Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-12-29
r4E LATE STEPHEN R. MALLORY.

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hard to replace, but American public
life has suffered loss that few men
are great and good enough in mingled
soul and mind to repair.
The concensus of opinion Of men
who know both, and of those who
knew the father principally or entire
ly, by the traditions handed down by
those who knew both, is that the
younger S. r. Mallory was the intel
lectual superior Of his father The
elder was fonder OF society, and more
brilliant, but pot clearer nor sOunder;
more of an orator, but not more of a
logician.
The younger S. R. Mallory had his
fathers remarkable sense Of justice,
which neither animosities nor the
most devoted affection seemed to OBJ
scure. His sense of proportion and
value of facts in their relation 70 each
other was altogether exceptional, and
while he did not shine in eloquence,
his rhetoric was as nearly faultless
as speakers rhetoric is apt to be, and
there-was in all his speeches, whether
prepared or impromptu, in his CONVEX
sation, and in his writing. from his
earliest manhood, a lucidity, incisive-
ness and trenchant eXactness in the
use of the words needed to express
finer shadings of thought, that made
him more convincing than oratory and
more satisfying than any finery in die
ton.
There was nothing subtle about him.
but he was subtle both in thought and
in expression, and the privilege of his
intimate acquaintance was to the in
telligent and receptive mind an edu-
cation.
His manner was calm to the extent
that those who did not know him we'll
were apt to mistake for GOODNESS. A
greater mistake could not we'll have
been made, for not only was he not
cold, he was sensitive and warmheart-
ed, though his intellectual poise and
his iron will and mastery self-control
enabled him to conceal emotion with
singular completeness. Those who
knew him intimately know that he
was sensitive, alike to approval and
adverse criticism. His appreciation
of commentator, however, never took
the form of adulation, to sWrve him
from his course, as he saw It, for the
sake Of being commended, and no
amount Of adverse criticism, if he
foresaw it, could alter his line of &C.
ton when he felt that he was right.
No relative, no friend, none to
whom he ever owned even the slight
est debt of gratitude, found him at
any time less than kind and consd-
crate. No enemy ever had any just
cause to accuse him Of unfarnoss, no
rival of trickery, no man of aught but
straight, clean, open dealing. He alb
horred shams and pettiness. and while
he was not unkind to the petty or the
insincere, ne had nothng-he could
have nothing-in common with them
except courtesy. if they so chose.
A man of intense feeling and absorb
ing affections, but dispassionato.mind.
ed, he was not easy TO understand
IL one did not know him we'll, but TO
know him we'll was to know. I'm his
presence and out of his presence, that
his greatness of mind and soul were
potent influences and that TO know
him was a privilege and help at the
times when mems souls falter and the
spirit faintS
1t is a common saying that men are
at their truest and their worst in their
homes Elsewhere, stephen X Nal
lory commanded respect and much |
more. In his home. II were a sterile
soul, indeed. that did not love him.
And, yet wider and higher, than
his justice, his intellect his gentle
ness, his loyalty 10 friends and his |
fairness TO enemies, the great secret |
Of his life was his integrity. What |