The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-03-13

ever flatter and too honest TO ever
temporze with error Without fear
or favor he conformed his vote and his
efforts in debate To Judgment forti-
fled by study and guided by devotion"
Senator Dillingham;.
He was tireess intelligent work
er The statement would hardly seem
believablc, IL the Congressional Record
| did not disclose the fact that during
the second session of the present con-
gress he engaged In debates on the
| floor of the senate which involved a
discussion Of nearly $50 different sub
jects of legislation. All this he did in
addition to the heavy demands upon
his time and strength i'm the discharge
of his duties as a member of import
ant committees, and at time, too,
when he was suffering an impairment
of health which would have driven an
ordinary man into retirement.
His power and influence. as ii
seems to mo. resulted from his convic-
tons, which were those of n man
whose Judgment was based upon the
eternal principle of the fatherhood OF
| God and the brotherhood of man
principles which found expression in a
lofty and intense type of patriotism,
profound love Of liberty under law,
and a respect and reverence for that
system of law under which the liber-
ties of the people of this country have
been developed and maintained"
Senator Sutherland.
Senator Hepburn was one of these
i unusual individuals from whose men
tai and moral equipment the element
of cowardice had been wholly omitted.
He was, moreover intensely in earnest
and intensely sincere There was
never about anything he said or did
the slightest suggestion of the hypo-
critic or the timeserver. During the
| 10 years of his service in this body
he met every question in Il spirit of
perfect candor and of utter disregard
| for every consideration save the in
trinsic merits of the proposition. I
firmly believe that in all that time 1t
never occurred to him to consider the
effect which his words or his vote
might have upon his own political
fortunes. Opportunsm was no part
of his political creed. Convinced of
the rightfulness of any position he as
ksumed, he stood for 1t unswervingly,
without the slightest concern for the
strength of the opposition or the odds
against which he contended.'
Senator Burton.
weldon r. Hepburn was person
of unique and powerful personality.
A mans characteristics arc derived in
part from inheritance and in part from
environment. Senator Heyburn's viii
power, his strength and independence
we're such that he must have come of
a sturdy ancestry, but there were more
clearly visible indications of the ef-
feet of his environment
| For very nearly 80 years he was a
resident of one of the newer and more
progrcssives states of the Union, and
/ SDaTPu lIlc 81 hSt,'''' ''''
trials which belong to the settlers In
| q new country, where fertile valleys
| and great areas of desert fields and
scattered rocks were strangely
mingled.
| "He was always in sympathy with
the pioneers: in fact, he was one OF
them; that army always advancing
never disbandjng, shrinking from no
obstacles. marching over mountains
and valleys. making glad the waste
places of the earth. digging treasures
| from the sides of the mountains. es-
tablishing new communities and COM
, monwealths. always building better
than thew knew and on Il grander scale
than they knew.
"He was faithful to the people of
his state. His sympathies went out
for the struggling miner for the pros
hector who went forth to seek new
mines in the bowels of the earth
"He was at times seemingly lacking
in tolerance toward those who took
different views with relation to the
settlement Of that new country and
the utilization Of it's resources. dis
position which may he readily explain
cd nv the fact that he realized the
difficulties of his fellow citizens who
were engaged in the development of
that new area and his feelings on their
behalf were very much aroused. NO
one could know him without recognize
ing the strength of his will, his cour-
age, his independence.
"There has probably never been
manifestation in this chamber OF more
resolution than that which he showed
| in the last few months Of his life,
when, with the death warrant already
written. he was unwilling to turn
al side or rest, but continued In the per-
Torrance of his duties to the end. 1t
| has been said that his courage and
his independence were his reading
characteristics. He sought no favors.
He did not desire that thrift which
follows fawnng His opinions were
never the echoes of the voice of any
leader. however, eloquent or logical
that voice might be. He was no reg
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