Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-02-02
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eloquence, foresight, prudence and tao
had fallen down. leaving only the skel
etons of dead and gone ancestors to tell
of the forensic fray. This is what ev
eryDody says. and everybody imagines
he believes it and that it must perforcs
be true.
But as a matter of fact there are a few
statesmen yet remaining to the repub
lie, and it is comforting to sit down and
CONSIDER that If one of them had been
in the United States senate forty o.
fifty years ago he would have gone
down to history alongside of Danie
Webster, Henry Clay, Thomas Jefferson
aud John C. Calhoun. That one i:
George G. Vest of Missouri. And il
may that a less cynical generation to
follow will accord him the position he
has earned in the very forefront of mod.
ern thinkers and orators.
| Senator Vest is no ordinary man.
With thirty years of legislative exper-
fence behind him, he is master Of the
business of making laws. As the lead
er of great party he has shown such
daring, such diplomacy and such skill
as would have made him, in other days,
a prince of the crusaders When he
entered the senate, fourteen years ago,
it was as a full panoplied knight, train
ed in all the arts of political warfare
and reared in an atmosphere of states
manship. Without dispute he quickly
assumed the leadership in a body of
leaders, and has ridden. booted and
spurred. over more hypocrisy, deceit,
treachery, extravaganza and corrup-
tion than any man known to American
politics.
There is no question as to the posi-
tion held by Senator Vest in the hearts
of all Missourians. Knowing and low
ing him as a man, appreciating his
high qualities of honor and matchless
eloquence, and according to him all the
praise which true recognition of merit
can acclaim, they are united in the
faith that he is without peer in the
United States senate.
Senator Cockrell, of u different mold
and with certain duties to perform
which no man has ever performed as
well, has his own place in the love and
admiration of his people. Senator
Vest, occupying another field. has
brought distinction upon himself, his
state and the government which he SO
ably represents.
Leaders, such as Senator Vest, are
essential to the perpetuity
of free institutions Appreciating to
the fullest extent the liberty he enjoys
as a citizen of the republic. he is jeal-
Gus at all times of threatened encroaeh-
ments upon the rights of himself and
fellow-citizens, and in defense of these
rights his voice is always attuned to
the most eloquent and convincing
strains. Fearless. witty. learned and
possessed of magnetic influence, the
hour is rapidly approaching when SEN
ator Vest of Missouri will take rank |
with the greatest of all the great men |
who haye preceded him in the United
States senate.
There Is nothing artificial about Sem
stor Vest. As the Republican congress
man. Gear of Iowa, once said OF the
congressman from this dis
,rict: 81 think that Dick Bland really |
believes everything that he says" So
he Junior senator from Missouri speaks
always from an honest conviction and
would cheerfully place his head on the
block in defense OF the principles heI
,spouses. AS student of legislation.
10 senator exceeds him in diligence
md study; in debate, absolutely match
ess on the floor of the senate in
veighty argument, as strong as the
oremost lawyer at the bar of the SUI
,reme court.
Who can blame the people OF Mis-
ouri for placing George g. Vest on
he topmost pinnacle of their esteem
md Observation-Disclosures City Trib-
me.
Carlisle for the Cabinet.
It seems to be reasonably certain