Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-09-30

next door to my fathers. AS bare
foot boy, on the old rocky farm in the
town Of Lineus I met him as a youth.
just budding into great manhood.
He, with his brother. the honored SEN
ator from Aroostook. who sits in our
presence today. were among the earli-
est friends of my boyhood. Motherless
boys they were. with a great father,
who at that time occupied an honored
position in the departments of this
State.
I we'll remember Edwin, as a youth.
in the same schools, and the friend
ship and assistance that he gave to me
as a boy, that friendliness that was
ever characteristic of him; those no.
BILE traits, that afterwards endeared
him so much to the people of the ma
tion, were early displayed on the farm
and in the home.
I well remember. looking back
through the years, of his marriage at
the old home, his wife, a girl from
his own town. most beautiful char
acter. one that I grew to love as boy
because Of her womanly qualities. her
motherly heart, her love for the chill
dren of the neighborhood. I we'll re-
call that as a boy, with a tin horn,
was present at what they called the
old fashioned chivaree, at the old home
when We boys gathered around the
house and made night hideous, and how
we were welcomed into the house by
the Senator and his wife.
And I we'll remember the years they
occupied the old farm with their faith
er and the boys and girls grew up in
that home, and then when Edwin left
the farm for his duties as land agent
of the State at this Capitol. And then
he became treasurer of this State, re-
ceivins an added honor Then he be-
came Governor Of Maine. And we all
followed him in his fortunes-the peo-
pie Of his old town, the people in the
old Observation-Disclosures he moved
away from the old farm and made his
home here at the Capitol he took with
him the lovely boys and girls, the fruit
of that marriage.
I recall the eldest boy, Clarence,
about my own age; I recall the young
er, Lewis, now an honored citizen of
this city, all the friends Of my youth.
recall with pleasure the two eldest
girls Of the family, and the delightful
homes they have made here at the
Capital.
And then. as the years went by, I
remember the friendships Of those
friends of my youth. There never was
a more beautiful family than that of
Edwin Chick Burleigh.
People wondered how in the first pri-
mary held in Maine, when Edwin Chick
Burleigh was a candidate for United
States Senator, how he won out against
the learned Judge Powers and the great
orator. Herbert NJ Heath. People Won
dered how ArooStook county gave it's
vote to Edwin Chick Burleigh instead
of Frederick Powers. the able Judge.
Those who ever met the Senator, and
most of you have met him, know the
secret. He lived very near to men.
He knew everybody that he ever met
and anybody who met him once was
his friend forever The same was true
of that delightful family, the wife Of
his bosom. Anyone who ever met Mrs.
Burleigh loved her always.
I always treasure with a great deal
of satisfaction the fact that 1 had the
honor in the Legislature OF voting for
Edwin c. Burleigh for United States
Senator. No man in the Congress OF
the United States ever had a greater
influence for good for the State of
Maine. He was not an orator. he new
er could make a speech but he had a
powerful influence in the Congress Of
United States. Washington never made
a speech; Grant never made a speech,
but Washington and Grant are en-
shrined forever in the hearts Of their
Edwin c. Burleigh will
not live In the records of the Congress
of the United States as an orator, but
he will be forever enshrined in the
hearts of his countrymen as one of her
greatest stateSmen.
There came a time when the great
est blow that could come to a man like
Edwin c. Burleigh came, when he
parted for the first time with the wife
of his youth, SO sincerely mourned by
everyone who knew her, and it was not
strange to those who knew him best
that only a few weeks thereafter he
grew tired of the loneliness and joined
her again.
Sometimes feel that I am growing
old. when I think of the friends of my
youth. and think how few of my boy
hood friends are with me today.
ITO the past go more dead faces, every
year.
As the loved leave vacant places, every
year,
the sad eyes meet us,
In the evening dusk they greet us.
And to some to them entreat us, every
year"
Senator SWIFT: Mr.. President,
move that this resolution be adopted
and spread upon the records of the
Senate.
The resolution was adopted by ris-
ing vote.
Sent down for concurrence.
Papers from the House: An Act to
revise and consolidate the Public Laws
of the State of Maine.
In the House this bill was read and
passed to be engrossed, in concurrence,
and then passed to be enacted. In the
Senate the bill was passed to be en-
acted, in concurrence.
An Act to repeal the Acts CONSOLE
dated in the Revised Statutes of the
year 1916.
In the House this bill was read and
passed to be engrossed in concurrence,
and then passed to be enacted. In the
Senate the bill was passed to be en-