The La Jara chronicle., 1905-03-31
MEM MORTAL SERVICES
FOR EX-SENATOR E. o. woLcoTT.
Immense Gathering in Broadway The
ater at Oenver-Addresses by Emil
ment Citizens of Colorado.

Denver. Colo. March 27-Colorado
mourned the death OF Senator Edward
o. Wolcott yesterday Memorial SER
vices were held in the Broadway the
| ater in the afternoon and thousands
of citizens crowded and filed the
building until there was no longer
standing room.
Many members of the Legislature
were present. The first five rows of
seats had been put aside for the use of
them and their families and they were
all taken. Governor Mcdonald and the
state officials, with their assistants.
filled the boxes on the right side of
the house. Henry Wolcott and Anna
| l.. Wolcott, brother and sister of Sen
ator Wolcott, and their friends were in
the boxes on the left side. With them
were the families of Joel F. Vale and
| w. G. Waterman, the law partners of
Mr.. Wolcott.
The memorial services were held un-
| der the auspices of the Colorado Re
| publican Club, of which John w.
Springer is president. But it was
more than memorial services held in
memory of a Republican by Repub
licans.
Senator Wolcott was a Republican
| leader. and it was deemed fitting that
Republicans should take charge OF the
/ SSi'ittS. Dul IL WAS the people inc
state who mourned, and they mourned
not that Republican leader had
| gone, but that a great Coloradan had
| died.
| After the invocation by Rev. Frank
T. Bayley. the double quartet and the
audience sang Christ for the World"
written by Samuel Wolcott, the father
of Senator Wolcott.
Justice John Campbell of. the Su-
preme Court then delivered an ad
dress on Senator Wolcott as "The
| Citizen" Among other things he
said:
When the people of Colorado. by
| their chosen representatives, twice
| elected to the United States Senate
Edward Oliver Wolcott they honored
! themselves quite as much as they did
| him. That he was not continuously
kept there must not be interpreted as
lack of appreciation by his constitu
ents, or that he had not faithfully
represented their interests. For all
concede that with distinguished abi-
ity and rare fidelity he discharged the
| duties and maintained the dignity of
| his high Office
After a solo. Zone Sweetly Solemn
Thought" by Mrs. w. j. Whiteman,
| Hon. Joel F. Vale spoke of Senator
He told of the dead senator's career
at the bar; of his unimpeachable in
\ tegrity; of his brilliancy ard, wondsr-.
| full oratorical powers, and read selec-
ions from his speeches.
Hon. A. M. Stevenson spoke on Mr.
Wolcott as THE Statesman" He
said:
when the great Alexander Hamil
ton was Secretary of the treasury,
| Oliver Wolcott was comptroller of the
| treasury. In 1895. when Alexander
Hamilton left his high office. Oliver
Wolcott succeeded him. 1t was on the
strong arm of this member of the fam
lily that Washington leaned for sup
| port. Senator Wolcott was Oliver
Wolcott's kinsman.
He was the peer of any senator in
the United States. His friends and
intimates at Washington were the best
and greatest of our statemen. When
he addressed the Senate every men,
Der was in his seat and the public gal
leries and those of the diplomatic
corps and of official Washington were
always filled.
He went to Washington thoroughly
imbued with the ideas and sentiments
of the people of the West. and espe-
cially those of his own state. upon
economic questions, and at once be-
came leader, both in counsel and
debate, upon all subjects connected
with the monetary system of his coun-
try. He believed then that the free
and unrestricted coinage of silver by
the Independent action Of the United
States was possible.
He soon learned that the contest
had been carried on so long and the
opposition to silver had become so
OF that tho nnpo 90 nf
American silver was an impossibility,
but he still refused to uncondition-
ally surrender, and almost single
handed and alone he persuaded Pres
ident Mckinley during his first admin
istration to appoint a monetary COM
mission to visit the leading nations of
Europe and try If possible to agree
upon the relative value between gold
and silver as money. with free mint
age at a common ratio. President Nc
Kinley appointed him as head of the
American commission.
THE commission went abroad and
met the representatives of England
and France. and had encouraging
words from Germany.
Il candidly believe that had these
efforts had behind them the loyal sup
port of the bimetallists of this and
other countries an agreement would
have been reached of incalculable ben
eft to the people of Colorado.
"He was a manly man. He hated
shams s2d fought in the open. He was
a loyal friend, and has left us legacy
of kind and generous deeds.
Mr.. Springer, as president of the
club. delivered the In Memoriam."
He said:
His scholastic attainments. his in
trepid and fearless courage, his lofty
patriotism, coupled with an irresti-
BILE personality, supplemented by his
bewitching oratorical ability, made
him the peer of any man during that
senatorial period. and Colorado be-
came famous as Edward Oliver VOL
colt went up and down the land. sway
ing tens OF thousands with his match
less powers of oratory and brilliancy
of diplomatic address. Out of the
West had burst a meteoric personality
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