New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-15
STTIL IN TIE FIELD.


We learn with feelings of the liveliest salts
faction that our candidate for Speaker OF t1e
next House of Representatives, Mr.. Samuel
Cox, is still in the field. So many other things
have lately occupied public attention-sui-
cides, smuggling matches, mysterious disappear
ances, strikes, tornadoes, etc, etc.-that the
Speakership contest has in measure passed
out of sight In presence, too, OF these larger
controversies excited by the Birdsal revelations
concerning the relation of MIR Tilden to the
Democratic defeat in 1880; who did defeat
Hancock: whether the General was "infam-
ously derided" during the last two weeks OF
the campaign by one of our Democratic con-
tempor.Iies and whether Mr.. Brdsall himself
was not ca led "Porge" and considered I'M
truthful by his neighbors nineteen years ago
In presence of these great and absorbing
questions. we say, it was hardly possible for
the struggle for the Speakership to receive the
attention it deserved. Moreover, since the
announcement by Mr.. Randall that he had Sc
cured votes enough to make him sure of IN
election, the question has been treated as prac-
ticaIly settled by the generality of people the
only notable exception being Nr. Henry Wat
terson, who continues to pile up works meet for
repentance against the day of Mr. Randalls
election.
We rejoice to learn, however. as we do from
The Herald, that Notwithstanding the some
what discouraging outlook for his candidacy,
our candidate, Samuel Cox, remains in the
field saying no doubt with great Dem
ocratic leader of an earlier time, =" What though
the field be lost3 All is not LOST etc.p We
learn from THE Herald-with what joy we
need not say--that "it appears that Mr.. S. S.
Cox may get handsome support in the new
House of Representatives, for the Speaker
@ship." In this State. it says, he is assured of
y the votes of almost all the Democratic Repre-
sentatives, and in the West and South he Is
q also favorite candidate To be sure rnav
get a handsome support" does not have the
confident sound of the announcement mt early last
spring that he was already as good as
elected And the assurance of the votes of
almost all the Representatives from this
State indicates a slight falling of from the
original claim of the solid vote Of New York,
but then it is late in the season, and more
is known about it now than then. This, toD, it
will be remembered, is precisely the course
which THE TRIBUNE predicted for Mr.. Cox
canvass.
The Herald attributes the tagging in the dis
cussion concerning the Speakership to Mr.
Randal's announcement that he has majority
in the caucus secured. q 1t is not polite" it
says I" to contradict SO positive an asseI ton
made by So conspicuous public man." Not
only is it not polite, but it might have added it
is not judicious for men to do it who desire
good places on the committees which Mr. Ran
dali will have the appointment of next De-
cember. And Mr.. Samuel Cox, always polite,
is sometimes judlcious Mr.. Cox's canvass has
followed the exact line The TRIBUNE laid
down for it, and we are gratifed beyond meas
ure to learn from our contemporary that even