The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-04
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AS my purpose to retire from public
life is, and has been irreyoeaole l am
unwilling to be further considered in con-
nection with an office which could not
in the circumstances accept
"A senator will be chosen for the term
beginning on the 4th of March. 1909. and
there will be and should be. during the
next two years. grave and wide CONSIDER
alton among the people as to the person
upon whom the honor shall be bestowed
After much thought, | deem II TO De my
duty. all things considered to the people
OF the state and to the party TO whose
Partially ! am indebted for the hlghsst
hOnors within its gift. to take myself
now. beyond recall. from the field OF pos
sible choice / am therefore impelied. not
only for the reasons suggested, but also
that / may be free to devote 70 the as
charge of private duty TOO long neglectea
the remainder of my term. to resign the
office at this time. while the legislature
is in session to choose a senator for the
unexpired portion thereof.
4 avail myself OF this opportunity to
say. albeit / am sure il is not needfui
that ] am inexpressibly grateful TO the
Republicans of Wisconsin for the Sener-
Gus and abiding confidence which has led
them three times to elect me TO the hiSh
office OF senator.
Presidents Regrets.
On being informed of Senator Spooner,s
resignation. the president made the 1oi-
lowing statement:
4 cannot sufficiently express my re-
greet at Senator Spooner's resignation
We lose one of the ablest, most efficient,
most fearless and most upright pubic
servants that the nation has had -FOUR
years ago I knew the extreme reluctance
with which Senator Sponer finally con-
scented to serve in the senate. and year
by year since ] have feared he would
resign. as he finally has resigned. for
/ have known every year OF his stay IN
public life has been TO him direct finan-
cial loss. which he could ill afford
understand fully the senator's feeling
that he can not longer stay in the pub
lie service at such cost not only to him
self but also to his family, and
much as I regret his resignation. am
most sincerely grateful that he has been
willing TO serve as long as he has He
has been in his life a gallant soldier. a
trained public servant of the highest
ability and faithfulness. and at all times
an American citizen who did his whole
duty
Pubie's Loss.
Secretary Taft said:
''The country suffers a great loss in
Senator Spooner's withdrawal from pub
lie life. He is concededly the greatest
parliamentary debater of his day, and
really deserves the title. so much applied,
of a great constitutional lawyer. Every
great act of congressional legislation in
the sixteen years of his service has been
made better and more lucid and more
clearly within the constitutional limits
of congressional authority by amend
ments and suggestions of his. which did
not bear his name. but were prompted
I by his sense of responsibility for the
| body Of which he was a distinguished
member. His power as a lawyer and
debater is not only in his keenness OF
intellect his lucidity and aptness of
/ speech. his great logical faculty and his
power of application to the subject mat
/ ter. but also in the judicial quality of his
mind. which forces him TO weigh and
consider the arguments of his opponents
and to meet them on their own ground.
Sacrificed Wealth.
He has sacrificed much of comfort
wealth in order to serve his country with
/ an eye single to the public interest. He
/ has not thereby escaped the darts of mall
| icious calumny. but he has seen them
/ fall harmless and forgotten. His unan-
/ imOus return TO the senate after a de-
elination to stand and after the will of
persistent enemies, was a most remark
able evidence of the position his great
ability and integrity had won for him.
/ The good he has done entities him to
retire, bue we must all regret that he
/ feels compelled to withdraw. Senator
! Sponer has honored me with an intimate
/ friendship for sixteen years. | feel a
genuine personal sorrow that he is to
/ leave Washington"