Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-28
PASSING AWAY.

10 the not bralned and battling thou
sands now in the political arena, sur
charged with malice and all uncharta-
bleness toward the Democ ratio party and
its leaders, and primed to do any act
short of statutory crime to compass their
defeat, how touching and elevating are
the following words spoken by that
grand old Democrat Allen G.. Thurman,
of Ohio, a week ago yesterday to public
gathering in that State.
81 am fast travelling down the shady side,
and will soon be numbered among the past.
But when am dead and gone, my friends,
when am laid away in my resting place, if
any of you should ever stumble over my
grave hope that you may stop and think
that there lies man who was always a
Democrat, and whose every desire and hope
were for Democratic success. My public
record, think. will bear me out in that; and
know this, that when my last sun sets
VIII see 1t through Democratic eyes,"
1t has that undeniable ring of manhood
and consistency that has ever distin-
guished the apostles of Democracy, and
like the dnal letter from Samuel J. Til
den, is redolent of that grand spirit which
puts self aside, and sacrifices all for the
good OF lifelong faith. The following
beautiful tribute from the New York Sun
is one of the grandest literary chaplets
ever bestowed on an American citizen:
Mr.. Thurman will see his last sun set with
Democratic eyes, just as he has seen it with
Democratic eyes all his life His mind, that
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of Democrat, powerful elevated, sincere,
unselfsh, indefatigable in its duty in the
world of politics. and regarding the great
turmoil of Democracy with a sympathy and
satisfaction denied to the petty and preten-
tious, but which marks the true patriot, the
man who loves and believes in his fellow
men. Mr.. Thurman was not reared in an
atmosphere of Mumwumpry and humbug,
but has breathed the breath of Democracy
from his first day and will to the last. All
honor to him.
The particular and important fact es-
tablished by Senator Thurman's sad |
words, is that all about us the class of |
grand men of whom he was the peer, is
slowly contracting its membership,
through death, and having left their
footprints on the sands OF Time" remind
hose who linger on behind them that
hey can make their lives the counter
parts of the grand men who have gone
before. Senator Thurman was born and
ored in an atmosphere OF honorable
political methods, and his words are
inged with regret that he cannot feel
afe for his lifelong worshipped theory
II Democratic government, knowing, as
le does, the matchless trickery, mean
less and deceit OF the Republican party,
whose greatest men are but of mushroom
,rowth and whose faith is but whirligig
If the times, trained to catch the popular
'reeze at the expense of the good of the
'eople of the nation. Senator Thurman
md the great men of whom he is, in his
ory, part, never learned to deceive the
popular mind by the aid of specious rea-
oning, but rather led lives OF honest
candor, such as comes from the
christian teachings of devout mothers,
nd leads the children when they shall
AVE entered the world OF craftsmanship,
Th' applause of listening senates to COM
mand,
he threats of pain and ruin to despise,
% scatter plenty DER a smiling land
md read their history in a nations eyes,"
Knowing by sad experience, the fierce
res of hatred, malice and misrepresenta-
ion through which Democracy must
Ass to successful issue, with his heart
nd hand stilled in death, he feels the
lll import OF the beautiful verse;
For who, to dumb Forgetfulness prey,
his pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,
eft the warm preoinctso of the cheerful day,
Ior, cast one longing, lingering look be-
hindu"
There is cheerful outlook, however,
'r the future of the party, made so by
ne hundreds OF young and giant intel.
,cts springing up all around us, and
aimed in the political faith of their
Ithers, and even though the contest be
n unequal one, Truth and Right will
revail, and generations OF Democrats
ct to be born will lay flower on Thur
lan's tomb, emblematical of love for the
ian who taught them by his pure life
ow to best succeed in political life.