Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1886 — THE OLD ROMAN. [ARTICLE]

THE OLD ROMAN.

Ohio’s Venerable Statesman Declares His Public Dife Is Ended. [Cincinnati special.] The Thurman Club, 200 strong, tendered a rousing serenade at the Gibson House to ex-Senator Thurman. In response to repeated cheers, the old statesman said: “My Fkiends: I thank you for the honor, first of naming your organization for the old man. When I learned that you intended visiting me my heart was moved. I fully recognize that in honoring me, both by naming your organization for me and by your greeting this evening, that you have

done so from no other motive than purely and simply to honor me. You are worshiping no rising sun. I know that, and you know it. Rather you are doing homage to a setting sun. [Cries of ‘No! no!’] Ah, but it is a fact. lam out of politics, and it is for that reason that I appreciate your actions all the more. lam fast traveling down the shady side, and will soon be numbered with the past; but when I am dead and gone, my friends, when I am laid away in my last resting-place, if any of you should stumble over my grave, I hope that you may stop and think that there lies a man who was always a Democrat, and whose earnest desire and hope were for Democratic success. My public record, I think, will bear me out in teat, and I know this: that when my last sun sets I shall see it through Democratic eyes.” Following this, an informal reception was held, the Judge was presented with a rich bandana handkerchief, and a snuffbox filled with the genuine article.