| Show A 11 11 Thirty ii a Y TX Years ear in n the United States State s Senate Senat 1 Special of she Hit Deseret New Newt ly by Frank Q G fl H H V M v vt t t rl tI t ts r t I tV s V i i ik I 3 t I f yf y k 1 I h Ih J t I II I t y l t p t Y Yf t Ii f 1 r y y yI 7 l I X i If t fir firA Y YV A V V 1 r M r 1 ti t tV I I Y j 7 t tI I I f Y J 1 1 f y y y y 7 Y y y y s y y y y 1 j OO SENATOR COCKRELL AS HE LOOKS LooKe IN 1803 1905 AS 1 D C f 11 D AST T This rhIN IH III the story of 01 ci a furin Irm or orl e boy bo who w hn he b w t d teH senator the tho story ut ot utu ota J u n United senator who understood his hie hl Job well enough to hold ledd th the place placer r for tor JO 30 yearn yeon mid and who now about to 10 l It Tins has t 00 o gained 1 the re respect p ct BUI Rod and love lave of or his Fla follow that the president gives ghee him hint Iho the choice of rot two of 01 tho the positions In III ids hla hl administration loth places carry big Mill riel One hie IH In tilt of 01 f the other othel Is III Re I of or tho th canal the l 1101 1011 o l lion In a ti 1 y ur Tho The non man I 1 refer reCer to la id I Francis n Cockrell Cookrell tho ho from Missouri who Illin his great t pr pre II 11 Honton Hanton has hall served 1 that tate state con continuously cont t cm tiff Its tit for lor 80 ao years 1 I tho story will be helpful to the young mon man und nod lx bo toys ys of 01 the coun eun country e JUI try Who by h rending reading between KM 1111 may bay find and own AT ATt Jo m WITH COCK COCI COC t f r give RIe the story through iho mouth r of or tho senator It him hie heed been drawn out lilt l lIy by y many Senator Cockrell Is le modest to a n degree unknown to 10 tho public nubile min null His Illy biography IH Is file ino of oC the tho shortest In th thu tho director It Is IO told In It lint Imes and It out mat In strong contrast to the tho thelong long drawn drain rut out biographies of nen written by bl b My first aret fir t were welo ns as to In the sen senators boyhood Ho lIo replied My Will Was like that of 01 most boM 11 acv of ot Mic It WIt wet 11 h S father tathel i el was WAR a I II fn I rn ti r vim W I hn h n nIn hi ha l 1 been brew n ed In stock In III J I i tacky He lie same came to Mis I 1 Wall born and took up upu u 1 large tract trad It ad of or land away out these thelo on the frontier We Ve had no railroad with stIth within in hundred of or mil of or im us and our education was Willi gotten in the common co III 1110 II schools of III the neighborhood Tim school terra were short I 1 I moved about rob uncle to undo uncle to keep near nORr the wore were lre held heM at ut dif different ferent In III different parts party of 01 the country After I had Fed pa fed through t thell lies a I 1 went to Impel Chu el Hill mile go near by hy nod nm thoro un ut until til I graduated WI 01 IN mo What kind of 01 H II college colle go wan It sena Ilona senator tor It Willi a II good Bond g country college n nil ne col loges wont went then The IIlo boys bo lived l In III Thoy came to school to 10 got Kot an AH oil unit Ion and alii 1 they the worked pret prat pretty ty ly laird hard Our training wan type chiefly fn tit the tho fundamentals We Ve studied Latin laUn Greek botany rhetoric physics etc uh After ACter I graduated I t Ire re remained rev manned one olle year HH 1111 professor of or Inn hui guanes I 1 taught Latin and Greek coil and also French translations lr The inco enco wo was WOM mi nu excellent ono nn When I carne clune to III tench I found out how little I 1 roilly know knots and lUll I I 1 had to study HOmo nomo till all over again Ono linn has to know a I tiling In order or del to teach leach It ItI tow How I about In ho tho c days W Vero TO the Ih college collego boyn bys of ot then thon as nil as IUS of oC now I dont Ilont mailed the tor tora I a creeping over On Idy hili race face an ns hiss his hi A soul Raul slid III hi back to the tho playgrounds of 01 Ids his boyhood l We Wo had gomo Bome 10 t II IT 11 I I j AI A Chat With Senator CocKrell About and nn Public Mutters lle Tolls Stories of DC Ills Ins I j I unit und of or Soldier Life LICe in the South How It II Feels o to be bo Shot Ilia 1110 Pardon on and andi an anI i slow How Ho Cutno hilt bach to tho Iho Union A Speech That Moths Nolle n Ills Elements of oC oCI I I Story of General e Doodle In to Congress FolK Foll ns nil 11 II Ircel I II I II I j I Quantity n t The Tho Democratic Party Not t Dud Dead i games and mo most t strenuously wo we c played them We Ve did dill not have or but hilt WI f lad had unmeet similar One was wan W R town hall and un an another other woe bull pen In bull pen one nna of ot the clubs glued InAldo n l le a t rinK ring ud id Us lis opponents on the corners cornel outside The fhe Theman mOil man on Oil the nu who had hall the ball boll threw It with till nil hIs Ills might at lit the tho crowd croll within trying to hit lilt ono one of 01 them fh men within tried to get Hal the HIP ball mid and on II IIII If It one of oC them could throw It IL back and an it hit one of or the men on the thc It wit sent u II oIT The rho game had HH Its ren reu filar points Pointe and It II was waR closely fought although there were Beldam lie hi om physical In ho Juried Huch euch as nil are accompanied with the football of or today loday I think gnaw n good brood thing tm for boys boy 1 I believe In athletics They rhe help to good goodmen men 11 en 4 What did dill you ou do utter after you ou left lert col college Irger lege I law II I begun to be he tore I come came of or rage g ge rind and really rea really I before I IRol got Kot my illY license licence which wife Willi only grant granted rd ed At nt 21 I 1 continued at nt the law 1111 until the war broke out Then I 1 entered tho the army rill and remained In It until tin the i dOle ilose I II AH A AYou SO I You went wont into In In Iho southern louthern army ns a n colonel did dill you ou Slot not you OU no the senator I OH nil n a private In ht the old uld MH Miss lIft Slate Olin Ill In 1801 1861 and ami my m com corn company pany elected me captain Tho rho next January 1 I entered the thu confederate army mid AM woe 0 elected by h my rny company there thereon ere I 1 wax n promoted later luter luteron on to lr l be II i colonel then t colonel colon es and then brigadier general which rank rank 1 I held during durin the latter part of or the war warA warA UI A 0 curious thing thinK occurred ns to my lilY promotion as al colonel continued co nil Sena Senator Senator tor Cockrell This Thin was that I 1 was made such noels over my own colonel and that lint my colonel colona under me 1110 ns ass lieutenant colonel without friction Indeed lilY my brought bronchi tho the telegram appoint appointIng Ing mi me to 10 my tent I told him It must meet t be n mistake and that If II I was wan promoted ed od I wanted him to know I hail had nothing to do with It He lie ripped replied that t he hl know knew I new that and thin then th n me tin on in my III appointment He lie sold edit You have served well Weil under me I have done what you could to make my Soy work successful I 1 want you ou 10 lo know that 1 Mill do the tho came for tor you r coil that cheerfully anti and loyally Ho I situ did no mid and we were friends friende and corn com nulls slip although I 1 became hU his hl su superior honor officer A You were often orten under Ore fire general I Iroil Yes Yen wo we were wele fighting nil all the tho time tile AVo Wo hush n ti number of 01 engagements In Missouri while I Wits wag In the Iho stain Mate to guard titter after that I In Iii almost constant action until the tho close of the tho war sear Tho The Missouri troops fought well welland and nod my brigade was vas commended rom mOil dell again I and oud again Here by hy the tho way U Is l my j I military record which Gen Ainsworth I hats Bent me copied from the tho archives of or the war wor department You will no I I tire that we fought nil ill through the war mid and I was seas by h the Union forces lorees at In April 1865 1206 I WIO you ever wounded l 7 I 31 J 1 Yes Yell several times three ell The fleet wound that drew blood redo made this Here the senator showed d me the the Iho third finger anger of 01 hula hili right hand which U Is a n halt half Inch shorter hortel that the tho others It In Is stiff unit and bends slightly eh In Inward wind toward thu th u palm paun palmAs As All I 1 looked at nt It he hll continued That Flint linger finger was struck by a 11 bullet hullet at Wilsons Creek tend and broken and anil part of 01 It t tarried carried When the surgeon treated It 11 I told him I wanted him Flat to sat ret It In III the position It would Dull have hae 1 Have when the tho hand In is used for writIng wilting HH lOe asked nellor mo ono why wh I 1 told him I expected to do a n great dent deal of nl writing after atter the tho war Ar seas Willi over Oer and did not want a n stiff finger linger to 10 prevent me nee He lie laughed and andset sot set tho ho linger finger on the curve as OH you see sec This makes the Injury almost Imper Imperceptible My haul hand Is la In Its ile natural shape and und I 1 wear gloves no ono olin can toll tell t that there Is III anything the mat matter ter tel with It IL lied that thaI finger been ben set eel straight It would have hll stood 1 out nut stiff whenever I 1 bent hent my sty hand baud and would have bean n a deformity and obstruction all Iny my life III HOW IT FUELS I I I IH TO UK SHOT Whore here hort else ollie were you OU wounded eon en olor ator I 1 vests once shot through the fleshy Mosby purl of 01 the forearm hilt but this Will was not lIot serious trod I w Slue WUI able to 10 go HO on until thu battle battlo was nR over oer I 1 wise Will ellot through the leg ut lit the battle of or Franklin I lIIn The rile wont went through my In tight light leg near the ankle breaking the Iho small bone hon About the some name time dine u a L hell boll went through my loft lort leg l g not slot far tAr from ruin th the kl Jue Juat t tt grazing IrA zing the t he bone hone When hen I got sot these thes wounds 1 l was with my troops Hoops right at ot Urn thin front and In the thu thick of the tiia lire fire I tried my leg and found I could manage to Walk upon It 11 the broken bone to so 1 I hobbled oft ore of ot the field Had 1111 I stayed I should have Ime been heen riddled with bullets How Ho does docs It feel Celli to 10 be he shot sena senator senator tor It comes comell like a II groat blow Tho rho pain Is M I not fist Intense e until afterward This rule second wound that of oC my m loft left leg legI I t slid did not know slant about until the surgeon began to set Met et my lily broken bone boneh HOW h 1 OW II m TO UNION You 1011 were wele one of or tho those o who accepted tho the Inevitable when the war Will closed 7 Yes Yen when I was In prison toward and at about tho the end of 01 tho the war I settled my future I 1 saw sew that wo we must lone and debated whore where tho the lines linea of oC my life lit should b lv blaid laid after niter tho the war IllI was over ovet I 1 canvassed the Ills other oilier of or tho the world ns nil places for life lire work I 1 thought of or Mexico but hut I slid did not like Mn linn Han who wile was Willi trying CryIng to 10 he be king and told laid my lilY friends In prison that 1 I hoped hop cd the United States would tend Could men loon there them to III drive him out of 01 the country count I thought of or II but hut that wan suns under Dunn Dam Pedro and had also nho a n 1 monarchial government After Arter careful consideration I carne cams to the tho conclusion that the United States SInteR was the only country countr for tor me It H was my country countr and In most st respects te It hash had what I re ro regarded the Ideal government I 1 want wanted cd ell to stay with It and be a part of 01 It II I thereupon decided that I Mould would go IN home as III soon as I got ot out of or prison on and luke lake my punishment whatever It might be and then become a u supporter of 01 my new country Tills This I did and have nee nev never i or er regretted It Iti i Iho HOW ONU ON MAN WAS I I applied to 10 the president for lor parden par pardon don den ami here hy by i y the way Is 18 my pardon paper n 1 With lIh Ith tits this the tl senator took nn n n document a n 1 copy of or hit hiss request for lor pardon which had been furnished Cu him from the war department front from ono one of oC the thu pigeonholes of oC his Isle desk and read It to 10 me the meThe meThe The letter sas addressed to I dent Andrew AndreI Johnson and nod In It 11 I Cockrell Cock roll stated HInted that ho had gone Ione Into i the confederate army orm frost from a I feeling i of ot duty duly believing b that the tho of oC oCr the confederate government were right rig t r cud ond that he had tried to do his hit whole duty duly dut as a a 1 soldier r faithfully and tens fear lately leHI until the time ante of his 1115 capture He Ill said std that Hint he had done all 1111 ho he could since Ince the tho surrender to restore pence peace quiet and cider throughout tho the land Inasmuch as liS he felt that lint the principles 8 contended for lor by JY him had been nail finally 11 settled by the Iho decision of oC arms amts In which It II was his duty dUI to Ho lie asked to he restored to the hill full rights of or citi cili citizenship And said saki that If II he lie was wn so 80 rev ic re stored he lie would teal feel the tho United States I to tn be his government and that he would support and AntI defend It an II he ho had tried to support and defend the confederate l orate erate Mate elates The rile petition requested led that executive u tle 1 clemency be b e extended to 10 him Ida with a n 1 full amnesty and pardon n nand nr don l and restoration of 0 t the tile rights of or proper property ty Ir and U Il was closed with tho the signature or of F P M Cockrell brigadier general late lato provisional army arms of ot tho the confederate states Metes My h pardon was waR as granted said tho the senator OH as he ho folded lold 1 up the paper and sluIce since then I have hase done all nil I could to 10 fulfill fulfil the rights nod duties of 01 my nil Unit United Un United II ed ell States citizenship A THAT A BUNA HIA TOil TOH 10 It How Bust did slid you come collie to 10 go to the tho sen Hen senate nIl ate Mr 1111 Cockrell I l had refused to 10 bo a n candidate for several offices and In hu 1874 was WIlS brought forth by b my friends ns ne n candidate for COI forthe forthe the nomination ns governor of oC Missouri The ho contest coated wax was a close one although perfectly friendly There Thero were but two candidates the convention anti and my opponent boat bent mo ne by II of 01 ono vote ole Inch acIs county lies has a n certain number of ot votes allotted to It hilt but In Inthe the tho polling the whole county counted as ns one no so you see seo how the tho fractional part cane In I 1 am not sure whether It was a 11 sixth or a third of oC a 1 vote voto which constituted the tho majority against me mo As AI AItho tho result wan sus announced I arose oro o In the convention and mado mudo a n speech asking that the tho nomination be bo made madu unanimous I congratulated the tho delegates upon their selection of ot n a candidate who was vas a I better Feder bell I man than I was and who I knew would run well before beCore the tho lies peo people pIe I 1 until I wished to 10 repent what I had sob sal beforehand that If ho wore were r i would ho bo glad Rind to do all nil I could t In his election and closed my h with saying that I 1 for lor one IT ITI was wa glad to throw up my m hat and shout I Three Thrle cheor for lor our candidate the i next governor of or Missouri I 1 had my hat ha t In iii my toy hand ut at the tho time and In lit the enthusiasm m of at 1110 moment It left lort It Il and flew dots up lip to tho the 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