The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-10

George A, Custer will be remembered
at Monroe, Michigan, by beautiful
statue.
In September the great Mckinley
memorial AT Canton viii he dedicated
Dy President Roosevelt The monu-
ment TO Mckinley in Buffalo is one of
remarkable beauty. President Roosc
vet also Will deliver .hr principal
speech at The unvcilng If the monu-
ment to General Henry W. Lawton in
indianapolis on May 80. General Law
ton was killed in the Philippines.
North Carolina has already erected a
statue of Worth Bagley, the only
naval officer who lost his life in the
conflict with Spain.
Monuments TO statesmen who did not
reach the coveted goal of the White
House arc many Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster and John c. Calhoun arc re-
memberod IL many cities in tho re.
spcctive pats Of the Union. Thomas
Il. Feed is 10 have monument nj
Portland Maine. Seattle is TO puild
whom New York honorcd with a bronze
statue many years ago. Alexander
Hamilton, Horace Greeley. Henry ".
Grady, Rs sscoe Conkling and many 9th
ers arc similar instances.
OF the Prcsidents-after Washing
ton, Lincolu-Grant and Jackson have
been honorcd with public monuments
more often than any of tho others
There are a few of the Presidents of
whom no likeness is preserved in mar
bile or bronze, which is the only Parti
cular in which the Office of the vice
president is moro notable than that of
the chief executive, There is d marble
bust Of every Yicc-prcsident of the
United States around the gallery of the
Senate chamber, this being the Amcri-
can exception TO tho American rule
which almost forbids such houors TO
T.. Stevenson may walk in any day and
look at themselves III marble, and the
/ bust of Theodore Roosevelt will soon
be added TO the collection.
Authors and poets have not been for
| gotten. LongfcIlow is TO be honorcd
/ by bronze statue in Washington.
Richmond, Virginia, has appropriated
money TO build monument TO Edgar
| Allen Poe. Washington Irving is me.
morializcd in bronze in Bryant Square,
! New York. The metropolis also has
monuments to many writer's not Amer-
cans. including Shakespeare, Cervantes.
| Burns, Walter Scott, Heine, Schiller,
! Thomas Moore; and to composers, Bee
! thoven and Verdi.
| As so many foreign countries have
houorcd our Washington. 1T is fitting
that there are monuments III America
! Ia Simon Bolivar, the South American
! libcrator; TO Garbaldi. and of course,
| TO our allies of the Revolution. Lafa-
yettc, Pulaski, Rochambcau and the
others, The spies VINO died on the gal
! lows arc mcmorialiZcd in bronze,
Nathan Hale, executed by the British
at Now York; and Sam Davis. executed
! by the Fedcrals at Pulaski, Tennessee.
In the South there appears to be a
! growing appreciation of what the rail
roads and great railroad men have
done for the development of the coun-
/ try. Employees Of the Southern railway
are TO erect a monument to the late
! Samuel Spencer, president of that road,
in Atlanta. In Nashville. monuments
will soon he unveiled to the memories
of Colonel ,Ierre Baxter, president of the
/ Tennessee Central railroad and to Ma
! ior John W. Thomas. late president of
/ the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
/ Louis railroad.
There arc but few of the monu-
mcnts now being built. Others that
may he mentioned are those TO General
/ 81, Claire. the first territorial governor
| of Ohio: 20 Carl SchurZ in New York.
! 10 Nelson Dewey, the Grst governor of
| Wisconsin at Lancaster, Wisconsin,; TO
/ tho late Senator James Mcmillan in
! Michigan: and so on. No list of the
monuments in the United States has
been compiled. II would he much
longer than the average careless citi-
zen would think if 1t could be made up.
! 1t would also furnish a universal sur
prise in that it would disclose that
/ there have been more monuments erect
Cd in Washington 10 defeated and un.
. successful aspirants TO the presidency
;han have been put up TO honor men
who have been President. There are
monuments in Washington 10 Washing.
ton, Lincoln Jackson and Garfield
who were presidents. There are monu-
mcnts TO George b. Mcclellan. Winfield
Scott, and Winfield Scott Hancock. who
were defeated candidates for that high
office. and TO Daniel Webster and Gen
oral John \. Logan. who were credited
. with the ambition to become the chief
magistrate of the land.
The State OF Minnesota will be the
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