The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-13
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til he became chairman of the COM
| mittee on foreign relations and our con-
troversy with Spain became acute that
| his great forum was found, and his
| great abilities We're given the field of
! craftsmanship and diplomacy for which
he was so well fitted and equipped. In
| that place and in the field he was easi-
| ly the first and our recognized leader
| and guide No one was better versed
than he in the diplomatic history of the
| deeply and was more familiar than he
| with all the complicated and varied re-
| lations of our country with foreign ma
| tons.
His speeches and his reports in our
rela tons with England, with Spain, in
our war with Spain, and on the treaty of
quence scarcely ever e @ao He ex-
| hausted and rendered clear and lucid
| the most profound and most intricate
! problems of diplomacy and statecraft.
| When he had spoken there was little,
| If anything, more to be said on the sub
| ject. While he seemed listless to the
| when great questions were at stake and
| great problems were to be solved, he
was always vigilant and always ON the
| alert He studied and passed upon pub
lie affairs, both at home and abroad,
| and with the instinct and purpose of
i statesman and never In the spirit of a
| tire heart and whole soul were wrapped
! up IN his great work, and he was so
! absorbed by it that he seemed at times
! oblivious to all else. He was an orator
of the highest and best type, clothing
the most profound thoughts in the most
choice and most chaste Of rhetoric. His
| speeches, unlike most oratorys, were
even more impressive, more captivating
/ and more convincing in the reading of
| them than in the delivery. In his case
the hearing served to whet the appetite
n mr. 10
! reader always discovered beauties of
| thought and diction that had escaped
him in the delivery His oratory was
| classic, but Of a modern tyue fraught
| with facts and arguments Of the most
convincing and exhaustive. character.
STUDENT OF LITERATURE.
While his work at the bar and in the
public service absorbed most of his time
and attention yet he always devoted q
| study Of literature and history. He was
profound Shakespearian scholar, thor
oughly familiar with the life and all the
entitled '"The Law In Shakespeare, -
shows how thoroughly he entered into
the. spirit and how. fully he mastered
| and understood the broad and profound
range of human knowledge and human
wisdom possessed by that great high
priest OF tragedy. comedy and song, He
peare, but he also fathomed that pro-
| found analysis of the motives and main
| springs Of human action 50 pre-eminent
in the great poet
He himself of an heroic turn of mind,
he naturally and irresistibly became at
tracted to that most wonderful and most
startling Of modern heroes, Napoleon. He
was one OF the most thorough and most
profound student Of the life, the mission
and the work of this great man; familiar
with every phase Of it SO far as known
hook upon Napoleon, in English or in
French, that he did not have in his
library and had not read and mastered.
The study of the life of the great hero,
in all its varied phases, charmed him,
chastened him and buoyed his spirit in
the sonIber and perpleXing moments of
his Hfe.
MOURNED BY ALL.
To me he was on all occasions most
kind and helpful. I feel his loss most
deeply. His death has LETT voij In NV
heart which none can fill. We all miss
him in the senate, miss him for his good
ness and great worth, miss him for his
wisdom, his eloquence and noble example.
His death was great bereavement not
only to his friends and to his associates,
but to the entire country. There are some
easily filed. but that gap in the line CT
battle he held when he passed away no
one can fill as completely and as truly
as he did. No public man had warmer
place in the hearts of the people than
he had. [ have never seen 4 larger fu-
neral than his. 1t was attended in
Sc HuupUSrS by young ana OLD, IN all
walks of life, from all parts of the state.
They came in no perfunctory mood, but
in spirit of heaviness, grief and sor-
row, as though each had been bereaved
OF his dearest and most beloved OF
friends. There were many beautiful
flowers placed as tokens of grief and af-
fect1on over his remains, but the most
impressive and most inspiring tokens
We're the silent tears that tricllled on the
cheeks of so many sad faces on that day
his mortal remains have been laid
a n the.1Ts nj
the spirit of his life, his mission, and the
great work he wrought, will remain with
us as token, as an example and as an
inspiration for all time to come.
When can his glory fade?
Oh, the brave charge he made"
DID A MANS DUTY.
Mr.. Hoar, of Massachusetts, comment
ing upon the fact that so many senators
die IN Office, said that in the eulogies
pronounced in the chamber the portrai-
lures have been true and faithful In
| young republic, he said, the greatest
place for live man was that of a soldier
| in time Of war and a statesman in time
Of peace. Mr.. Davis was both He did
a mans full duty in both. Mr.. Hoar
commented upon the literary attachments
OF Mr.. Davis, and said:
There may have been soldiers whose
| courage saved the day in great, decisive
| DatleS, when the fate of the nation hung
! In the scale, yet whose most enduring
monument was the column OF smoke
| which rose when their death shot was
| tired. There have been statesmen whose
silent influence have decided the issue
| when the country was at the parting of
! the ways, Of whose service history takes
no heed. The great Ohio territory, not
! SIX imperial states, was twice saved to
| freedom by the almost unnoticed action
| Of single man. With all respect for
the man of letters, we are not yet quite
| ready to admit that the trumpeter is
! better than the soldier or the painter
greater than the lion. There is no need
| Of many words to sum up the life and
! character of Mr.. Davis. His life was
! in the daylight. Minnesota knew him.
| His country knew and loved him. He
| was a good soldier In his youth and a
great senator in his maturer manhood.
| What can be said more and what can be
! said better, to sum up the life of AN
| American citizen. He offered his life for
his country when life was all before him
! and his state and his country rewarded
! him with their highest honor The great
orator and philosopher of Rome declare d
In his youth and repeated in his age that
| death could not come prematurely to a
| must surely be accounted ready to die
| He had discharged honorably life's high
est duty and his cup or honor and of
| glory was FULL
LEGAL ATTAINNENTS.
Mr.. Daniel CVa-) paid high tribute to
the legal attachments of Senator Davis,
saying that whether in the lower courts
or in international tribunal, he would
have been the peer of any antagonist