Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — WANT TO BE PRESIDENT. [ARTICLE]

WANT TO BE PRESIDENT.

Senators Cockrell and Gorman Have White House Aspirations. In a leading editorial the Kansas City Times, heretofore a warm supporter of Bryan, urges the candidacy of United States Senator Francis M. Cockrell for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1900. Senator Cockrell is put forward as “an old-fashioned Democrat, who stood for what the Chicago platform contains long before that platform was promulgated, a Democrat of experience in national affairs, whose record has .stood the test of time.” The Times asserts that “the sole objection which could have been urged against Cockrell, that he fought with the South, has been answered by the action of ex-Confederate soldiers in the war of 1898.” Senator Gorman of Maryland is a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1900. He will make his campaign on anti-expansion and opposition to the ratification of the peace treaty.