The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-11-20
MIURT COUNTY PAYS
TRIBUTE TO BELOVED son
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lConLluued from flF8I Pa&e.B
his private walk as others did not AM
could not know it. they we're mor'
Intimately acquainted wiJh MS charae
ter than the people elsewhere rheJ
better knew those virtues which en-
titled him TO BE- called great. hence
he was more devoJedIy loved in Maury
county than in any other section By
the good people for whose cause he
gave his LIES blood Words could
not adequately express the grief OF
his friends. his lifelong associates
and MS neighbors at his death II is.
however fitting and proper thar this
people should leave In written form
some feeble expression OF that deep
and lasting affection. that unbounded
admiration, thar firm and unquesrlon-
ing faith thar they had for and in him,
whose memory and virtues We assem-
Bile today 70 commemorate.
AS a private citizen earmack was
loved, honored and admired as few
men have been As legislator he
was faithful to his trust and true 70
the people who gave him his commits
sion; as an editor he was courageous
and intensely devoted TO the right
In every duty of life, in every station
to which he was called, in every cause
which he served, his course was char
acterized BY a rigid adherence to prin-
ciple and BY uncompromtsing hostility
toward wrong. He loved the right
He priced his honor above any earthly
possession. His hands were kept /
clean. No tainted dollar ever passed !
into his pockets. He was true to
every obligation Of life. public and
private.
Edward Ward Carmack was a pa
triot in the truest sense, an altruIst,
a man who loved his fellowman;
man who cared little for the gratifca-
ton Of ambition and almost nothing
for earthly possessions. He was mag
endowed with that most
rare and estimable Of virtues-moral
courage. He made no compromise.
He never stopped to ask whether vic
.ory or defeat would be his portion.
Is IL right" This was the only ques-
ion he ever asked or considered; it
vas all that he wanted TO know A
hundred times he had the ability and
he power to compromise for his own
advantage, but he spurned with con- j,
enpt every suggestion of compromise.
Re loved his people, to their inter :
SITS early in life he dedicated his
alents and his very being, and what
e did not conceive to be for the wei
are and advantage Of the people of
Is State and his nation he opposed
it'll all the ability, the yigor and the
over Of his matchless intellect and
oble character
Mr.. Carmack was brilliant editor j
! was a wise and astute statesman,
Courageous and devoted defender
I'd advocate OF truth and righteous -
IS and the chosen standard-bearer i.
the cause of clean politics All his NJ
'wers he consecrated upon the alter II
his country for the common good
legislator, as editor. as private !,
izen as a Senator of the United d,
ates, as the dominant factor Of a
eat political party in his State. his crs
uerfu1 resources Of mind and heart :,
re ever enlisted for the cause Of ~
tc righteousness. Never did Drawer o.-e
light go TO war in worthier cause .a-
IN did Edward Ward Carmack when N .
enlisted under the stainless banner cor
God and Home. It was while hold sb,
that banner far above the ram LEE,
is OF vice and corruption and i'm nat
rality that he received the mortal edo
und tbo
brave, determined and ag- ,o-.
.ssiye, our departed leader was n
tile and chivalrous, a true knight 10
the highest and best acceptation OF hee
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