The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-02-23
Gen. ID. NJ. HALEY
Confederate Soldiers; Ladies and
Gentlemen

COntoderat" soldiers LadleS ana
Gentlemen:
II is fitting and proper that we
should gather here on this. the birth
day Of the Father or Our Country, to
plant tree dmmemoiTting the
life and character Of Cen. d. NJ
HALEY.
You were his comrades in peace;
his comrades in war; his comrades
in friendship. and | know you will
be his comrades i'm eternity.
. It is the superb manhood Of Gener'
al HALEY that has summoned US
here today. where we gladly and
checrfuly do this honor to his cher
lshcd memory and an appropriate
eulogy on his life and character
would make massive volume.
Truly he was patriotfather ana
a patriot-sagc, and all the great
and good things that have been said
of the great men of our country
can justly bc said Of him. HIS
sweet and gentle character made
/ him an idol OF boyhood and % leader
/ Of manhood, for his life was an en-
viable record because Of his splon-
/ did service to humanity and his
country.
How we'll you brave Confederate
| soldiers remember the rugged hard
ships he encountered and conquered.
1t was ne who first bla2cd the
trail of civilization into the Indian
Country" and well do we know
how his great intellect and his in
domitable courage and unconquor-
able determination made him our
leader in the wonderful development
of God and Natures great resources
Of Oklahoma and in his death W.
can but say we have lost, not fol
lower, but a leader Of man.
How few men can be a success
i'm every walk of life. and yet we
remember y. NJ. HALEY as Il great
soldier and a greater general; ply
sician, a great business man. and a
great father to the poor and help
less: success in every endeavor
in an that the term implies. Many
of us have learned from his friends
in his home in McAlcster. where he
with his own means, lifted from the
dcorsteps of the world more than
a score of orphans, educated them
trained them. and prepared then
for useful manhood and useful wo
manhood. and by his unselfish life
and great throbbing heart for the
poor and helpless, inculcated the
example, THAT SO near is grandeur
to the dust, so near is God to man
that when duty whispers low thol
, must the Youth replies L can
\ father to the poor; a father e
our state; leader in his party;
, leader in all the great orders t
which he belonged; a leader in Tn
, creation and construction Of thi
/ magnificent home for the Confeder
ate soldiers, not man among men
but man OF Gcd for men.
And may the tree We plant her
today in commemoration OF such q
life and character as his, thrive an
, grow. as did his pure sweet life
and may each springtime bud kee
, alive in our hearts and memore
, this splendid character that We ma
. emulate his example.
| "lor.' as spoke the poet, not D.
. SORROW but In praise of Il great ma
I gone before, he so lived that who
thc summons came for him To Jol
the mnumerahlc caravan that marcl
s vs 10 that mysterious realm wher
, each shall take his chamber in IN
!. silent halls Of death, he went, ne
+ like the quarry slave at NIGH
scourgod to his dungeon, but sustain
i cd and soothed by an unfaltern
trust. he approached the grave lik
one who wraps the drapory Of hi
couch about him. and lies down
plcaSdnt dreams
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