Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-01

ohio Day" at the Pan-American Elk.
position in Buffalo Mr.. Tompkins is
famous as an orator in Ohio. He is.
besides being a brilliant speaker, an
able lawyer and so popular at home
that he received many Democratic
votes which belonged of party right
TO Mr.. Lentz. Mr.. Tompkins won by
eight votes in a Democratic district
and defeated the best fighting Demo.
0vat in the last Congress. The writer
and Mr.. Tompkins have been friends
score OF years, but nevertheless, we
regret the defeat Of Mr.. Lentz. How.
ever, there is compensation in every
thing-eVen In politics-and we find
considerable consolation in the fact
that II we were permitted or forced to
select Mr.. Lentz' Republican successor
our choice would fall on the eloquent
Tompkins. He will occupy the seat in
the House once filled by his honored
father and it can be said Of Emmett
what can not, we regret to state. be
recorded Of few other sons Of distin-
guished sires, and that is, "He is a
chip of the old block" In more ele-
giant phraseology we must place it to
his credit that he has not degenerated
but keeps up the sire's reputation for
ability, forsenic and otherwise. That
he is proud Of his native State may
be inferred from the following extract
from his "Ohio Day" address:
"Ohio has sent her sons to every bat
tleheld where the liberty Of men or
the relief Of the oppressed was at is
sue. In the great Civil War where
liberty and the Union were at stake,
she sent 310,654 volunteers to the front.
These brave sons we're at Gettysburg,
Vicksburg, the March to the Sea, at
Nashville, at Chattanooga, and at every
spot where the Stars and Stripes hut-
tered and the cannon thundered. And
under countless heaps Of earth, all over
the land of the South, by the side Of
the waving pine beneath the noun
tain's frowning top at the Tiffled brook,
by the lily-covered pond, they are sleep
ing on and on waiting for the final
trump which shall marshall them for
the grand review before the throne on
high.
What State in that mighty struggle
equalled her in the commanders fur
nished? Grant, Sherman Sheridan.
Mcpherson and the McCooksl Where
can their peers be found? The very
sounding OF their names starts the war
spirit and urges us to victorious COM
bat. Their fame will live as long
as men inhabit the earth, and their
praises will be spoken wherever ton
gues articulate.
In the late war with Spain, where
the relief Of the oppressed was all we
sought, Ohio paid her full share. Ten
regiments marched forth from the
farm the shop, the store, and the Of
fee. Some we're at Porto Rico, some
at Santiago and the others chatting un-
der the restraints Of the camp, were
all anxious to fire a shot. The first
fully equipped and ready for battle
volunteer regiment in the United
States to reach the camp Of mobiliza.
tion was the First Ohio Volunteer In
fantry, which pitched its tents at
Chickamauga.
Not in war alone has Ohio acquired
fame and honor. Her sons have left
their deep impress in all the higher
walks; in oratory craftsmanship, f.
nance, at the bar, in the pulpit, and in
art and letters. Who could surpass the
versatile and persuasive Corwin, the
scholarly and magnetic Garfield, the
rugged and convincing Wade the edi-
flying and classic Cox, when listening
Thousands, rapt and eager, brSlSe into
echoing applause2 Whence came wiser
statesmen than Harrison, Hayes, Stan
ton and Brough; greater flnanciers
than Chase Sherman and the Rookie
fellers; greater lawyers than Peter
Hitchcock the elder Ewing Rufus p
Ranney, Matthews, Swayne and Waite
and greater preachers than Ames and
Simpson? In the Presidential chair
Ohio has placed the two Harrisons
Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Mckinley;
in the Cabinet, Megs, Mclean, Corwin,
Stanberry Ewing, Taft, Dennison,
Stanton, Chase, Sherman, Foster, Day.
Hay, Delano, and Cox; on the Supreme
bench OF the United States, Chief JUS
tices Chase and Waite, and Associate
Justices Swayne and Matthews, distin-
guished all, To art she gave Powers
and his chisel, and to letters, Howells
and Reid"
His concluding peoration is indica-
tive Of the man himself and his legiti-
nate ambltlon
"The mind leaps the intervening
years since the smoke of the lonely
firs curled through the gloomy forest
and pauses to contemplate the won
drous work Of time and it's generations
of men, We proudly ponder over what
las been accomplished and from the
noble fabrics now erected catch hope
and inspiration. Let us go on waxing
stronger, richer and better; and here
and now dedicates our lives and aspira-
tiols to the purpose OF filling the years
to come with achievements still great
er than those which glorify the pres
ent."
fhe extracts quoted will give our
readers but an inadequate idea OF the
eloquence OF Mr.. Thompkins when at
his best. And he will be at his best
on the floor Of the House. Grosvenor
and fathers OF his ilk" will take a
back seat and confne themselves to
statistics and typewritten eulogies Of
"Oily William" At a pereiod Of our
life, which we heartily regret, we were
taken up and almost entirely consumed
with the question OF Protection to
American Industries. Il was purely an
English-Irish question with us, and our
experience Of the result Of the union
between Great Britain and ireland, in
which the latter country got decidedly
the short end Of the bargain, mainly
through free trade, which the greater
nation established, thus running the
Siieh manufacturing Industries, Of
England reaped all the beneft.
q protection OF high tariff
Of the Randall school. Il !
this temporary alteration |
earned the following very
otfoa from offr friend Mr. /