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Show BOURKE COCKRAN'S ELOQUENCE. ; Of a recent speech by Bourke Cockran, the Xa-lion Xa-lion says:, - : ' "There were, of course, gleams of sound sense in ,-ftvhat-Mr. Cockran said. On the' question of muni-jc'.pal muni-jc'.pal ownefship, he appeared to have argued power-, power-, If ally, against the views which he himself propounded propound-ed in the name of Tammany, when he went to Albany Al-bany a few weeks ago to outbid Hearst.". , . That gives an excellent idea of Bourke Cockran. : He has a marvelous mouth. He has nothing to do "but touch a button and off it goes, in pyrotechnics ' tor dynamite, as may be desired. . There was a half -crazy lawyer in the West once. He strolled into court just when a demurrer was. to ! be argued. He wag not in the case, but he spranlg to his feet and taking up the demurrer shook it to pieces. He showed to the court that it lacked in 'every requirement, and that it would be a miscar- riage of justice for the court to Consider it for a moment. Then he turned to the complaint and . fwith a volley of mixed law and invective explained ' that the complaint itself was worthless. And the : funny part of it all was that he knew nothing at all about the cause he was discussing. - The Judge tried for ten minutes to stop the man ' ond finally the Sheriff had to be called in, whereupon where-upon the attorney retired, intimating that, neither court nor counsel understood their business. -0, , If any one could get a volume of all the speeches ; that Bourke Cockran ever made, we think it safe to ; nay that he would find both sides of every case dis-. dis-. 1 cussed, and the diction would be as picturesque and profound on the one side as on the other. |