The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-05-06
LATE MALLORY AND BRYAN
EULOGIZED IN u: s. SENATE

sturdy excellence of the man caused
me to admire and esteem him, and
was soon glad to number him ameng
my strong and steadfast friends 1t is
largely upon the intimacy with him
here in this body that l base my
views and Judgment OF his character
A Modest Man.
He was the son Of d distinguished
man, but this did not spoil him or
cause him to seek prominence or adu-
lation. He fought his own fight with
a definiteness of purpose that WAS
commendable and showed the sterling
stuff of which he was made. He at
tanned, but the honors he won were
worn with touching modesty. His Ca
reer shows steadfastness OF character
and purity of principle. His record
herein all his life, indeed-displays
a patriotic and abiding faith in the
principles of our government, cor
rect sense of justice, and a deep and
generous sympathy for those who
struggle for the betterment of them
selves and their children He be-
lieved that the foundation of wise
and enduring government was the
education of its people, and if there
was one cause more than any other
which appealed to his sympathy and
enthusiasm it was education.
Child labor legislation, compulsory
education, the organization of the
public school system of Florida, and
the reorganization of school matters
in this city all bear the impress OF
his zeal in behalf of thousands of
children whom he could never know.
But the children whose pitiful condi-
ton touched him most closely were
those in the naval reservation off Pen
sacola, in sight of his own home.
There were 500 or more or these chill
dren, many Of them descendants of
wOrkmen who were long ago induced
to go there under the promise of
homes in peaceful security. The state
had no jurisdiction or control of this
reservation. and therefore no power
or authority TO supply schools, and the
children were growing up in cOmpari-
tive ignorance. The first COMPRESSION
al provision for their relief was intro
duced by Senator (then Representa-
tive) Mallory. Since then he worked
untiringly in every congress of which
he was a member for free school
facilities for these children. In the
fifty-ninth congress he introduced a
bill in the senate for the establish
ment and maintenance of public
| schools on the naval reservation.
Finally, certain, because of his fast
| failing heath, that he could not live
Ong, he arranged for place on the
committee on naval aaffirs (exchang-
| ing with his old friend, Senator Black
burn, who went to the committee on
| the District of Columbian. one of his
| purposes being to further the educa-
| tiOnal interests of the neglected chill
dren of the Pensacola navy yard.
| Entering the portals of death, a soul
whose life labors were dedicated even
| in part to the betterment of the condj.
ton of little children need have no
| fear.
A friend of Senator Mallory, a
! friend OF education, and especially OF
neglected children of the naval reser-
walton, has suggested that no more
| enduring monument could be erected
to his memory, no more fitting trib.
ute Of love and veneration could be
| laid upon his grave, than for this
| great body to assume the work of
providing the little neglected proteges
| of the nation with the educational ad-
vantages which should be assured to
all.
His Father.
Senator Mallory was the son of
! Stephen Russell Mallory, who was a
senator from the state of Florida in
/ this body from 1851 to 1861, when he
state. which had seeded from the
| Union to become a part OF the Con
| federate States of America The
| elder Mallory was secretary of the
| Confederate navy. which placed upon
/ the seas the first fighting ironclad the
world had ever seen-an ironcIad
| which ended the era of the wooden
vessel and revoIutionized the naval
architecture of the world.
The elder Mallory was born in
| Trinidad on his fathers vessel, sailing
| fromfrCm Bridgeport. Conn, famed
as the home of mariners and shin
builders The junior Mallory also was
reared within the sound of the sea.
| Indeed, his early bOyhood days were
/ spent at Key West, an island in the
sea. some miles distant from the
mainland of Florida. Reared in such
an atmosphere and descended from
! the sturdy mariner folk of Connect
cut, it is but natural that he should
! love the sea, its vast air of freedom,
/ the grandeur of its storms. the music
Of its murmurs and its mysteries. The
| Spanish blood in his veins a heritage
| from his mother, produced in him, as
! the strange chemistry of the Latin
| admiXture usually produces, a per-
| haps more intense love of the beauti-
| full in poetry and art and nature than
| the Anglo-Saxon seems to hold, and
! especially in nature, which he looked
/ upon as the open bOok-the idea1-of
! both poetry and art.
For many years preceding his death