who were
running the Convention that such message was to
be understood as the assurance that Governor Sey-
mOur had accepted the nomination The ticket
adjourned. But, alas! not many days afterward
there rose 50 wild yell" that a good
deal of sensitive Democratic blood took to cuTdl-
ing. Seymour had not accepted, nor could he
be induced to accept. The painful consequence
was that the Convention, finding itself with head
less ticket on its hands, was compelled to meet
again. And meet it did, with corrugated brow wild
eye terrible temper, and raging thirst for the gore
of Sprggs. Was he really bamewOrthyl Was his
" 90 on and finish the ticket a Typographical er
ror, an unconscious cercbratOn, exclusive eyOlu
tion of the Spriggs inner consciousness, or what
The answer to this question like the tariff plank in
the platform ofthc last Democratic tatcCOnyentOn,
is not easily found. Mr.. Farchild, NIr. Dorshemer,
Mr.. Faulkner, Mr.. LGmOnt-these Democrats may
know Just how it was. Bur the secret is locked up
in their bOsoms. and the key of the combination is
lost II is only to be added that
the explosives red with uncommon wrath that
the Democracy bestowed upon Spriggs may well
have been regarded by him a baptism of fire. As
the result of the baptism his stands recorded
in the family record of the Democracy Of Ncw-loTk
thus: Coon -and-iuiSh-tbe- tickct SprlgGs.'
When last heard from Sprggs had started on an
other dchcatc political mission. He had gone to
feel the pulse of Congressman Arnot, of Elnira,
prompted by desire to know if it beats regularly Tor
Mr. Cox. If Cox gets telegram signed Sprlggs aud
cxhortiug him to go on and finish your canvass
what will Cox feel warranted in concluding The
addition OF this conundrum renders the Speaker
ship contest more perplexinC than ever.