Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-02-07

intercourse, anu IN public relation, his |
character has been unassailed, his in
tegrity unquestioned. His experience
in our noble profession, his triumphs
and defeats all came to him at this
bar. His service as a practitioner
was more than ordinarily successful.
Before court he was always fortified
with reason and authority: in argu-
ment to jury he was dangerous an
tagonist for the most adroit advocate
to encounter. He never accepted a.
case without believing to the utter
most in it's unqualified business. and
when convinced of the merits of his
cause he engaged upon it with the
most persistent application, the most
resourceful ingenuity, the most per-
feet fidelity of the interests he repre-.
scented. He revered the profession of
the law, and no man could entertain
higher conceptions of it's glorious his
tory. it's exalted purpose, it's dignity,
its nobility, it's grandeur, than he.
To him it's practice contemplated i'm
measurably more than the mere OPP.
portunity to earn money; it compre-
hended the enlargement of the mental
faculties, the refinement of the moral
perceptions, the adornment of the in.
tellectual life. This being his view,
none in trouble ever appealed to him
for assistance and was discarded, be-
cause unable to pay a fee. He would
undertake case and prosecute 1T
with the same undated energy if he
were conscious that his efforts would
| be wholly uncompensated, that he
| would if the employment were certain
| in adequate rewards. If he had re-
ceived the reasonable value of all the
services he gratuitously donated to
| the poor and needy, the sum when
reckoned on the aggregate would have
/ have been sunlcient to an ample for.
tune. He was nc politician in the
common acceptation of that term; he
could not 'crook the pregnant hinges
of the knee that thrift might follow
fawning." But he was actively alive
| to the social and economic questions
which affect the prosperity and happi-
ness of the people, the correct adjust
ment and solution of which consti.
tute the highest form of politics. He
was supremely loyal to his friends, and
even at the expense of his own popu-
larity he would enter into combina-
lions to secure their preferment. In
| o&h'SS
was a politician, but he was incapable
of resorting to the ignoble hypocris.
les of the demagog. He had strong.
respect for man, but slight regard for
station. He would exhibit no great
err courtesy in approaching a COVER
nor. than accosting the humblest OF
his acquaintance. Thus his friend
ship extended from the highest to the
l ,1,,.o al q i,,fn an n
classes with equal warmth. He was
no pretender. He never affected viz
tues that he did not eEemplify, and he
never hesitated to express whole
some contempt for those who publish
their piety rather than practice it.
There was measure of eccentric
ity in his nature, but it had its origin
in the stalwart individuality of the
man. He was wholly unfamiliar witt
the superficial conventionalities OF so
ciety, but in his heart of hearts he
was philanthropic. kind, faithful ant
true. And when, the hour of his dis
solution came, when the relentless
messenger with the inverted torcf
beckoned him to depart he did not re
pine, he did not resist, but calml.
folding his wasted hands across hi
faithful breast. he relapsed into tina
dreamless sleep which shall be awak
ened only at the judgment day.
That this memorial be spread up
on the records of the courts, and tina
copy thereof be furnished the fam
lily of the departed.
N E. Kendall,
D. M. Anderson,
]. G. Clarkson,