your wealth and give us silver dollars in exchange.

"All we ask is that when we carry our bullion there they give us silver dollars with the stamp of the United States that represents their value.

"And now, sir, wake up in New York. Make New York the financial centre of the world, as it ought to be. You have the power in your hands. What can London with its $125,000,000 in gold do against you in a country having $600,000,000 of gold and $500,000,000 of silver if you rise up in your might and assert yourselves and the power and the influence of the country as you should? Do this, and the West will stand by you to a man. Make your own system of finance, basing it on both gold and silver, and we can all work together.

"Let us feel that we can make something, whether it be paper, cloth, or anything else, with some hope of a reasonable profit out of it. Let us have that feeling once more, and we will go on together to a prosperity and happiness among our people which has never been exceeded in any portion of our history."

CHAPTER XXV.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF THE

GREAT FREE SILVER LEADERS.

FRANCIS MARION COCKRELL.

Francis Marion Cockrell, the senior United States Senator from Missouri, was born in Johnson County, in that State, on October 1, 1834. His early education was received in the local common schools, and in 1853 he was graduated at Chapel Hill College, Lafayette County, Mo. He then studied law and entered upon the practice of that profession. He devoted himself closely to professional work, taking no part in public matters save as a private citizen, until 1874. In that year he was chosen United States Senator, as a Democrat, to succeed Carl Schurz, Independent. He took his seat in March, 1875. In 1880 he was re-elected for a second term and in 1886

for a third term. On the expiration of his third term he was re-elected for a fourth, which will expire in March, 1899. Mr. Cockrell has been a steadfast champion of Democratic principles in the Senate, and has strongly upheld the cause of free silver.

JOHN WARWICK DANIEL.

John Warwick Daniel is a true son of the Old Dominion, having been born at Lynchburg, where he has ever since made his home, on September 5, 1842, and having been educated at Lynchburg College. He served in the Confederate Army of North Virginia throughout the war, and then studied law and entered upon the practice of that profession. He has written several legal treatises which have vogue as standard authorities. Between 1869 and 1881 he served several terms in both Houses of the Legislature; was a Democratic Presidential Elector in 1876, and was a Delegate to the National Democratic Conventions. of 1880, 1888 and 1896, being chosen Temporary Chairman of the last-named body. In 1881 he was a candidate for Governor, but was defeated. He was a Representative in the Forty-ninth Congress, and was elected to the United States Senate in 1887, and was re-elected in 1893. He ranks among the most eloquent orators in that body, and is one of the foremost advocates of free silver.

DAVID TURPIE.

David Turpie, the junior Senator from Indiana, is a native of that State, where he was born some sixty-six years ago. He studied law and was admitted to the bar at Logansport, and in 1854 was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He resigned that place to become, in 1856, Judge

of the Circuit Court; and again resigned to enter the State Legislature. In 1863 he was elected United States Senator to fill out an unexpired term. Then he returned to the Legislature; was Speaker of the House for several years; and a Commissioner to revise the laws of that State. In 1886 he was appointed United States District Attorney for Indiana, and served a few months in that place. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention of 1888. In 1887 he was elected to the United States Senate for a full term, at the end of which, in 1893, he was re-elected for a second term, which will expire in 1899.

SAMUEL PASCO.

Samuel Pasco is an Englishman by nativity, having been born in London. In his childhood he was taken by his father first to Prince Edward Island and then to Massachusetts. He was graduated at Harvard in 1858, and the next year went to Florida to teach school. At the outbreak of the war he entered the Confederate army, and at its close went into politics. In 1868 he was admitted to the bar. From 1872 to 1888 he was a member of the Democratic State Committee, and from 1876 to 1888 its chairman. Since 1880 he has been the Florida member of the National Committee. He was a Democratic Presidential elector in 1880; President of the Constitutional Convention of his State in 1885; and in 1887,

while serving as Speaker of the State House of Representatives, was elected to the United States Senate. At the end of his term in 1893 he was unanimously re-elected for a second term which will expire in 1899.

JOSEPH C. S. BLACKBURN.

In

Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, one of the most aggressive and picturesque figures in public life, was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, on October 1, 1838, and was graduated at Centre College in 1857. A year later he was admitted to the bar. At the outbreak of the war he entered the Confederate army as a private in a cavalry regiment, and served throughout the war. 1865 he resumed the practice of the law, for three years, in Arkansas, and then in Kentucky again. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1871 and 1873, and in 1874 was elected a Representative in Congress. He was re-elected at four successive elections, thus serving five terms. Then he was elected to the Senate, taking his seat in 1885, and and at the expiration of his term was re-elected for a second. He has for years been an outspoken advocate of free coinage of silver, not hesitating openly to antagonize the Democratic national administration on that issue.

HENRY M. TELLER.

Henry M. Teller is one of the most truly rep