The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-10
sAvoYARDis LETTER.
Want to Rattle Around in Senator
 Vests Seat.

Vests Seat.
 Washington Correspondence Louisville
 Evening Post.
 The Hon. William Joel Stone announces job in the United States Senate. It Is a big Job-to the fill the place in the first tdeliberative body in the world. so long neld ne dct Gy that % little sismsnded red.heaS- brilliant eloquent. and more or less err ratio George Vest. He has been there since March. 1879. He has been a marked mond in lis early manhood. and had wit messed the gigantic forsenic contesss of that very able council. He came here not unheraided, and he has more than re- deemed every promise given for him.
 sil Walter Scott tells of a Scotch laird who in a passion discharged meddle- some, impertinent and obtrusive servant. and the latter made reply that he would not even consider the propo-al-'n ye dinna ken whsn ye've a gude servant. did did not % 5udge. Missouri Knows when she l has a good servant. Look here! Mtsscu- ri Is just eighty years old. she has had nineteen Senator's Maine IS one year Tennesse. is twenty-five years older, and has had forty Senators. Kentucky is 109 years old. and has had thirty-four Sen souri stands by good man, through good and evil report. Missouri has been we'll served. You do not hear of the brains and the character of the State os- play the part of Cleon like a ham actor plays the part of Hamlet. Missour; would never give. up her Carlisles and her Lindsays-if she had them. Not she.
 Bill Joel Stone says he Ifs not re- treater or quitter." And then he incon- tinentiy retreats and ingloriously quit s Else why go back on q fertie Spring, faithful? There is this to say about the Pertie Springs conference-it was honest and meant what it said. Whatever does MT. Stone mean by this:
 "Bimetallism is still an issue. but the United States Is better off than other countries today with the gold standard should favor | the @ parity % tsic) of is to 1. Now by that I do not mean that we want another 16-to-l platform In the Democrat s par'y Ths rfa sas snd a t s sways s yr6ns for it today as ever wal"
 The night the last silver bill was killed in Congress. March. 1892 old Dick Bland roared a streak of indignation that reached from the Capitol to Arlington. It is a pity that he is not living to com, take it for a text. Stone brings to mind the Judge who signed an order for q bridge, and refused an order for roa1 to it. Cockrell is serving his fifth term in the Senate and Vest his fourth. That means ftfty-four years combined service for these two men, each the complement ot the other. Do you recall that when Gen eral Jacksons administration was as sailed by the most powerful parliamen- tary coalition our country has produced. Clay, Webster and Calhoun. Old Hickory confidently said: There is Benton; he will labor like an ox." And he did labor like an OK, and the end of the fight was the ''ExpunPin0 Resolution and old Benton put 1t in execution himself. Ben. ton was in the Senate thirty years, and worked every day; but 1t Is doubtful fl rion Cockrell has done. Sherman and Morrill, broke Benton's record of thirty years in the Senate. Cockrell is liable tc break all records, and attain to thirty six perhaps forty-two years in that body When Vest came here. Cockrell wat not more than half pleased. He knew | that Vest was the most brilliant man west of the great river. and lived in the next county to him. Cockrell. in tn, great academic silver debate of 1878, haf made a speech that was in the nature | of a law suit Silver versus Greed-anG | he brought in all the pleas Chitty telli about and some that Chitty never heard of. It was the most wonderful of all tht wonderful speeches delivered on the si! yer question, only excepting Nevada | Jones's gigantic effort of one week hand runnin' and repeat. But Cock
 
 of sense-and so Is Vest. Soon the! came to an understanding. United, the, were lnvincible. Vest moved to Kansas 1 City; Cockrell remained in Johnson Coun l tS. There have been two Federal admin 1 istTS ttons .sincs they made their alliance David and Jonathan, Damon and Pyth ias. would have been at daggers drawI had they. been Senators. and Democrats 1 representing the same constituency dur ing those periods of 1SS5-s9 and 1soJ.97. only cemented the friendship and mad Vest. 'l' '"''e '' O'A'e" al" Cockrell labored, Vest unused. Cockrel disc rssed appropriations; Vest spscrlIt ed on abstract principles Cockrell coul tell how many revenue cutters were Ii the service; Vest could prove that tn later Brutus avenged the. sons of tn earlier Brutus by the murder of the au thor of his existence. Cockr:n didn' care two dimes for that: Vest ci5n' care oneN dime for the revenue cutters old Father Hoar can discourse on men cry reading man. Vest will listen en chanted; Cockrell will write letters. no hearing word. and h:edltss if nsart will make a remark that will set pc htical clubs in roar ia far-away Chi cago; Cockrell will never hear of | Vest reads Burns; Cockrell r ads the c: Vest made a speech against J. Sterlin Morton; Cockrell got all tn seeds could handle from the Agricultural Do speaker In the Senate: Cockrell is one ( the most forceful men in committe, Both instruct the Senate-each in hi way. Cockrell Is good for two moI terms in the Senate yet; it Is a calamit to the Senate, to Missouri, to the couI try, that Vest Is not as robust ma physically as he Is mentally
 Missouri has contributed some grei names to the Senate- Benton, Atcheso
 Green, H anderson, Gratz Brown. Fran
 Blair, Carl SchurZ-these are some
 them.
 And of these Carl Schurz was the grea
 est. In the last forty years the debate debates of the Senate was that on tf , French Arms Sale.S eGt It. and read It was the Senate of 1872. There wei
 giants in those days. Over Summer. ovt
 Thurman. over Trumbull, over all the oI position. Schurz was the leader, and | 1t as who made the assault that shol Grants administration from turret foundation stone. Just as conspicuous c the other side was Roscoe Conkling over Edmunds, Carpenter. Morton. Hov ard, Howe Sherman-over all of then Il To know sthe intellectual giant of thS ] epoch one must read that dehate-tf Schurz. Then get his newspaper contrC versy with the Hon. GallinRer if yo would know what a formidable man th great Mugwump is.
 Let Missouri follow her traditions an return Vest to the Senate again. He
 not half dead yet.
 Spinning the States Crop.
 Birmingham Agc-Herald.
 Secretary Hester says there are or WI De before the year is completed 6,5S1,6