The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-21
"sUNSET" cox.
A Warm Reception in Indiana TO the
brilliant New Yorker.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June 20.-Demo-
cratic political circles are in a fiutter over
Sunset Cox's visit, and the impression he
made is certainly mest hattering to him.
Capt. Meyers, secretary Of state, said he re-
garded Mr.. Cox as the most brilliant and
scholarly man in congress. He was of the
opinion that his views on the tariff more
nearly met with the general approval
OF Indiana Democrats than those held by any
other candidate for speaker. The sentiment
has deepened that Mr. Cox win develop un-
expected strength in the Indiana delegation
when the caucus meets to nominate speaker.
Holman is said to be Randall S only supporter
from this state. Matson and Ward are
counted as certain for Cox, and Carlisle and
Cox will divide the remaining votes. MIR
Cox win return home by way of Chicago.
GREENCAsTLE, Ind, June 20.-I'he Hon. s.
s. Cox delivered the annual address before
the university here before one of the most dis
tinguished audiences ever assembled in the
state Among those present were ex Sena-
tors Hendricks and Mcdonald, Senators
VOORHEES,, Bishop Bowman, Congressman
Calkius, Peel Lamb, Ward, and Matson, the
Hon w. C. Depauw, and the state officers,
also many other of the prominent men Of In
diana.
Mr. Cox spoke on the subject of ''The Mar
velous Forces of Our Times These forces he
divided into the elemental, with which man
had no relation, except as an observer; the
same forces as modified by the mven-
lions of man; and, thirdly, the utilities
and influences on mind and faith of these
studies of matter Referring to the first
Il. /
the doctrine Of storms picturing the atmos
pheric sea around the earth and its influ-
ences The mathematician may not be, he
said, the poet of the sky: but it is only be
cause his sphere has grander horizon. Re
ferTing to those forces which man modifies
by his skill, the speaker reviewed the Iabors
| of jacquard, Vaucanson, Fitch, Fulton, and
Stevenson, and followed it up with graphic
description of the working of the new mag
netic elements of the time.
Most of these elements, he said, were an
| ticipated, but not at once utilized All are
referable to the sun, including the electric
power, for the coal is sunlight and sunlight
is carbon. Man is endeavoring to anihilotG
time and space, and cars and kaisers tremble
before chemistry and its simplest combina-
lions. The speaker would not have the under
| graduates study physics only. Education is
simply a method of investigation. Educa
ton, like religion, to be potential must be
come incaTnate.
Indiana, he said, must teach and think foI
herself if she would not be ruled by New Eng
land or Virginia, by Jonathan Edwards, OF
even Thomas jefferson. In conclusion, he
told the students that their career was to be
in the heat and dust of active life to grapplC
with and direct the forces of nature, har
messed under conditions of human
progress never before vouchsafed
| to mankind Before these privileges al
others pale and the undergraduates are per
Hitted in loftier pantheon to make ont
more niche for another and tenth muse
the muse of mechanism, meditating upon tn,
miracles mutations and magnificeuce of tn
material universe, and lifting a song of praisi
in Him which all the clements join in halle
lujah to Him who is the fountain of ali tn,
forces and the God of all the graceS