Arizona republican., 1898-05-20

the ex-governor's death. He turned
 back in order that he might assist in
 the tribute of respect. General R. Allyn Lewis directed that B and A
 companies of the national guard as- semble at their respective armories at 3:15 this afternoon for the purpose of forming funeral escort
 The funeral will be directly under
 the conduct of the Improved Order of
 Red Men, of which the ex-governor
 was a member Additional details of
 the funeral will be completed early to.
 day.
 Benjamin J. Franklin was born In
 Mason county, Kentucky, -fifty-nine
 years ago He was graduated from
 Bethany college, West Virginia. After short time spent in teaching, he studied law and settled in practice at Leavenworth, Kansas. He moved to Missouri in 1860 and entered the con- federate service as captain. He fought through the war, making a
 brilliant record. At the close of the
 war he settled into successful prac- tice of the law at Kansas City and in 187t he was elected circuit attorney for the Twenty-fourth circuit of Mis- sourf. In 1874 he was elected to the Forty-fourth congress from the Kansas City district and was reelected to the Forty-fifth. At the close of his con- gressional service he resumed the practice Of law at Kansas City and continued in it until the beginning of MT. Cleveland's first administration,
 when he was appointed consul to Han
 Row, China.
 He came to the coast in 1892 and resided short time at Los Angeles He moved to Phoenix in the fall of law practice until February of 1896,
 President Cleveland. He leaves be-
 side his sorrowing wife, daughter,
 Miss Mary Franklin, and two sons,
 Alfred and F. J. Franklin, the former his law partner and lately assistant
 United States attorney for this ter
 ritory.
 Too much cannot be said of ex-Gov-
 ernor Franklin, for he was noble,
 an able and a rigidly honest man. He
 was also an accomplished scholar. Ii may be said that no other prominent
 man in Phoenix was so slightly under stood by large majority of his neigh bors. He was a man of strong con- victions, which furnished intensity oi action n opposition to his enemies and in support of his friends or his principles. A man of strong convic- tions must consequently have strong enemies and strong friends, and the ex-governor had both. But his enc ,, mics were not implacable, and when
 he had retired from public life many of them were foremost ia proclaimins
 his good qualities Net long ago On
 the occasion of the first meeting oi the Kentucky association, ex-Governol Franklin was the orator of the day Tn his allusion to Lincoln and Clay ! he seemed inspired, and one who hat been among the foremost of his DO l litical opponents said the address was !! the most eloquent he had ever heard and that it alone had served to bury any enmity he might have entertained against the orator.
 But those who most misunderstood him were not his foes. They were those with whom he had not beer brought in contact at all. To them he i seemed severe and rigid, but the, 1 only saw the rough exterior, for . kindlier man has not lived. The I words Shakespeare put into the mouth
 of Griffith in eulogy of the great car dinal are equally applicable to the dead ex-governor: Lofty and soul to those who loved him not, but te
 those who sought him, sweet as sum mer."