The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-03
MoRTUARY oRAToRY.
Few Samples from EuIogies of the
Late Senator Vance.

Washington Special to Chicago Record.
The funeral orations pronounced in the
House OF Representatives. last Saturday sur
passed in highfaluting oratory any that
nave been heard for years, and superlatives
were flung around in most reckless man
ner. The late Senator Vance was the SUBJ
ject of eulogy, and was entitled to all the
praise that might properly be uttered of
gentleman; but no man would have been
more shocked than he by the lack of taste
and the extravagant imagery used in de-
scribing his merits. One of the speakers
sovereign remedy for all the ills of woman
hood as good reason why the widow
was the most modest and unassuming of
men, his eulogist declared in q poetical quo
tation that
"All undaunted he died in the night of his
A most homogeneous piece of rhetoric was
offered by another speaker, who, after adj
hitting that Senator Vance was subject to
is no man that doeth good and sinneth not;
II he sowed peoples he would get gaudy
vest comes s' and he is hungry I for brea a
added that he was married In June, 1885,"
if that were evidence of his weakness.
referring to the death of the genial Senator
from North Carolina, said:
'He is gone on the mountain,
He is lost to the forest
Like q summer-dried fountain,
When our need was the sorest."
But the most gorgeous sample. of elo-
Quence, what Senator ingalls, would call "a
i've ivered by n Mr.. Bum, Of North Carolina,
who declared that the wound of bereave-
ment which has been made In the hearts Of
which removed from time to Immortality
the spirit of the lamented Vance, is deeper
broader than the whole Christian church,
and will remain until the last ripple in the
river of time has been mingled with the
waves of the ocean of eternity.
In speaking of the ability of Senator
Vance as an orator Mr.. Bum paid the fol-
lowing tremendous tribute
s.All of his speeches were forceful in their
presentation of truth and facts, noble in
their ethical teachings of duty to country.
lofty patriotism, opulent with the gems of
successfully garnered wisdom, kingly in the
imperial sweep OF their royal eloquencs and
most ornate dictfon. They will prove mon
uments more lasting than marble, for on
the adamantine and invulnerable surface of
their imperishable worth. unequal merit,
superb splendor and magnificent beauty, the
corroding and devastating moth of decay
And speaking of his personal character
istcs, he declared that the late Senator has
left behind a radiant radiant stream Of effulgent
behind the distant hilltops and leaves be-
hind golden stream of gorgeous splendors.
making the whole Western horizon seem
as if the most opulent dye pots in the studio
of the angels had been upset and had
leaked through upon the clouds, thus Civ
ing them the tintings of celestial glories.'
Then in conclusion, Mr.. Bum let 60 his
emotions and said:
And. now. Mr.. Speaker, in coming to
pay my humble but sincere and heart
nursed tribute to transcendent worth and
exalted greatness and loftiest excellence.
feel the poverty of human expression and
weakness of strongest language, for words
however expressive and graphic, at best
but poorest vehicles for the transmission of
those feelings when the heart is swept by
the rushing pillows of grief that sweep DER
the ocean of an overwhelming bereavement
And 50 my tongue is in the coffin. and can
only bow my head and weep Ger the mem
the nyrties grow and the daisies peep