Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-23
COUSINS ON RUMBLE.
Fifth District Congressman Eulosizes
His Dead Colleague.

Special to Tlmes-RcpupHeaH.
Washington, Feb. 23.--At the memo
rial exercises in the house of repre-
sentatives Sunday afternoon Congress
man Cousins spoke of his colleague
John NJ W. Rumple, as follows:
Mr.. Speaker: 1t SEEMS as tho death
delights in violating and in breking the
conventional terms and periods estab-
lished by governments and men. If
John N. w. Rumple had lived until one
week from Thursday next he would be
exactly 81 years of age. But the most
dreadful of all diseases would not
grant truce even for single month.
Birth, which sometimes seems
agreeable to the institutions and estab-
lishments of mankind, mad brought into
our needy world this noble soul exactiN
sixty years before his congressional
term began, March 4, 1901. If i mis-
take not his was the sixteenth removal
BY death from the Fifty-seventh con-
gress, the greatest mortality rate IN the
last decade of congress. and, for aught
know, in the history Of congresses
about 3i2 per cent.
But fractions in mortality amount
to little, except to actuaries. since all
rot so much about the days and years,
hut about the character and loss of this
useful man.
Like hundreds of our citizens of
Iowa, he came from the Buckeye state
"a tralsplating which was always
sympathetic. Like the majority OF our
young men, he sought a thorough edu-
cation at our institutions, and like
thousands of others, When the awful
storm arose, 'wrenching ths rafters
from their ancient hold, he went forth
lin battle for the nation and stayed
there until the scattered stars of states
were brought again into the constella-
ton of the union. He earned the rank
Of captain in the famous Second cav
airy of Iowa in such battles as Island
No. 10, siege of Corinth and Rienzi;
charges at Pennington, Iuka, Corintl.
Franklin, Columbia and Nashville and
many others.
Like most good soldiers, he became
:, model citizen. The jar of war usually
awakens reason and notifies the pref
udice of men. Whoever has experienced
great danger, either to his country or
to himself, naturally becomes coun-.
sellor for safety and conservator of
peace. He is likewise firm in the face
OF fraud and buster. for he knows the
limitations of those who have not felt
hardship and who have not faced death.
Like hundreds and thousands of 9TH
ers who came out of the awful storm OF
the early sixties, Captain Rumple' be-
came useful and influential factor in
the community and state. His tenden.
.stt~ >1rt,1 sv, ttNa
long run. He builded for the future
without swerving to sensation or sacri-
ficing his convictions. He became
prominent at the bar and in the legisla-
ton of our state, likewise as a regent
of our university and in the State His
torical Society, meanwhile giving his
good counsel in matters of municipal
and educational affairs at home. He
served with honor and fidelity in the
Fifty-seventh congress nearly to its
end, which we are now approaching.
ms.
Just in the prime of life, when ma
turity, sharpened and well tempered by
experience, with all the joys and sor-
rows of a vigorous career. with conflict
and with hardship, with love and labor
and success. that sable figure of the
night. which fits but once across the
path of man. and always once, far out
along his straight and noble path, I'M
masked and unrelenting, stood plainly
there before him. AS steady and UNI
falteringly as ever warrior went to
meet foe, as humbly and resignedly as
Il good man ever met his God, this SOL
der citizen, this friend, this man
went on