The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-06-26
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Death at Chicago of Ex-senator Lyman
Trumbu!I
For Sixty Years a Prominent Figure In Ma.
tionaI Politics - Secretary Bristow's
Funeral-Gen. Smiths Death

CHICAGO. June 25.-Ex- United States
Senator LymanTrumbull died at o'clock
this morning at his home in this city.
Judge Trumbull was born at Colches-
ter, New London county, Connecticut
in 1913. A career like that of Lyman
Trumbull comes to but few men. For
more than sixty years his life has been
life of ceaseless activity, and it is not
hyperbole to say that in all these years
his work has belonged to the nation He
has been school teacher, lawyer and
Judge. He has played his part in poll
tics on the stump, in the deliberations
of parties and as non -combatant coun-
selor. In public life he has been one Of
those rare men who lead and teach po-
litical parties, yet are never bound by
tradition or association to follow their
party into its divergence from the lines
laid down by their consciences. In the
beginning he was an anti-slavery Dem
ocrat. AS Republican he fought side
by side with the immortal Lincoln and
the men who founded the Republican
party of today. Then his party, as he
thought, departed from it's true mission
and followed a line his conscience would
not indorse. Resolutely he turned his
back on his former associates and be-
came a Democrat In later years he
parted company with that party. He
took such a ground against the extern
sion of power of the United States courts
that he became the hope Of the Popu-
lists and in a sense their counselor And
all the time men of both parties respect
ed him. His last appearance in a court
room was made as counsel for the Amer
lean Railway union officers before the
supreme court at Washington.
Only once since then has he appeared
in public and that appearance gave ad-
ded point to the claims of the Populsts
upon him. 1t was at a mass meeting
in Central Music hall, where he spoke
at length upon the causes of discon-
tent among the industrial classes. He
spoke of the encroachments of the fed
eral courts upon the constitutional
| rights Of the people and emphasized the
point that deliverance from the oppres-
sion of privileged monopolies could only
be had through the ballot
BRISTOW'S FUNERAL
NEW YORK, June 25.-The funeral
services of Benjamin Bristow, secretary
of the treasury in President Grants sec
ond term, were held today in the brick
church (Presbyterian), Rev. DR.. Van
Dyke officiating. The pail bearers were
Clarence Seward, Joseph Laroque, Jo-
seph H. Choate, Charles Lanier, Justice
Patterson, 0. d. Num- John C. Latham,
H. II. Anderson.
GEN. SMITHS DEATH
NEW YORK, June 25.-Gustave w.
Smith, major general in the southern
army during the civil war is dead. He
was born in Kentucky in 1921, graduated
at West Point in 1912. He served with
Scott in Mexico, was street commissioner
of New York when Fernando Wood was
mayor. He was in command of the
southern forces at the battle of Fair
Oaks. s..s
CAPTAIN MATHIS DEAD.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan, June 25.-
Captain William Mathis died here to-
day, aged 49, Captain Mathis was one
of the most prominent lawyers and pol
iticians in Kansas.