Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-11-29 | Page 4 | There Are Other Missourians

THERE ARE OTHER MISSOURIANS. ' And now the silly suggestion Is being made that the Missouri Legislature, with Its Republican majority, ought to re-elect Senator Francis Marlon Cock-rell. Cock-rell. No one would have dreamed of this but for the high praise bestowed upon Senator Cockrell by the President of the United States, and the tender of an Important Im-portant office to the veteran legislator after March fourth, nineteen hundred and five. To the extent that the idea originated in this attempt to copy after the President, It is maudlin. But there are other objections. The first would come from Francis Marlon Cockrell, who would refuse to accept a re-election at the hands of a Republican Legisla-, ture, He Is a Democrat stern and uncompromising. un-compromising. Politically he gives no quarter and he asks none. The Eecond objection, and equally strong, would be fromthe. Republican aspirants to the place. These gentlemen have toiled for a generation to swing the State from the Democratic column over to the side of their parly. To reject the fruits of the victory now would be as lacking In political po-litical loyalty as common sense. Senator Cockrell Is a grand old man. He has been for thirty years one of the most useful of the national legislators. No one can Immediately fill hlB particular particu-lar niche. But as he haB reached an advanced ad-vanced period of life the Senate would have had to learn, under any circumstances, circum-stances, to get along without him. There are other Mlssourlans, and some of them are in the Republican party, and eligible to the Senate, who can serve as "watchdogs for the treasury." Either Mr. Hitchcock or Mr. Kerens could say, as well as Senator Cockrell, "You will have to show me!" before he would vote favorably on any bill.