Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-18

before their fellows know OF ner pres.
ence. These capable men of affairs are of
others lose and the class vino benefit their
associates or the community or the whole
country by the developments they pro-
mote and the enterprises they create. L ne
first are the pirates of society and of bust
ness. They are the fathers of communism
and the foster father or anarchy. The
others are among the benefactors OF their
time. 1t was the characteristic of our
friend that. possessing the far-sighteo
faculty, and having the sense and train
ing TO keep the curb of caution upon the
promptings of acquisitiveness ana mag
plans and all shared in the profits of his
undertakings.
The founders of the republic meant to
provide for successor to the president
who should be equally worthy of the chief
magistracy. But the machinery they oe-
vised gave the vice-president no voice in
the government, and created an inevitable
antagoniSm between him and the preSi-
dent. 1t revived in a form the old historic
struggle of the able and ambitious heir
Tor recognition and influence in affairs
or state. The contest began during our
hrst administration. Confidence and cor
diality were impossible between the self
centered Washington and the imperious
Adams With Adams and Jefferson was
the mutual repulsion of the Puritan and
the cavalier. In Jefferson and Aaron Burr
the revolutionist was seeking to destroy
the patriot The practical Jackson and
the philosophic Calhoun were soon at war.
The man of action threatened to hang the
theorist, If he carried his ideas sto their
the country, the strength of parties and
their internal diSSenSions, the Vice-preSi-
dency was thrown to the friends of dis
appointed candidates and at disafected
states to select the nominee and be APP
peased. Fillmore and Arthur discarded
the friends of the dead president and
Tyler and Johnson reversed their politics
and policies. The power in control at the
White House and in congress sought to
minimize the vice-president and make him
OBSCURE and innocuous. Happily for Mr.
Hobart there was conflict over candi-
dates in the convention which nominated
fined policies had selected him as their
pest exponent in advance. There were no
disappointed and vengeful interests to be
reconcfled- The choice settled upon Ho-
ming mate for the Ohio statesman. Com
ing thus into this high Office, his talent
OF common sense, and his charm of per-
sonalfty, made him, from the beginning,
president. He lifted the office out of the
rut of conventionality and possibility to
position of dignity, usefulness and trust.
he won the warm affection of his party
associates and the esteem and respect OF
MS party antagonists. He had the fac
ulty of the wisely busy man of always
having plenty of time, and that he shared
with his friends in that hearty and
healthy companionship which has made
ms name hospitable memory at the cap
itol Though he died in his prime, with
apparently years of usefulness before
MIN, yet his was a full and rich life and
nobly rounded career. 1t is fitting that
such a man should fall in battle with his
armor on. The conspicuousness of his de-
parture gives lustre to his example.
statesmen, citizen, husband, father,
friend, the sum of his worth among US
is that we performed, with faithfulness
and fidelity. with conscientious care and
magnetic ardor, all the duties of public
and private life.