The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-23
TEE RxPLAsArIos OF soURKg
COCHRAN.

When Henry Grady. she brilliant Gesr-
gia orator and joarn aIist, died some three
years ago the mantle that he dropped was
caught up and gracefully worn BY Mr..
Bourks Cochran. the oratoricai voice Of
the late Tanmany dsspotisn Of New York
city.
Ths late Mr.. Henry Grady, Of GEORGIA,
vas an sxcslisnt representative Of what
might be called the eloquenos Of profess
sionsl orasory. the political jary advocate:
be VAS . man OF dramatic. picturesque.
emotional power Of sxprsssion rather than
Of impressive. earnest thought; he was
fluent faeiis and fsrvid; he always spoke
with his audienoe, never against IL.
whether he spoke ~ Northern or South
ern banquet; he always captivated his
audience; ne made 10 his first business to
win applause. and be always won applause
bscsuse he always talked In sympathy with
his hearers.
For this reason Mr.. Grady never did full
justice to his great talents. because he was
too prone to sacrifice sincerity to senss-
tional success. He was . brilliant Boz
hemian in journalism. life and politics.
Mr.. Bourks Cochran IL the late Mr..
Grady's double; he can wink with one
eye and cry with the other: he can take
CIeveland's scalp in the most artistic
manner .. the Chicago national conven-
ton, and yet when he goes to congress he
can feed Cleveland tafy until bis trencher
runneth over.
Mr. Bourke Cochran can sloquently de-
pouncc the income tar and criticise the
Wilson tariff bill and Jet vote for the
Wilson bill with its annex OF the income
tax He was always fishing for applause;
he preferred to get the applause of both
parties. 90 he made bid for tho goodwill
Of Tom Reed. the brilliant Republican
leader, and Tom. who heartily admired
Cockran's remarkable gifts of eloquencs.
gave him his hand with his heart In IL.
But the fatal faw In the Cochran dia-
mond Was that. like Grady, with all his
fine talents, he was . mere jury advocate
In politics; he was like John Ph0nix's
hero. Joe Bowers, Who declared he did
not vote because he had mo politics; not
. id polite"
Bourks Cochran always acted In con-
sress like . political jury advocate, who.
having accepted retainer from the Tam
many Democracy. was bound TO earn his
fec.
Such men, to say the least, have not been
rare in modern politics.
Mr.. Bourks Cockran's explanation OF
the recent political revolution reveals his
intellectual and moral limitations. In an
intsrvisw which no prepared with care Mr..
Cochran asserts that in November of last
year he predicted that II the Democrats
passed the income tai the city of New
York would probably go Republican.
Very true, Mr.. Cochran; nevertheless.
you eoted for that tai. although You spoke
against it. Mr.. Cochran further says that
IL Ii better TO be in . minority which Is
Democratic than in . majority which is
heterogeneous, discordsnt irreconoilabls
and incapable"
Very true. Mr.. Cochran: but you voted
for ell the Populistic measures which
were injected into your Democratic tariff
bill
Mr.. Cochran says. Genuine Democracy
was not defeated, but disguised Populism
was crushed"
Very we'll. Mr.. Cochran: you voted for
this disguised Popuiism" when you voted
for the income tar.
Mr.. Cochran says that ''ths house of
representatives passed bill which was
universally conceded 20 be fairly consist
emit with the principles profsssed by the
party during the presidential campaign"
MFR. Cochran knows this is not true, be-
cause the Chicago platform refused rscog-
milton of the income tar. and its injection
into the tariff bill was the work of Demo-
cratic demagogues whose stupid trick was
Endorsed by Grover Cleveland
Mr.. Cochran 10 q scholar, a man OF
superior intellectual quality: he clearly
disoerned and he denounced the Populi.tic
drift Of the Democratic tariff with the
income tax annex; nevertheless he sosed
for The very pseassrs whose innate vicious
ness he saw aud pointed out
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