The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-26
of whom he was so proud and who so we'll deserved his approbation.

year his father became citizen or Texas. Old Dave said that he intended | that the boy should have an education that would enable him "to find his
 hat" One might write volumes and | not express 1t so we'll. What tho fa- | ther meant was that his boy should | be disciplined for the battle of life; | that he should be taught detail; that he should be grounded in self-reliance; that he should know how to make his | way in the world. Many boy, bright. |
 healthy, vigorous, cannot find his hat | in the morning, and the pity of 1t Is | they go through life just that way | always seeking what they cannot find, | and simply because they were not |
 properly taught in childhood how to |
 seek.
 And as soon as he was old enough. | young Culberson was packed off to the |
 Virginia Military Institute, school |
 little inferior to West Point. There he |
 graduated with high honors, and was |
 anxious for a military career; but that |
 did not suit the father, who insisted |
 that the son should study for the bar.
 He entered his fathers office and
 studied under the instructions of the
 old man for three years and then be-
 came q student at the law department
 of the University of Virginia, where he
 greatly distinguished himself. Here he
 attracted the attention of Senator Dan Tel, himself a great lawyer, who wrote a paper on one of Culberson's legal
 productions at school, and predicted the distinguished career the young man was to carve out.
 Returning to Texas after his gradua- ton. young Culberson opened an office at Jefferson, and engaged actively in the practice. He was very soon there after elected prosecuting attorney of
 Marion County; but his private prac- tice made such demands on him that,
 in justice to his clients, he was forced | to resign the office While yet very young man. he appeared in the Supreme I Court of the United States and argued l the celebrated case of Le Grande vs. The United States. involving the con- stitutionality of the ku klux act. His speech on that occasion was legal triumph. and the court decided the case in his clients favor.
 In 1890, at the age of 35, he was
 elected Attorney General of Texas, suc- ceding the redoubtab1e James Hogg, and two years later he was reelected. 1t was while he was Attorney-General | that he again appeared before the Su- prene bench at Washington and ar gued the case of Reagan vs. The Far mers' Loan and Trust Company, involv- ing the constitutionality of the act creating the Texas Railroad Commis-
 sion. When he had concluded his ar gument and was preparing to leave the room the clerk of the court beckoned him. and upon going to the desk he
 there found Mir. Justice Gray, who
 warmly congratulated him upon his | able presentation of the case. This was praise from Sir Hubert, and a Sir Hubert not lavish of praise. Some years subsequently,, when he made an- other exceptionally strong plea before that hench. Justice Gray again sent for him ,and said: Young man. have watched your career. and am not un- mindful of the fact that the people of Texas have taken care that you should not go unrewarded." Chief Justice Fuller also heartily commended him. Tn 1894 Culberson was elected Gov ernor, defeating the veteran John H. Reagan for the nomination. Two years later he was reelected. His admins tration was eminently satisfactory, and
 his fame went to the uttermost parts of the Union. when, with bulldog de- termination, he banished the prize ring from the State It cost a deal of
 money and no end of vigilance, but
 Christian civilization cheerfully footed | the bill and policed the border. In | 1899 Culberson became a Senator In Congress. and is now serving his sec ond term. He is capital public | speaker, but not a whir1wind declaim- | CT. What he says will set men a-think- l ing, rather than a-shouting. He speaks the English tongue. and never wan
 of the thinker and the lawyer. He
 never talks for the galleries. but his addresses are to the Senators.
 Culberson was a party man through and through; so was Lincoln: so is
 Roosevelt. But Culberson. like all
 great lawyers. is conservative. He does not believe in pyrotechnics He
 suspects novelty He will sooner cross the river on a safe bridge than on a | tightrope. He examines everything, | and no danger daunts him. Well | grounded in the Fundamentals of party politics, he tests everything by those | principles. In short. Charles A. Gull
 returned to life ,and William H. Craw-
 ford and David B. Culberson live again | in him.
 understand the Democratic side of the United States Senate is in search of a leader. culberson has no supe-
 rior in that body. No man is more alert--swifter to see a mistake of the
 enemy or prompter to take advantage
 of it. It may be objected that he Is
 Fabius rather than Marcellus; but Fa- bius gave Hannibal more concern than did Marcellus. Fabius saved Rome;
 Marcellus fell in action. Culberson is perhaps the only Senator the Demo- crats would cheerfully follow. He
 does not create antagonisms. He has
 an admirable temper. He commands
 confidence and wins respect. Leader
 ship Is as necessary to a party as to an army. No man who saw the work of Thomas B. Reed fin the Fifty-sec-
 ond Congress will challenge that prop
 osition. If the Democrats of the Sem ate of 1s07-0S are led with half the skill the Republicans of the House
 were in 1S91-93, 1t will have a tre-
 mendous effect on the political situa- tion.
 When the Southern Senators retired in 1881 and Douglas died. the Demo- crats of the Senate were in a great deal
 worse fix than their successors are in
 the present Senate. They were few in
 number and without leadership. The
 two ablest men among them were pow erless in the grasp of the demon of
 drink. Garret Davis was not yet a
 Democrat. Lazarus W. Powell was
 discredited for his Southern sympa-