Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-20
WILLIAM Il. ALLISON.
(lowa.)
FRANCIS Nj. COCKRELL. ].
(Afissouri.) Z

years In the House. added to his thirty
years In the Senate. give him n 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 q hard work
err and a 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 we'll dressed,
he makes you think Of New York
clubman or banker rather than or the
average American statesman. His
black clothes are well cut. and the lin
en- OF his shirt and his broad. expan-
s,ve collar, which exceeds even that Of
William NJ. Evarts In size, Is OF the
finest material and as white rs the
driven snow. His hair has whitened
and 1t Is fast becoming iron gray. His
eye, however, Is bright. and the rosy
corpuscles that shine through his fair
skin show that his blood Is full Of iron.
Allison Ia probably the best politician
In the Senate.
The learning Of George F. Hoar. of
Massachusetts, is almost revered by
his fellow Senators. He Ii regarded as
the ablest lawyer and the most pro.
found scholar In the upper house. He
is perfectly infexible in the matter of
principle. People who are moved to
temporize, to compromise or abate In
the interest Of courtesy are sometimes
nf N xl,h ~ IL
Is right; will advocate, maintain and
enforce It," Such man Is Hoar.
Morgan Of Alabama hits straight
from the shoulder. He Is a 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 interocean waterway was pos.
sibie, he strove for It, and now he sees
his dream nearing realization. He
was ever q fighter. He Joined the Con.
federate army In 1861 as private, and
before the war closed was operating as
a brigadier general with Longstreet,
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 ad-
vocacy OF free silver, the voice of John
=. Jones, Of Nevada, was often heard
proclaiming the imagined advantages
of white metal currency and demand
Ing the enactment Of laws favorable to
II. He had studied the money question
deeply, had taken part In monetary con.
ferences, and, as owner Of silver mines
in the West, he could see but one side
of the argument as 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 he |
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
It's vast wealth. He had been sheriff,
legislator and candidate for Lieutenant
governor, and when he felt that his for.
tune was secure he took kindly to the
suggestion that he become a Senator,
and he has, since 1873. been member
Of the upper house.
Cockrell OF Missouri. though a vet.
esan, has not been conspicuously identt