Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-06
COLONEL C0RDON'S
 MANLY FAREWELL
Excerpts From the Great Speech of Mississippi's Temporary Senator in the Senatorial Hall at Washing.
 tOn-He Likes Rockefeller.

Col. Gordon, who served sixty days by appointment as United States sen- atorr from Mississippi, until the cleo tion of successor to the late Sen- ator McLaurin, bid farewell to mem- bers of the senate Thursday in a most impressive and characteristic talk.
 Col. Gordon is a gentleman of the old Southern school, and during his brief tenure in office, made most favorable impression. At the con- clusion of Col. Gordon's remarks, he was paid a high tribute by Senator Depew, who declared that it made no difference "how wonderful col- league succeeds him, he cannot be James Gordon of Mississippi
 Practically the entire senate listen- ed with rapt attention to the address of the venerable Mississippian. He stood back of his own desk on the ex- treme right of the vice president, and in homely phrase and almost with out gesture, talked to his colleagues as if they had been old time friends. Twice he quoted from his own book of verse, which he afterward present. ed to the vice president.
 Beginning with the statement that tho dood1ocly ba1 boor b,o1,or :~ 1r: sissippi, and that Mir. Percy had been chosen to take his place, Col. Gordon said that he had felt a desire to ex- press his feelings toward the senate before returning to his home in Mis- sissippi. He then told how, when five years old, he had been presented with toy board which was checked over With different objects, some of them good and some of them bad. One of these obpjects was the capital of the United States and his mother had told him that if he would be good and would live a correct life, he might some day hope to sit in the seat of the big man who was pictured there.
 She had never told me lie and l knew that what she. said was true. l knew that I would some day oc- cupy the seat of that big man, and, God helping me. I got there yester- day, referring to the fact that for a time he had occupied the seat of the presiding officer.
 I was born multi-millionaire." said Col. Gordon, "but I never was happy until I got rid of my surplus money. spent much of it on my slaves and the rest of my funds I spent like any gentleman and go. rid Of the entire encumbrance.
 T have listened with interest to the speeches here and the more hear Of them the sorrier am for the mil- lionaires. Why, if there is fellow in the United States that I am sorry for it's Rockefeller, because he has more money than any one else. That A9 AiS Sloi tuIt. I1c Cdu go on the street with one of his grand children without being afraid that some one might kill him Why. I know that he loves one of those children much bet ter than he loves all the money he has.
 T think Mir. Rockefeller is good man. hear his employees speak we'll of him, and am told that he never had strike. I am told also that he has given much money to churches and education
 Now, I don't suppose everybody will like that, but those who don't like it can put it in their pipes and smoke it. I'd like for MT. Rockefeller to come down to Mississippi and run his pipe line through my land. He could have right of way for all the