The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-20

| English law obtain. Who fhaf tg5o ..e
Cushman Kellogg paws Paw can doubt that
SUCH careers were me source of his in
! Who shall deny him foday I'm Hb,aol ZION
! laurel wreath OF victory that fame placed
long ago upon the brows of the ideals
/ of his youth? 49,
Senator Davis was a great LAWYER and
as great lawyer chiefly, it seems to me.
will he be remembered. He knew the
law of science, IN Its general principles
| and in it's niceties and irefinements. HIS
sweep was broad and comprehensive.
know no other practitioner in this state
whose practice has been SO wide and Yet
| the specialist found him prepared He
was not only sound adviser but also a
| great advocate, powerful before court as
well as before jury. Even amid the tur-
iilo,i or political life and its destinations
and temptations he remained true to his
CHOSEN profession. Law was his lie and
being-politcs an incident and an epi-
| Sode. He was great statesman because
ne was great lawyer, and the lawyer
included and overshadowed the states
man. He held himself out to all clients.
and when in great crisis his country
| Eeeded his services, they were given not
only as chairman of the COMMITTEES on
foreign relations, but as a LAWYER direct
ing and advising his client in the field of
1iaoa law 1t was Cicero, the adj
vocate, rather than the Cicero the consul.
VINO blasted with the lightenings of his
eloquence the conspiracy of Catalina 1t
WAS ebSter the lawyer, rather than
doctrine of secession in his rep.y to
f5ayne. 1t was Davis the LAWYER rather
tnan LAWS the senator, who stood by the
side of the president during the Spanish
war and when it was over dictated thu
terms of treaty of Paris, and demon
strated to the world that the power and
glory OF the American bar have in no
way declined since the days when Caleb
Cushlng astounded the jurists of Europe
by the depth of his learning and the elo
quence of his expression
h.
tempt an analysis of Senator Davis char
acter, but there is one phase of it which
l beg to refer. He was attracted by
young men and he attracted them. He
believed in them and with rare ACCURACY
OF judgment and happy choice selected
young men for his business associa tes
he he pefr1ended many young and brief
less barrtster who today in the success
ful practice of his profession will breathe
a prayer c. love and gratitude for thu
k1ndly word and countenance which Gov.
LAWS gave him in those first DAYS of
struggle and uncertainty l have now in
my mind a member or the bar of this
county, whose first case in the district
court was the defense of a man charged
with murder under peculiarly atrocious
and discriminating circumstances. Weight
ca with the responsibility, the young
counselor sought Gov. Davis for advice
GOV. Davis was burdened with the cares
of his large practice, but gratuitously and
spontaneously accorded several long con-
situations to the neophyte, and when the
MN by appearing in court and sitting
with MIN IN the trial until it was under
way. The real Significance of such con-
ouct and the gratitude which it evoked
can be appreciated only by such men as
are gathered here today
Permit me to narrate two instances
further illustrating the nature of the man
whom we honor today. Several years
ago, when Senator Davis was Chairman
OF the pensions committee, the speaker
wrote to him in behalf Of the application
q nor i'm do.
unoer the general law, entirely meritori-
Gus in Itself, but delayed for want of
prosecution Pros On. The applicant had neither
was secured Withinatwenty-fou hours of
the receipt Of the letter, and within an
otner tWenty-four hours the senator tele-
graphed that the check for arrears had
been mailed from the pension department
to the applicant - IN
On one beautiful Sunday forenoon of
iast october, the speaker, accompanied
by a distinguished leader of the Republi-
can party, life lonYs friend and sup
porter of Senator Davis, called on the
latter as he lay on his bed of pain. He
bad already entered upon the valley o:
the shadow of death, but neither of us
Will ever forget the emotion which he
displayed in describing the grateful con-
life and station, whom he had befriended
IN Garner days, and who fastened to his
bed side. on hearing of his condition. TO
some minds these incidents may appear
trivial and commonplace, but know that
to the great, mind which has left us they
would on this occasion outraIk forensic
triumph and senatorial glory
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
ana simple latin than Norman blood"
When the spirit of the prisoner of St.
Helena was released from its earthly
his exile, covered the lifeless form of his
chieftain With the battle cloak of
Marengo. It was fitting that France
should be reminded of that glorious day
when her stripping general, inspired with
the genius of the revolution, and nursing
no dreams of personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
beat back the hosts of foreign aggres-
sion. In a truer~ and higher sense, II
was erni1ently fitting that on the casket
which held all that was mortal of Cush-
man Kellogg Davis should be placed the
sword which the young lieutenant had
worn III defense of the Union and the
course of his fellow-citizens. VITA bowed
heads and saddened hearts, passed
through the corridors of yonder capitol,
and for the last time looked upon the
nembered that he had been true to the
promise of his youth, and that the hand
that then had claspeda patriots steel,
had ever since been loyal to the honor
of his country and the advancement If
his cOuntrymen. as
Hon. F. M. Nye, of Minneapolis, who
was among the speakers, spoke net as
one who had followed the deceased
messed the crowning glory of his career,
but took his impression from the fact
that nation molHned. and it's people
were lavish in their tribute to him whose
life was one of unselfish love and labor
Among those who also contributed in
praise Of the deceased senator as law
yer and a statesman were w. J. Hahn,
Minneapolis; SamueT r. Thayer, Mime
apolis; Judge D. A. Dickinson Duluth;
]. B. Gilfllan, Judge Pierce, A. B. Jack
son and Judge Lochren
A youthful practitioner in the person
of Robert E. Olds associated wi n the
deceased senator as an office boy, gave
voice to the sentiments of love and
praise which prevailed by asking permits
sion to speak, and following it with the
statement, brief yet full of potent truth,
that he loved the senator and the associa-
ton would furnish him with an IDEAL
he would ever follow.