Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1902 — Page 4

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE OLAKX, Ed. and Pub. BBNSSBLABB, - INDIANA.

THE NEWS IN BREF

James B. Hill, a retired capitalist, was killed by a street car at St. Louis. Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Shaw, on their twenty-fifth marriage anniversary, gave a dinner at Washington, entertaining lowa friends. William Seville, a fireman, was Browned and another fireman is missing as a result of a fire which caused $50,000 loss to the steamer Saxon at Philadelphia. Fred Hennig, aged 8 years, while playing with a rifle, shot and probably fatally wounded the 6-year-old daughter of Philip Trowbridge at Mishawaka, Ind. Charles O'Neill was found frozen to death in a corn field near Winona, Minn. W. R. Wanser of Seattle, H. Cole and M. M. Martin were drowned near Leavenworth, Wash., while surveying a location for a power plant. McMahan, a domestic employed in a hotel in Springfield, Mo., was found dead in her room with a bullet wound in her back. William Pittman, a railroad employe, found in the room slightly wounded, was held for the crime. The American Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, as receiver, took possession of the Barrett & Barrett eider mill at South Haven, Mich. The three men who are supposed to have robbed the bank at Bridger, Mont, and escaped with $3,738 were captured after a wild ride of 300 miles. The Pickering Manufacturing Company of Lowell, Mass., maker of knitted cotton underwear, announces Its failure, with liabilities over $300,•00. Thomas Thornton, receiver for the defunct Lemars National Bank of Le mars, lowa, has filed his final report showing that creditors get 60 cents oi the dollar. Mrs. Claypool, an aged woman, was fhtally beaten by Frank Fleming and Arthur Griffith of Elkhart, Ind., who robbed the home of Isaac Murphy at Niles, Mich. A girl aged 6 years and an infant of 2 months, children of Mrs. Ainsley Bowers of Saginaw, Mich., were burned to death while their mother was absent from the house. The Reichstag held the longest session in its history, caused by the debate over the tariff bill, during which the opposing factions became involved in serious rows. Secretary Shaw's report has created deep interest in Berlin and is the subject of much comment in the German press. The French chamber of deputies has ratified the monetary convention between France and three other continental countries on the coinage of more silver.

The motor vehicle manufacturers have decided to call a convention in Chicago during the automobile show to ask congress for $20,000,000 for a great national highway. The Rome correspondent of a Milwaukee Roman Catholic paper cables that neither Bishop Spalding nor Auxiliary Bishop Muldoon will succeed the late Archbishop Feehan, but that Bishop Quigley of Buffalo is the choice of the cardinals at Rome. Miss Ella Westln was probably fatally burned near Bertram, Tex., Her clothing catching at an open grate. Dr. Lorenz, the Austrian specialist, accompanied by Dr. Friederich Mueller, has arrived at Washington. The buildings of the Crystal Ice and Cold Storage Company at Anderson, Ind., burned, causing a loss of $50,000. Actor Barry Johnstone, who shot and killed Mrs. Kate Hassett at Philadelphia and wounded himself, is reported dying. President King of Oberlln College, Oberlin, Ohio, announces a gift of $50,000 to the institution, but withholds the name of the donor. Crossed wires started a fire at Allentown, Pa., which destroyed the wholesale dry goods store of Bittner, Hunsiker & Co. Total loss $170,000, Insurance, $112,000/ Fireman Frank Elliott and Express Messenger Richard Helm were killed and nine other men seriously Injured In a collision on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad at Sunbrlght, Tenn. At the synod of the Springfield dio-

cese of the Episcopal church In ses•ion at Springfield, JJL, Bishop Seymour announced that he wanted no coadjutor named at present. Frances E. Brooks, Republican, for congressman-at-large from Colorado, has 840 plurality over Alva Adams, Democrat, and in the First district John F. Shafroth, Democrat, has 2,792 plurality over Robert W. Bonynge, Republican. The plant of the Brookville Manufacturing company at Brookville, Ind., was destroyed by fire. Loss, SIOO,OOO, with insurance of $52,000. Frank Ashby, aged 53 years, of Sheboygan, Wis., died sitting in a chair at the breakfast Jable. Apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause. John Vanderberg of Nelllsvllle, Va., was accidentally shot while out hunting. L. Free his companion, mistook him for 4 deer. The green bugs have appeared in Ellis county, Tex., creating considerable alarm among the wheat farmers.

THOMAS BRACKET REED DIES AT WASHINGTON

Famous Ex-SpeaJker of the House of Representatives Succumbs to Bright's Disea.se. DEAD MAN WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST INTELLECTVAL GIANTS OF AMERICA Pathetic Death Scene, When the Brilliant Mind Fights for Life Long After the Body Has Become Inert—Sketch of the Career of the Maine Statesman.

Thomas B. Reed, former speaker of the House of Representatives, died In his room at the Arlington in Washington a few minutes after midnight, Dec. 6, of acute Bright’s disease, precipitated by an attack of appendicitis. He had been entirely unconscious since 11 o’clock and all day had been in a half conscious condition. About 5 o’clock in the afternoon his kidneys refused to perform their functions altogether, and from that time the physicians were constantly with him, although there was no hope. After 5 o’clock he had frequent flashes of consciousness, lasting for some little time. During these intervals his voice, which had so often thrilled great audiences, filled the sickroom. Scraps of legal argument, fragments of points of parliamentary procedure and political axioms came from his lips, although he knew it not and was unable to recognize even his wife and daughter,

Ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, Who Died at Washington Dec. 7.

who remained at his side to the last. His brain fought for life long after the body was doomed and almost inert. There was no death struggle, no convulsion, but after 11 o’clock, when all actual consciousness was lost, the body, physically great though it was, began to lose its warmth, while up to the end came the lightning flashes from the great intellect. Mr. Reed died without knowing his lllneßs was fatal. He had had Bright’s disease for years, but no one knew it. With proper care he might have lived ten years longer. If the attack of appendicitis had not reacted on the kidneys he might not have died for some little time. The indomitable will fought valiantly against the inevitable, and during his last moments the Maine giant lived the sentiment which he expressed when requested to withdraw from the presidential rttce of 1896: “Gtd hates a quitter.” But the fight was against overwhelming odds and the mind which was beclouded during the day lapsed into unconsciousness at 11 p. m., and the intellect which blazed so many brilliant flashes was clouded forever. For an hour before Mr. Reed passed over the river he was unconscious and did not recognize the devoted wife and loyal daughter, who had vainly endeavored to nurse him back to health. The patient did not suffer from convulsions, as is usual in Bright’s disease. He did not know his condition was so serious that death would ensue and this brilliant mind was handed back to its maker without leaving a tender farewell to his loving ones, nor expressing a single phrase which would have been handed down to posterity. »

HIS LIFE AND CAREER

Thomas Bracket Reed One of America's Intellectual Giants. Mr. Reed was one of the noted figures of American pqlitlcs. If his name

is not enrolled on the list of the country’s great statesmen, there will certainly be no one to dispute his claim to a place among those who in their day pnd generation exercised powerful influence over their fellows. It is, indeed, doubtful whether any other party leader has possessed so much authority in shaping the legislation of his time as did Mr. Reed during the six years that he was the Speaker of the House of Representatives. By strength of brain and force of personality he made the office supreme, and then he filled.it supremely. And that is why Reed was “czar” in the speech of both friend and enemy during his reign. Absolute, uncompromising Integrity marked him in all his political life, so that however much he was criticised by men who disagreed with him, he was never feared as an enemy of his government. And with it all he gained as much fame for some of the qualities

THOMAS BRACKET REED.

he displayed in private life, his wit, his literary ability, his good-fellow-ship, as for his public achievements. Mr. Reed was born in Portland, Me., Oct. 18, 1839. In that city eight generations of his ancestors had lived, the first of the line being .George Cleeve, who was the pioneer settler of Portland, going there in 1632. Thomas Bracket Reed, Sr., the father of the dead statesman, was a watchman in a sugar house. He sent his son regularly to school, nevertheless, and the lad was graduated from the Portland High School at the age of 16. Thence he went to Bowdoin College. The story is that in those days young Reed looked forward to becoming a. preacher, but he soon got that idej> out of his head, and in fact he is shjd to have loafed much of the time during his first three yearß in college, working hard enough, however, in the last year to be placed among the honor men of his class. For a time Mr. Reed taught school In one of the good old red schoolhouses, in which teachers headed toward fame always thrashed big pupils of whom nothing is ever heard again. He had that experience. Then he went to California for a year, and was admitted to the bar, but he found he liked Maine better. He returned home and toward the end of the civil war served, a year in the navy as acting assistant paymaster. He then began to practice law in Portland, and in the course of two years he made himself well enough thought of to secure for himself a nomination to the lower branch of the Maine legislature. He. was elected and it is a notable fact that ever after that time until his voluntary retirement in 1899 he had always a public office Of some kind to fill. Two terms in the legislature were followed by a term in the senate, and three years as attorney general of the state. He then became solicitor for the city of Portland. I His twenty-two years of continuous

service in Congress began in 1877. The preceding year, after a hot struggle in the party convention, he had se-i cured the nomination and had won; his district by 1,200 votes. His renomination for term after term was always unanimous, and only once did he have' a real fight for election, and that was' in 1880, when the Democratic-green-back movement was exceedingly strong in Maine. { Mr. Reed gained fame even in his first term in Congress by his clever cross-examination of witnesses before the Potter committee appointed by the Democrats as the result of the HayesTilden controversy. In the succeeding Congress Mr. Reed was given a place on the judiciary committee, and in his third term, so rapidly had he risen in standing, that he became chairman of that important committee. His work there in reporting bills concerning claims and railroad land forfeitures has had its worth attested by uniformly favorable decisions from the Supreme Court. The next three Congresses were all Democratic, and Mr. Reed became the recognized leader of the minority, twice receiving the Republican caucus nomination for Speaker. In 1889, however, the political whirl had come and Mr. Reed was elected Speaker of the House in the Fifty-third Congress. His situation was a most perplexing one. His party was in control by a narrow majority, and the opposition was strong and determined. The difficulties might well have seemed insurmountable, but Mr. Reed had the knowledge and the courage combined to enable him to become master. Democratic obstruction was the thing that he had first to throttle. He did it to start with by his famous reversal of the long-standing rule of the House In regard to quorums.

The custom had been to make use of the fiction that a Congressman present in the room was not present at roll call unless he chose to answer. In this way the opposition could block action, although its members were present watching every move in the game. “Czar” Reed simply ordered the clerk one day to record as present all the Democrats who were in the room and who had refused to answer to roll call. Then pandemonium began. The Democratic side of the House was in an uproar, but Speaker Reed, gavel in hand, did not lose his temper. “I deny your right, Mr. Speaker, to count me present,” shouted Representative McCreary of Kentucky. Mr. Reed answered:

“The chair is merely making a statement of the fact that the gentleman is present. Does he deny it?” For two days he refused to permit an appeal to the House from his decision, but when the appeal came he was sustained, and so thoroughly did he make his point that in succeeding Congresses with the Democrats in power his rule was maintained. The victory on this point established the right of the majority to transact business, and more than that, it made the majority assume full responsibility for the way in which it exercised its power. From 1895 to 1899 Mr. Reed was again Speaker of the House. This time his autocratic rule, which had been submitted to before because of its apparent necessity, grew steadily more irksome to his fellow Republicans. He retained it, however, despite this, because of his popularity, and the Democrats, who in 1891 had refused to vote for a resolution of thanks to the retiring Speaker, in 1897 offered the resolution.

In 1896 Mr. Reed was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President. He was defeated by McKinley, but did not become disaffected toward the party by his ill success; and he went vigorously to work for the ticket, making speeches in ten different states; from Maine to Kansas. He resigned from Congress Sept. 4, 1899, in order to associate himself with a New York law firm and accumulate for himself modest wealth. Although he had not been extravagant, he had lived up to his income, which, In addition to his salary as Congressman, had been formed solely of a salary from insurance companies as arbitrator and from his literary work. What little he had saved had been lost in unfortunate investments, made by a trusted friend a few years before. Mr. Reed was married at Portland. His wife’s maiden name was Miss Susan Merrill, and she was the daughtei of a Portland clergyman. The only child of the couple was a daughter, Miss Kitty Reed, who was at her father’s bedside during his fatal illness.

WOULD TAKE NO CHANCES.

Good Common Sense Displayed by New York Office Boy. Some of the small boys who get into a business life young can be relied upon for good common sense. A man in one ot the big shops up town was much pleased at this attribute in a boy he employed. He was a bright, honest boy, quick and reliable, and when a second boy was needed they sent for Sam. Couldn’t he get them a boy? They wanted a boy as good as he was, and he must know of one. After some thought he finally agreed to send one, and the next day the boy arrived, and Sam was called to identify him. "Do you know this boy, Sam?" asked the employer. “Yes," answered Sam; “I know him.” “And you know him to be a good, honest boy?” “I have played with him all my life and I have always thought he was.” "But will you vouch for him?” persisted the employer. “No,” answered Sam, indignantly; “I won’t vouch for any one. I wouldn’t vouch for my own brother. How do I know what temptations you are going to put before him?" —New York Times. The Hansons Are Happy. Ashley, N. D., Dec. Bth. —Cured of that most dangerous of all Diseases, Rheumatism of the Heart, J. H. Hanson of this place loses no opportunity of singing the praises of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. “I am able to work again,” says Mr. Hanson. "And am feeling better than I have for five years. Broken down and fairly used up and suffering from Rheumatism of the Heart and Dropsy I was In very bad shape. ’“Then I started taking Dodd’s Kidney Pills and —well, you cdn see how I look and I feel as well as I look. My Rheumatism is gone and the Dropsy with it. “I * don’t think they’ll ever bother me again, but if they do I’ll just get some more of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I know that will fix them.” Mrs. Hanson, too, whose health was far from good, took the same remedy and she joins with her husband in recommending Dodd’s Kidney Pills. 129 — (For week commencing Dec.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straightforward and simple integrity to another. —Colton.

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