The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-05-26
'ndiana's Distinguished Senators
Pay Eloquent
Tribute.
DEAD LEADER OF REPUBLIcANIsM
Senator Beverage Said Of Him That
He Was a Doer of Real Things
Whose Work Will Long Linger After
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
late Senator Hanna were those deliv-
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 Beverage in per-
son, and said that during twenty-seven
years observation in the senate he
had never known anything so well de-
livered. The Junior Indiana Senator
spoke without manuscript, in a well
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 Beveridge said: "Mr. Presi-
dent, since to all earthly work an end
must come, our words of farewell to a
fellow-workman should not alone be
those of grief that mans common lot
has come to him; but of pride and joy
that his task has been done worthily.
into their hour that, for the moment,
1t 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-
tion 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 compels.
With his whole strength he did his
work from boyhood to the place of
poured it into discharge of duty, keep
ing with nature no account of heart
beats.
A Doer of Real Things.
1.-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 we'll as their applause. And
affection is worth more than applause.
There is no greater glory than this
to make nation your friend. Senator
Hanna did that For, when the angel
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 that
he had gone away.
This human quality in him made all
he did living thing, all he said
living word. He was the. man of
affairs in craftsmanship; yet his per-
sonality gave to propositions of mere
national business something of the
warmth and vitality of principles. He
was the personification of our CONNER
cial age-the age of building, planting,
reaping; of ships on ocean and on land
steel highways and the rolling wheels
OF trade; Of that movement of the
times which knits together with some
thing more than verbal ties all the
children Of men. weaves tangible civil