Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-24
Madison. Ma. ca q.

Newman, ex-senator James Il. Doc
GlLIe of Racine and Circuit Judge
James T. Mills. A good attendance
was present, in ludin5 personalities
OF the local and STAGE bar, law Students
and a number o. ladies'. Previous to
the services, the DAM County bar as
SCcIatiOn he'd d NJ etIns In The circuit
court room to take a-tIUn On the death
of 5. a. Harpef, alter WAIch most Dt
the members Iepan Ell to the Supra ne
court room. All the justices OF the
supreme cOurC were present except
Judge s. q. PtAney. Chic Justice
Cas- oday announced the purpose OF the
meeting, after which Attorney Joseph
W. I~aey OF LA Crosse cad che reso-
lutions prepared by the committee con-
sisting OF Nj. Losey, ex-Congl essman
BUR w. Jones ana Judge j. NJ. Nor
row OF Sparta On the dea-h or Judge
Newman. They reIited the services of
Judge Newman and paid fitting tribute
10 his memory and worth. Each men,
Der of the committee and Chief justice
CassoGay then paid respect to the
character and services of Judge New
man in brief addresses. Mr. Jones
said among other things Of the dead
jurist:
He had lived among common peo-
pie and he knew them thoroughly. He
knew how to sympathize with their
weaknesses and to love their virtues.
In his converse with his intimate
friends about the darker pictures of life
oil hn
judge, it was a fayorite saying the
world is more weak than wicked. In
this warm sympathy with his fellows,
in his sturdy sense of justice and his
love of the law and it's maintenance,
We find a partial explanation of the
fact that long before his election to
the supreme court he became distin-
guished as judge. No one knew bet
ter than he that there is no duty so
sod-like as the administration of JUS
tice among men, and it is no extrava-
gance to say that he gave the pest eff
forts of his life that the courts of
law might become
A shrine of refuge from life's stormy
thrOAg''
oh1Sl JuSIlCS SdSSOudy l6Gl-
ingly the sad accident which carried
Off his associate SO suddenly and said:
During his forty years residence in
this state his life had been an open
book. Nearly thirty-two years of that
time were spent in public Office-coun-
ty judge-district attorney-memher of
asSembly-state senatOr-besides more
than seventeen years as circuit Judge.
His great popularity may readily be
accounted for by those who knew him
best. He was always modest, faithful,
diligent and efficient in the perform
ance of duty to the very best of his
ability. Possessed of courage, moral
and physical, equal to any undertake
1Eg, he, nevertheless, was naturally
very dIffident, shrinking from
all controversy, rare aggressive
never offensive. 1t may be
safely assumed that he never actively
sought office and seldom, if ever. re-
fused office. He had kind heart,
q generous spirit and broad christian
charity In his Trempealeau home
he was, for many years, the center of
large circle of friends who were en-
riched by his counsel and guided by
his Judgment. He had a remarkable
memory; and on his long walks about
the city, as conversation turned from
one topic to another, he would illus
trate the subject by apt quotations
from Homer, Horace and Virgil as
well as the English and the American
poets. 1t was certainly fitting that
Hamilton College, his beloved Alma |
Mater, should, in the last year of his |
life crown him with the high honor |
OF LII. D."
Judge E. o. Hand Of Racine read !
the resolutions prepared for Senator |
Doolittle and INDUCED in pleasing |
"reminiscences of the statesman. |
Judge j. B. Winsow responded for |
the supreme court. Briefly sketching
his early life he touched on Senator
Doolittle's services in the senate and
afterwards as follows:
Fate placed him in the forefront
of events at momentous crisis in the
national history when the destiny of
the republic was trembling in the bal
ance and the future seemed dark and
OuDIA"l' ne TEST was supreme, but
1T was fully and bravely met. Stand
ing by the side of the great Lincoln
as one OF his truSty and trusted coun-
seiors, he rose to the full stature Of q
statesman, able to cope with the great
est questions and fit to properly repre-
sent this great commonwealth. His
services to the state and nation and !
TO the cause of free government during
the twelve years which he spent in the
senate cannot be easily over-estimat-
ed. He left that high Office poor in
purse but rich in the consciousness of
having periodically performed his
DUTY and Of having bravely borne no
small share in the great battle to pre-
serve human liberty and free institu-
tons
He was without question a lawyer i,
of great learning and breadth of mini:
but the imperious call to the greater
duties of a national legislator took
rim from the bar for SO long a period
during the very prime of life that his t
career as a lawyer was never rounded ]
out to the full and hence it is that he t
will be remembered for his achiey- {
ments as a statesman rather than on &
account of his greatness as a lawyer. t
1t was my good fortune to know '
him pprSppoI1vr f,,or,, NV E