Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-11
DEATH OF GEN. JAS, ", DENVER,
An Historical Figure in the
Democracy Passes Away.
A Famous Speech of Which the Gen
eral Was the Subject.
He Was Secretary of State of California
One of the Few Men Who Ever
Got Away with an Editor.
A Good Speech.

Among the telegraphic brevities in
the Associated Press dispatches yester-
day, was announced the demise in
Washington city OF Gen. James W. Den
yer, OF Wilmington, Ohio, at the ripe
age of rs years.
A flood of "reminiscences from old ac-
quaintsnces in different parts of the
United States, and especially from old
Californians, will doubtless find their way
into the papers relative to the man who
was once secretary of state of California,
her representative in congress, and who
met and killed Edward Gilbert, then
(1S50) editor of the Alta California, in a
duel with rifles. When Buchanan was
president, Gen. Denver was appointed
commissioner of Indian affairs. and it
was while serving, in this capacity
that the troubles broke out in
Kansas territory which four gov
ernors, successfully appointed, failed
to suppress. General Denver resigned
his Indian commissionership to accept
the appointment of governor OF Bleed
ing Kansas" and within four months
after, complete peace was established
and the reign of law reinaugurated. 1t
was for him that the city of Denver was
named, in commemoration of his achieve
ments in Kansas, of which territory Col
orado was then part.
1t happens that Mr.. William s. Creigh-
ton, who has come here from Ohio
within the past few months, was fell
low townsman and intimate acquain-
tance of General Denver's, and was his
chief lieutenant in fight for congress,
made in an Ohio district in 1886 Mr..
Creighton showed a HERALD reporter
yesterday newspaper report of aspeech
made by himself, putting Gen. Denver in
nomination. At the time it was deliv-
cred, this decidedly ornamental effort
was widely printed and commented upon,
and is such an excellent specimen of
''sky-scraping" that some paragraphs
from it are appended.
Mr.. Creighton, after an eloquent
opening, said OF General Denver: HE
is soldier and statesman, whose head
is clear, whose heart is pure, whose ain
is sure. "A perfect man in fight and
honorable in the hours Of peace He
is Democrat from away back His
home is now in Wilmington but he be-
longs to the United States. More par
ticularly he belongs to the empire of
the west California
knew him. He helped to make her city
by the western gate the warder of two
continents. She made him seer etary of
state sent him on to congress; was
within one vote of sending him to the
United States senate. Kansas knew
him. Who has not heard of bleeding
| Kansas and how he staunched
her bleeding, bringing order out
of anarchy when all others had
failed? Colorado knew him. She
built a queenly city and she called it for
q hero, and it fitly bears his. name.
Montana wanted naming. and he called
her for the mountains, and she wears
the name he gave her. When the civil
war cloud lowered he was grieved at
heart. but faithful, and he questioned
not his duty. His sword leaped from
his scabbard and he fought It'll the
fratricidal war was done and the integ-
rity of the union wac preserved. ! said
he was a Democrat. Verify, through
good report and evil report. Have we
not gatheyed around him in our old
quaker county. of Clinton on many q
dark night of defeat, detected and heavy
hearted, but undismayed, because he
still would promise us that soon or late
our day would dawn and the shadows
clear away; that the good queen De-
mocracy was coming to reign again
that the country would once more
be committed into the hands OF the
party that nursed this nation in its in
fancy and guided its deetinies through
glorious paths for fifty years He told
us that the Republican party was pro-
visional, emphemeral, and would 90 the
way of the old Federal and Whig par
ties but that the Democratic party
would never die. That it would live
when frauds like Hayes, and felons like
Dorsey. and assassins like Guiteau-
when land Office jobberies, and Star
route robberies, and bossism snobberies
| when. frauds in the naval depart
ment, and frauds in the interior depart
ment, and frauds in the postalsdepart-
ment. and frauds in the presidential
chair had passed away-had faded
down to the afternoon of history
and the twilight of tradition, and been
swallowed up in the thick night of OBJ
| livion. And 80 he stood with us for a
quarter Of a century, devoted to the let
ter and spirit of the federal constitu-
ton; devoted to the interests of the
mass of the people as against the ag-
grandizement and encroachments of the
protected few; devoted to home rule,
local self-government, economy, liberty
devoted to the peace, progress and uni
versal fraternity of our common country.
He stood for all these things in trium-
virate with Thurman and Ward, as q
barrier against the imperial sun Of Re-
publican Capitalization, "like the shad-
ow of great rock in weary land" q
The generalwas nominated by ACCLAIM
alton, but, unfortunately, failed of elec-
ton. @a8 f ells
Dragooning Won't Do!
Not with the liver. Violent cholagogues, like
calomel and blue pill, administered in 'sheroic''
or excessive doses, as they often are, will not
narmanentlY reEfnrp the actiuitu of the craa