Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-09-14
dead jURlS.~ PRAISED BEFORE
sUPREME COURT.
LIFE DETAILS RECORDED
Former Chief Justice and Associate
L.ember of Wisconsin's Highest
tribunal the Distinguished Subjects
CO Solemn Notwithstanding Re-
spcnae by Justice Winslow.
Madison. Sept. S.

Inc late CUlGL JUSTICE OlSduluS
Cole and Associate Justice c. V. Bar
deem were eulogized yesterday after
noon before the supreme court and the
tributes and estimates of the dead
jurists, both of whom have died within
the present year, will be made a part
of the permanent record of the court.
Gen. +. C. Winlzler of Milwaukee pre-
sented the memorial Of the Milwaukee
Bar association on the death of Judge
Cole. Henry NJ. Lewis of Madison also
spoke on Judge Cole and the response
from the bench was made by CHIEF
Justice Cassoday. 1t was Judge Cole
who admitted Judge Cassoday to prac-
tice before the Wisconsin bar and the
present chief justice was an associate
for IL years with the one whose mem
DRY was being recalled.
Circuit Judge w. c. p. SilverthOrne
presented the memorial of Justice Bar
deem for the bar of the sixteenth cir
cult and the response from the bench
was made by Associate Justice Wins
low. Marvin ROsenbury and Neal
Brown of Wausau, and Burr W. Jones
of Madison also delivered biOgraph-
ical and eulogistic remarks. A number
of prominent attorneys from around
the state were present at the cere-
monies. The response of Justice Wins
low, in reference to Judge BaTdeen,
was as follows:
Justice WinsIow's Tribute.
Il have been commissioned by my
brethren to make reply on behalf OF
the bench to the words so fifty spok-
en- by the bar. 1t is by no means an
easy task. So close were my person
al relations to Judge Bardeen, so free
and loving our intercourse, so high
my regard for his worth, that when
come to speak of him as he deserves
to be spoken of my heart swells with
emotion and my eyes are dimmed
with unbidden tears. I cannot yet
realize that he is really gone. Invol-
unfairly l turn to meet that manly
form and gaze into those expressive
eyes in whose calm depths was no
shade of insincerity, only to feel my
loss anew.
These proceedings close the Off
cial record of his mortal life. 1t was
rot a long life if measured by years
When it closed his powers were at
their best, the sun was still at the
meridian; the shadows had not yet
begun to lengthen to the eastward,
yet it was in every true sense a long
er life than many which have long
passed the three score years and ten
of holy writ. 1t had been crowded
with earnest and conscientious labor;
duties had been bravely met and
faithfully performed; it shone with
the bright radiance of worthy deeds.
In this sense it was a long life; in
this sense it was complete.
II feel that l knew him well. We
first met in early manhood when
hopes were high and life was all be
fore us. For years I watched his
course as he made his way steadily
and laboriously to professional emf
nence; for five years never to be for
gotten by me we sat together on this
bench in that close relationship than
which few can be closer, we confided
personal cares and perplexities each
to the other as only close friends can
do, and l think l can truly say that
there was never during all this time
any rift in our friendship nor any
lessening of our mutual confidence.
From this vantage ground of init
mate personal acquaintance I would
speak without conscious exaggeratiOn
of the qualities of the man as they
were revealed to me. And first let
me speak of the simplicity and trans
parent honesty of his character. No
character can be entirely admirable
or wholly great which lacks these
qualities and they we're present in
the deceased to a marked degree. Un-
affected and approachable as a child,
neither social nor official position
moved him and the superciliousness
of mere wealth excited only his con-
tempt. The humblest citizen could
approach him with the certainty Of
receiving appreciation and respectful
consideration. He detested sham and
pretense; trickery and chicanery
aroused in him a righteous anger.
Bluntly honest himself, he demanded
honesty in others.
His intellect was honest as well
as his heart. When after due consiG-
Grafton his mind assured him of the
correctness of a proposition he &C
Cepted the result, unwelcome though
it might be, and scOrned any attempt
to avoid it by doubtful reasoning or.
sOphistical argument. Such a man
was necessarily absolutely reliable Il
do not believe there is anyone who
can justly say that Judge Bardeen
was ever guilty of double dealing.
He did not promise one thing and DO
another, nor did he say one thing to