Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-03-16
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estimated. public opinion rating it as
high as 81 .000. 900. Those who are best
Informed about the ex-president's ar
fairs, however. say he was worth about
$3.50. 900 or 100000. AT the time he
was elected president he was repnted
to have accumulated a fortune of $685.
900 from his law practice, and this has
been doubled at least since that time.
OF late his practice. owing to his great
reputation as a constitutional lawyer.
was very lucrative. His fee in the
Venezuelan boundary dispute, in which
he represented the South American re-
public. was 500. 900.
The following tribute to the memory
of Gen. Harrison Is from the pen of
e~x-Attorney General William fl. Fl.
Miller. who was closely associated with
the late ex-president In his official. pro-
f~essional and social life:
IEx-Attorney General Miller's Tribute
Gen. Harrison was a man of the
highest intellectually, of great will
power, of tireless industry, with a
genius for details, and all his faculties
were under the guidance of a COM
science that never slept. He believed
in the right as a ruling principle
among nations, in craftsmanship and In
politics, no less than in business and
private life. He recognized the neces-
sity and usefulness II political parties,
but as means to an end, not as the end
in themselves. Hence, in his admins
tration as president the first consider
alton was the country: the Republican
party was a consideration, but 1t was
because he believed in policies most
helpful to the country. In the distri-
button of patronage, for instance, the
first, the essential thing, was fitness.
Without this qualification no appoint
ment was knowingly made. Legitimate
party service, while not lightly es-
teemed, was secondary. AS to federal
judges, of whom he appointed nearly
so, he was won't to say that they were
no mans patronage; that they would
continue in the service of the country
longer than presidents or senators.
"He bowed to the limitations of the
constitution and the laws binding alike
upon president and citizen. He respect
ed the bounds of the three great de-
partments of the government, and nei-
Their sought undue influence in on
gress and The judiciary nor suffered
such undue influence to be exercised
NY lucIl al tEE tACCutlfC utPpiLiiicut
II believe that Gen. Harrison's
greatest service to the country as presi-
dent, when impartial history comes to
be written, will be found In its illustra-
ton of these high principles.
"Of what Gen. Harrison was to me
as a friend, a neighbor and associate
for nearly 80 years, ] have neither the
words nor the heart now to speak"
- -
Philadelphia, March 14.-John Wan
amaker. who was postmaster general
during President Harrison's adrsinis-
t~ration. said last night: Ben
jamin Harrison will ever stand
as a rare type Of American character.
In the combination 0f Gifts NJ pos
than any other American statesman.
Never false himself. he was the implac-
able foe Of falsity in others. He had d
great soul and loved his country. TAX
ing together his soldier, senatorial and
presidential record, BENJAMIN Harrison
stands in the highest rank of Ameri-
can statesmen"
Ex-presfdent CIeveInnd's Tribute.
Princeton. N. j., March 14.--When
interviewed last night ex-President
Cleveland made the following state
ment on the death of Gen. Harrison:
mot n of our co%untrymen should for
a moment fail to realize the services
which have been performed in their be-
half by the distinguished dead. In high
public office he was guided by patriotism
and devotion to duty. often at the sac
riice of temporary popularity, and In
private station his influence and ex-
ample were always in the direction of
decency and good citizenship"
sketch of IA Distinguished Career.
Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third
President Of the United States, came
of a historic line. Major General Har-
rison, IN English ancestor, bore arms
with Oliver Cromwell, and rose with
him to prominence in the revolution. 1t
fell to his lot to sign the death warrant
of Charles l, and after the restoration
he paid the penalty for this act, being
hanged on Oct. Is, 1860. Benjamin
Harrison, the first descendant of Crom-
wells general who appears in Amer
lean history, was a member of the .Vir-
ginia house of burgesses, later a dele
gate to the colonial congress-, a signer
OF the Declaration of Independence,
three times governor of Virginia, and
a member of the convention that rati-
fed the constitution. His sen was
Gen. William Henry Harrison, whose
honorable career as a soldier and
statesman eliminated in his election
TO the presidency in 1910, to be fol-
lowed by his death in the White House
n month after his Inauguration. John
Scott Harrison, the son of President
Harrison, was the father of the subject
of this sketch.
Benjamin Harrison was born at
North Bend. o.. Aug. 20, 1888. He was
educated at the Miami University, from
which he was graduated at the age of
is. After leaving college he studied
law in the Office of Judge Slower, in
Cincinnati, and was admitted to the
bar in 1854. before he had attained his
majority. The next rear he took UP
his residence in Indianapolis, where
he began the practice of his profession.
Young as he was he was already mar
ried, and poor. but he boldly took his
young wife. the daughter of Prof. Scott,
of Miami University. with him to his
poW hnrna oocvr1iuo that n wao nocfnr