Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-31


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h'uns 'iat IN 'his c'y' ms CHOSEN
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a'ei""e,' Nus simple oa.iai ser'ns soo"hi
w sai'' TINS last loving 'fipate spoken
rory years ago he came 10 us irofh hit
nau's staie ot fehhsyNahia' ana IN thu
'ine his ero"inx ia.he mas oecohe u,e
ehieiest glofy OF our cry anu our stare ne
was out 20 years oa wheh ne est&Disheh
ms nome mere IN 1885, Dut those VINO She"
,'ihi tel Us that ne was even tten OF s'rik
ing presence. stehaer ana rather tan, a,
'iren IN the fasnloh OF the ine IN nihe s"hi-
low tail coat WIN brass buttons WIN ooid'
has'ihs eye anu an eager courage OF man
ner'e""o~ea WIN al ,i'o"i''iao'e enerky ana
an IRON constitution .na' seorhea iatiRue' tne
seeds OF great future were already there.
Though RS powers OF oratory were OF
later growth, he had even then that aier'
and RAPID mind. that qlieknesS /" compre-
mend, assimiiatc AMI reproduce that IRE
sistible charm OF manner and that wonder
fni memory Tor facts ana races whlch were
the foundations on when he onilt ms later
Q
VI ms later NE we must speak sparihgiE'
Tins is not the time or the presence to
measure codiy his Achievements or
Isis intellectual strength. Mr.. Blame
was many sided man. Dead at the age
OF 62. when be should have been at the
zenith OF MS powers ne hved not
long but much. Life is measured not
/ ny years nut py achleFenieht'aha ior nearly
70 years, 10 ONCE and out OF II, ms mas
been the central inquire OF the Republic
Throwing himself earliest into the Fremont
campaign OF 1896, he stepped upon the stage
Of American politics at time when great
/ hgures were sraversing 1t, and when the
passion of the play was at IT'S height.
( Webster and 'iay ana Caihona mad indeed
played their parts and gone, but redonot-
a7ie leaders hiled their places Tor ue
South, DAVIS ana ioon1bs ana
/ Benjamin for the North Sumner
aud fessenden and Hale ami Love
/ Ioy' Thaddeus Stevens, the great Tom
oIoner' Crittenien' Bingham and Conkiing'
and between the two Douglas and Winter
DAVIS and Chas: trhncls Ad'mS.
The struggle over bleeding Kansas, had
already fired the nations blood' ana the
giant debate was not Tar away wherein
. tl,an,nin, of frsedom was tn cross swords