Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-12
$4,000 CHEER
PANEGYRICS OF
STEPHEN WHITE
MONUMENT TO MEMORY OF
SENATOR UNVEILED
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY is WIT
MESSED BY GREAT THRoNG
Men and Women of California Pay
Tribute to Noble Life of the
States FaVorite
Son

pulled the cord that held in place tn
! concealing white cloth enVeloping thu
| massive bronze statue erected in mono
! of her fathers statesman at 80 o'clocl
yesterday, and as the outlines of tn,
| figure were exposed to view 1000 per
sons who had gathered to witness The
ceremony raised their voices in ap.
| plause.
| California weather gave it's charm t
| the occasion of Il states tribute to Tho
memory of its great son, and men who
had known the late senator intimately
uttered words of praise for the great
work he had accomplished during his
all but too short life.
Never before, perhaps, had a more
representative gathering of the states
citizenship assembled than that which
occupied the court house grounds, filled
two adjacent streets and banked every
surrounding building yesterday. Pre-
ceding the unwilling ceremonies d pa
rade, composed of six divisions and
made up of religious, civic, fraternal
and military organizations, invited
guests and members of the family of
the late senator, marched through the
downtown portion of the city, each di-
vision dispensing and joining the
throngs as it reached Temple street and
Broadway.
Mother of Senator There
1t was nearly o'clock when speakers
and invited guests entered the white
draped stand at the south side of the
statue Included among these was the
white-haired mother of the late senat-
or, his widow and daughter, while a
brOther-Edward White of WatsonVille
was numbered with those who were
to make addresses. Other invited
guests occupying seats on the speak
ers' stand were Mayor Harper, mem
bers of the city council and county
officials.
After the rendition OF a patriotic air
by the massed bands, NJ. P. Snyder,
former mayor of Los Angeles and
chairman of the executive committee of
the stephen M. White Statue associa-
ton, delivered the Introductory re-
marks He reviewed the life of the
statesman and told of his love for his
native state and the great work he
carried on for its upbuilding. He was
distinguished, said the speaker, for his
great intelligence, marvellous ability,
manhood and devotion to the public
welfare, and, above all for his unim-
peachable honesty.
"Go!" exclaimed the speaker, you
people of Southern California, gaze at
the ripping water of San Pedro har-
Dor. There stands today and will stand
through perpetuity a monument to
the craftsmanship, the honor and the
greatness of Stephen Mallory White,
placed there by the hands of the AL
mighty God. That grand natural har-
Dor might, and probably would, have
remained in its original state, of little
or no value to Southern California and
to the nation, had it not been for Mr..
Whites foresight and his determined
efforts while a member of the United
States senate"
The harbor he said, is the grandest
possible monument to the late sena-
tors memory. His career, said the
speaker, was such that, had he lived,
there is no eminence in American pub
lie life for which he was not fitted
and to which he might not have as
PRED.
Mr.. Synder read letter from Cen
eral H. G. Otis. president of the day,
whose Illness prevented his presence
at the ceremonies. The letter was eu-
logistic of the late senator as a man
and in public life and it's reading was
greeted with applause.
Henry t. Gage, formerly governor
Of California, delivered the principal
address of the day. He spoke, In part,
as follows:
while defeating this appropriate
as well as enduring monument, we are
all well aware that no words here
spoken can adequately portray the life
IF the Honorable Stephen M. White,
nor sufficiently commemorate the great
public achievements. Never
,heless we venture a few words, only
n part expressive of sincere respect
md veneration for our beloved and IL
ustrious friend and fellow citizen.
EVERY day since his voice could
10 longer answer to the roll call of liY-
ng manhood we have missed the de- |
ightful companionship of Stephen M. |
White; and we never shall cease to |
'egret, both for our own and our coun- |
RVS sake, that the senator was sum- |
noned from the earth so early in his |
Useful, eventful and brilliant life-his |
leath creating void in this state and |
lation incapable of measurement and |
impossible of being filled.
Tribute to White
borrowing the illustration Of an
'ther would say of this departed sem
tor that the state of California here
cells like repeating of him, her peerless
lative son, the words of the discon-
olate Spartan mother, who, with tears
treaming down her cheeks, as she
melt sobbing and signing over the
lead body of her darling son, ex-
laimed: I would not exchange this
ear dead son of mine and his precious
memory for anybody else's living son
n EARTH"
The speaker reviewed the many ad-
nirable characteristics of the late SEN
tor and his attitude toward certain
uestions of government
HE did not believe" he said, sin that
and vicious arrangement
civil serVice-borrowed from the mon
rchies and .despotisms of the old
yorld. Whenever a republic borrows
Official ideas from monarchs or from
espots the people of that republic usu-
lily get spurious loans. The senator
elieved that no living man can make
n argument in favor of civil service
rhich, If carried to it's logical result,
ill not be an assault upon the prin-
iples of the great government under
hitch we live"
"He did not believe in modern mu-
icipaI leagueism," said the speaker,
which, as in ancient times, exhibits a
rasping desire for excessive local
over.
Attack Recall
Speaking of the application of the re- {
LII to any judge or officer whose de- {
sion, however legal, might happen I
be rendered against the self interest /
: the masses of any given commu- 5
ty, Mr.. Gage declared that civil gov ,
'nment is nigh unto an end and s
ob rule is at our very doors when t
yer the internal recall be applied to
lie judiciary"
The senator. he said, believed the S