S.S.--"Sunset"-- Cox for temporary chairman.

It was a clever move.

Mr.Cox, though sure for Tammany, was popular everywhere and especially at the South.

His backers thought that with him they could count a majority of the National Committee.
The night before the assembling Mr.Tilden's two or three leading friends on the committee came to me and said: "We can elect you chairman over Cox, but no one else." I demurred at once.

"I don't know one rule of parliamentary law from another," I said.
"We will have the best parliamentarian on the continent right by you all the time," they said.
"I can't see to recognize a man on the floor of the convention," I said.
"We'll have a dozen men at hand to tell you," they replied.