The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-22
THE SENATE HONORS
BACON'S MEMORY
IMPRESSIVE TRIBFTES PAID TO
THE LATE STATESMAN BY
HIS ASSOCIATES.
FULL OF YEARS AND HONORS

In war ana III HctC6 He f1au IdSUSu
of the Great Emotions Which Make
Life Worth Living" Said Senator
Lodge. Others Deliver Eulogies.
WASHINGTON, ID. Addresses
on the life and legislative career OF
the late Senator Augustus o. Bacon,
of Georgia, were delivered in the
senate today by Senators Hoke Smith,
his colleague, and Hardwick, his sue
cessor; Lodge, Stone, Nelson, Over
man, O'Gorman, Tillman and Gal
linger.
Senator Lodge who served with Mr..
Bacon many years on the foreign re-
lations committee, said of him:
Senator Bacon died full of years
and honors, to use our consecrated
phrase. In war and peace he had
tasted of the great emotions which
make life worth living. He had lived
the life of his time and he died in
service, as he would have wished to
die. Think how much that meant to
him, how much it means to us. The
waiting in helpless idleness for the
inevitable close of all things earthly,
the weary hours of the sick room, the
set gray life and apathetic end, all
these were spared to him. 1t is bet
ter to wear out than
To hang,
Quite out of fashion, like rusty
nail,
In monumental mockery.
"To him most fortunate it was Civ
en- to say, as it is permitted to so few
to say when the years have gathered
thick in serried ranks behind them:
Blow wind! Come wrack!
At least We'll die with harness on
B. our back.
Senator O'Gorman said Senator
Bacon's death took from the senate
one of its most experienced and eff
cient members.
At the conclusion of the ceremony
the senate adjourned as a further
mark of respect.
Senator Lodges Tribute.
Senator Lodge paid tribute to SEN
ator Bacons courage in facing sor-
rows in his private life and lauded
his firmness of friendship toward
those to whom he extended it.
Il think that 1 knew Senator Bacon
well and felt for him such affection
that I can speak of him with both
knowledge and jutsice," said Senator
Lodge. ''He came to the senate with
a high reputation as a lawyer, as a
public man of large experience in his
own state, and as a master of parlia-
mentary rules and practice, derived
from his service as speaker in the
Georgia legislature. He at once took
a position in the senate such as is
rarely accorded to a new member and
in a very short time was recognized
not only as a leader on his own side
but as a leader in the senate. This
was due not merely or chiefly to his
ability or to his industry, or to his
constant and unWearying attendance
at the daily sessions and his watch
fulness in regard to legislation, but
to the fact that from the day he took
the oath of office he was with all his
strength and all his mind a senator
of the United States in the largest
and highest sense. He felt a great
pride in the senate as a body. He
was sensitive as to its rights and
jealous of it's constitutional proroga-
tives. He was not ready to suffer
any detriment to come to either. 1t
is owing to senator's like Senator Ba-
con that the senate has held through
out our history the place and power
in our government which belong to
it. and when senator's become indif-
ferent to the position of the body to
which they belong, all the power and
influence so long possessed by the
senate in our government will fade
away"