The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-20
WILL MOI Be FORGOTTEN
THE LATE SENATOR
DAVIS
SOME ELOQUENT ADDRESSES
Judge FIandrau and Hon. d. w.
Lawler Make the Principal Adj
MISUNDERSTANDING Testi-
mOny of Esteem.

''Eulogy of the dead is a vain thing
ia the best. No eulogy that We might
utter here today can add to or take from.
| Senator CuShman K. Davis lives today,
lives in the hearts and minds made bet
ter by his presence. The voice of the
past rises this hour. Truth will prevail.
Good deeds are immortal and like a
voice crying from the wilderness we
stand mute for want of words to answer.
| yet the heart goes out and the mind
ponders, for words fitting to the occasion
will not respond
1t was Hon. F M. Nye, of Minneapolis,
whose eloquence produced these beautiful
| thoughts, he being among the number
| representing the state bar who gather
| ed at the court room in the new federal
building yesterday and assisted in the
| presentation of memorial on the death
of their beloved colleague, the late Sena-
| tor Cushman K. Davis.
The gathering was quite a large one,
Minneapolis attorneys being present in
considerable numbers, In fact they ex-
| ceeded to a marked degree, the number
| representing the ST. Paul bar. The
| memorial from the bar of the state was
| presented by the venerable Judge Charles
| E. Flandreau, number of the members
| following it with personal reminences
and tributes to the deceased statesman's
| worth and integrity.
The memorial as presented by Judge
| Flandreau was as follows:
THE MEMORIAL.
| Death has again invaded the ranks
| OF our state bar and stricken down one
! of our most distinguished and beloved
until he had fulfilled his life's mission,
but abruptly terminated his career at a
moment when its course was fast leading
! him onward and upward to the zenith
| achievement in 0l1T,
state and nation, which it will be diff
cult if not impossible to fill.
The duty has been assigned to me to
! present to this court memorial from the
bar of the state, setting forth his char
| actertstics and achievements, that the
same may be perpetuated upon its rec
ords. 1t seems almost a work of su-
| pererogadon as the name and fame of
| Cushman K. Davis were so universally
known and acknowledged that additional
| Iuster cannot be shed upon his life by
| anything his survivors can say or sug-
geSt.
Nature doth mourn thee. There is no
need
For man to strike his plaintive Tyre and
fail,
AS fail he. must. if he attempts thy
praise"
When it was announced that he was
Frustrated upon bed of sickness the
sympathy of the entire people was enlist
| ed in his behalf, but when it became
known that his condition was serious,
held its breath and sought the daily bull
!et1n of his condition with a fervor of
| hope and expectation rarely before ex-
tended to any citizen; and when the final
decree was rendered which forever re-
moved him from LIES theater, a cloud
OF gloom and sadness settled upon the
nation, which attested the love the peo-
| pie bore him in life, and the pain they
| suffered at his death.
There is scarce dignitary, association
| or tribunal from the president and con-
l n 10 lY1ifO tlt ne-- to
| military, learned and commercial bodies
| Of the country, that has not paid gener-
Gus tribute to his many excellencies 6f
mental characteristics and acquired ac-
compliShments. The wheels of state and
| national legislation ceased to revolve; the
tribunals of justice stood still, and the
pulp1tS reSounded with eloquent praises
of the deceased, and SO universal and ex-
haustive were these outpourings of grief
| and adulation that any attempt on our
| part to add to, or improve upon them.
would be but weak imitation and repeTf-
| ton.
What we have said in a general way,
and what We shall add in a more particu-
| lar statement attest our supreme adm1ra-
| ton of, and respect and love for our de-
! ceased brother.
Senator Davis was born in Henderson,
| 1888. He graduated at the University
| of Michigan, in 1857, and two years later
j was admitted to the practice of the law.
When the war of the Rebellion was de-
| clared he went to the front as a lieuten-
ant in Company B, of the Twenty-eighth
| Wisconsin volunteer infntry. When the
| formed a partnership in the practice of
| law with eX-Gov. Willis A. German, with
whom, he had been associated In the
war An opportunity was all that was
| necessary to establish his legal ability,
which opportunity was not long withheld
and in the first case of any Importance
that he was called upon to try, he dis
| played such skill that he at once took a
/ prominent position at the bar, and rap
! idly progressed to leadership His in
| clinations did not tend toward an active
| as an orator. and his versatile accom-
plshments soon proved of such value
to the party of his choice that in 1874 he
was made governor, of our state and
served one term with distinguished sue
cess. He was also one of the regents
of the State University. In 1887 he was
chosen United States senator from Min
| nesota, which exalted position he held
until his death. He had not long been
seated in the senate before it became
apparent to his associates in that body
that he possessed a remarkable fund OF
knowledge of international law and he
was placed upon the committee on for
eign relations, always regarded as the
elite committee of the senate.
His services in that capacity soon be-
came SO valuable that with great unan-
unity he was, in 1898, made chairman OF
the committee. The occurrence of the
war with Spain supplied the opportunity
and occasion for the exercise and exhibit
ton of his superior judgment and tai
ents concerning international affairs, and
he was at once recognized as leading
authority in that important sphere of pol
tiles, and was by the president selected
as member OF the commission which
met in the city of Paris to negotiate
terms of peace with Spain, in which i'm
portant work he took a leading part
This was his last official duty Of con
sequence. He died at his home in this
city on Tuesday, the 9th day of Novem-
Der, 1900.
We, who so well knew his superior en-
dowments and kindly personal qualities
can never forget him While we live, and
we submit this sketch of his life and at
ta1nmentS that his memory may be kept
green ard his example be held up to the
admiration ard Tor the benefit of future
generations
If your honor please, I move that this
memorial may be entered upon the min
utes, and become record of this court
Among those who paid beautiful tribute
to the memory of the deceased senator
was Hon. Daniel w. Lawler, whose asso-
citation with Mr.. Davis, while not of a
partnership character, was yet sufficient
ly personal to lend interest to the ad.
dress he made. Mr.. Lawler aid:
Some thirty-seven years ago a young
lawyer from Wisconsin commenced the
practice of his profession in this city
The tweaty-seven years of his life had
been diligently and faithfully spent
Graduated from the University of Mich
| - Aoi ACe.SAlAlS Ills majority, he
had laid aside his law books to render a
soldiers service in the war for the
Union, and, after two active and non
orable years, had returned with broken
health TO his Western home. His earliest
ambition had been the profession OF
law, and the requirements of health We're
perhaps supplemented by the promptings
of fortune in his choice of a new and
distant field of action. His aims were
high, his ideals lofty. The bar Of Wis
consin of that day was headed by men