Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-16

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and for his fellow men. He had that
temperament which Taught him that
the most evil seed than can bs sown
In a community is the seed OF sus-
picion and Of doubt. and that the best
spirit that can be nurtured is that OF
faith and confidence and charity and
integrity. Therefore he inculcated the
hopeful spirit in his fellow men. He
was the sunlight in every social circle
Of his friends. He was like "a rainbow
in the gloom The language Of his
! ordinary conversation turned the cor
ners of thought 30 abruptly and SO
\ swiftly that there was constant cpl
grammatic and inimitable illumination.
| He was the price of good cheer and one
of the happiest integers of human in
dividuality in our serious. struggling
world.
Worn Out BY Toll.
"After all the years Of toll and excit-
| ing contest for full decade in the
| house of representatives, and with tre-
mendously exhausting work in the
chautaunua service, in which he earned
substantial and in fact unusual profits,
and with all the toll and burdens of his
senatorial career, his great heart began
to wane. The strongest machinery
must finally break. Even steel and
iron and hardest granite ara not i'm
peryious or imperturbable. Whoever
] touches and commands the hearts Of
| others, must always give up something
of his own. So many hearts have been
| touched. so many souls had been stir
red in all those great campaigns, that
finally his own was worked to mortal
! limit. Many the time met him late at
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great. fatiguing campaigns when we
were out On the road. sometimes sixty
| TO seventy days, and home maybe three
or four nights in all that time. sleeping
! perhaps four or five hours the night
| and having splendid time. We
thought, at that. And they were spien-
| did ard historic days when Iowa had
| the greatest corps of campaigners in
the republic: when she had two mem
bers of the cabinet and the speaker Of
! the house of representatives.; when
aforetime Tom Reed had said You
! have so much talent in your state 1t Is
impossible to do Justice TO it and to
the other states in committee appoint
ments.
1T was a great honor and a sweet
exultation to head the list of such
delegation, and the inspiration Of it
moved the heart of our friend to faster
beating until twas overworked. But
think Of the many souls of history that
have reached their greatest powers and
sometimes have worn out their physi-
cal machinery before their suns had
passed the periods of their brilliant
and powerful meridians. yes, even be-
fore the shadows fell towards the east.
Ishsritsd No Prestige.
'Dolliver inherited no political pres
tige He had no Duke of Rutland for
q sponsor. The Gifted hills and lofty
| mountains Of Virginia were his great
Eodfathers and the honeyed valleys Of
that romantic birthland whispered
their soft dreams into his eager. boy
hood ears. The rivers and the hills OF
loyal Illinois gave welcome to his
trudging weary feet and encouraged
his exalted hope. The rolling plains
and honeysuckled woodlands Of our
river -boarded Iowa sang thrice well
come to the bright-eyed continental
wayfarer and won his wondrous heart
and scintillating brain for tts
| historic heritage and gave him
all the rich and precious gifts
| within its political and lavish
power. He went out for US and
won the successive battles OF his bril-
/ liant life by constant strife and never
ending zeal.
Hawkeyss Proud 81 chisftsin.
| His great heart impelied the blood
to his fertile brain in many years OF
constant and unceasing toll, sometimes
his Judgment differing with yours and
sometimes with mine. But 1t matters
not: he had fought the battles Of our
cause on many a brilliant day, and our
tears of exultation for the fame OF our
| great state were mingled on many
T, glorious occasions. Every Hawkeye was
proud Of his chieftain, proud 10 have
| such a splendid champion In the great
arenas Of public life and on the popular
stage. No matter II his clarion voice
sounded sentiments, maybe discordant
with our own ne had barred his breast
for the grand old man in that final
hour Of both their great careers.
'Homs to Rest"
And then at last he came home to
! rest. He had thought always in his re-
cent years of the delightful and peace-
full prospect of enjoying the habitude
| which he had selected and paid Tor
with his honorable and strenuous earn
! ings, consisting OF some broad acres
over there in the magnificent middle Of
our state, touched by two rivers as he
described 1t himself. and situated there
beside the city OF his early friends. His
plans for Its Improvement and psrfse.
ton had not yet been completed, but
they were in the apple Of his eye and
heart. and he sat i1inAelf down On the
porch OF his town house home In the
midst OF his charming family Of wife
and children where he could see the
undulating landscape OF his future
rural habitude, in contemplation, and
unused over 1t all in those dearest tiays
OF our best October season, when the
vines were running over the suaht
hedges in all the gloden glory Of that
rich autumnal time; and With all ap-
parent faith in the restitution Of his
health, with his bright soul shining In
his eyes ana In his usual iauxhinR
mood, ne counted his pulse beats up to
seven. refusing to count himself out
like the fighter he was-hut the phys1-
clan counted more and feebler pulse
beats. It seemed as tho infinite mercy
spared our friend the usual suffering
and pain that attends the exit Of great
souls. There IL no evidence that hs
suffered even for . moment q gloomy
or troubled apprehension. Els jovial
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