The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-09-24

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Guide-Samuel Lythgoe.
Sentinel Gilbert Nelson.
presence OF q man with a great in.
tellect and If not great learning. greai
experience. He had become more
than state man; he had become {
national character. In his death Min.
nesota not only loses a great man
one that was OF great Importance and
benefit to that state, but the whole
government loses q great man."
Congressman Hanna.
Cong. L. B. Hanna said in part.
Mr.. Chairman and ladies and gen.
tlemen: 1t seems to me perhaps that
1t is good thing for us here In
North Dakota, here in Fargo, to for
get. for little time our business and
our cares and our duties in life and
to remember the neighbor on the
Other side of the line, over there in
Minnesota, who Is dead, whose fu-
neral ceremonies are just now takins
place. never had the pleasure OF
meeting John "A. Johnson, but / N.Y.
self and every one of us knows of him
whether we met him personally or not
Only couple OF days ago / was down
In the cities OF st. Paul and Mime
apolis and / called in many business
houses In many places, and found in
the mouth Of every man down there
was the name OF Governor johnson
and everybody spoke Of him with re-
spect and with esteem and love.
Y. i tell you friends the time must
come for us when that great SUM
mons is going 20 come to US as Ii
has come to him and while ali men
DO not occupy the place he has; yet
each and every one has q part in life
TO play and perform and after we
get all through with life and lay aside
our cares and everything connected
with IL, when that time comes.
wonder whether we will have the
friends and kind memories and recol-
lections that this governor in our
neighboring state has left behind?"
Rev. II. G. Leonard's Address.
Rev. H, G. Leonard of the First NJ
e. church, said:
once more it has been shown with
ample reason that qualities Of heart
count quite as much as strength of
intellect, even with the great public.
Governor Johnson had those Qualities
OF heart that secured to him the love
of ali his fellow citizens, and for rea-
sons that are peculiar. 1t is wonder
ful how the people come to know their
real heroes and to love them. even
Wnen they could not give all the rea-
sons why, or possibly sufficient rea-
son for such love. The wealth OF a
state is not in it's broad acres or its
great cities. The wealth. OF a state
is In the character OF the men and
women 1t produces. The wealth OF
Minnesota is in such men as General
Sibley, Governor Ramsey, such women
as Charlotte o. Van Cieve, such men
as Senator Window, Governor john
son, Edmund Rice. and together with
them that army Of pioneers and
soldiers who have wrought for the
building and charging Of that great
state. so that now 1t Ia honored and
loved throughout the world.
We may regret-we do regret
that in the full blush OF his manhood
he should be called away. but who
shall say shat he had not done 4
good days work? who shalr saw that
his influence on the boys ana girls
OF his great state will not be for ages
pleasing encouragement? And he
has enriched our common life.s'
N. A. HiIdreh.
Col. M a. Hildreth concluded the
speaking, He said in part:
The voice OF Cato speaking to peo-
pie and kings, filled the aisles OF his
tory Of imperial Rome with greater
renown than the trumpet blasts 81
all the Caesars. but greater citizen
than Cato has fallen, a civic hero who
was leading the vanguard OF the peo-
pie Of a great state along the lines
OF honest, conscientious effort In their
behalf as their chief executive. n Il
indeed noble and inspiring that this
great character does not belong 10
the imperial state OF Minnesota alone
but that character is an asset that
belongs to the people OF this country
and proves that there is not q single
barrier between the lofty heights OF
finance or political greatness that ti,s
humblest boy In the land cannot pass
But John "A. Johnson, great as he
was in life, was greater still In death
AS was said OF one long since gone:
He looked into his open grave.
What blight and ruin met his eyes:
Whose lips can tell what broken plans
What sundering Of happy friendship
ties?'
behind him great state; before
him, darkness and dissolution ant
vet ne ala Ynf es4vnff ,4nt eNx -
gle moment When conscious that
the summons OF the Master had come
did he forget the true peace Of tina
character which endeared him 10 ths
people? No; but thanking those
about him for the courtesies which
they had extended to him. this grea.
character commences his journey Il
the undiscovered country from which
no traveller returns. Such was Johr
A. johnson. And this man, let i.
believe, ais he passed over the til.
muItuous channel was met by TIL