Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-22

firm name OF Haines & Lyman has
known no change.
From the time young Haines set foot
in Grinrse NELL to the day of his death,
didn't pay. promptly at maturity.
He rear I'd a family of six children,
and five CT tn EN- are graduates of the
college th,H conferred on their father
his A. B. and A. Nj. and the sixth child,
q son. is new q member of the class of
1908.
In many ways TIaines was a remark
able man. He possessed a wonderful
memory, and a great faculty for de-
tails. He WAS an intense worker, and
all he did. he did thoroughly and well.
He exeelled in the classics, and earned
his expenses as law student by teach
ing Greek.
During the du IL hours of a dull court,
it was Haines' pleasure to chat with
the younger members of the profession,
and his remini SCIENCES often carried
him back to his boyhood school days.
Every incident came back to him with
wonderful c1earness, and it was a real
pleasure to hear him recite the old, old
poems of child hood with perfect rhe-
torial rythm, and infection word for
word as they appeared in the old school
readers fifty years ago. His aspirations
were always high, his thought pure and
his motives good.
In after life when he applied him
| self to the study of public questions,
such as finance, taxation and tariff,
his work was characterized by the
same thoroughness, and his mastery of
details astcnisheG those who listened
| to him.
In the memorable campaigns, when
| the country had gone crazy over what
was known as "Greenbackism,' Haines
| was, by all odds, the clearest and most
| convincing talker on the rostrum. He
never took to fads, and the modern
crazes always found in him most
merciless dissector. Then he went to
| the state senate, and after most bril-
| liant career in that body, alienated
| many of his old time friends and adj
| mirers. BY his strenuous opposition to
| the famous amendment to the consti-
tuition prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of Intoxicating liquors. Altho a
| tetotaler himself, and a lifelong pro-
| hibitionist, he maintained that the or
ganic law of the land was no place for
| a police regulation, and that it was flu
tile. AS a lawyer he could not tolerate
such trifiing with the constitution, and
as a law maker he knew that it would
| be absolutely unavailing. In the MEM
/ orable tariff campaigns, he followed
his conscience, and became an active
opponent of protection, and supported
| Cleveland. He was always an adyo-
| cate of civil service reform and would
| tolerate no trifling.
| Often his name has been mentioned
in connection with high honors, but the
| .littlen men who could see nothing In
Haines' courageous course but apos-
tasy. were always numerous enough to
defeat-not his aspirations-but the
aspira lions of his friends. 1t may be
truly said that Haines regarded po-
litical honors as empty honors. he
was ambitious, very ambitious, to rise
| In his profession, and would nave
gladly accepted any opportunity to
reach the bench, or the position OF
dean of the law school. His election
1 last summer as president OF the bar
/ Association of Iowa, pleased MIN
/ much. 1t was a tardy recognition OIL
/ his worth, brought about by ms mas
ter,y address on taxation.
/ His delight was in conscientious ana
i thorough work, and in his home. III
1 this respect no man was happier early
lin the morning he was at his desk, but
Ionly because duty and instinct called
him to work. When his days work
was done he could be found at MS
home. always at home, the dearest spot
To him on earth. His life was orderly
land upright, and clean as it falls to
the lot of man to be. He was opposed
to mems clubs, because they took men
from home. He enjoyed social inter-
course only when he could converse.
Games and innocent fun that rest tired
men. did not appeal to him. This was
his misfortune, and his comparatively
few years, is due to the intense way In
which he lived and worked. His early
Puritan training and the necessary self
ldenial of his early life, made him some
what intolerant OF men whose lives
were not ordered his way. He was
strong advocate of athletics, but only
because he believed it developed the
physical man.
Outside of his home and family his
great love was for Iowa College, next
the church, and then the upbuilding OF
, his town. For many years TRUSTEES
of the college, he gave Of his time and
substance all he had to give. After q
hard day in court, or ten hours work
in his office, he often sat with the
trustees far into the night, working
!. and planning for the college. AS 2