Connecticut western news., 1902-05-01

Quence, in intrepidlty of spirit as wei as in the length of his speeches he re calls that immortal Irishman, Edmund Burke, who, taken up one side and down the other, was perhaps the great est transatlantic orator. that ever spoke the English tongue. Macaulay laments the-fact that Burke delivered some of his grandest orations to empty bench es. He was dubbed ''The Dinner Bell' by some wag, who declared that Burke's rising to speak emptied the house of commons as suddenly as a dinner gong would empty the public room of a crowded hotel.
 On the contrary, the announcement that Senator Morgan is up at once fills all the seats and standing room in the senate chamber and packs the galleries to suffocation.
 It may be truly said of him, as pr. Johnson said of Oliver Goldsmith, He touches nothing that he does not adorn." Without extravaganza 1t may be affirmed that he exhausts every sub- ject that he discusses without exhaust ing the patience of his auditors. It Is equally true that he has never uttered a dull sentence during the twenty-five years of his senatorial career.
 In the frequency of his speeches he resembles though hardly rivals that H. lustrious orator, Charles James Fox, for that magnificent Whig declared that he had spoken every night except two during his long parliamentary life, au1 his only raorat wac that ha naOlact- ed to speak then.
 Morcan's Intrepidity.
 Senator Morgan Is utterly fearless and perfectly loyal to his conceptions of his duty to the people. These quail ties brought him Into antagonism to Cleveland's second administration. It was In the long drawn out debate on the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law that he fixed upon the Gold Democrats the ludicrous nick name of "Cuckoos," which Is apt to stick to them quite as long as Hunk CTS" and "Barnburners" stuck to the warning factions of the New York De mocracy in antebellum days or as "Snappers" and "Antisnappers" will adhere to their descendants of a more recent period or as the names "Stal- warts" and "Featherheads" clung to the two wings of the Republican party. In longevity 1t may equal the name Know Nothings," which has survived for, To, these many years.
 In passing 1t may be stated that the amusement the Silver Democrats de- rived from Senator Morgan's happy characterization of his Democratic op- ponents was about all they secured in that celebrated debate. He laughs best who laughs last" and the gold CO., horts had the last laugh on that occa- sion, and it was loud, hilarious and long.
 Weapons Ready to Hand.
 Lord Bacon hath 1t, Reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man and writing an exact man." The first two qualifications Senator Morgan pos sesses in a phenomenal degree. Consid- ering what a busy life he has led, 1t is incomprehensible when he found time to learn so much or. having learned 1t, how he managed to digest and assimk late 1t His capacious head in no way resembles a storehouse into which a vast mass of things have been thrust indiscriminately, but rather we'll ar ranged armory in which is found every species of weapon. bright and shining in Its proper place, ready for instant use, or an intricate machine In which every wheel, cog, spring and pulley does with utmost precision It's predes- tined work.
 He Is an academic scholar and a pro- found lawyer, one of the best in the south. He had never held any civil of flee except that of presidential elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket prior to his election to the senate.
 Unprecedented Act of Soldier.
 He served In the Confederate army during the entire civil war, rising from private to brigadier.
 In one respect his career as a soldier has no parallel so far as have been able to ascertain and for that reason deserves to be known of all men. He Is the only military officer ever heard of, from Joshua to General De Wet, who voluntarily resigned a generalcy to accept a colonelcy. While others were fussing, fuming, fretting, sulking, resigning or asking to be relieved about some question of rank or seniority of commission he by reason of his great love for the men in his old regiment re- signed his commission as brigadier to command once more the soldiers with whom he first enlisted. In that action Morgan has had no imitators in all the hoary registers of time.
 Search through the land of living men; Thou canst not find his like again
 CHAMP CLARK.