, 1891-10-28
FITTING TRIBUTES.
JUDGE HEWLTT1S-~ REMAINS IN
TERED TODAY.
Action of the Bar Association of
EhurstOn County Services at
the House,

Bar Association of Thurston county held
a special meeting to adopt resolutions and
take other action to the memory of the de-
ceased.
When the regular business of the supe-
rior court was disposed Of this morning,
Judge Dennison addressed the court with
the following remarks:
"If the court pleases, as one of the old
members of the bar, perhaps it would not
be out of place to make motion that |
! think should be made at the present time,
and in advance Of doing SO I desire to say
a word or two. AS has been said, death
/ has removed from our midst another of
the old pioneers, whose name will appear
on many pages in the history of Washing
ton territory. That being so, it is GER
tainly proper that this court and the bar
of Thurston county should make note of
| that event. The old pioneer in this case is
known. his name was connected with the
administration of justice III this territory
for many years. He was appointed chief
justice by Abraham Lincoln He presided
as such during stormy period in our ma
| tional history, and take occasion to say
| that Judge @. G. Hewitt was man of the
exact type that Abraham Lincoln would
be apt to appoint to that position or any
other. I had the honor of being one of the
committee that escorted Judge Hewitt
| from the bar to the bench III the court
room IN this city many years ago. | prac-
ticed before him on the bench
so long as he occupied it. [
think / know, and ought to know
the characteristics Of that man as a Judge
and as a citizen, and although have not
time now to mention all the prominent
characteristics of the man, / do think that
| ought to mention at least three of those
characteristics, and those are enough, in
INV oCti ,oti fFo III ~ ~
spect and gratitude Of all of the people of
the territory and state of Washington.
And, in the first place, Judge Hewitt was a
plain unOstentatiOus man.. He did not
seek notoriety; he did not exhibit any dis
position to wear a red cockade or a waving
plume to designate him from any other
man. He was a plain man, unaSsuming
man, and in his daily walk and conversa-
ton he illustrated that fayorite sentiment
of Robert Burns
What though on homely fare we dine
Wear holden gray and brogan Shoes
Give fools their silks and bnaves their wine,
A man is man for all that.
Those are the sentiments that the Hon.
G. G. Hewitt illustrated in his lifetime.
He had another characteristic, promi-
nent and noticed by all the citizens, and
that was this: He was always governed
by the dictates of his own convictions Of
right and wrong, regardless Of what 9th
ers said. On the bench, when his conyic-
tion of right and wrong was settled, not
even Lord Hale nor Chief Justice Mar
shall could induce him to deviate from
those convictions. That is trait that
admire In any judge. And Cl~1 same i'll
politics-and ] mention it noW-his con-
victions of what was right and wrong were
his sole guide.
He had one other Characteristic, and no
greater eulogy, in my opinion, can be pro
nounced on any man than to sayit of him,
and that was this, at all times and under
all circumstances, in Office and out of of
flee, in war and in peace, he was loyal to
the flag Of his country and to the rising
star Of empire in this new northwest.
What greater eulogy does any man desire,
Or can have than that? And without pro-
longing remarks which | would like to
make ! now move that this court adjourn
in respect to the memory Of the Honorable
O. 9. Hewitt.
N. S. Porter seconded the motion with
the following remarks;
1 rise to second the motion of Judge Den
nison, and will state in a few remarks be-
fore seconding it, that / too was one of
those who were present at the time men
toned by Judge Dennison, when the Hon.
@. @. Hewitt was escorted to the bench.
At that time was acting as deputy clerk
of the second judicial district, and
during the whole Of the eight
years was thrown in close per
sonal contact with the judge and will
add to that, that in all the personal inter
course that | have had with Judge Hewitt,
acting as his clerk, and as a
friend and ali acquaintance. and an
intimate friend, / found the same char
acteristics following him through life, that
sterling integrity and scrupulous honesty,
acute sense Of right and justice and high
regard for truth and honor and | do not
believe tn t any person has ever seen or.
known Judge Hewitt to do dishonorable
act or utter IN untruth knowingly, or. .ques-
| ton his honor and integrity. If he COM
mitted an error it was of the head and not
Of the heart, and knowing as do the char.
acter of the man, his scrupulous regard for
the rights of others and Conscientious adj
ministration of justice, / second the mo-
ton for the adjournment
| Judge Henry in response said:
| presume it would hardly be proper for
me to let the occasion pass without adding
my tribute to the character of the deceased.
| have listened with great pleasure to what
has been said concerning Judge Hewitt, all
4 OF which | most cheerfully endorse as true
Of my own personal knowledge. / do not
care, nor is it necessary after what has
been said, to speak in detail of Judge Hew-
! lit as a lawyer. I have known him person.
| ally for more than quarter of a century.
| / have known him as a neighbOr and as a.
friend during all that time and all those
! years, and l am well acquainted with the
character of the man. 1t was, as has al
ready been said by those who have spoken
| of him, thatOf a plain, honest, honorable.
upright citizen. He was patriot; a warm
friend, was a kind father and a devoted
husband. I have lived for years as his
next door neighbor and in that
relation he was without reproach =:
/ his disposition was genial and social:
4 his heart was full of the milk of human
kindness; his principles were those of
| honor and uprightness, and whatever he
did in any capacity in life either as private
citizen, as friend, as neighbor or as Judge
upon the bench, he was influenced in his
actions only by his own honest Judgment
and convictions. And | do not think that
among all of the many who have known
him for the long weary years he has been
/ among us, there is man, that would inn
| pute the integrity of his motives, or the
| honesty Of his intentions in any act that
he has done public or private. There is
nothing that could be said too good of
Judge Hewitt as a man. Whilst we have
met here to mourn our common loss, it
is with that subdued sorrow with which we
meet over the grave of one who has been
permitted to round out his life long beyond
the period usually allotted to man.
i do not believe that any higher tributa
4 could be paid to him than to say as I be-
4 lieye all who knew him will saw. now that
his mortal life is finished, 'fThis was a man. .
After Judge Henry's remarks and previ-
GUS to adjourning court Judge Robinson
spoke as follows;
"A personal acquaintance Of eight years
with Judge Hewitt has furnished me the
DrOOf of the truthfI1Iness of all that hos