The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-12-21

Orr eyes fill with tears and our
hands tremble with emotion as we
take up our pen to write OF bully old
Dave Henderson, one of the brave and
picturesque characters of modern
American politics.
Bully is not an elegant word but it
leaped instinctively from our pen
point when We thought Of Iowa's
grand old man now lying swathed in
hot blankets by loving brother in a
vain endeavor to delay the approach of
the Pale Boatman who is impatiently
waiting to row him across the river to
the land of the unseen and unknow-
able. There is not another word in
the extensive vocabulary of the fertile
English tongue that so we'll describes
the life andcharacterl of the gallant
soldier, the skillful political leader
and the always true friend as the word
bully for he was bully good fellow.
And as we think OF him bedridden
and helpless, his magnificent physical
powers Slapped by disease, his brill
iantly keen intellect dulled by pain,
his generous impulses paralyzed by
the stupor of fast approaching death,
to our lips unbidden comes prayer
for his speedy restoration to health
and strength and if that cannot be
granted that the end may come
and come quickly for we know that
would be his wish if his wishes could
be granted.
E.fid Brenner Henderson was born
in Scotland and came to Iowa in his
early youth. His early life. was
marked with the privations and hard
ships common to the frontier, but
with unfaltering courage, and a
joyous exuberence of spirits that no
hardship could dampen he met them
all, and conquered them all, and just
as life was spreading out fair and
rosy before him the war clouds
gathered over the souther horizon and
he sacrificed his Frightening pro-
spects, cast private advantage to the
winds, and went to the front to defend
the land of his adoption. 1t was
enough for him to know that helpless
people were calling for succor that
wrong was rampant and right
Respondent to arouse that desire
that reigned supreme and para
mount within his bosom all his
life to aid the weak and oppressed to
stir him to action regardless of the
effect of that action on himself. Right
bravely he served his country and
came home manned cripple as a
result of such service, yet the only
regret he ever expressed for loss OF
limb was a regret that it limited his
capacity to serve his country on the
battle field.
After his return from the front he
devoted his energies to the study of
law, and was admitted to practice and
was rapidly making a name for him
self as one of IOwa's foremost
practitioners when he was elected to
congress where he served for many
years, and where he soon sprang into
prominence as q leader. General
Henderson is not great man but he
is true man. During the last four
years of his congressional career he
served as Speaker of the House. In
this position he was not regarded as
a success. He was unfortunate in the
fact that he Immediately followed the
greatest presiding officer this or any
other country ever produced-Hon.
Thomas B. Reed, and he suffered by
the comparison. Yet when we
measure him by the standard of
speakers other than Reed, he was far
above the average. He was an
eloquent and impassioned orator.
When he believed thing he believed
it with all the intesity of his earnest
Scotch ancestors and he urged it with
a vehemence that usually carried
everything before it.
He was strong republican partisan
and in his political career and
political addresses he was singing
and sarcastic but outside of this he
was the personiication of geniality.
1t was at the banquet board when the
cigars were passed, and the wine went
round that he was at his best. The
writer has listened to what are known