Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1891 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1891 TWELVE PAGES

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Concluded From First Pag. tended it. Bat his candidacy on that occasion really laid the foundation for his election to the senate of the United States ten years later. In some conversation I had with him in 1S04 in regard to his proposed candidacy for governor, he did cot deny that he had some political aspirations, but they were rather in connection with national than state affairs. In fact, the goal of his ambition then seemed to be the United States senate, and he finally succeeded in reaching that body; but his services in that place were cut short by events of a rugged political character in 1880, and circumstances were never afterward favorable to his return as a member of that body. During his public and political career he sustained some defeats and met with some disappointments; but he usually bore those with great equanimity and pood temper, seldom indeed complaining. The most noted exception of this good temper on his part waa manifested at hia failure to get the complimentary vote of hia party at the senatorial election when his successor was elected. This failure seemed to be the hardest thin2 for him to forget that my attention was ever attracted to and was a matter to which I have often heard him refer in terms of bitter disappointment. In 1SS0 he really had what seemed to be, at the most critical moment, a fair chance for a nomination as the candidate of his party for president, but the delegation from Indiana seemed not to realize this opportunity until it became too late. There was a critical time in the history of that convention immediately after the withdrawal of Mr. Tilden as a candidate. In which matters in relation to a candidate were exceedingly unsettled md a vigorous movement in Mr. McDonald's behalf just at that time would, in the opinion of many of the prominent men connected with the convention, have resulted in his nomination. But he did not become generally known to his immediate and most active friends until other candidates had takn the field. In 1S81 when the delegation were pressing his claims for a nomination at Chicago I was several times reminded that we, (n Indiana, had allowed the most favorable time for his nomination to escape ua In 18S0. Mr. McDonald was always an active, but not usually an extreme, partiEan and had a great aptitude in many respects for the incidents of public and political life. But he was always more of a lawyer than a politician. His career as a lawyer was from the first one of encouraging success. As an advocate and as a public speaker he was better adapted to the court room than to the rostrum. I mean by that that he was more impressive before a court and jury than he usually was before a large assembly of people. For this reason his manner and bearing were v-ell adapted to the U. S. senate. fit will be remembered by many of our old citizens that the late Judge David Davis of the state of Illinois, M ho was for many years a judge of the supreme court of the United States, and who was an eminent judge as well as man of affairs, used to hold a term of the U. S. circuit court here the latter part of the spring of each year. He bad earlier in lite become acquainted with Mr. McDonald in some of the state courts of Illinois. It was evident to every one that Judge Davis had great confidence in Mr. McDonald's legal ability, as well as high personal regard for him. This became so palpable that one of the other lawers remonstrated with the judge, saying that we had here In Indianapolis lawyerawho were closer students and dipped deeper into the books than did Mr. McDonald. Judge Davis replied, H Oh, that makes no diligence. McDonald is one of those lawyers possessing such ttrocg common sense and such a practical knowledge of affairs that when he does not know just what the law is he haa a tood idea what it ought to bo and ho never misses it very far." This, in a general way, described one of Mr. McDonald's strongest points as a lawyer. In the latter years of his life at least he was seemingly not a close student of books. But it as not necessary that he should have been. His memory of what he paw, heard and read was eo tenacious that he did not have to read and re-read books as most others have to do in order to keep abreast of his profession and of the times in which he lived. Mr. McDonald was, in brief, a largebrained, large-hearted, fair-minded and generous man, and in its best and most useful senpe, a man of broad views and of distinguished ability. He was also a man endowed with strong personal attachments and was one greatly admired and loved by thoso who knew him well, and especially by those who knew him best. He will be long remembered with kindness and affection by all classes and conlitions of people to whom he was in anysrise known. CONDCLtNCE TSNDERID. The President's Message Other Telegram! of Hot-. A flood of telegrams of condolence poured in at the McDonald residence yesterday. They came from old political and personal friends of the dead publicist and from all parts of the country. Among them were the following: Cape May Poitt. Jons 22. ifrs. Harrison joina me in offering to you and the family a most sinoere sympathy in the great lorrow which has fallen, not only upon yoa and them, bat upon the community in the death of Mr. McOonald. I regret that I ant pot able to unite with other home friends in the last office of respect and hooor. Bexjamix IIarrisox. Lafayette, Jane 22. 'o wor-is can express wy sorrow at the death of Mr. McDonald. We were constant and devoted friends for more than forty years. Indianapolis lost one of its ablest men, the country a pure and upright statesman, and you a lond aud devoted husband. I shall attend the funeral. John S. Williams. Glexpale, O., Jane 2 Accept the sincere and affectionate sympathy of our family. Samuel F. II cyr. Washixgtos, lnd., June 211 am directed by the Jefferson club of this city to tender you lu sincerest sympathy in the great lose you bare sustained. S. 13. Bond, President. ScOTTSBCBO.Tnd., June 22. Accept sympathy and the assurance that the democratic party of Indiana realize! its own tremendous loss. Citable L. Jewett. Tebeb IIacte, June 22. Accept assurances of our sympathy in your sorrow at the death of your noble busbaud. C. t and Mks. Jewett. New York, June 23. Pleaae accept deepest sympathy in your affliction. Your noble Husband was the embodiment of all that is good and trne and wise and manly, and bis death is a national calamity. George Hoadley. New Yoke, June 22. I deeply sympathize with you. George O. Joes. Jiew YORK, June 22. I grieve orer the loss of a cherished friend. Accept my sincere sympathy. S. A. EcuOLS. Marion, Id., June 22. I deeply sympathize with yoa and your family in the irreparable loss you have sustained, the nation and stats as el!. James S. Bhively.NEW YORK, June 22. My heart in all its tenderest sympathies is with your father's family and your own in this great bereave. nU Asthost J. Thomas. Washington. June 22. My family join on (n deepest sympathy and sincere condolence. Jobs McGkaw. Laurel, Md., June 22. In your hour of Beep bereavement receive oar heartfelt sympathy. Our household mourns with you the loss f your good and noble 1 us band. Jonx C Fay. Tebre II act ft. June 22. My sense of your loss Is inexpressible, and my sympathy beyond words. 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country will join you in mourning the death of Joseph E. McDonald. Ia his life and in his death hegave to the world an example of honor, courage and ability never surpassed In our history, and worthy of all acceptance by the present and future generations. D. W. VOORHBES. Washington, June 22. Mrs. Carnth and myself join, ia the universal sorrow over the death of thai great and good man, your husband. ASHEB O. CaRCTII. Washington, June 22. With profound orrow we read of your husband's death this morning. Mrs. Bynuru joins me in expressions of deepest sympathy for you in your tad bereavement. It is a great consolation to his friend, as well as bis family, that in the presence of death, as in the great conflict of life, he was sincere, brave and ooursgeous. W. D. Byncm. LOCISVILLB, Ky., June 21 Mrs. Wattersoo joins me in sympathy profound and sincere. In the death of your noble husband wo all lose au old and true friend. Henry Watterson. Charleston, W. Va., June 22. My heartiest sympathy in your bereavement. I admired him as a statesman and loved him as a frieud. William L. Wilson (Congressman.) Washington, June 22. A useful and honorable career closed when your husband died. I offer tender sympathy to his sorrowing family. James N. TYNER. WASHINGTON, June 22. Please accept my proffered sympathy ia your great bereavement. The American people honor the memory of Joseph E. McDonald. A. E. JSTEVXN60X. Washington, Jane 22. Sincerest sympathy. Take him all in ail be wu tha wee teat and purest man I ever met in publio life. 0. 0. Stealey. Coixmbcs, O., June 22. Mrs. Campbell and I have heird with deep sorrow of the senator' death. We beg to extend to you our sincerest ympathy. J. E. Campbell (Governor ol Ohio.) Looansport, Ind June 22. I sympathize most sincerely with you in your bereavement. The whole country shares your loss and deeply sorrows for one whose life wai a splendid exemplification of the possibilities of American citizenship. S. P. &HEERIN. St. Paul, Minn., June 22. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to you. Mr, and Mrs. Hatsbrocgh. Terre Haute, ltd., June 22. Please cccept my heartfelt syu pa hy in your sad affliction. John E. Lamb. Danville, 111., June 22. Please accept my sympathy and condolence for yonr irreparable loss. 1 II. Barton. New Orleans, June 22. Sincere regret and sympathy of my wife and self. B. F. Jona?. Cincinnati, June 22. I deeply sympathize with you in your sorrow. In the death of your husband the country sustains a great los. He was a grand, noble man, clean-minded and true under all oircumstauoes to hi convictions of right. John M. Uaklan. South Bend, lnd., June 22. I feel that in the death of your husband our state and the country loses one of its most distinguished and honorable publio men. Accept our heartfelt sympathy. Clem Stcdebakeb and Family. voorhee3 and thurman.

A Tribute to tha Deceased by Two Prominent Statesmen. On the Btreets, in the hotel corridors, in the public offices, whereever men met together Monday the chief topic of conversation was the death of the beloved statesman. No lips were opened in calumny and everyone paid hia tribute of respect to the high moral and mental qualities of the dead. But there were evidences of public sorrow elsewhere aa well. All tho nation discussed the character of Joseph E. McDonald. In response to a request The Sentinel received the lollowing from Senator Voorhees: Terre Haute, lnd., June 22. Special. But few word are required to express my estimate of Mr. McDonald. Au intimate and unbroken friendship of forty-one years' duration enables me to speak of him with full and ample knowledge, lie was a great and a good rnaa. Hi intellect was strong, massive, quick aud comprehensive, while his heart waa gentle, faithtal and tender. 1 tbiuk. he waa tha best lawyer our state has ever produced. Mature gave him the legal mind, as it ia known ia the profession, and his perception and judgment Of legal questions were swift and unerring. Ia the discharge of his public duties he always took rank with the foremost and conferred great honor on hi state in every position ho ever held. In all the private relations of life a more lovable nature or truer friend waa never known. Generous, unselfish and steadfast in his attachment, he was beloved by those who knew him best aud longest. On soms proper occasion I hope more fully to sum up his splendid character and talents than 1 eau in this brief dispatch, t-uch men as Joseph E. McDonald enrich history by their lives and elevate our conceptions of true and noble manhood. D. W. Voorhees. That grand old Roman, Allen G. Thurman, sent the following: Columbus, O.. June 22. Special. I have just learned with profound regret of the death of ex-Senator McDonald of your state. 1 knew him intimately for many years, and I am sure that no one esteemed him more highly than I did. As a senator, statesman, lawyer, citizen and friend he waa eminently worthy of the high regard felt for him and his death ia a national lots that will be recognized by the entire country. I wish that I could attend hia funeral, but ill health prevents. Please let me know when it will take place as some of his friends here wish to know. Be so good as to express to his family my sincere condolence. A. U. TntJRMAN. The following explains why ex-Presi-dent Cleveland's estimate of the dead man's worth does not appear: New York, Jane 21-8pecial.-The special correspondent of The Sentinel finds that ex-President Cleveland ie at Buzzard's Bay and it was impossible to retch him by wire. SENATOR TURPIB. The Esteem In Which He Held the Dead ittstciiusn. Senator Turpie said : "Joseph E. McDonald was in every way stalwart, in body, mind and heart. Physically capable of long continued labor and endurance, be waa in mental perception clear, etrong and comprehensive, while his affections found their home in the broadest and most generous sympathies. "The great strength of hia character lay in the even and well-balanced equipoise of all hia faculties and in his command of the sum of their powers. "A man of such excellent endowments needed no official position to give any added importance to hia utterances upon public a Li airs. "When political changes in Indiana relieved him from service in the U. S. senate his judgment and opinions continued to attract and to deserve the wide spread attention of his country rx en. "In ihe statement of a proposition at the bar or the hustings, he waa very forcible. This statement always anticipated, and not seldom attacked and destroyed the counter statement. Ills opening waa an assault not easily repulsed. Though often thus very felicitous in speech he waa etill more effective in counsel and action. He frequently acted without speech, or without much speech never without careful thousrht and deliberation. Often, in the most momentous affairs, both public and private, the act alone, interpreted his course and conclusion. As when in a case of long pendency and of much celebrity at the time, he withdrew a whole armful of pleadings, and filed in their stead a non eft factum. Most of aa would have said, at lea6t although this party signed the paper, he never executed it.but not a word waa eaid, only the plea filed. Kvery one felt the act, the effect of that courage which had boldly avowed the real defense, and of that discretion which conducted it successfully to a favorable issue. "He waa, both aa a counselor and combatant, one of those most to be dreaded or respected, one whose action was felt more than it was seen or heard. And there are many in Indiana and elsewhere who ia the great arena of political or pro

fessional Ufo have unconsciously followed his guidance without being aware of ita source or excellence. "He waa mentally and morally a man of the most absolute honesty. Having taken his position in a question founded upon what he conceived to be correct premises he reached and held the conclusion to which he was led without regard to consequences. His mind was logically aa honest aa his heart and hands were pure. For this reason he was of the most independent of men. Thia independence cost him much, but not more than he waa willing to pay therefor. "Hia personal integrity was above all praise. For lon years intrusted with most valuable interests, through a season of tumult and revolution when opportunity matched mightily with temptation, he nas left a record of stainless probity and honor. No wonder that for such a man the way was made 6mooth from thia life to the next. "His aged head was pillowed upon Christian faith ; as for the rest, like the shepherd in the famous story of the Pilgrim, he wore heartsease in hia bosom, the answer of a good conscience. "Not the dying senator, but Death looked aghast when he departed, seeing no sign of mortality in one whoso grandly paid the debt of nature."

WILLIAM H. ENGLISH. One of the First Tariff Reformer of th We.t. The Hon. William II. English said: "My acquaintance with ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald began during his first and only term of service in the U. . house of representatives. This was the Thirty-first congress, covering the yeara 1840-50. During part of this time I waa clerk of the THE M'DONALD claims committee in the U. S. senate. Being young men from the same state and of the same politics, we were thrown much together, and an intimacy was formed which continued to the day of his death. "In' after vears this ' intimacy was strengthened by an entire harmony of views aa to the various political questions of the times. As to some of these questions we were not in accord with popular sentiment Thia was particularly true in the days when a popular wave seemed to roll over Indiana in favor of a wild inflation of irredeemable paper currency. The leaders of both the roat political parties generally shrunk from antagonizing thi3 popular sentiment. Not eo, Joseph E. McDonald ; the only queBtion with him was, is this right? Looking alone to this and discarding entirely that it would be unpopular, he stood then, and always in favor of a sound currency. This undoubtedly lost him friends in certain quarters, and probably more than once prevented his selection to high office. "In the great civil war he waa decidedly in favor of maintaining the Union. I happen to know that, at a most critical period of the war, he took an important part with Michael 0. Kerr, myself and other democrats in exposing and preventing mischief in thia etaie, by tho so-called society of 'the Sons of Liberty,' or Kuighta of the Golden Circle. Some account of thia is givon in Mr. Woolen's admirable book of 'Sketches of Early Indiana,' but all has never yet been made public. Mr. McDonald waa a true man to his country, his friends, and his part. "He was a democrat as far back as I first knew him, and justly proud of his firm and consistent adherence to the principles of that party. He said in my hearing not long ago, with great earnestness and deep feeling as I thought, that he had fought a hundred battles for the democratic party but never one against it. And he spoke nothing but the truth when he said it. Is'o party ever had a more prudent leader or more consistent and persistent advocate. He richly deserved all and more than his paity ever did for him. He should have been president of the United states. He possessedin an eminent degree the qualities most needed for that important and exalted station. I had the honor of introducing into the Indiana stato convention of 1834, the resolutions instructing for him for the presidency, and there were times before that when I felt the party would have acted wisely to have selected him. He miht have been nominated in 1S60, but for reasons that there is not space here now to explain. As matters turned out it waa best for him that he was not. The presidency was not for him much aa he deserved it. . But it is all the same to him now that he baa "fought his last battle," and hia great heart is forever at rest. "Although Mr. McDonald was a strong party man, it was in the patriotic sense of using party to further the best interests of the whole people. Within the organization of hia party he sometimes differed with a majority of his political friends, as in the matter of inflation before mentioned, but he never thought of acting with any other party because he could not control hia own. He flt he could do .more good by biding hia time where he was and exercising his influence for right inside the organization of his own party. "In a word, he waa a great, broad, liberal statesman, uninfluenced by any little or selfish considerations. Firm in the maintenance of hia own views, he was exceedingly tolerant toward those who differed from him. This was not only true in the political world, but at the bar and in the walks of private life. Aa a result he was generally respected even by those who did not agree with him. He waa not an orator, could not be called brilliant, but he was, nevertheless, a man of great ability, both as a lawyer and a statesman. Under circumstances where other men would loose their judgment from excitement, he waa cool, calm and collected, and these traits coupled with hia well-known fairness and prudence made him one of the best leaders his party ever had in this state, and a safe man to take charge oi any important trust. But it W8 not alone for hi ability, hia fairness toward opponents, his calmness under difficulties, or his uniform prudence, that he wu eo

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The Tribute to tha l)ad Man's TVerth by ft Political Toe. The Hon. Stanton J. I'eelle knew Mr. McDonald for a long time. Just after President Harrison's inauguration Mr. Teelle was riding on a train to Washington with Mr. McDonald. Aa they approached Harper's Ferry Mr. McDonald began to discourse upon the courage of John Brown and went over the incidents of his career, giving his auditor a new light on the history of Brown. He dwelt particularly on the pathetic scene between Brown and his son, when the latter was lying mortally wounded. The boy was crying piteously when his father approached, and in the intensity of his suffering begged to be killed. Old Ossawatoraie approached hia son and said, "My boy, it would be cowardly not to die like a man." Thia put a stop to the boy's crying and he expired a lew moments afterward. The manner in which the statesman told the etory peculiarly affected his companion.' This is Mr. I'eelle's estimate of the dead etatesman : "He was absolutely reliable and honorable in all his affairs, lie waa a Jeflereonian democrat of the old stock and never wavered on account of party expediency. He - waa true to his convictions on the tariff, on finances and on states rights. -' While he believed in the rights of the states, he believed in the preservation of the Union. ft mm 4i :, ,!;? 1. -mr. r i 'iff : RESIDENCE. He had the happy faculty of going through life without making a personal enemy. "As a lawyer, he had an extraordinary good judgment and was at the head of his profession. His strength b"s a'ldwyer waa because wa9 honest in all his convictions, and in hia convictions to what he believed were right aa legal propositions." Kx-Civernor Graj. Ex-Governor Gray said: "Mr. McDonald was one of the leading lawyers of the country and bore the reputation of being conscientious in hia profession and business relations. His career fully exemplifies the possibilities of American citizenship, lie aroee by the force of his own exertions from the sphere of a poor and humble boy until he stood at the head of his profession and impressed his personality on the history of tho state and nation. In hii death the state has lost one of her most distinguished and useful citizens." A WHOLE STATE MOURNS Tha Lou of IIr Moat TleloTcd Citizen kad Leader. Flags were at half mast Monday over the state house, the court house, the Cleveland, Gray and Hendricks clubs and many private residences and business blocks in respect to the memory of Indiana's departed statesman. Advices from all over the state show that the great commonwealth of Indiana deeply mourns the loss of ber greatest son, Joseph E. McDonald. The many telegrams received by the bereaved family show bow thoroughly they havo the heartfelt sympathy of this (;rent nation. Mrs. McDonald is bearing up quite bravely under her deep affliction, and while she saw only her immediate relatives and nearest friends yesterday she was quite composed.' During the day there was a perfect stream of callers who expressed their sympathy with the bereaved ones. Hundreds of prominent Indianians will be in tho city to attend the last offices of respect and - sorrow for the departure of the ' ex-senator on Wednesday, and many from without the state will be in attendance upon the iuneral, which will be one of the greatest in Indiana's hietory. Mr. Frank Farnsworth of Washington, D. C, a brother of Mrs. McDonald, ia here, and Mr. Malcolm A. McDonald's two eons, Scott and Frank, arrive today to attend the funeral of their illustrious" grandfather. Many other relatives will be here, but just who ha not been learned by the family. It was first proposed to have the dead statesman's remains 'lie in state at the capitol with a public "view, but in deference to the wishes of the family it was determined not to do this. Tho funeral services will begin at 3 o'clock Wednesday, with tho Iv. Drs. Milburn and Haines officiating. The interment will be at Crown Hill in the family lot. There are to be eight pall-bearers, six of whom were selected by Mr. McDonald before his death. These six are : Gen. T. A. Morris, Messrs. John W. Mnrphy, A. L. lioache, John P. Frenzel, John S. Williama of Lafayette and John M. Butler. Two others are to be, selected. One of these ia to be the Hon. Kicbard J. Bright of Washington. The other will be either Judge Gresham or Justice Harlan. A definite selection was not determined upon, for it was not known whether or not Justice Harlan or Judge Gresham would be able to attend. OPINIONS OF TH PRESS. Indlaoapoll Paper All 8peak . Highly of th Iaad Ontatd Tlawa. Iodlanapolls Seatoel.J When Josspn E. McDonald died one of the strongest, and at the same . time most attractive, personalities in our history as a state vanished into the unknown. A man whose name had been in thia great commonwealth for nearly half a century a eynonym for integrjly, anj eteadiagtaeia.

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and fidelity to conviction, and all the attributes of lofty manhood and noble citizenship, has crowned his long and eminently useful career with a serene and peaceful death. He died aa he lived, a philosopher and a Christian, facing the supreme ordeal which must come sooner or later to all of us with the same calmness and equanimity with which he had met every exigency and every duty of life. Although he had exceeded the three score years and ten allotted to man by the psalmist, life had for him as potent charms as it possesses for most of those who look upon it with the idealiism of youth. But a few short months ago he waa the very embodyment of physical vigor, aa he wa of mental strength. Hia capacity for enjoyment, preserved and strengthened by the moderation which had been the unfailing rule of his life, was as great as his capacity for usefulness. HisinduBtry, hia powera of application and of endurance, have, within the twelvemonth, excited anew the wonder and the admiration even of thoso who had for years known something of the prodigous amount of severe intellectual labor ho performed apparently without special tax upon his mind or body. Last winter his physical strength began to fail, and the splendid frame, which had borne eo proudly and so buoyantly tho weight of advancing years, tottered under the burden of a mortal disease. But his mind remained as alert, as clear, as vigorous as ever, and through all the painful and weary days and hours of bis final illness not a cloud obscured, for a moment, his intellectual vision. To those whose precious privilege it was, aa of the writer's, to commune with him in these last days, a new revelation waa given of the beauty and digcity of his character, his simple manliness, hia sound judgment, hia happy and hopeful temperament, his serene faith in a Higher Tower. To the writer he said, in a feeble, trembling voice, within a few hours of his demise: "Life is very dear to me. I shall part with it with regret. , My surroundings are of the happiest, and I have every reason to, wish to stay. Yet I know of no more fitting end for a long and, tcke it all in all, happy lite, than amid these very surroundings, ministered to by those who love me and whom I love, aud receiving every manifestation of tenderness and sympathy which atlectionate hearts and kind hands can give. I am content to go whenever the summons comes," It was thua that thia great soul passed down into the valley of the shadow of death.

It will not be attempted here to do full justice to Mr. McDonald's character and career as a statesman, a lawyer, or a party leader. , The etory of his life was fully told yesterday, and feeling tributes to his memory are rendered in the city press by some of the most eminent of those with whom he had been associated for years. We cannot refrain, however, from giving a few impressions of Mr. McDonald in his professional and public characters. Mr. McDonald, intellectually considered, waa distinguished for clearness of penetration, a remarkable analytic faculty, soundness of judgment, and a firm grasp upon vital principles. He wasnotabrilliant nor a showy man. He lacked that somewhat intangible quality which, for want of a better name, we call "personal magnetism," and which dazzles and attracts the multitude; but he possessed that better and more enduring attribute which enabled him to grapple his friend to him "with hooks of Eteel and their name was legion. Ho was not an eloquent man, in the ordinary eenee of the term. He bad none of the graces or tricks of the rhttorician, but he had the power of clear, simple, concise statement to a degree which is rarely equaled. Ilis statement of a proposition embodied his argument, and when he bad presented his case, whether to a judge, a jury, a deliberative body or a popular assemblr.ge, volumes of exposition, hours of declamation, coald rarely have added to its force. His'mind waa distinctly logical. He reasoned along direct lines. He formed no opinions from incomplete data. Before his judgment was passed upon any question, whether of theory or of fact, ho made a thorough investigation and bad everything beiore him, so far es possible, which was essential to a complete understanding of tho matter. Then his conclusions were quickly made. As to abstract questions he scarcely ever found occasion to change these conclusions. Ho adhered to them tenaciously, because they were adopted, in the firet place, after careful inquiry and earnest thought, and because with bis mental habits it was quite impossible for him to change his point of view and make a different application of given principles to given conditions at one tirao than at another. Thus Mr. McDonald's economic views, as proclaimed in bis last public utterances, were the same as he had held in his earliest manhood. He believed in the principle of free trade, because, to a mind w constituted as his, it 'appeals with the irresistible force of scientific truth. He believed it entirely practicable to apply this principle in the United States and universally throughout the world ; and he advocated, all his life, every policy and measure which would hasten this grand consummation. Similiarly, he held strong views on the currency question. He was always what ia known aa a hard money man. He believed that it was not possible to make "money" with printing presses, and he also believed that it was not possible for this country to permanently maintain a "double standard" without the co-operation of other commercial nations. He waa a "strict construe tionist." He always maintained that the only path of safety lay in the federal government confining itself 6trictly to tho exercise of the powers expressly delegated to it by the constitution. He was, in a word, a thorough Jeffersonian, in his principles as well ae in his practices. Not being in the minutest particle of hia composition a demagogue, a coward, a time-server or a trickster, Mr. McDonald never concealed hi views upon any political or economic question. No man ever had in a larger degree, the courage of his convictions. More than once he stood like a rock, amid a tempest of popular fury, for what he believed to b true and right. During the war he was one of the great conservative forces in his partv, and did as much as any other man to save it from the dishonor in which a few reckless and misguided men sought to involve it. Years afterward he reflated the flat money craze at the sacrifice

of his immediate political ambitions, when almost every other prominent man in the West, of both parties, made concessions to it. He fearlessly attacked the protective tariff when other democratic leaders were paltering with it; when some of them were talking of "incidental protection," or perchance giving wings to the mischievous heresy that tariffs raise wages. Mr. McDonald never made any of these compromises of truth; he never made any of these sacrifices of principle. Henry Clay would rather be right than be president; Joseph E. McDonald, although he cherished, as ho had a riuht to, lofty political aspirations, would rather be right than to hold any office on earth, high or low ; would rather have the approval of his own conscience than any popularity or any honors or dignities which could be obtained by artifice or stratagem or equivocation or trimming or any course that was not simple and straightforward and manly and upright and downright. Hence it ia that his public career, now that it is finished, ia so symmetrical, so well rounded, so consistent. Mr. McDonald had served his state as attorney-general and in both houses of congress. He was the democratic nominee for governor of Indiana in and for a number of years was prominently before the country in connection with the presidency. During his Eix years eervics in the U. 8. senate he made a profound impression upon the country as a man of broad statesmanship, sound judgment and patriotic principles. In that body he took rank with the first, although among his colleagues were euch men as Moiiton, Voorhees, Tiiurman, Conklin, Edmund?, Bayard, Beck and Sherman. Mr. McDonald was at his entrance into the senate placed upon the judiciary committee, which ia always made up of the ablest lawyers in that body. Hia work upon this committee was most important and creditable. Mr. Conkling, who was a member of this committee, said at a public banquet a short time before hia death that "Joe McDonald was the bet lawyer that he had ever come in contact with ;:' and he waa regarded in the senate as the peer of any of the fcreat lawyers in that body. Indeed, it was as a lawyer rather than in politics that Mr. McDonald won his highest distinction. He unquestionably stood at the head of his profession in Indiana, having had, since the death of Vice-President Hendricks, no rival for the leadership of the bar of the state eave Gen. Harrison. His fame as a lawyer was national; his practice before tho supreme court was extensive, and had connected him, for many years back, with some of the most important litigation which reached that great tribunal. He was a great lawyer, because he Lad an eminently legal mind. His apprehension of fundamental legal principles was intuitive, and he rarely erred in his application of them. IIU power of cogent statement, already referred to, waa another element of strength, but above all did the respect and confidence which his simple, manly character inspire in judges and juries contribute to hia success in hia profession. Mr. McDonald will always be remembered by Indiana and the country at large as a great lawyer, as a wise legislator, as a patriotic statesman, as a sagacious party leader, who always commanded, aa he ' always deserved, the confidence of his party, if he did not always command its applause. By his family and hia immediate associates iu social and professional life he will be remembered as one of the kindest.eentleet, tenderer t, most honorable of men; as the embodiment of honor and as one whose symplicity of nature and confidence in the goodness of his feilow men were ever beautiful and inspiring; as a man, who, in all the relations of lif, was faithful to every duty and obligation ; who, to a high standard of personal conduct, joined the greatest toleration and charity for others, eo that he was ever ready to put the most eenercu3 construction upon the words and actions of his fellow beings; as a hater of all shams and hypocrisy and deception and trickery. Being a man, of course he had his faults; but if among them were any grievous ones it would certainly puzzle those who knew him best to name them. His life was gentle; and tha rlrmnt to mixed in uim tint nature laighl s and up And txj to ail the world: This wi a uian.

A Man oM'onv ction. IudianipolU Nswj.J He was a man of heart and conscience. Had ho not been he could not have received and kept ihe confidence and friendship of many who were opposed to him politically in 'the fierceet strain this peoplo has been . subjected to. lie made friends and kept thorn. lie was courageous and followed his conscience. When a candidate for senator his party was largely influenced by the soft money e ement, but he avowed the convictions of his life in no doubtful way and advocated sound monetary principles, though ur-cd to keep 6ilence. He felt that he must speak, even if he lost the coveted honor, and in the storm of opposition that followed he never bowed his head. This was not a eingle instance. When he had convictions upon a Bubject he held to them tenaciously, and it may be said truely that "his trumpet gave forth no uncertain sound." So, by the exercise of these qualities of mind and heart, by hia industry, patience, kindliness and courage he wrought a good life, having much of joy, but holding somewhat of trial and sorrow as all lives must. He wrought a life which is an example and inspiration in many respects, the remembrance of which well may be cherished. It passed beyond the allotted . boundar', was laid down aa a well-worn garment, and the end waa peace. A Tjpl"l American CltUao. Indlanapoli Journal. ' In the death of the Hon. Joseph E. McDonald Indiana lose a citizen who has been long identified with her history, and who has Berved tho state in various capacitiea, and always honorably. Mr. McDonald waa a typical American citizen of the best class in that, acquiring a collegiate education by his own eflorts, and engaging in the profession of the law without the aid of Bocial or other adventitious circumstances, he did, by genuine ability nd force of character reach a'place among tho foremost lawyers and statesmen of hia time. A German Tribute. Editor JeuD of the German TeUgraph made hia first political speech in German twenty-five years ago in Brookviile, lnd., in the presence of the - Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, who had spoken in English in such a powerful and convincing manner that the large audience was perfectly convinced, Since that time Mr. Jeup haa al

ways remained a steadfast adherent of Mr. McDonald, and early ia 1SS4 he brought out hia name as a deserving aspirant for the democratic presidential nomination ia a strong commendatory article in tho Indianapolis TtUgraph. That paper in ita issue of yesterday contains a touching tribute to the dead statesman, whom, as an honest politician, a great constitutional lawyer, an Indianian of whom citizens of all politics were justly proud, it calls him tho Allen G. Thurman of Indiana, recom mending him as a shining example to tha growing generation of this country. An Honored and Noble Life. Cincinnati Loquirer. Ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald, after a valiant struggle against consuming disease, yielded the victory last night, meeting: death with the resignation of one who had lived an honored and noble life. He waa one of Indiana's moEt worthy sons, and his years were full of honors. At an advanced age he could look back on a lifa well spent, and with the eatisfactioa that none more than he enjoyed the esteem and reverent love of the people. He was one of the few remaining types of a past generation, whose convictiens were those ot rugged honesty, and whose fidelity in every relation was aa true as divinity itself. A life long associate of tho sainted Hendricks, he haa gone to joia , that great son of Indiana in the immortal galaxy of patriotic American statesmen. He was an eminent democrat in politic and eminfintly democratic in a!i the ways of life. His admirers del'iKhtet to call him "Old Saddlebags," for it typified tho pymphcity of the man. He attained the highest eminence in the legal profession, and when Hendricks died the mantle fell upon him as tho idolized eon of tho Hooeier state. His death puts a great state in mourning, and the loss is one that falls upon all. Itagret In TYaahlngtoa. (Chicago Herald. Washington, June 22. The news of the death of ex-Senator McDonald of Indiana ia received with great regret ia Washington, which was McDonald's home for a large portion of each year. The exsenator baa a law office here, presided over by hia partner, "Dick" Bright of Indiana. The working man of the firm ia John C. Fay, ex-agistant attorney-general. Mr. McDonald was one of the numerous statesmen who have chosen wives from among the employes of Uncle Sam, his present wife being a clerk in the treasury department at the time of their marriage, Eeveral years ago. She was a widovr and ia noted for her beauty and intelligence. Mrs. McDonald, after her marriage to the senator, took deep interest ia politics both in Washington and Indianapolis, and was one of tho most loyal and enthusiastic of the large number of people in the United States who thought ''Old .Saddlebags" waa just the proper man to make a good democratic president of tha United States. A DYNAMITE CANARD.

The Faet About the Liberty Court ITouae Collapa. "The reports Bent out by an Irresponsible correspondent and published by tha Indianapolb Journal and other papers that the new court house of Union county had been blown up with dynamite ia a slander upon the tax-payers of that county," eaid Mr. Casa Connaway of Liberty at the Grand hotel lost night. 'There ia no evidence that tho tower was ruined by dynamite and no reputable man in liberty can be found to believe such a silly story. "A j-ear ago the board of county commissioners, through the influence of the court house ring, ordered a new cot:rt house built. The old one waa good enough ; the county was in debt. A fiftecn-thousand-dollar poor house had been built only a year before, and as the county is small and the tax was high. More than nine-tenths of the tax payers opposed the erection of. a new court house. They tried to restrain the commissioners from sinking the county deeper in debt but lost in both the lower and supreme court, and the court house ring vent ahead and entered into a contract with William McKay of Ttoekville to construct the court house for ?s0 0. Architects were apjointed for which they aro to receive ?o,0(O for plans and pupt rintendency. Before the walls were up the cash ran out and tho ring lobbied a bill through the last legislature to authorize the commissioners to issue ?r0,000 in bonds to finish the building. The bill pasted over the protest of liepresentative Kude of our county and nine-tenths of the taxpayers who remonstrated with long petitions. But the ring got tho eolid republican vote and enough democratic members to pass the bill. The commissioners issued the bonds and the contractors went ahead building a high stone tower at the middle of one end, the court house being built of stone with inside lining. Last Thursday at 10 p. m. the tower crumbled and fell in a heap. But it was not blown up with dynamite. There wore eeveral persons on the street near by at the time, but they will all testify under oath that no report was heard and no flash waa seen and no person could bo found to swear that he 6aw a flash or heard a report at tha time the tower fell. "At night the boys of the town would go up the tower to see the headlights of the incoming trains. Thursday evening Lee lioach was on top and on descending mortar and pieces of bricks fell upon him and a few minutes after he reached the Street the tower fell. II. C. Ham, John Maliey, Lew Kessler and many other reputable citizens who etood near at the time say they beard no report, but for a few minutes before the collapse they heard crushing or smashing sounds in the building. There was no shock felt, no vibrations in the buildings across the street felt and not a window was shattered. Instead of the stone being scattered by dynamite explosion the tower fell in a heap from its own weight. The same day that the tower fell the architect inspected the building in order that the contractor might draw his monthly estimate from the county commissioners. The dynamite theory was advanced to protect the ring, aud the dynamite etory was sent out to the press by a well-kown member of the ring. "The whole front and the tower will have to be rebuilt, but it will not be at the expense of the tax-payera or there will be a regular rebellion in old Union. Thi8 court-house ecandal haa torn tho ; repulican party of the county into frag ments, last year tins court nouse cost the republicans the clerk, treasurer and one commissioner, whom the democrats elected, although the county is republican by 400 to 500. The end is not yet." MISS WIEDEMANN WINSSensational Breach of Promise Sal for. Damages Decided. London. June 17. The sensational breach of promise case of Miss Valerie Wiedemann against Capt. Robert Horace Walpole, in which the lady asked for $100,000 daraagea and which haa been off and on in the courta for a year waa decided today and resulted in a verdict of $1,500 for the plaintiff, "De C ain't Stomach Deany. ENGLisn, Juna 19. Special. David Okes, an old and prominent republican of this town, surprised bis neighbors today by publicly announcing that he ia now and henceforth a democrat. His only explanation is that he can not stomach Benny and hia administration.