The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-03-03
HON. MATT. CARPENfER.


HON. MATT cARPENtER. i
Death Of the Distinguished Wisconsin Senator
at Washington from Brights Disease.
Hon. Matt Carpenter, whose illness had be-
come well known to the country, failed rapidly
toward the close, and died on last Thursday
morning tho Oath, in presence of his family
and Judge Macarthur, DR.. Fox, Hon. Charles
G. Williams, and others. Senator Carpenter
leav es family composed of his wife, daughter
and son. The daughter, Miss Lillian, is young
lady, and the son, Paul, named for his mothers
father, is thirteen years of age. His estate is
valued at about ST, 5000. Pubic bodies, and
the press, of all shades of political opinions
unitein paying honors to his memory. His fu-
neral took place in Washington on Sunday, and
his remains, after the adjournment Of congress,
will be taken to Milwaukee, and afterwards, if
bis own request is observed, will be cremated.
academy At West Point in is4s and remained there
aarn IL which a %s h' Law Wiz
@esss e' Wisconsin is: IN 1s2s and sate;sd
Vas elected to the United States senate as Repube
lican, in place of James r. Doolitte, and served
Nv snd a a
= .. Ksgue1ieen,' ~. in piseo e rimot9y
$751; His and ,s s96 III .sse. h % e1p as
March 3, 1885 Hiscareer in the senate, as in his
profession, has been remarkable one. In 1874.
while the Republicans and Democrats were bitterly
striving for the mastery in the Louisiana middle
%snt ro surprised t6 ssn. ~h ole
tho %1 question: Kellogg Of se9 %cEn
was entitled to the back to the people,
holding that there had been no legal election.
Pinchback, as the onl; thing he could do without
abandoning the State to the control Of the White
league, and the Republicans generally were with
'''''' ~' < GREAT vi REGARD FOR GRANT.
Who had virtually recognized Kellogg and inter
posed the military to protect him, disposing the
minority crowd by an order, but he could not sus-
tain what he conceived to be legal wrong. and he
N whose oeha the contest was
of the few men in the senate who, like Conkling,
Bayard, ingalls, and Thurman, would attract atten-
mentioned together, but they differed widely in
personal characteristics. Both are equally
ABLE cGnkling is reserved hasfty: in,
is generous, frank and. sincere. Conkling has
swell manners and a dainty demeanor generally.
Carpenter is also SWELL but of a sturdy. western
TO-, him: ore is always impressed
more pleasing than Conknss self consciousness.
Carpenter has frequently been mentioned for the
presidency. His speech in reply, to Sumner and
e and june j. IS gave him specis! prominence
in the arena Of Poitc At the tms end it was
than any other campaign document during the
Grant Greeley contest, more than million copies
being sent out Of Washington alone. In: March.
ate, for which duty he was peculiarly we'll
qualified. He had great powers of reasoning,
criticel analysis ready perceptiona retentive mem
;S1$oo N1Y1to D11rnn ma
voice, personea and delivery in debate. He was
doubtless greatly influenced in the formation OF
close habits of study by his association with Choate
for he was an impossible man. No lawyer
in the United States attained higher rank than he
within the last century. Northwestern people will
remember his brilliant send-o in his law practice.
Bashford vs. Barstow for the governership OF
that State Carpenter was retained FOR
which lifted him at from obscurity to the front
rank of lawyers. He has cleared as high as $4,000
in single year from his PRACTICE, yet only has an
worth $4,000 as his accumulation for life
time of labor. Some of his earlier arguments. in
cases involving CONSTITUTIONAL LAW,
were printed along with the opinions OF the courts
before which they were tried, in the Wisconsin re-
ports, and their research thus acknowledged. He
war, to argue before the supreme court Of
the United States lwnere his appearance was freo
reconstruction measures of congress- and he gave
color to the judicial construction Of this G: Is
of complicated questions. when they were
new than any other person in
the country. His literary requirements were also
extensive, and as conversa,ienalist he had few
ito claim Of is), and acted with tho party until the
war broke out, when he perceived the tendency Of
the men who were controlling tho
organization, and left it. He has
ever since been stalwart among stalwart Republic
cans, with this qualification, that questions of
finance, constitutional law and municipal govern
ment: or, in other words, he is . Democrat of the
Thurman school, except upon questions
growing out of the wal. As a
leader he has been tower Of strength,
and though his methods have sometimes been ques-
toned, no one ever impugned his personal probity
and incorruptible public character. He married in
early life daughter of Gov. Dillingham; Of YER
mont, who survives him.