The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-09-27

we need not pause to review 1t in any
detail here We know that the blood
of the Scotch reformer and the English
Puritans and the Irish fighters was in
his veins,-the blood which has car
ried the dag OF the Saxon around the
world and back again, which has
whitened the seven seas with the Saxon
sail. which has Redeemed every battle
| field where Freedom called for sacri-
flee. We know he had the happy for
tune to be born to poverty, that hard
school wherein the weak are crushed
with remorseess hand, but from which
the strong come forth masters of fate.
| We know that when conscience and
his country called he took his place
in the ranks and answered Here" as
his forebears for a thousand years
had done when conscience and their
country called. And through the
titanic struggle, that mighty drama
which had half continent for its
stage, with three million men for its
actors, with all the world for its spec
tators, with the clash of sabers and
rattle of rifles and the thunder of can
non for its orchestral music, through
all its lights and shadows we catch
glimpses of the 1.-THE, boylsh figure, -
in the ranks for the first fourteen
months, and then as q staff officer
with Hayes and Sheridan and Crook
and Hancock, at South Mountain, at
Cedar Creek, at Antietam, always
clear-eyed and cool, always doing a
little more than his duty, winning by
gallantry on the field of battle the
promotions which before the war was
over put him in command of a com
pany and made him a major by bre-
vet. We know the story of the trying
years that followed, of the struggle
for an education, of the slow begin
ming of professional life, of the mar
riage to the lovely woman whose grief
is in all our hearts to-day and whose
name is in all our prayers, of the
steady advancement in popular favor
which industry and ability and con
science always command. And we
know by heart the rest of the story, -
the unexpected first election to Con-
gress from district which was sup
posed to have an overwhelming oppo-
sition majority, of his long and dis
tinguished service in that great par
lament, of his service as governor of
his native state, of his election twice
to the most exalted station on earth.
1t is fascinating story and we love
it and know it by heart.
But it is not the soldier, or the men,
Der of Congress, or the governor or
the President that we wish to remem-
Der today; it is the MAN. What man
ner of man do we see through all these
changing views ?
First of all we see true man.
TRUE TO HIS CONSCIENCE. For for
ty years he stood in thewhite lime light
or pubic life, and now as the curtain
ialls his political opponents vie with
his friends in paying tribute and bear
ing testlmony to his blameless life, to
hi spotless honor. Not one voice is
u ited to charge that he ever wronged
any man, that he ever paltered with
the truth, that he ever sacrificed prin-
clple Tor eNpediency, that he ever
abused the many high trusts conided
to him or used the great power he so
long welded for any other than noble
ana unselfish and patriotic ends. As
nearly as can be conceived possible
he realized the prayer OF the poet for
Men whom the spos of onic cannot buy,
Men whom the lust of ONCE cannot kill;
Men who have opinions and a viii.
Menwho owe honor aud who vii not lie"
TRrrE ,ro HIS cor-Nrpy Forty veors
nUo To some IT, seems but yp.tprd.v
the runs of Sumpter called him. ard
he answered .Here - Not waitin,r
to see whether others wouId nnt III
the quota, not WAITING for a commits.
sion moi waitin~ nj ali he TOOL, his
place in the ranks and marched owny
with that miohtv army which far fou1.
wears shook the earth with its tread
ihe mightv army which made this in
very truth The land of the free as il
had always been the home of the
brave. And as he had been trno IN
his ronntrv in war So he was time to
il in peoce The neace of the rennblic
the prosneritv Of lis neonle' the gIory
of lis nag, TO these ends he Manned
and snoS and toiied unseifshIv tire
lesslvI necessarily. scan the leyisia-
tion of the mast charter Of n century
and note how manv of the great meas.
ures' the measures which hron%ht
riches nj home and resnert ahrosd
bear his name, either n q their origina,
tor or as their foremost advocate He
was true To his country
TsuE To uIs WEE ~ nrv with
ourin,,, and ,nfaoi;,T, 60, r. IL