The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-10
TRIBUTE TO HOBART.
Senator Depew Addresses the
Senate For the First Time.

dn0CllOn 10 the 1uGl1OEy OIL the 1dlO
vice president, Carrot A. Hobart. Mr..
Frye laid before the senate the report
of Secretary of the Treasury Gage as
to the repositories of internal revenue
funds in various national banks. 1t
was referred to the finance committee
and ordered printed.
Mr. Hale of Maine offered a resolu-
ton calling up the state department.
for information as to what had been
done regarding the seizure by Great
Britain of American products in
Delagoa Bay. The resolution declared
the property was now detained unjust
ly and without warrant. To the state
ment that the property was unjustly
detained, Mr.. Platt (Conn) took excep-
ton believing it ought to be modified.
Mr.. Hale said the resolution presented
a matter of vital importance and be-
lieVed Great Britain ought to be in
formed of the sentiment in this country.
On objection of Mr.. Lodge the resolu-
ton went over.
Mr. Butler IN. c. offered long reso-
luton on trusts and gave notice of a
speech later.
Mr. Sewan IN. j. then called up the
resolutions he had previously offered.
providing that the business of the SEN
ate be suspended in order that the dis
tinguished public services and private
character of Mr. Hobart might be fit
tingly conmemorated. Mr. Sewan adj
dressed the senate in a beautiful tribute
to the dead statesman.
Mr.. Daniel (Va.) followed Mr.. Sewall,
referring eloQuently to the roll of il
lustrious men who had filled the posi-
tion of vice president of the United
States Said he: But I venture to say
that that high office was never filled by
one who met all of its responsibilities
with more equal and uniform efficiency
and who discharged it's duties with
more acceptability to all concerned
shan did our beloved friend. Carrot A.
Hobart. War with Spain was declared
during his incumbeney. His influence
for good was felt and profoundly ap-
preciated. 1t is a blessing to all the
land that such a man has filed such a
place"
Mr.. Depew paid eloquent tribute to
the memory of Mr.. Hobart, who was a,
long time personal friend. Mr.. Depew
who thus addressed the senate for the
first time, was at his best Ill voice and
his Grafton was listened to with deepest
attention. He said:
is known as the ills Hotel No. 1, is on
In mid-ocean, on one of the great
steamships, some years ago, a gentle
man extended his hand and said: "I
am Carrot A. Hobart, of New Jersey.
L know you, and want you to know
me" Afterwards, in the condolences of
fellow-p passengers on the sea, he said:
The value of success is not so much
in the things it enables you to do, as
the consideration it gives You in the
minds of others. 1 have been successful
and 1 want that understood and appre-
ciated." In this incident came out the
character of the man. The freshness,
the frankness, the unspoiled joy of the
boy, as happy over the things which
gave pleasure and Importance to his
friends, as he felt sure they would be
over his own advancement.
The financial distress which caused
hard times in 1894 and 1895, produced
widespread spirit of pessimism and de-
spair. 1t resurrected the question, rs
life worth the living?" which had been
discussed nightly at Athenian dinners
in the time of Plato and Socrates. The
doubt is not American. Its most en-
phatic affirmation is evidenced in the
life and career of our friend. He was
an illustration of what is possible under
American conditions and with Ameri-
can opportunities, with equal laws for
all, and no class or privilege barring
the way to the highest places in the
land. At 10 he was a graduate of Rut-
gers college, and for six years teaching
school and studying law; and at % he
was called to the bar and began his
battle with and in the world. Without
money or influence, but with brains, ed
ucation, health, industry and character.
his was the typical beginning OF most
of the youth of our country. His con-
hdence in himself and his future led 20
an early marriage and an ideal do
nestle life. At So he was among the
foremost citizens of his state in every
department of its activities He was
leader in his profession of the law and
of his political party; he had been re-
peatedly honored by his fellow citizens
in positions of trust and power; he had
accumulated a fortune, and was vice
president of the United States. The idle
and the incompetent will find no COM
fort here for their favorite theory that
life is luck. He had the good fortune
to be descended from that mixed
Dutch English ancestry, which has the
inspiration of glorious traditions of civ
il and religious liberty, of literature
and adventure of art and arms, of in
dOmitable endurance, of conquest over
all obstacles and of strenuous endeaVor,
which no difficulties can discourage 1t
was his happy lot to have his career
to work out in this republic, and in the
latter half of this marvellous nineteenth
century. With these advantages, COM
mon to millions, fortune withdrew her
assistance, and the brilliant example
we contemplate was the result of the
energy and ability of this fine specimen
of a self-nade man. At the threshold
of his career, by profession and men,
! bership. he proclaimed himself a. Chris
tan, and as he began so he continued
until his death, consistent child of the
church. His was not the religion which
in Jonathan Edwards period filled the
churches with terror and emptied their
peWS, but the religion of the Evangelist
Moody which rests upon the golden
rule. Preferring always his own way
he recognized, with a broad charity,
that the paths pursued by others led to
the same heaven, and could be more
easily trod by them. He had no
aggressive faith which fought on dog
ma other creeds and sects. but he was
at all times active in the good works
which are common to all creeds and all
sects.
The scholar in politics is the familiar
theme for academic discussin. His
duty to participate all admit, his
usefulness is often doubted. He too
frRg11anr1xr h
affairs and knowledge of men which are
l necessary to give him the weight in
party councils due to his character and
culture. The business man in politics
/ IS the hope OF the present and future.
| The measures we carry here are re-