The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-01-11
UNVfIl WALLACE STATUE
BEFORE BRILLIANT CROWD
Marble Effigy Of General Lew WAL
lace Contributed to statuary Hall
BY Hoosier state-lmpressive
Ceremonies Held.

Washington, ID. c., Jan. 1.-THE
marble effigy of General Lew Wallace,
contributed to Statuary Hall by the
State of Indiana, was unveiled this
morning with impressive ceremonies
and brilliant oratory. The memory of
lndiana's distinguished son, who serv-
ed his state and nation as soldier and
diplomat and who acquired everlasting
fame as the author of ben Hur," was
honored i'm a way to be remembered
by the large assemblage that gathered
i'm the senate wing Of the capitol build
ing to witness the unveiling.
William Allen Wood, one of the
members of the monument commission
delivered the address of presentation.
The Rev. George Dudley, of this city.
delivered the invocation. Governor
Marshall accepted the statue in be-
half of the state of Indiana and elo-
quent addresses eulogizing the life and
deeds of General Wallace were made
by Senator Albert j. Beveridge, Hus-
sein KiaZim Bey, the Turkish ambas-
sador. and w. III. Andrews, the dele
gate in Congress from New Mexico.
The participation OF the Turkish am
bassador i'm the exercises was in rec
ognition of the great popularity which
General Wallace enjoyed among the
people of Turkey while serving as
United states minister at CONSTANT
nople.
James Whitcomb Riley read a poem
he had written for the occasion, and
the exercises concluded with the un-
yelling of the statue by Lew Wallace,
jr. a grandson of General Wallace.
The statue is the work of Andrew
O'Connor. the American sculptor who
has resided for some years in Paris.
The figure is slightly over life size.
and with the pedestal stands about ten
feet high. The base is a square block
of Indiana limestone. On the face is
the inscription. Lew Wallace, Sol
dier. Author, Diplomat"
General Wallace is represented in
the uniform of a major general OF the
period of the civil war. He Is bare
headed and his uniform coat is hastily
and carelessly fastened He is erect
in posture and on the alert, his eyes
glancing into the distance.
Marshall's Tribute to Wallace.
Governor Wallace of Indiana. paid a
glowing tribute to General Wallace.
In the course of his speech Governor
Marshall deplored the apparent pass
ing of patriotism among Americans.
"The earliest history of the republic"
he said, brought wars so closely to-
gether as to keep alive the flaming
spirit of patriotism. But time has
elapsed since 81 and stories which
thrilled our fathers, as told by the lips
of participants, have now, for the
most part, to be repeated with lesser
effect in the pages OF history. And
yet there remains. as a hopeful sign of
the age, the fact that a nation is not
lost in the spirit of commercialism
so long as its people do not set up for
universal admiration men whose sole
claim to greatness he been their buy
ing and selling and the getting of gain
unto themselves"
The governor drew attention to the
fact that no monument had yet been
erected by an admiring people To men
who had amassed great fortunes or
whose claim to greatness lay in their
exercise OF great financial sense.
mot yet has commercialism been
able to place upon pedestal n man
who made money and made nothing
else" he said. "If such man climbs
upon a pedestal the great body of the
American people is iconoclastic enough
to drag him down into the mire of
common ridicue and laughter"
Governor Marshall eulogized the life
and achievements of General Wallace.
both as a soldier i'm the Mexican and
Civil wars and as an author and citi-
zen of Indiana.
at may be a long time before he
shall be seen in the right perspective
by all citizens" he said. "but this l
venture to say, that while many men
may appear to adorn one of the twin
characterization Civilization and
Constitutional Liberty-upon which
the arch of the republic rests, II will
be years to come before there will be
another man whose medallion. like
that of Wallace. can grace both of
them"
Besides the members of his personal
staff and a number of prominent per-
sons who accompanied the governors
party from indianapolis. there was
large attendance of Indianians resi-
dent in Washington at the ceremonies
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