The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

grow worse until about 2 o'clock this after
noon, when he passed away without a strug-
gle. He was in full possession of his reason
ing faculties until about 10 o'clock this morn
ing. After that he was at times somewhat
tiishty, but recognized his daughter, who ar
rived at II o'clock from Washington, having
started before the summon was received.
He made no mention of his approaching
death, and it is not known whether he real
lied that death was so near at hand or not.
The remains will be inferred at Green Bay
in the family plat by the side of his wife.
A Pure, Capable and Honest Man.
National Republican.
Another statesman gone. In the death of
Timothy O. Howe the nation has lost one of
its ~clearest intellects, one of its purest hearts,
and one of its noblest and most patriotic
sons. AS judge, senator and minister he has
been without reproach, and to each of the
high places he has filled he has brought high
ability, careful fidelity and %scrupulous integ-
rity. In the State oil his adoption, where the
greater part OF his manhood has been spent,
he has been the central figure for nearly a
quarter of a century. This is independent
of his career on the State bench, from which
he resigned after five years of honorable
service. His eighteen years of service in the
United States Senate gave him the opportu-
nifty for great usefulness, which he grandly
improved, and made for him an enviable
national fame.
He was prominent in the great debates on
questions growing out of the war and recon-
struction, and every sentence he uttered will
be found as consistent with every other, and
withedue earnest convictions of his elevated
andTeinednature. as are the movements of
the heavenly bodies with each other. The
political trnggles which on each occasion re-
suited in his election to the Senate were
such as to arouse the highest political excite
ment, the first being in 1860, when the nation
was, without knowing it, casting out the
devil of slavery, which knew it well; the sec
ond in 1866, when rebellion was madly en-
deavoring to avoid the consequences Of its
defeat through an alliance with some of the
least apprehensiye and others of the
least sincere OF its %victors, and the third in
1872, when SANDER was the weapon of the
selfish and the mercenary, and artful men of
high renown, like the witches on the heath,
were lying like truth. a
7 1t was in 1866 that Mr.. Howe exhibited the
highest qualities of leadership, when, with
out the aid of any of the expedients of eau
cuses and party management, he took his
natural place at tie head of the true and
earnest men of Wisconsin against the power
of a President welded by one Of the fore
most of that Presidents leaders, then his
colleague in the Senate. He pro posed in
1866 a scheme for civil government in the
South which would, ii it had been accepted,
have been a step toward restoration without
involving surrender to the rebels on the one
hand or the long interregnum of the militia
ry period ON the other. Full of h%onors, he
retired from the Senate in 1879.
His appointment to the Postofice Depart
ment proved to be one of President Arthur's
wisest acts. Its great affairs were speedily
mastered by him, so that each bureau
head felt that there was not
only an authority above him,
but one that would know quickly of any
friction or delay. Under him the depart
mept worked most tremendously, and every
subordinate who came in contact with him
& knew that he might expect to find the head
as well informed as himself upon the sub
ject matter that was to be discussed, His
body was slight, but wiry and well organ
lied. and his mental faculties were as clear
and available for work in his new sphere as
they had been when aiding in framing
measures in committee or defending them
on the floor of the Senate. He died at the
age of siXty-seven, of malaria, which deals
havoc with young and old alike. He will
be mourned by his children, who but lately
saw the great fountains of the deep in his
heart broken up by a great domestic sorrow;
be will be mourned by friends who have for
gears delighted to look into his refined face,
to feel the influence of his. kindly eyes, and
to hear the voice which is now hushed for
ever. And State and nation will mourn him
as one in whom each had often, and without
disappointment, reposed absolute trust
IN THE NATURE OF COINCIDENCE.
Washington Special.
The last cabinet officer to die in Office was
John A. Rawlins, Secretary of War, who died
Sept. II, 1879. His last words were, II know
leave my family paupers.'' 1t is rather n re-
nnorEnhle fopt that within fbo tocf xvaor fo,r