The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-10

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county attorney. He was reelected in
1862.
Naturally, to one who knows the
man. or studies his character, he was
more or less in politics ever after.
He was never placeseeker; the peo-
pie and his party drafted his services
as candidate to help his party tick
ct; he always reduced the majority of
the opposing party; he was practically
always in the minority party, but in
the minority always won results worth
while, although the fact kept him from
holding the high offices which surely
would have been his, could any demo-
crat in Iowa get them.
important Political Work.
That Judge Trimble was sincere and |
"a fighter for principles she believed to |
be right is proved by his remaining in
the minority party of Iowa, when he
had numerous opportunities to grace
fully move over and improve his per-
sonal fortunes. But he stayed in the
democracy and fought many losing
I fight.
In DAYS county. however, demo-
crat could be elected; after his SER
vice as county attorney, Mr. Trimble
was elected state senator in 1856, sit
ting in the last legislature to meet at
Iowa City and the first to convene in
Des Moines
After returning from his brilliant
/ service in the civil war, he was elect
ed judge of the district court for the
district which extended hundred
miles along the turbulent Missouri
/ border He held court fearlessly,
! sometimes with the courtroom full OF
armed men bent on the conviction OF
one prisoner or the release of another
Once a company of militia undertook
! to rescue their captain and lieutenant
under indictment for murder; once, a
crowd of armed men tried to prevent
| the release OF man on habeas cor
pus; the officers were tried on the
Indictment, and the ether man was re-
1 leased on habeas o0Spus proceedings
That is the kind of Judge he was.
Services for His Party.
Previously to this, he was the demo
/ cratic candidate for congress against
Samuel r. Curtis, then a congressman,
and reduced the majority of Curtis
i 1000 votes.
AS soon as the civil war was over
! he was nominated by the democrats
! for supreme justice of Iowa, in 1866.
| In 1872, he ran for congress again and
reduced the republican majority 5000.
but failed of election. In 1876, he was
4 a delegate at large to the st. Louis
convention. which nominated Tilden
and his old precep.or, Hendricks In
I 1879, he was unanimously nominated
as the democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Iowa. In 1880. he was dele
gate to the convention which nominal
: ed Hancock for president. In 1884, he
I was delegate at large from Iowa to
the convention at which he had much
to do with the nomination of Grover
Cleveland
) In the councils OF his party he. was
prominent and efficient for many
years, and the democracy of Iowa owes
!. him much.
!. Led Charge Like Baaklava.
b When the civil war came Judge
r Trimble instantly realized conditions
k and his duty-and he never in his life
& swerved from what he believed to be
0 his duty.
b In 1861, he had leading part in or.
t ganizing the Third Iowa cavalry, OF
t. which he was made ieutenant-colonel
y He at once devoted himself to the
It task OF making trained soldiers oNt Of
the raw recruits by establishing sys
:; tenn of military instruction which he
L kept up to the end. Being natura
s teacher and devoted to this work, ne
4 made his regiment one of the bes
drilled in the federal armies.
i He was always fighter, in poll
II tics and at the bar as we'll as in war
e After serving with brilliancy with hi
u regiment drought much fighting, h
u led the celebrated charge of his reg
: ment down lane bordered Wit
brush and fence overgrown Wit
II weeds which a newspaper correspond
70 emf at the battle of Pea Ridge liker
) ed to the charge of the six hundre
at Balaklava.
!. There he was severely wounded i
: the face. 1t was March Z, 1862 Tn
surgeons said he had to leave tn
army.
=. Long Railroad Service.
Z. Coming back in Bloomfield, ne Sc
q wed on the bench and led forlor
y. hope for congress, and then began
Is build railroad for the beneft OF n
home town. 1t was an extension
sol the old Northern Missouri raliroa