Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-12-02

OIL lilub - tClN VI thdt hiNNi1 maui
that lofty intellect, that brave and
stainless spirit, is handful of whit
ened ashes for the great David De
Almond, in the mysterious provi
dence Of God, while he slept the
sleep of the righteous and pressed to
that strong and tender heart the
golden head of darling grandchild,
was licked to death by remorseless
! flames and incinerated in his burn
ing home, and do you know that it
must comfort the proud and break.
ing heart Of the woman. who still
must stand erect when she proclaims
to all the world that she is David
De Almonds widow, to know that
there are thirty millions of strong
men, devoted Democrats, men whose
voices grow husky and eyes grow
dim in speaking of their country's
and their party's irreparabe loss?
o how | remember David De Ar
mondl How will miss my trusted
friendl | reverenced him, for he
was Scion in counsel and an Achil-
les in war. have seen them line up
for battle in that chamber; | have
seen the serried ranks of Republican
ism advance on the slender line of
Democrats as men go to war, with
weapons that kill. have seen old
Grosvenor, the Thersites of the
camp, sharp in satire. sneer and
gibe like haunting fiend when the
fight was hot. / have seen Payne
swell in his importance as he lined up
the majority, and when old Payne
shook his white head we knew it !
ment war. have seen that slender,
1.-the and terrible debater, the mas
ter of forensic oratory. draw his
long shimmering lance, take his
place in the van; John Dalzell WELD
ed blade, keen and Fright and /
quick as the fash OF sunbeam I
have seen John Sharp Williams, The
greatest running debater of his
time, undaunted by all this, like that
Norman prince at Hastings who ledI
she charge, dancing in the delight
of battle and play ing with hiss
mighty weapon as baton. have
seen Champ Clark grid himself with n
a smile, conscious of the strength of
an Ajax and the integrity of man,
and when the fight was hottest we
all made way for the modest and
mighty man, DAvi9 De Almond, Sc
rene and sublime. cool, cbaste and
ofty as mountain Of ice, it's crys-
tai peaks glittering in the san 1
nave seen Republican shams and
wovenby tine astute ,D@lZell
,r the cunning old CT osvenOr sever
ID by a,bSOw from David De. Ar
nond Is the woeldis conqueToT cut
ne Gordon knot. All. we may
again, but there will be a
black mantle on the desk Of DavId
)e Arraon8. There will be- a va
ant place in the serTied line. Curl
.ars shall no longer hear with de-
light those sentences polished as
'arian marble, perfect as though
ZACH period had been chiselsd by a
Angelo,
Perhaps that Ssarned sopaist. the
gentleman from, Daviess,. will To
morrow night, mindful of the shin
ng qualities of this man. which I've
10 poorly protYayed, fOngiNe the
district OF Missouri
or the atroCiOus crinSe against
Democracy of keeping David De I
Armcnd in Congress twenty years.
My friend, would re.Ed you. but
With not have time. where this
nam was who first spoka.-S have his
andhe will not deny it
-said that l was the acknowledged
eader of tho. tobacco. growers on
the H0or of the House, said that
Was brilliant and gifted, when he
nad no reason to tell anything but
the simple truth. And yet tonight
because another pays d like tribute
20 me he damns the great Charles
A. Edwards for the same oEfense,
denouneing him as literary hack.
by congressman whom, he would |
defy or damn for a dollar. He
spread the slime of his foal suspic- |