Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1901-12-14
q|DP Ozark Stories
gdfberedi iIneand About the
| Haalssof Congress.


ator cockreiI-How the Gentle A1
Of GETTING Votes 10 Pursued In Mis-
sourI-A Crescent Shaped Finger 10
Sometimes q Good ThIng-surgery
4, the Civil War-Remarkabie Men,
ory Of a Statesman.
Copyright. 1901. by Champ Clarkl
Longfellow says:
Lives Of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And, departing. leave behind US
Footprints the sands Of time.
which is beautiful, no doubt, but much
more poetical than practicable.
However that may be, as these sto-
ries are read by many embryo states
men, an occasional glimpse at the acts,
accidents, achievements and qualities
by which the successful ones have
climbed high may aid those who are
contemplating the ascent of the diff
cult ladder of fame.
II the top notchers In politics could
be induced to give the minuti@ of their
careers, the ambitious youngsters
would be much benefited and greatly
surprised, but this is precisely what
most of them will not do. Nor are they
usually accompanied by Boswells to
set them before the world as they real
ly are. At st. Helena Napoleon re-
fused to permit history to be read TO
him ON the ground that 1t was mostly
lies. As biography is only branch Of
history, l guess the wonderful warrior
would have placed 1t In the same cate
CORY, and surely nobody could have
blamed him for such caper IL he ever
read any of the biographies of himself.
General Francis Marion Cockrell is
one OF the most successful of all our
public men. Anecdotes about him are
scarce as hens teeth. In my judgment
his success Is due nearly entirely TO
one thing-that is, he has rellgiously
obeyed the Scriptural injunction,
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,
do with thy might"
He was a careful and painstaklng
country lawyer. He was a careful,
valorous fighting volunteer soldier. He
is a patient and indefatigable worker
in the senate. Senator Chandler, an
intense Republican, not long since ad-
vised the Democrats TO nominate Cock
rell for president on any old platform,
u tribute frsm a political opponent
well worth treasuring up.
cockreIPs Campaigns.
One reason of CockrelPs wondrous
hold on the affections of Missourians
Is his method of campaigning. There
are now only about half dozen coun-
ties In Missouri without railroads, but
when he first came to the senate nearly
half the counties In the state were des-
titute of those necessary adjuncts Of
modern civilization.
Naturally, the average campaign ora
tor prefers speaking in the cities and
large towns, where railroads render
travelling easy and good hotels abound.
Not so with General Cockrell. He re-
membered that most of the cities and
big towns In Missouri were Republic
an and most of the outlying, sparsely
settled counties Democratic. Every
county has at least one member or the
legislature, and Cockrell prefers votes
In the legislature to glory and fire.
works In the cities. So he, and fire.
quently he alone, would stump those
counties off the railroads. He travel
ed In buggies when he could and In
spring wagons or even jolt wagons
when he had to. 1t reminded him OF
army life, don't you know. The con-
sequence was the other aspirants for
a senatorial toga got their names and
speeches and pictures in the metro
politan papers and Cockrell got the
votes In the legislature.
An ArithmeticaI Speaker.
Cockrell Is IAN arithmetical orator"
II may be permitted to coin phrase,
and l don't see why / can't. Other
speakers may soar at will in the blue
empyrean and feed the audience on
gimcracks of eloquence, but he sticks
close to figures. He revels In the null
tiplication table. Others may pour YER
bal vitriol on Republicans, but COCK
rell, though a stanch partisan, con-
POUNDS them by pages Of figures. Fol
example, he will say: "Fellow citizens
In such and such year the total ex'
penses Of the government were three
hundred million, five hundred ano
forty-seven thousand, three hundred
ard ffty-sisht- dollars and thlfteer