Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-11
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS WEDNESDAY. JULY A. 1893
a COMPLIMENT.
ThurInan's Nomination n WelI-Deserved
Tribute for Services Rendered.

Tribute for Services Rendered.
No more graceful, no sincerer compliment
has been paid in National American politics
to veteran statesman long retired from
public activities than is heartily bestowed
upon Allen G. Thurman by the Democracy
of the United States.
The land is not given overmuch, indeed it
is given all too little, to reverence of gray
hairs and long garnered wisdom. The haste
70 acquire private fortune is not more char
acterisuc of American life than the eager
ness TO push at early age for the public
honors that in times of National quietude
fall in other countries to those citizens
whose worth has been proven by lifetime
of devotion to the public service Young
America, selhshly impatient of what he de-
scribes as old-fogyism, is constantly strug-
Cling to push his elders from their stools
Eight years ago the " kid ~ Democracy of
Ohio determined that Thurman should be
placed on the retired list. Four years sub
sequently they prevented that united sup
port of him in the National convention by
the delegation from Ohio necessary TO the
successful presentation of his name as a
candidate for the Presidential nomination
IL was supposed that he would speedily drop
out of the public mind, and such, indeed,
was the case except as occasionally he ap-
paign or in some noteworthy case at the bar
of the courts. His latest public appearance
certified at once the vigor of his understand
ing and his continued adherence of fraud
and chicane; especially when employed to
falsify the returns of an election. But in
retirement, says the Chicago Times, his
name ", still revered, for throughout his
career of public service, which ought not
have been interrupted, Judge Thurman es-
tablished by his conduct an enduring and
glorious reputation.
To the Democracy he was specially en-
deared, as having been in days of doubt and
disaster sturdy, uncompromising, able
header. To every opponent of sham, fraud,
jobbery and monopoly the fame of the ro-
bust and aggressive author and advocate of
the bill to compel the Pacific roads to make
preparation for discharging their debt to
the United States was still grateful. He
was the aggressive champion of the people
against the Gould schemers. In an eposh
of public corruption, when Speaker Of the
House of Representatives was pleading to
be in on the ground floor of enterprises
seeking favor from Congress, Thurman
was a stalwart in his honesty, one of the
very few men in public life whom people
observant of the trend of events and the
activity of the lobby felt absolutely sure
could not be touched by corruption, but
might always be relied upon to stand reso-
lutely for truth and the right.
Having reached midway of the seventies
it might not be just to Thurman to ask him
to assume the heat and burden of an ad-
ministration involving party leadership.
The situation would not justify such re-
quest for another reason. The success of
Mr.. Cleveland's Administration, the first
under Democratic auspices in a quarter of
a century, made it imperatively necessary
as the logical sequence of sincere approval
that the Democratic party should have the
President for a second term But there re-
mained place of ease, dignity, and some
measure Of emolument to which the retired
chief might be called by the party among
whose veterans he was easily the most
conspicuous, picturesque, lovable and To-
Vered