The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04
A rALE oF TWo pINNERs.
Senator Coclrelrs Candidacy in the
 Democratic Convention of 1904.

Senator CoclreIIs Candidacy in the
 Democratic Convention of 1904.
 Ex-senator Cockrell has thanked Mr Bryan for placing him in nom- nation for the presidency in the na- tional Democratic convention of 1904. There has always been wonder in the minds of the knowing as to wheth- CT Mir. Cockrell had properly ac- knowledged that dubious service. It is now three years and half since it was rendered, and in that time MT Cockrell and the perennial candidate had not met until on Saturday, they found themselves confronting each other as guests at the table of Rev. pr. Eulla of the Methodist Episcopal church. South, now located at Alex Mo. The occasion was an suspicious one. On the eve of Thanksgiving, two good ands mighty churchmen, finding themselves guests of a reverend host, could not waive any of the due amen ities. If MT. Cockrell had ever hesitat- ed he hesitated no longer, but rose to the occasion and expressed gratitude for a disservice. Which marks him a gentleman of the old school which is forever new no matter what the un- knowing may think about it.
 In days when wordy brawls so of ten mark festal meetings of Demo- crats, this graceful concession to the social proprieties by prominent Missourlsn. sratiies the pride of Missouri. For. in spite of the fact that it takes a long time to show many Missourians anything they don't want to look it. the majority of them, dur Ing the three years and half of elo- quent silence by Mir. Coclrell, have come to see that so we'll bred a man could not so long have withheld ac- Acknowledgement of what he deemed a friendly act This is not saying that the former senator has ever suspect ed Mr. Bryan of deliberate treachery, but what he knew was that MT. Bryan was the tool of the purblind politicians who had come to think the Missouri Democracy stake they could play in any game, and that it would stand for anything they might do with or to it. The inspiration of the Cockrell presidential movement was the ne- cessity of keeping Missouri from Hearst, whose nomination was inn possible but who, if he could add the Missouri delegation to that of Illinois, could defeat either Parker of Cor man, the first of whom was preferred by financial interests and the other of whom had commanded the support of the old guard by promising Senator Stone the chairmanship of the nation al committee.
 It was not the financial interests supporting Parker which brought MT. Bryan to parting with Hearst The trick was turned at dinner, the democracy of these days seeking al- ways feast of reason in flow of soul and never finding it. The dinner was at the Clinton home of Maj Har- vey salmon when that gentleman was high in hgh finance and high-handed politics Mir. Bryan vas the guest of honoi| but above the salt sat the doughty Col. Moses c. Wetmore, and that old guardsman who. in that day was the loudest squeak of the gum. shoe in Missouri. The old senator was stubbornly refusing to ride fer fal
 which would iniure his prestige and very probably, his prospects of a re, , election Never enamored of his col
 league in the Senate, he was distfust
 ful of Greeks bearing unsought anC unseen gifts. MT. Bryan was appealed , to by the friends in Missouri he hai 1, never been able to resist, to urge tn, senator's cooperation in the plan. Hi
 yielding was the beginning of tn, :. masked feud between him and Hearst { which was but lately ended in lonl conference at New York, the result
 of which would begin to be seen sool
 after tho fourth of March, 1909, If MT
 Bryan could. be elected next year, H B consented to be the jockey to rid Cockrell in the race, In the results o s that handicap every plate at tn { Clinton dinner table was smashed. Tn - entire scheme failed and resulted fl , 8 profound disgust which wrecked it z amateur inventors. The one Mlssour } ian emerging from the table withou great loss of dignity, emolument O
 rositlon Is Cockrel, whose generou
 high-mindedness gives us anothe
 proof of how impossible it is for lit
 men to make big man shrivel t their size.--St. Louis Globe-Democra