The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-18
MONDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1909.
Circulation Double That of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE.

FOR CONSCIENCE DANE.
Oh, the tragedy of Life, and the
tragedies in lie.
The death of Hon. VIM. Lindsay, OF
Kentucky recalls somewhat remark
able and a sad and almost pitiful
story.
He was Kentuckian, native and to
the manner born, and he was typical
of his state, his country and his time
He grew in a state where big me-.
grow. and where nature and environ
ment have done well their part to pro-
duce the very best. He was a man
of large, handsome and commanding
stature; he had a strong yet kindly
face, and sunny disposition; he was
a big Drained man and a big hearted
man; he was learned in the law; he
had strong convictions and the cour-
age of his convictions. And the sad
part of the story is that his convic-
lions, and the courage to stand by
them, exiled him from the land and
the people he loved most.
Prior to 1892 he had been preferred
by his state, and had served on the
Bench with honor to his people and
credit to himself, and there was no liv-
ing man in whom Kentucky took more
pride. They called him from the
Bench that year and sent him to the
Senate of the United States, where he
served six years with marked distinc-
ton and ability. Then came the gold
and silver war and the political up
heaval of 1896, and Senator Lindsay diff
fered with his constituency; differed
with them honestly, but differed with
them irrevocably. He was for the
single gold standard; his convictions
were that way, and he had the cour-
age to own and proclaim and defend
them He had the sublime courage
to lay his political future, the cherish
ed ambitions of his life, upon the al
tar, and to sacrifice all, rather than
to swerve one jot or title from the
truth, as he saw it.
1t was sublime thing for him to
do, but it cost him his crown. The
people turned from him and against
him. They sent another to occupy his
seat in the Senate, and retired him to
private life. Old friends desert
ed him. And so bitter was the feeling
in those bitter days, that the GOODNESS
of friends, the frowns of the public,
the sneers and jeers of the press,
drove the big Drained jurist and the
big hearted man an exile from his
native state, among a people he cared
little for, and among environments he
almost despised
He went to New York, and with
John G. Carlisle, who for like reason
had been retired from public life
found lucrative employment in the
practice of law. But he passed out
of public life and from the public view
almost as a pebble dropped into the
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keenly the lack of faith the people
had In him; he felt SO sorely the dis
appointment of his blighted hopes
he felt so helpless in his misfortune
and he felt withal that it was so hard
and unjust visitation of cruel for
tune, that he rarely visited the old
home where the playfellows had dis
owned HIM and he lived almost re-
cluse in the busy metropolis of the
East, an exile for conscience sake
from the friends he had known and
loved so long. and from the scenes of
younger days for which the old heart
always yearns, and with creeping age
grows fonder.
There are tragedies in, reaIlife, no
less than in books or on the stage.
There are those the public gaze upon
and sorrow over; there are the others
the very next door neighbors know not
Of Life has its sunshine and its bless
inse; but it has it's tragedies as well;