The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-07-18
HOARY LEGISLATOR
TALKS OF CAREER
Former Senator Cornelius Cole, 80
of California, Was Member of
House When Battle of Get
tysburg Was Fought

over lying behind the grand old man
Of the Golden State, former senator
from California, Cornelius Cole, have
brought him not age but an assort-
ment of colorful experiences that ne
moves about over the checkerooard
of memory.
When Gettysburg was won and the
tbirty-eighth congress was sitting, ne
was member of the house.
When Uncle Joe Cannon was about
to enter his long sevrice at the cap
itol the Californian was just hnlsh-
ing term in the senate
In the days of the bonaza kings Le-
land Stanford, Coils P. Huntington
and George Hearst, he was United
States attorney in California.
When the old party was a young
nartv he was member of the Re-
publican national committee.
He was an intimate of the grand
father of Republican Hamilton Fish,
Jr.. Lincoln was his friend. BY
which you will understand why his
thin hair is the color of December
snow.
Eager as Boy
But remember, if you please, that
his ewes are as eager as boys, his
hand clasp is an athletes and there
is vibrant youth in his voice.
He spoke of the old days in Cali
fornia:
"There was plenty of excitement
for it was a time of rough men and
rougher ways. Yet during the whole
of my term as United States attor-
ney 1 never carried gun. Guns were
a part of the wardrobe, never could
make it seem that one went with my
Office.
"I had read law under William H.
Seward and after 1 graduated from
Wesleyan in 1S47 l went west. From
1856, the first year of it's participant
in national affairs, until 1860, l was
member of te Republican national
committee. We kept California in
the Union when the Confederacy
threatened to go out.
cit was in the midst of the war IN
November, 1862, that l was elected
TO Che thirty eight congress-
The msot 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 GEM
etery at Gettysburg.
Describes Gettysburg
His face lightened with recollection
as he described that day.
81 can see Lincoln now straighten-
ing up 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 Mass
achusetts. No applause broke the
brooding silence Of the cemetery. /
don't know whether that silence was
pre-arranged but it was very fitting.
"Mr. Lincoln's voice was not the
sort you'd expect from giant like
him. 1t was rather high and sweet,
but not out of place.
81 believe that speech to be the
greatest piece of spoken English in
the history of oratory. A strange
set of circumstances decreed that it
should have been heard at Tina
and in place where recognition of
it had to be withheld by those who
listened"
Raps Dry Law
Senator Cole turned his attention
to modern matters, among them the
Eighteenth amendment. He twink
led as he made this statement:
GIVE always had wine on my table,
/ like it and it agrees with me. But
the amendment is big question; one
I never thought matter for consid-
Grafton of the founders of the fun
damental law.
81 believe that if that assemblage
of which George Washington was
chairman in Philadelphia, in 1887,
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:
t'I do not think the voting privilege
is adequately restricted as matters
stand now though I would not think
of permitting a man to exercise the
right of suffrage as head of a unit of
society and deny the same privilege
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