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Show lIOCRAT CHIEF PR MOBY OEAIH iLHORSE OF TAMMANY QRO ILL SUCCUMBS SUDDEN. Q LY AT SIXTY-NINE of Old School, One of Pic Iowa squo Forces In America, First Elected to Con. gress In 1S87 hlngton. Itopresentatlvo W. W'i 0 Cockrnn, Democrat, Now 80nn died suddenly Thuroday. Mr. 'lcod nn, who colobrated his sixty. 'n birthday Wednesday, became Jogo( 1 died early Thursday. Ho wns d.iy floor of tho house Wednesday 0f l( nnd mndo a spirited speech ln Th Itlon to tho pending form crcd- "to I 1. the mtlvo of Ireland, educated ln cmiB 0 und tho United 8tntoa and j?rlcc for many years In tho legal slon nnd ln politics, Mr. Cock. BU ns ono of tho picturesque forces Tj, lorlcnn public life. Ho was an durii of tho old school, endowod Tn a romnrkablo volco and with a ciarl ry and diction that lung ngo 100n ilm a placo among tho most elo. days orators of tbo country. ur0a Cockrnn first was olotccd to that ou?a of representatives for a tho i In 1837. Ho camo back In 1KM harv vo moro terms, but In 1SO0 he Th oil to follow tho froo sllvor Inve; r of William Jennings Ilryan, state with his nntlonal party organ- the n, and left congress. Ho ro- .oro 1 to tho party In 11)00, whon ho sonti ilgned for Mr. Ilryan, and In whic ha wns ngnln elected to tho "A . This tlmo ho remained there parti vo .vcarH, nt tho end of which stocl he doclltied to becomo a enndi- year or rocloctlon. Jn ltr.'O, howovor, t8tfn mln yielded to the luro of tho whci montnry glvo nud take ho loved was |