The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-10

| -. g, s5 A FINE SPEECH.
The speech OF President Turpin. which
was regarded as "a gem OF rhetorlcai
was as We fel Go an unusual thing
Tonight, and to me a pleasing duty is
assigned. The one cause OF regret Is IS tn ne
sek Of ab NIT sn y psrt and IN ns
terms to characterize your merits:
Il is proverb that the people are ;z ul1-
grafe1fTi a sInce aepIs ars or Iii re-
quilted; that lone, years Of carrying care ar,
and grinding toll are soon forgotten.
this be 10 a the RsSs no. e that
It is. however. solaclng reflection that
when the public servant rests from m ms :
Whether aPeal n aeknogwiedged as his works or
not, they remain through years, either In
the shape his skillfui hand ordained; or
are .t tran nsat into countless forms &
though their architects, are UNKNOWN WI;
WORKS DO always toGw yd 1s
and we'll done. The MEMORABLE law OF
logical sequence Is as imnutable as the
lay Of GOD !, Is ,r tine ia rss Of p1an1ed
hands long crumbled into dust in for
gotten graves So do we also rise on
ep hbs Sss q T Pfaefi nge asaa an sf s
chiseI that wrought the Rosetta stone
where are they? But the hitherto i'm
raised and the eye looks down the long
vista of dead centuries. even. towards
the garden Where INNOCENCE walked han na
cool of the day" So the good deeds Of
men live after them in SCIENCE, art, reli--
gion. in war, diplomacy, statescraft. And
municipal aisH lie life as upon more conspicuous
stage, where national concerns are me
theme and the whole people the applaud
80 A POLITICIAN
However cosmopolitan man may be,
descending step nowe eye s me lar my
afeet him. N Is is after all. his home en-
vironments that impinge with most in
sistence upon his every day life; that
veal or woe, j is. therefore. in sense
true, and not n fanciful conceit. that q
Salesman man for the State-may be
viduaI than a politiclal,-a man for the
polis-the city, 1t is in this latter cata-
CORY that you, sir, nave .s,, been or su e,
You are politician. in the chronological
sense, the higher meaning OF the term.
Your career. has removed, to a degree.
has saved It from mud and has cleansed
It of stains; has challenged the appIica-
ton to nunePal life Of TIE same s5aad
morality nor Ii OF rugged and robust honesty
demanded in private dealings, For the city
e your adopsaa s yoI o haze th9n5Ht
w
FOR her YOU have striven. with "a zeal
n ment Of your PERSONAL interests and the
Impairment of your health. Did your
.low-citizens in the language of the
prophet OF old, when he laid aside the
robes Of responsible and exalted office,
'Behold, here ] am; witness against mo
before the Lord, ana before MS Amounted.
have taken? or whom have | defrauded?
Whom have oppressed? or of whose
hand have received any brbe to bind
mine eyes Herewith? and will restore
reply would be that Of the chosen people
Of God to Samuel: Thou haso not de-
hast thou taken ought Of any mans
A DANGEROUS CLASS.
There is IA dangerous class" in every
community; the men with the st!letto
and the bludgeon,, But q more danger
Gus class" exists Not the men OF little
chanic or laboring man, but those az
gressiye business men In easy circum-
stances, who live In stordid. and some-
times contempluous indiTerence to their
etys goYearnameha aa 20 t cnia 20 ey
sasa to o public matters, the summer 100
hot, and all times TOO announcement. TO
this Justly characterized Dangerous
class" YOU. SO eonsspi ss amongst sour
ing example, not to emulate which may
refard the city's growth. tarnlsh her fair
Fame. and win certainly redown to their
discredlt No citizen H. too 90 able too pure,
toe exalted e sef AZ arse With
nave 9 been weighed Il, the balances and
not found wanting We, your coll
leagues superaduea 70 Ma ,o'si possd sSs