Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-17
WILLIAM b. ALLISON.
Qowa.)
FRANCIS NJ. COCKRELL. j. r. JOi
(AIissouri) Nevad

years In the House, addeu TO HIS thirty
years in the Senate, give him record
of continuous service Of thirty-eight
years. Yet to-day he is hale and hearty
and his face is rosy and plump as any
girls. While he has been hard work
er and fairly good liver, his life has
been an even one, and he has not a.
lowed the chase for the dollar nor the
ambitions of politics to contract ana
distort his soul. Always well dressed,
he makes you think of New York
clubman or banker rather than Of the
average American statesman. HIS
black clothes are well cut, and the lin
en- of his shirt and his broad, expan-
sive collar, which exceeds even that of
William NJ. Evarts in size, Is of the
finest material and as white as the
driven snow. His hair has whitehead
and it is fast becoming iron gray. His
eve. however is bright, and the rosy
corpuscles that shine through his fair
skin show that his blood is full of iron.
Allison is probably the best politician
in the Senate
The learning of George +. Hoar, of
Massachusetts, is almost reyered by
his fellow Senators. He is regarded as
the ablest lawyer and the most pro-
found scholar in the upper house. Hc
is perfectly intlexible in the matter of
principle. People who are moved to
temporize, to compromise or abate In
the interest of courtesy are sometimes
.mpatient Of the man who says: This
is right; will advocate, maintain and
enforce it," Such man is Hoar.
Morgan Of Alabama hits straight
from the shoulder. He is fighter who
knows not compromise, and to whom
surrender is an unknown word. Witness
his fight for an Isthmian canal
Through dark days, when few believed
that an interoccan waterway was pos
sible. he strove for it, and now lie sees
his dream nearing a realization. He
was ever fighter. He Joined the Con-
federate army in 1861 as private, and
before the war closed was operating as
n brigadier general, with Longstrcet,
Johnston and Hood. He practiced law
In Selma, Ala, until elected United
States Senator in 1877.
Before William Jennings Bryan had
attracted national attention by his adj
vocacy of free silver, the voice of John
p. Jones, of Nevada, was often heard
proclaiming the imagined advantages
of a white metal currency and demand
ing the enactment of laws favorable to
| 1t. He had studied the money question
deeply, had taken part in monetary con-
ferences, and, as owner of silver mines
In the West, lie could see but one side
of the argument rs to the relative mer-
| its of the white and yellow metals.
Jones is one of the luckiest and richest
| men in the Senate. He is a native of
| Wales, but was only year old when
his parents settled in Ohio, where lie
grew up. The California gold fever of
1910 caught him, and he went to the
Pacific slope. When the silver strikes
were made in Nevada he went over into
the Midget State and got his share Of
| its vast wealth. He had been sheriff,
legislator and candidate for lieutenant
governor, and when he felt that his for
| tune was secure lie took kindly to the
suggestion that he become a Senator,
and lie has, since 1878, been member
of the upper house.
Cockrell of Missouri. though vet
eran, has not been conspicuously identi.
fed with any legislation of Importance,
but has always been recognized as one
of the ablest men on his side of the Sen.
ate. He is lawyer of ability and was