The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-11

forgot the name or face OF any person with
whom he became acquainted. This personal
charm and courtesy, so delightful to his close
friends, he carried into public life unconscious
y winning the love and esteem of his fellow
men, the admiration and respect of opponents
and securing for himself, without effort on his
part the most devoted band of ardent followers
who ever followed the fortunes of a leader In
sunshine or in storm, in defeat or in victory,
who honored him in life and now honor him in
death.
He knew not only how to talk well, but had
Chat rarest of gifts-he knew how to write
| well. Did he not possess so many claims
| to greatness the writing of his Twenty Yenrs
| Of Congress- would fully entite him to it. The
| care with which all the data was selected di
| gested, condensed and presented by him, the
| purity OF the diction, the plain, simple STYLE
| make this great work classic in our language
His estimate OF his contempor ries, friend and
| foe, in that work was so trur vs. to win praise
| from the characters he port .ed, and entitle
| him to high rank as hstor L
when he entered upon J great congress
sional career he had the train of the scholar
| the teacher, the journalist ID member and
| speaker in the legislature of j state of Maine
his Fellow members of the JlSe of reDresen-
tatiyes during the latter years of the civil war
and during the reconstruction period were the
aolest men OF our country, men of great attain
mcnts real intellectual giants in the arena To
take front rank among such men and to sur
successive terms TO act as their speaker, proved
their exalted estimate of his abilities Poster.
tty will pay tribute to his greatness as speaker
of the house, as the prince of parliamentarians
as long as parliamentary government exists on
the EARTH by quoting his just and well fortified
decisions as precedents.
LAS legislator he always took a broad and
comprehensive view of affairs AS debater in
congress or on the pubic rostrum he could in
stantly sustain himself and confound his oppo
nents by drafts upon memory that his indie
fatgable industry had filed with an infinite
amount of facts, held ever ready for use This
storehouse of knowledge, his superhuman men,
ory and the rapidity with which he could Sc
lect his facts enabled him with apparent ease to
lllumlne any subject by bringing to bear upon it
the marvellous scarchlight of his knowledge
This wondrouS power enabled him in the dis
cussion of any great question, whether il re. |
lated to foreign or domestic affairs, whether it
concerned the Efforts OF people in other lands |
struggling for liberty or the rights of our citi
ZenS at home or abroad, whether IL concerned |
the honor of his country engaged in controversy
with foreign nation, or the natural or polit- |
ical rights of the humblest American black or |
white, to present in such clear convincing |
manner as to make 1t plain to all minds
His craftsmanship and diplomacy concerned |
Itself not only with the prosperity and honor of |
his own country, but, looking away and beyond |
Its confines into futurity it took into consider
alton all the nations OF the American continent
"Through him. the United States, the great
est and firstborn child OF liberty on this conti-
nent extended the right hand of fellowship to all
the other republics, inviting their representa-.
tives to partake of our hospitality and to assem-
BILE ina general congress in its capital in order to
form peaceful union of independent American
states Tor their common welfare, to cultivate
friendly relations by the establishment on land
and sea OF new lines of communication and COM
merce, providing for the mutual interchange
m ~ hon p1t ~ ,ph
advantageous.
I'm that congress of republics Mr. Blaine's
continental policy was approved. 1t was secured
and safeguarded by an agreement for the set.
tlement OF all international controversies by |
arbitration thus realizing on this hemisphere
the dreams OF the worlds greatest phianthro-
pists and afording TO the old world the sublime
example OF peace on earth and good will to men
"Honored, indeed, is he who is called to pre-
side over q national assemblage OF his own
countrymen. Mr. Blaine alone in all history
enjoyed the unique and proud distinction of pre-
siding over congress Of nations containing rep
resentatives OF all the states OF the western
probably since the death OF this great diplo.
mat no man lives who can picture in imagina-
zion to himself the direct results TO intellectual
de and material development of the nations of
the western hemisphere, as well as the indirect
eject on the people OF the eastern hemisphere
of this grand pan American policy. He lived
long enough TO successfully inaugurate it.
Each new treaty for reciprocal trade made
among American states and each new
ine OF transportation by land and sea estab-
ished to carry on such trade will proclaim to
mankind the greatness OF the mind that con.
,eiyed and the hand that carried into execution
this sublime idea.
"Mr. Blaine as political leader possessed in
! superlative degree the divine faculty OF at
iracting and holding the admiration and love OF
lis countrymen Always loyal and true TO
friends, 10 party and to country himself he had
The largest body OF ardent friends who ever
followed political leader His personal pop
ilarity was not of his own seeking but by the
aw OF natural selection he was, without any ef-
ort on his part, the chosen leader OF his party
n political struggles.
whether In the halls OF congress in the great
historic debates shaping the policy OF his party ,
md molding public opinion 10 his will or on the
'uDl'c rcstrum he was ever the powerful, mas
erful orator, upon whose every word nation
lung His speeches were characterized by the
anne olearness, strength and force as his writ (
en- productions His great Grafton upon Presi-
lent Garfield stands preeminent among the
lassics OF our language for purity OF diotion {
nd true eloquenoe, unsurpassed by any orator
n times annals.
I'm oflice as the great secretary OF state he {
vas admired by all citizens who now grateful :
y record the fact that during his short inoum.
'ency OF that ofiice greater and more advnn.
ageous work was accomplished for the nd- l