The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-18
EULOGY OF HANNA
lndiana's Distinguished Senators
Pay Eloquent
Tribute.
Senators
DEAD LEADER OF REPUBLIcANlsM

Senator Beveridge Said of Him That
. He Was a Doer of Real Things
Whose Work Will Long Linser After
Him-senator Fairbanks Pays the
Tribute of Affectionate Personal
Friendship.
Two of the strongest speeches made
during the memorial exercises recent
ly held in the senate in honor of the
cred by Senators Fairbanks and Bev-
eridge, of this state. Of Senator Bev-
eridge's effort on this occasion a
Washington correspondent says:
Senator Beveridge's eulogy on Sen
ator Hanna was the finest grafton of
the kind heard in the senate chamber
for many years. Senator Teller COM
plimented Senator Beveridge in per-
son, and said that during twenty seven
years observation in the senate he
had never known anything so we'll de-
livered. The junior Indiana Senator
spoke without manuscript, in we'll
modulated voice, and in a way that
thoroughly impressed and thrilled his
auditors. He was the recipient of
many congratulations from correspon-
dents and men in public life"
Senator Beverage said: "Mr. Presi-
dent, since to all earthly work an end
must come our words of farewell to a
oil nrlyY, Oh oil "a
those of grief that mans common lot
has come to him; but of pride and joy
that his task has been done worthily.
Powerful men SO weave themselves
into their hour that, for the moment,
it all but seems the world will stop
when they depart. Yet, it does not
stop or even pause. Undisturbed Time
still wings his endless and unwearied
flight; and the progress of the race
goes on and up toward the light realiz-
ing at every step, more and more of
the true, the beautiful and the good.
$50 it is not important that any of
us should long remain; the Master
Builder lacks not craftsmen to take
our place. But it is important to the
uttermost that while we are here, we
should do our duty to the full perfec-
ton of our powers, fearlessly and
faithfully, with clean hands, and hearts
| ever full of kindness, forbearance and
| charity.
"These are the outline thoughts that
the absence of out friend cOmpeis.
With his whole strength he did his
work from boyhood to the place of
| rest. He was no mlser of his life-he
| poured it into discharge of duty, keep
! ing with nature no account of heart
| beats
A Doer of Real Things.
"The things he did were real things
He was the very spirit of the practical
Yet the practical did not kill or even
impair the human in him. He never
lost the gift of lovableness. His sense
of human touch and fellowship was
not dulled, but made more delicate by
time and the world. The years made
him wiser, but they made him mel
lower, too.
And so he won the peoples affec
ton as well as their applause. And
affection is worth more than applause
There is no greater glory than this
to make a nation your friend. Senator
Hanna did that. For, when the ange
of peace, which men call Death, took
our brother to his well-earned rest, the
people knew that a friend had LEFT
them. And the people were sad thai
he had gone away.
"This human quality in him made al
he did a living thing, all he said {
| living word. He was the man O.
affairs in craftsmanship; yet his per
sonality gave to propositions of mere
national business something of The
warmth and vitality of principles. HI
was the personification Of our CONNER
cial age-the age of building, planting
reaping; of ships on ocean and on lane
steel highways and the rolling wheels
of trade; of that movement of thu
times which knits together with some
thing more than verbal ties all thu
children of men, weaves tangible civil
lization around the globe and will, il
time, make of all peoples neighbors
brothers, friends.
THUS he was, unwittingly, no doubt
one Of the agents Of Gods great pur
|
We are all such agents, small or great
If this is not so-if we are not, igno
rantly perhaps and blindly but still
surely, spinning our lives into the Mas
ter's design, whose pattern He alon
can orehend-if we and all thing
are not working together for good
life is blu, a breath exhaled and the
, forever los, our work means less an
is worth lesst than that Of coral insects
which, frorl the depths, build eve
toward the light until islands stan
above tie waves, permanent mont
ments of an intelligent architecture.
What His Conservatism Meant.
work with real things-real eartf