Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1886 — DEATH OF DR. W. S. HAYMOND. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF DR. W. S. HAYMOND.

The Democrats Site Central Committee will meet at their headquarters, in Indianapolis, January Sth, Friday of next week.

“Soldier,” this week, takes shelter behind the ‘kid,’ and seeks to attach the authorshin of his‘slush’ upon the little animal. The earmarks betra v the source, however. He whines like a whipped spaniel because we thought proper to rebuke 4 he fanatical partisan zra 1 which led him to denounce a gentleman of higher standing, his superior in intelligence, whose conduct as a soldier is a matter of record, and whose crippled, helpless condition caused by terrible wounds received in battles for the Union procured for him a pension by special act of Congress, simply because he stated in his official report the manner in which the pension department had been conducted by his predecessors. It is to be presumed that Gen. Black is fully acquainted with the affairs of the department, and when he responds to the resolution of Congress, should the petitions from this locality demanding a reduction in the pension of Charlie Platt, the withdrawal of pensions from Allen Catt, and others, be furnished with others, the animus of the petitioners will be readily understood.— He whines piteonsly, and complains that we abuse and give the lie to the assertion that “the Democratic party utterly failed to support the Union Soldiers in their hour of utmost need;” this in face of the fact that the grand old party was represented in more than half of th' se who wort* the blue, and the republican party ovewhelmingly in power through the ballots of its representatives who remained at home to vote the radi_ cal ticket, and to denounce those who differed with them,and refused to vote the.r ticket, as disloyal.— The definition of the term “loyal,’ as entertained by these pharisees, is very contracted, and is narrowed down to the single act of “voting the republican ticket.” To-day, according to the notions of these self-assumed “loyalists,” Moseby the guerilla, Longstreet Key, and other prom nent rebels are “loyal,” because they support the republican party, while Hancock, Rosecrans, Black, Manson and others are regarded as “disloyal” b cause they oppose the republican party. The odium attempted to be cast upon the Democratic party by the conduct of Dodd, Bowles, Horsey and Milliken, failed of its mark.— Dodd returned from his Mortoncommissioned errand to this place under arrest to Indianapolis, buj was immediately allowed to depart and assume charge, as Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Wisconsin. Bowles. Horsey and Millikan,—tried, convicted and sentenced to suffer death, the sentence commuted to imprisonment for life, and this lat ter set aside and the parties discharged by the United States Supreme Court, un the ground that a military commission could have no jurisdiction where the civil courts ivere free to administer and exe cute the laws. Bowles, Horsey and Mi.likan voted the Republican ticket, and the last named was a few years since the candidate cf that party in his district for State Senator. This all serves to :/how the extremes to which the unpiin. cipled, malignant leaders of the

republican party were driven to create, and cast odium on the Democratic party. On the other hand the Democracy held fast to the Constitution. They believed it strong enough and broad enough to enforce obedience to its mandates. Their persistency in standing firm to the fundamental Jaw of the land,—adhesion to which is alone true “loyalty”—to it, and : t alone—not to any administration—are our officials required to take oath they will give true and fai hful allegiance,—to a great extent held the opposition to duty, and this, too, in the face of great odds, and the fierce denunciation of such party zealots as “Soldier,” and trifling “truly ‘toil’ damphools” like the kid. We respect a soldier, we respect a citizen, but come from what source it may the statement “that the Democratic party failed to support the Union Soldiers in the hour of their direst- eed!” and we denounce it a lie that should blister the throat from which it proceeds.

End of a Busy and Eventful Life—Arrangements for the Funeral. (ladianapolis Journal, Deo. 26, 1885.) The funeral of Dr. William S. Haymond will take place from his late residence, No. 399 Coll ge Avenue, this afternoon, ut 1:30. He was born in Harrison county, Va., near Clargsburg, Feb. 20, 1823. At the age of 20, though only possessed of a common school education, he was regarded as one of the most accomplished mathematicians in the State. At 23 years of age he began the study of medicine, and alter qualifying hims If for his profession moved West, aM located at Monticello, Ind., where,* in 1852, he began the practice of medicine and surgery, and soon after which time he graduated at Bellevue Medical College, New York. He soon came to rank with the foremost men of his profession in the northwestern part of the ptnte, and at different times contributed valuable papers to the medical journals. While busily engaged in his practice, he daily devoted himself to t b e s + udy of languages, his course embracing Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish and Italian. He also made it a regular habit from year to year to review geometry and other branches of mathematics. In the fall of 1861 he was appointed assistant surgeon in th 4G th Indiana regiment. He remained in the ar vy till 1863, when by reason of ill health, he was compelled to return home. In 1866 he received the unanimous nomination by the democrats and liberals as their candid te for the State Senate, bat was defeated for election. Ir 1872 he was elected president of the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago Bailroad Company, and held the office until his election to Congress, two years later. * e was the first parson who saw clearly the importance of opening a "through railroad line which would give the Western States direct trade, by the way of Port Royal, with South America, the West Indiasand Europe. On this subject he addressed, by special invitation, a jo-nt railroad convention in Augusta, Ga., in May, 1873. The project having attracted widespread ttention, a company was formed, of which Dr. Ha mond was made president. At a large railroad convention, held in Chicago in October, 1873, the proposed "road was strongly favored. Bankers of ]arge capital and credit had pledged substantial aid to the enterprise, when the panic inaugurated by the failure of J a Cooke, so unsettled financial matters that operations were suspended. In 1874 he received, without any solicitation, the unanimous nomination to Congress from the 10th (Schuyler Colfax’s) district, and was triumphantly elected—the first democratic victory in 22 years.— He retired at the close'of the term, March 4,1877. His eulogy on the chath of the Speaker, Hon. Michael C. Kerr, was pronounced by competent judges the finest literary ffort made on that occasion.. He was renominated for Congress in 1876, but met with a serious accident about the last of August of

that year, which came near terminating his life, confining him to his bed for several months. He was defeated, the district being laigely republican, and because he was unable to give his personal effort and presence to the campaign. The Doctor was ndowed with a rare executive ability, and as an organizer had few superiors. In deportment he was modest suave and rather reticent; but his social qualities were pleasant and lasting to those who made his acquaintance. About ten years ago, desiring to occupy a new field of labor, and lessen the physicol drudgery under which he w r as tiring through professional labors, he removed to this city. He took an active and leading part in the organization of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons of this city, with which, in various positions, he was connected until his death. The many friends of Dr. Haymond in this Congressional District will regret to learn of his death, which occurred at Indianapolis on Thursday of last week. — We knew nim intimately and well. He was our neighbor and family physician for many years when a resident of Monticello. His reputation was that of a cultivated gentl man, valuable citizen, kind frie d and neighbor, and eminent physician. He was the brains of the Repuplican party in White county in 1860; entered the army a republican, but returned home a firm substantial Democrat.

H. J. Dexter md Miss Mary J. Cox, a teacher in our public sobools, were married at the home of the bride’s parents, at Plainfield, Indiana, Wednesday last. •fe-- .... Will the kid explain how the Auditor becomes charged with the collection of taxes ? We will correc)t some of his errors next week. The Republican is ever ready to impugn the motives of political opponents, in private transactions, but let a harmless squib be directed at it, and a piteous howl is immediately sent up over the “outrageous abuse” of the edition Its reference to Mr. Makeever is not the first of the kind. Hereafter lot it ascertain and give facts, and it will not so frequently have to “crawfish.”