The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-23
IN MEMORY OF PLUMB
Former Kansans Pass Resolutions
OF Sympathy.
Among the Virtues He Possessed They Recite
His Firm Adherence and Strong
Advocacy of Silver.

That the good done by statesmen and
men in high Office lives after them was
demonstrated yesterday afternoon, when
former residents of Kansas, now residing
in Salt Lake, gathered at the Office of
Secretary Elijah Sells and passed series
of resolutions setting forth the purity of
character, great worth as representative
of the people in the halls of Congress and
the devotion and patriotism to his country
of the late Senator Preston b. Plumb, OF
Kansas. His sudden death was received
IN this city with profound sorrow,
not by former residents of the Sunfower'
state alone, but by all classes of people
and members of ali political parties. Sen
ator Plumb was a staunch Republican, but
he had the manhood to rise sometimes
when partisan bigotry ran too high above
the level and tenets of the cross-road poll
tician, as witness his record on the tariff
question.
Colonel Sells was elected chairman of the
meeting and f. j. Addieman secretary. A
committee OF nine on resolutions was APP
pointed, and the following were presented
anu adopted by the meeting;
Whereas, We, former citizens of Kansas
resident III Salt Lake city, have learned with
keen sorrow and regret the demise OF that emf.
nent citizen, patriot and statesman Hon Pres.
L
blage to express sentiments in accordance with
our feelings. In the stormy period OF the early
years OF Kansas ne was SteadfaSt nd true 10
freedoms cause. in the war for the ORE sarga-
ton OF the union, he was prominent among the
volunteers who u5ked their lives for their
country's preservation. When the war cloud
had passed away he actively resumed his du-
ties as citizen, soon coming into prominence
in the affairs of his adopted state and in "a com
paratively brief period of time taking place
in the councils OF the nation, in which ne early
earned distinction that made him a peer among
the ablest OF his associates therein.
Resolved, 7 hat his purity of character untir-
ing industry and patriotic devotion d serves to
be emulated by his fellow citizens and II fur
nisnes precept to the youth OF our nation that
may be prottably stud ed and followed
Reso we'd, That in his death the loss to the
state OF Kansas, 10 the United States and to
the nation is irreparable.
Resolved, That we of the west and frontier
feel that TO US, under Divine edict, there has
been dealt a severe blow, in that we realized in
the lamented statesman most able earnest
AID efficient advocate, inalienable friend
ever and increasingly eSpousing that which
looked 10 the protection and prosperity Of its
every material interest. No one ever fought
more herocally or inteligently for the restora-
ton of silver TO its rightiul place and the wei
fare of the men who toll in the rugged vaults
from whence IL comes, and for the settlement
and development of public lands
Resolved, That our heartfelt sympathies 90
to those sorely stricken ones, his bereaved vile
and children.
To the memorial were signed the names
of the following pioneers from the Sun
flower state: Elijah Sells, Lawrence: f.
G. Addleman. Emporia; f. j. Leonard,
Lawrence; j. M. Stutsman. BelIeville: e.
Garfield, Seneca; j. H. Williams, Seneca;
w. G. Higgins, Syracuse; j. S. Morse To-
peka; w. E. Hahn, Topeka; G.. c. Cline,
Minneapolis; Henry Ames, Sheridan
county; c. S. Kinney, Leavenworth; w.
L. Brown, Garden City; G. W. Boris,
Garden City.
The resolutions will be signed by many
more Kansans who were unable to be pres
ent at the meeting and forwarded to the
wife of the deceased Senator.