The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-03-06
COCKRELL OF MISSOURI.

winter the season Of 1864 and 1866
Like Gettysburg. it was an accident
from the Confederate standpoint
blunder, and 10 the old Confederat
of the generation that fought an,
lost that campaign recalled tn
mourniul lines:
For OF all sad words of tongue or pei
The saddest are these: 1T nigh
have been"
Gettysburg and Franklin serve t.
illustrate the dauntless valor of the
southern soldiery and the indomita
BILE fortitude of their northern adver
saries. The charges of Pickett and
Clayburn were worthy the genius and
the pen of Tennyson.
When darkness cast her mantle
over the CORY feld of Franklin, the
dead bodies of six Confederate chief
tains of the rank of ms jor and brig
adler generals were gathered together
on the porch of a malldwelling. and
beside them was the body of another
Confederate general, desperately, and
it was supposed, mortally wounded,
But Francis Marion Cockrcll sur
vived, and short OF dozen years
later he succeeded Carl Schurz as a
senator in the congress ofthe United
States from Missouri, and was the
first native Of the state that
high station
Cockrell has been reelected four
times, and ii he survives until March
!, 1905 his service in the federal SEN
ate will equal in duration that of
Thomas II, Benton. He is the dean
of the democratic side Of the senate.
preceding Morgan hy two and Vest
by four years, Only Allison Of Iowa
and the two senators from Nevada
were senators before him, though in
the aggregate he has served longer
than William VI. Stewart, who was
out-of the senate twelve years--1S75
to 1887, alndeed. Cockrcll was Il sen
ator before Lamar, before Ben Hill,
before James b. Beck, before Daniel
W. VOORHEES,, before Isham Il. Harris.
He is five years Allison's junior, and
bids fair to break all present records
in length OF service as senator.
Missouri holds II commanding
place in the senate. Cockrel heads
the minority OF the committee on
appropriations. and Vest holds the
corresponding rank in the commit
tee on finance Both are in positions
OF great power and infuence-minor
ity places though they be--and il the
senate were democratic at this time
Missouri would be at the head Of |
both of these paramount organs OF |
that body. 1t takes years to make
II senator, though Il whim of the
mob may make a member of the sen
ate between the full and change of IA
single moon.
In the senate Cockrel is not the
commanding statesmen Benton was.
not the brilliant DICTATOR Green was.
not the COnsummate dialectician
Schurz was, not the crudite lawyer
Henderson was. not the delightful
oratori Vest is But he is as intrepid
as Frank Blair and can spring like
a tigerland hold on like u bulldog.
He is az industrious as Allison and
far more combative. His tirmness
OF will borders on obstinacy. and his
persistency would have made him a
successful and marked man in any
walk Of human endeavor
Go into the American court room,
urban 0rrurai, in any state and at
motion hour" in those tribunals
having chancery jurisdiction the sue
cessful lawyer is the busy man. He
may not be "a great iurist and his
speech may be prosy, but he knows
his cases thoroughly and the orders
he wishes entered. He is familiar
with every pleading that has been
FLED, every exhibit that has been Of
tered, every deposition that has been
made, every step that has been
taken. He has his authorities at his
end, and he never sleeps on
his clients rights. He represents
and is a business lawyer
and a business man.
Francis NJ. Cockrell in the senate
chamber is what that sort of lawyer
is in the court room. When the sen
ate goes to the calendar he is the
man in the capitol and
round about. The galleries are i'm
deserted by everybody but