The Washington times., 1922-07-06

SENATOR Tells
Of OLD Times
Californian Stood Beside Lin
coin at oettysburg-lsn't
Strong for Prohibition.
By wINIFRED VAN DUZER.
Universal Service.

BY WINIFRED VAN DUZEh.
Universal Service.
NEW YORK. July 6.--Age 70 as
It Isl Ninety-nine years and some
thing over lying behind the Grand
Old Man Of the Golden State" Tor
mer Senator from California Cor
nelius Cole. have brought him not
age but an assortment Of colorful
experiences that he moves about
over the checkerboard Of memory.
When Gettysburg was won and
the thirty-eighth Congress was sit
ting, he was a member OF the
House.
When Uncle Joe Cannon was
about to enter his long service at
the Capitol, the Californian Just
was finishing a term in the Senate.
In the days Of the bonanza kings
Leland Stanford, Coils p. Hunt
ington and George Hearst-he was
United States attorney In Cali
fornia.
When the grand old party was
a grand young party he was q
member Of the Republican National
Committee.
He was an intimate Of the grand.
father Of Congressman Hamilton
Fish. jr. Lincoln was his friend.
Handclasp Of Athlete.
BY which you will understand
why his thin hair Is the color of
December snow But remember, II
you please, that his eyes are eager
as a boys. his handclasp Is an ath.
lete's and there y vibrant youth
in his voice.
He spoke Of the old days in Cali
fornia:
for II was a time Of rough men
and rougher ways. Yet during the
whole Of my term as United States
attorney I never carried q gun.
Guns were a part of the wardrobe,
but I never could make IL seem
that one went with my office.
II had read law under William II.
Seward and after I was graduated
from Wesleyan In 1847 I went West
From 1856, the first year Of It's
participation In national affairs
until 1860 ! was a member Of the
Republican National Committee. We
kept California In the Union when
the Confederacy threatened to 60
out.
"It was In the midst of the war,
in November, 1862, that ! was elect.
ed to the thirty eighth Congress.
The most treasured moment OF his
long life, he said, was that which
brought him to the side Of Lincoln
when he made his farewell address
at the dedication of the national
cemetery at Gettysburg. His face
lighted with RECOLLECTION as he de-
scribed that day.
Il can see Lincoln now. straighten.
ing up to his immense height; letting
the old fashioned travelling shawl
slide from his shoulders.
The grafton OF the day had been
finished by Edward Everett of
Massachusetts,. No applause broke
the brooding silence Of the cemetery.
! don't know whether that silence
was pre-arranged, but 1t was very
fitting.
"Mr. Lincoln's voice was not the
sort you'd expect from a giant like
him. 1t was rather high and sweet,
but not out Of place.
Il believe that speech to be the
greatest piece OF spoken English In
the history Of oratory. A strange set
of circumstances decreed that II
should have been heard at q time and
in a place where recognition of 1t
had to be withheld by those who lis
tened"
Isn't Strong for Dry Act.
Senator Cole turned his attention
to modern matters, among them the
Eighteenth Amendment. He twinkled
as he made his statement:
I've always had wine on my table.
like 1t and 1t agrees with me. But
the amendment is a big question:: one
I never thought a matter for con-
sideration of the founders Of funda.
mental law.
II believe II that assemblage Of
which George Washington was chair
man in Philadelphia In 1887 had made
it basic law of the republic It would
have been ignored"
The Nineteenth Amendment failed
to draw his unqualified approval as
well. He explained:
81 do not think the voting privilege
In adequately restricted as matters
stand now. though would not think
OF permitting man to exercise the
right Of suffrage as head Of q unit
Of society and deny the same privi-
lege to a woman similarly placed.
II am not sure that universal suf.
frage is what the country most needs.
/ believe the family to be the foundn.
ton Of society, and I think control
OF the business of government should
rest with heads Of families"