The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-11
IN MEMORY OF Mr.. HOBART.
EULOGIEs PRONOUNCED UPON THE
VICE PRESIDENT.


can Character.
| Washington, Jan. 1O.-Beautiful and i'm
| pressive tributes were paid by the Senate
to-day to the memory of the late Vice
| President Hobart. His intimate personal
relations with many senators and his close
| official afiliation with all of them render
| ed his death distinct loss to every mem
Der of the body, as wen as to the coun-
| try.
| 1t was in commemoration of his illus
trious career and of his distinguished pub
lie service and of his private character
that the Senate set apart the session to-
| day for the procurement of eulogies
| upon attn
Personal friends and associates and par
ty friends and party opponents joined in
| paying such sincere and eloquent tribute
to the memory of Mr. Hobart to his char
acter and public services, as have been
seldom paid TO any public man. Addresses
were delivered by Senators Sewell and
keene of New Jersey, Daniel of Virginia
Depew of New York, Cockrel of Missouri
Cullom of Illinois. Davis of Minnesota
| Morgan of Alabama Chandler of New
Hampshire, Lodge of Massachusetts, Caf-
fiery of Louisiana and Allen of Nebraska
Mr. Sewell of New Jersey was the first
| speaker, followed by MIR. Daniel of Vr-
GINA who spoke of the dead statesman's
| profound influence for good.
senator Depew's speech.
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 Iirs4
time. was at his best in voice, and his
GRAFTON was listened to with deepest at
tention. He said in part:
In midocean, on one of the great steam
ships, some years ago, a gentleman ex-
| tended his hand and said: 4 am Garnet
a. Hobart of New Jersey. l know YOU
| and want you to know me" Afterwards,
| IN the condolences of felow-pasengers on
| the sea, he said: "Thc value of success is
| not so much in the things ii enables yon
| 10 do, as the consideration it gives YOU IN
| the minds of others. l have been success
| full and l want that understood and ap
preciated." In this,incident came out the
| character of the man. The freshness, the
| tTankness, 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. -4
The financial distress which caused
| hard time in 1894 and 1895, produced a
widespread Hplilb vi IJSSSlflllSli anu Despair
| IL 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. It's most emphatic affirmation
is evidenced in the life and career of our
| friend. He was an illustration of what is
| possible under American conditions and
| with American 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 graduate of Rut-
| gers College and for six years teaching
| school and studying law; and at % he was
| called 10 the bar and began his battle with
| and in the world. Without money or in
| fluence, but with brains, education. health,
| industry and character. his was the typi-
| cal beginning of most of the youth of our
! country. His confidence in himself and
| his future led to an early marriage and an
| ideal domestic life Al SO he was among
| the foremost citizens of his state in every
department. OF Ks 5ct{vitjGs. IyS -U5s .
| leader in his profession of the law and of
his political party; he had been repeated
| ly honored by his fellow-citzens in posi-
lions of trust and power; he had accumu-
lated fortune. and was Vice President
| of therU United States. The idle and The
| incompetent will find no comfort here FOR
| their favorite theory that life is luck.
BY Their own ENeruons.
Every many in our country rise by their
own exertions, from nothing to affiuence.
| The rapid evolutions caused by steam,
| electricity and invention, give number
less opportunities for the far-sghted and
| courageous to seize the hand of fortune
| before their fellows know of her presence.
| These capable men of affairs of two
| classes-the class who make what others
lose and the class who benefit their as
| sociates or the community or the whole
country by the developments they pro-
mote and the enterprises they create. The
first are the pirates of society and of bus
| mess. They are the fathers of commun-
ism and the fosterfathers of anarchy.
The others are among the benefactors
| of their time. 1t was the characteristic
| of our friend that. possessing the far
| sighted faculty and having the sense and
| training to keep the curb of caution upon
the promptings of acquisitiveness and
| Imagination, he drew large circle into
I his plans and all shared in the profits OF
! his undertakings.
Though he died in his prime, with APP
/ parently years of usefulness before him.
| yet his was a full and rich life and a no
/ bly, rounded career. 1t is fitting that such
| a man should fall in battle with his ar
| NOR on. The conspicuousness of his de-
| parture gives luster to his example
| Statesman, citizen, husband. father
| friend, the sum of his worth among us
| is that he performed, with faithfulness
| and fidelity, with conscientious care and
magnetic ardor, all the duties of public
| and private life"
Mr. Morgan of Alabama pronounced Mr.
| Hobart's a perfectly rounded American
| character. That was a great character,
| which had been developing for hundreds
| of years, and he thought no higher euogy
could be pronounced upon a man than
that he had attained such a character.
Mr. Caffery of Louisiana said he regard
ed Mr. Hobart as the highest type of
American manhood. justice and nobility.
After other eulogies. the Senate ad-
journed.