The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-08-13
CARPENTER MEMORIAL FUND.
The Memorial Association Organized
and Ready for WOrk---An Address,
List OF Officers.


and Ready for WOrk---An Address
List OF Officers.
From Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin July 3Ol
A meeting was held at the Newhau
House Friday night of the committee APP
pointed by the State Bar Association and
delegates from the Carpenter Memorial
Assoclatlon-an organization formed by
the young men-at which both organic
atoms were formally consolidated and
the following officers elected
PreSide71t-Gov VIM Z. Smith.
ptce PreSjdeft-Edward ONeil
Secreta1y-Frank A. Flower.
1redS10eT-George @. Houghton.
A central committee on state organiza-
ton, with power to appoint sub-commit-
tees in every part of Wisconsin, was then
ex-officio. n. s. Murphev. Edward
O'NeiI, David Vance, G.. II. Paul, John
e. Eldred, Z. p Matthews, Dr.. William
Fox, Frencis Bloodgood and Frank A.
Flower, ex-officio.
n. S. Murphey is chairman of this
committee.
John E. Eldred presented the follow
ing, which was adopted:
ReS0lUed, That the following committee, with
A. X. Shepard AZ chairman, be appointed to Sc
lect subcommittee in the county of Milwaukee,
with full power to employ all necessary assist
ants to aid them in the work:
Committee at Large-A. X. Shepard.
First Ward-I. W. Van Setback.
Second Ward-C. Widue.
Third Ward-Edward Keogh
Fourth Ward-E. B. Simpson.
Fifth Ward-John Bentley.
Sixth Ward-C S. Raesser.
Seventh Ward-W. S. Stanley.
Eighth Ward-C. F. Freeman
Ninth Ward-CharIes Sarnow
Tenth Ward-H. J. Baumgartner.
Eleventh Ward--H. Z. Fischer
Twelfth Ward-Thomas Corbett-
Thirteenth Ward-Charles OldenburG.
Bay Yiew-D. J. Price.
Lake-Thomas O'Neill. .H
Oak Creek-P. Merrity.
Franklin-M. J. Eagan.
WauwatOsa-J. Shoemaker.
Granville-W. Boorse.
Miwaukee-William PieIrop.
Richard Burke then offered the follow
ing, which was adopted:
ReSOIUed, That this organization be known
as the - Carpenter Memorial Association" and
that each contributor to the monument fund
thereby become member thereof.
The committee on state organization
was authorized to adopt and secure such
forms of printed blanks, including the
address, as might be necessary, and said
Believing in the existence of general desire
on the part of the people of the state to erect
monument to the memory of Matthew H. Car
perter some of his former neighbOrs III Mil
waukee applied to the State Bar Association.
recently convened at Madison, to initiate the
organized action upon such application, because
! Mr.. Carpenters fame rested as well upon his
reputation as a lawyer as upon his labOrs and
achievements as patriot and and legislator
and because this association, being statewide
/ IN It's organization, seemed therefore to be the
appropriate existing body to inaugurate move
ment which is expected to be wholly popular in
! its character and to meet with ready response
/ from every hamlet in the state. The action
! taken by the Bar Association has been to ap-
! point central committee at Milwaukee to So
| licit and receive subscriptions, and 70 see that
/ they are speedily and faithfully devoted to the
! purpose for which they are intended giving to
! the central committee power to add to the num-
1 Der and to appoint local commit tees to aid in
| the work. This committee has without delay
/ effected its organization, and now advises the
! public of its origin and action. They did not
/ intend to, nor do they urge subscriptions. They
/ regard themselves as guides IN a movement so
! spontaneous In Its character that 1t would rea-
| Oily have formed another channel had not this
been afforded The only action they have thus
! far taken is to determine that the maximum of
| the subscription received from single mdlvld-
! ual shall be dollar, so that none may be de-
! tered by comparison of offerings from sharing
in tribute which should be as general as is the
desire which prompts it.
! BY the proposed memorial the people of this
state will aid in perpetuatng that patriotic
/ spirit, which, though STARED by thousands,
made the eloquent voice of Mathew II. Car
| penter the first and most effective raised in
/ Wisconsin, urging her sons to rally IL defense
o. the national life III the great struggle pre-
cipita ed by the assault on Fort Sumter. In
thus hOnorIng their departed leader, the masses
will evince Il cir undated interest in that great
movement by him for sha lowed and powerfully
! aided, which, without any real invasion of in
/ dividual or corporate rights, Is intended to
! forever secure as national highways the count
less railroads traversing our con tlnental repub-
/ lie. The intended action is, moreover, but the
( homage justly due that legal accumen, legisla-
tive foresight and forensic power which made
/ our lamented senator so pre-eminent among
! those whose ceaseless efforts on the rostrum in
! congress, and before the courts, secured to the
/ constitutional amendments and reconstructve
/ enactments-the sequels of the great rebellion
| the cordial support of the people, and the
emphatir "~3orsement of all the departments
| of tho 81, olnment; result which has fixed the
I principles underlying those amendments and
cnactments; so fiercCly and persstently resisted
AS granite blocks in the foundations of the
! republic. In paying tribute so well merlted,
/ the people OF tins commonwealth can
not fail to recall the just pride with
which they watched the brilliant career
/ of the youthful legislator, who, before the
! laurels won in his contest for election had
| withered brought Wisconsin by his matchcss
powers to the first ra uk of the states in the
! tlonal senate, ana this when she bad barely
4 passed the second decade of her existence.
And IN honoring one so essentially man of the
people, and friend of the masses, the citizens
of his beloved state do but foster that spirit of
/ sympathy with humanity, and recognition of its
4 rights. which must be peTpetuated in order tn
maintain this government Of the people; that
government to which in bis life Matthew H.
/ Carpenter devoted his unwearied labors and
/ peerless abilities. AS an incentive to prompt
and concurrent action throughout the state in
this Iaudable undertaking upon the plan sug-
gested,-that of 81 subscriptions, so that all so
inclined may be able to participate-we should
not be unmindful of the comment already made
by the leading newspapers in the east, which 10
thus voiced by the Boston POST
1t takes good many dollar subscriptions to build
monument, and II one of any pretensiOns can be
erected in that way it viii be emphatic proof
of the late senator's standing among the people than
all the honors he ever enjoyed at their hands while
living.
In determining upon the manner OF raising
the proposed subscription, this committee but
anticipates the considerations expressed in the
extract just quoted
Contributions by mail should be addressed to
George G.. HoughtOn, treasurer of the banking
firm of Houghton Bros & Co., bankers, Mil
waukee All subscriptions. giving the names
and addresses of the donors, will be acknowl-
edged weekly in the daily and weekly editions
of the Milwaukee Sentinel. Republican, EVEN
ING WISCONSIN a a Hcrold.
MADISON July 20, 1881.
WILLIAM r. SMITH. President
FRANK 4. FLOWER, Secretary.