The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-11-20
TRIBUTE FROM
Mr.. PADGETT
COLLEAGUE IN CONGRESS LAups
THE VIRTUES OF SENATOR
cARMAcK.
TEMPERANCE Gauss STILL LIVES
Its Advocates Are Summoned to Carry
Forward Work Of Departed
Leader.

~ the mcuOIy OF senator Carmack
; Congressman Padgett spoke as fol
lows:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Il shall not detain you at great
length. You have already listened tC
two tributes more eloquent than car
hope to speak
Edward w. Carmack is dead His
murdered body rests in our soil God
and temperance still live. Forward
/ March! We are here today to pay
a just tribute of respect to the mem.
DRY OF ex-senator Carmack | wish
were able to speak a tribute which
his merits deserve. The poverty of
my language deprives me of the OPP
portunity and privilege OF speaking
in praise of him as my heart wishes.
Il have known Mr.. Carmack for
many years-since we were young
men together. We have been associa-
ted in very pleasant relations. In
social life, as attorneys at law prac-
ticing at the same bar and in the
same office. We were associated in
our work for six years in the Con
gress of the United States. Permit
me a personal reference. On the
eleventh day of November, 1880, he
was one of my groomsmen at my mar
riage in the First Methodist church.
On the 18th day of November, 1908, in
the same church, | was one of the
great multitude attending his funeral,
with sad heart and bereaved soul hon.
oring his memory and lamenting his
sad death. Through all these years l
can testify that Mr.. Carmack was
true man in the noblest and best sense
of the word He was man Of ability
possessed of a great intellect capa-
BILE of grasping Understandings the
great questions involving his coun
try's veal or woe and affecting for |
good or ill the peace, prosperity and
happiness of his fellow men. He had |
a great heart, in sympathy with man.
kind, responding at all times to the |
needs of humanity. Broad in his
sympathies, tender in his affections,
true in his convictions, firm and stead
fast for the right and comprehensive
in his conceptions of public questions
and his duties to his country he es-
the cause which he believed
was for the betterment and uplift of
humanity. He was an honest and an
honorable mana man of integrity
and nobility of character. His honor
and his honesty were unimpeachable.
No man could approach him with a
corrupt purpose and no one could
question the purity or sincerity of his
conviction. He was man of convic-
ions He believed something and
le stood by and for his beliefs and
rad the manly courage to battle for
lis convictions and the ability to pre-
tent and defend them. A man of
and convictions for right and
Iuty. i
I'm his observations and experiences .
IS public man he had seen men in
Misery and debauchery-he had seen ;
oys and young men led estfay from q
II the virtues of manhood into degra-
alton, corruption and crime-he had =
cen womanhood ruined and sorrow.
IL and young girlhood blighted and
lasted. All these things appealed to
is highest sense of duty and to his
Ugh ideals of manhood and woman
bod and their possibilities of good
: evil; and his great heart moved
, his great intellectual conceptions, q
sponded in behalf of humanity's
,od and he gave his life for his coun-
Us betterment.
Edward w Carmack is dead, but
/, still lives. From his ashes will Il,
Use inspiration and power and de- Of
which will nerve and of
rengthen the purpose and hearts Of st
and from every hillside m
d in every valley in Tennessee men &c
d women will go forth, inspired by
, memory to do valiant battle to on
the young manhood and woman sc,
ad of our land to a higher, a nobler an
d a better plane Of life and Of living, no
Standing today in the shadow of ~
death and mindful Of his character wi
work | verify believe he could Ne
" have said, mo
live for those who love me vii
md for those who think me true, no,
the God who made me far
md the good that | can do me
In conclusion let us hope that He 7
D tempereth the wind to the shorn is
10 may by his love, mercy and con
ISOLATION bless and comfort his he. sa,
we'd ones" he
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