The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-10
DELIVERED AT THE POLITICAL.
FUNERAL OF c. N. HASKELL.
BY COL. STIlWELl \. RUSSELL
Friday Night. June 2. in Opera House
at Political Speaking Held
In Honor Of Lee Cruee OF
This City.

from Col. Stilwell II. Russells Has.
kell funeral Grafton, delivered in this
city Friday night TO one OF the largest
Democratic gatherings ever assem-
bled In Ardmore to listen to a |
speaker.
THE Sth OF June. my people will
mark the defeat of thousands who In |
vain called upon the people in con
hdence for their suffrage, but among |
all the defeated. there will be one
G. y. Haskell-and as We dump him in |
the hole of depravity the remains of
that 'Bos,' who will sink into merited
oblivion to the tune OF the Rogue's
March and the tax dodgers requiem"
whose slanderous tongue and pen
have written just and ignominous
defeat. In the rotten earth. in the
potter's field Of political poverty. we
must view his remains, and IL Is not
difficult TO hear the groans of his once
allies.
We will honor the remains with the
central place among the paupers in
honor, as well as the paupers in
purse, and unless the 'absolution' of
Bro. Doyle. aided by the tears of Bro
VI
they will stay until -.encdict Arnold
shall have become tired of the associa-
tion.
"The Boss viii repose, shadowed
by departed glory. wmle the features
are haggard and drawn and the eyes
cunningly roll. they are sufficiently
lifelike 10 haunt the memories uf the
just. While not az handsome as when
they represented the constitution, or
as glossy as when buttoned to the
breasts uf his cohorts and thrilled
them with the promises of spoils, yet,
my countrymen, the remains before
rs are those of the Boss attired In
the garb of an everlasting and dis
graceful political retirement and are
no longer the constitution. on, what
fall, my countrymen.
stripped of power of glory, OF
prestige and control. while but yester-
day a ranting blusterer and none so
poor To do him reverence. Mark well
that scene, ponder well the conse-
quences of a stormy life, a life that
shocked the public conscience and
threatened the political serenity OF
his party. and but alas, scOtched in
bitter grief let us speak of its taking
off. II came to a timely end from a
surfeit OF an unholy ambition. pressed
on by a selfish and obdurate dispOsi'
tion. 1t was a fussy and pestiferous
creature. II exaggerated the power
of gall and forgot the power OF mod
| esty. 1t forgot the power OF self-abro-
cation and exalted the force OF sell
| fishness. II was dominant with self
confidence and intolerate with oppo-
| sition. II teIOrized its sycophants and
| ostracised its rivals. Its adherents
were morally afraid and physically
| timid. for II sat like Colossus
astride of their ambitions and made
| them subservient to its will.
But IL has gone to rest under an
| Upas tree. grown from fallen ambi'
| ton In life it was a partial represen-
| tation OF a man and so good as to
be Just tu himself. 4 phildnthropist
that was generous with himself a
| hero proud of himself, and yet so sus-
| picious that he doubted himself
so winding and III shapen in NOR
| ality and political insincerity as 10
rest without cramping in a circle.
It's. policies in life We're unusually
singular. 1t pretented 10 war against
vice and yet quarreled with virtue. 1t
! was against graft and yet II fatten-
| ed upon greed. II denounced the
| week and feared the stroi-g. IL was
| against corporations except those oi
his own, and yet 1t organized them
! for others. II. opposed railroads, but
| promoted them. 1t opposed trusts
| but profited by them, Railroad passes
a crime in others but virtue with
II. 1t professed faith in party 10y
atty and discipline, yet refused the
nomination of a weak democracy, 10
profit as an independent.
| 1T would not feed the treasury OF
It's party, yet ith gold oiled the negro
and hoodooed him to its rescue. Elec
ted as an independent and forgetting
its mongrel rise 10 power, 1t disrob
ed in the household Of the democratic
party and in the name of Thomas JEFF
ferson it was baptized in the faith
| turning upon all of It's recent friends
except old Jim Crow. it lashed 9S Loyal
democrats into making constitution
that It modestly christened c. \. Has
kell In life IL walked among the good
people, Jointly debating with its San
cho Panza and the man Friday as It's
sponsor.
But my countrymen, this corpse
must be put away, II no lonser en-
dangers the political safety nf h" nco
pie of It's erstwhile faith by Fo!lu
tion. II any object lesson can be drawn
from such life 1t is in the suggestion
that It's practices and habits tested the
political fidelity Of eyory demo ,ra'
and II II stoops to others similar eX
amples of III doing, then all is well,
At that funeral is seen the tall syca
more of the Washita as the embodi
ment of manhood's integrity and po
litlcal consistency. and the representa-
tive Of l25000 democrats who thunder
ed their acclaim for him. He views
the scene and can in commisseratior
exclaim Haskell, Haskell, had yOl
but served your party and the people
with half the zeal you have seryeC