Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-04-18
Samuel j. Randall.

Mr. Randall, who died after long and
painful illness at his home in Washington
yesterday morning, entered Congress in
the year 1863 and has served continuously
since then. He was born in 1923, and
was therefore but sixty two years old at
his death.
He was mGn of great courage, IN
common force of character, OF sterling
honesty, and with definite and clearly con
ceived purposes in his public life and re-
markable executive ability. These quail
ties enabled him to make conspicuous
career in the House.
He was not in the common sense q
party man, though he was always u
Democrat At the beginning of the war
he enlisted and served as private soldier,
and was all through the war war Demo
crat. He was elected to Congress while
still private soldier in the field.
He soon became conspicuous in the
House. where he asserted his own opin-
ions and found adherents for the policy he
| believed to be the best.
Mr.. Randall was man of the type of
| Andrew Jackson Like Jackson he was
not broad man, but in his own field and
range he was master of his work, and i'm
| pressed his own individuality upon all he
| did and caused to be doce. 1t is not too
| much to say that. coming to the head OF
the Appropriations Committee at the time
he did, there was not another man IN
either party who could have forced forward
1 ! pt DIlc
| expenditures as he did. 1t required the
| indomitable will, the persistent force and
| the great power of continuous labor which
he alone had to bring the country back
| from the looseness of war expenditures to
a peace establishment. Later contro-
versies have caused his estimable services
| in this particular to be somewhat Tor
gotten but, after all, it was what he then
hsgap and a,ss e8aiiap4ee - Which EaEe
| lic
OF his difference with his party in later
times on the tariff and other questions 1t
is not now necessary to speak. lie had bis
own views on these questions, and 1t was
| inevitable that he should stand by them at
| all hazards. What be believed right he
| did, and was not to be moved from 1t.
| He would rather be beaten than submit, and
| to use a common saying, III he could not
make spoon ne cOuIu AWAY oPoAi hoAh.
| 1t remains to be said of him that he was
a thorough American-one of the plain
people" whom Mr.. Lincoln loved; true to
his country, true to the people, simple in
his tastes and habits, honest and sincere.
1t was his pride to live in a small house in
one of the obscurer parts of Washington,
and on a street which, though he was
Speaker and Chairman of Appropriations
during many years, was among the last
streets of the city to be decently paved, be-
cause he would not have it said that he
| used his great power to benefit himself. 1t
would be good thing for the country ii
more of our public men were of like spirit
| with him.-N. T. Herald of Monday.
THE Standard Oil Company is great
affair and no mistake. According to Mr..
| Rockefeller, the company at the present
time manufactures 100000 gallons of
crude petroleum into different products
per day. Two thirds of these products, of
the value of $55,0OOO00 are exported.
The company employs in its business
| force of about o5 900 men.