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 Garret A. Hobart, 
 
 Vice-President of the United States. 
 
 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 
 
 Friday, January 26, 1900. 
 
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 EULOGIES 
 
 OF 
 
 MESSRS. GARDNER OF NEW JERSEY, STEV/ART OF NEW JERSEY, 
 PAYNE, DALZELL, BROSIUS, RICHARDSON, GROSVENOR, 
 PARKER OF NEW JERSEY, DOLLIVER, DALY 
 OF NEW JERSEY, FOWLER, SAL- 
 MON, AND GLYNN, 
 
 In the House of Eepresentatives, 
 
 Friday, January 26, li>00. 
 
 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey 
 [Mr. Gardner] offers the resolutions which the Clerk will report. 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the House has received with profound sorrow the intelli- 
 gence of the death of Garret A. Hobart, late Vice-President of the United 
 States. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be suspended in order that the 
 public services and private virtues of the deceased may be appropriately 
 commemorated. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to communicate these 
 resolutions to the Senate. 
 
 Mr. GARDNER of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, the frequency 
 with which this body is called upon to pay the last sad tribute to the 
 memory of the eminent dead is a most forceful reminder of man's 
 mortality. Verily, "He cometh forth like a flower and is ciit 
 down." The generations appear like the leaves of spring and 
 flourish for a season only, then, smitten by the breath of the De- 
 stroyer, fall, even as the leaves that wither and scatter in autumn's 
 searing blasts. But the earth itself, the abode of man, shall per- 
 ish; the visible heavens shall pass away; for there is nothing per- 
 manent but the law and the love and the kingdom of God. 
 
 We pause in our labors to-day to do homage to the memory of 
 one who was not a member of this House, but who, in his high 
 office, represented the suffrage and the majesty of the great Re- 
 public. 
 
 Garret A. Hobart had, from his early manhood, been singled 
 out by common consent in his own State as the personality most 
 abounding in promise of great service and future honor to his 
 State; but he was greater perhaps than we knew, for when he rose 
 to a commanding position among the nation's lights, it was seen 
 that he was in his sphere; and when he died, all knew that a lumi- 
 nary of great power had fallen from the national sky. 
 
 The career of Mr. Hobart is another of those oft-recurring les- 
 sons of the opportunities offered to young American manhood, 
 and demonstrated that energy, integrity, and courage, if seconded 
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by real ability, may conquer all the weary paths that lie between 
 the lowly and the highest estate and lead triumphantly to the 
 most exalted station; for he rose with no aid but his merit, with 
 no friend but his deserts, and with no claim to recognition but his 
 fitness. 
 
 Garret Augustus Hobart was born on a farm near Long 
 Branch, N. J. , in 1844, of New England and New Jersey ancestry 
 which ran back to the English and the Dutch. 
 
 Quickness of perception and comprehension, energy, physical 
 and mental stamina, fidelity to duty, high courage, and an entire 
 veracity of mind were his by inheritance and were ineradicable. 
 It is difficult to believe he ever had a vice to overcome. 
 
 Young Hobart was educated in the common schools and by 
 his father, until he entered Rutgers College, from which he was 
 graduated in 1863, before he was 19 years of age. After a brief 
 period as an educator he began the study of law in Paterson, 
 N. J., under the tutelage of his father's friend, also of New 
 England stock, Socrates Tuttle, a gentleman of great ability, 
 fine attainments, and splendid character. He was graduated 
 from Mr. Tuttle's office, and admitted to the bar of New Jersey; 
 then began his real career. 
 
 Mr. Hobart later was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Tut- 
 tle, daughter of his legal preceptor. Of that union I shall speak 
 but briefly now, for to dwell upon it would seem like the min- 
 gling of notes of discord with the funeral dirge, and an unpardon- 
 able rudeness to her who did so much to hedge round his life with 
 happy environment and to crown his days with joy. Let it suf- 
 fice to say that the story of their wedded life and home in Pater- 
 son, when told, will be "A sweet savor wherever happy homes 
 are recognized as the citadel of virtue and the hope of the world." 
 
 Mr. Hobart grew at once in professional and in public esteem. 
 Had his abilities been entirely and continuously devoted to his 
 profession, he would have attained the very first rank among its 
 masters, for his great talents were legal and judicial to the last 
 degree. In all his business life he never had use for any lawyer 
 but a "close lawyer." But the public and the great business in- 
 terests would not allow Mr. Hobart to practice his profession as 
 he would then have desired. He was ever pursued with offers of 
 office and of business. He was sought with proffers of oppor- 
 tunity which other gifted men strove for in vain. 
 
 Before he was 27 years of age he had been the legal counsel of 
 his city and his county and was being asked to go to the legislature 
 to mold the laws. He was elected to the assembly and afterwards 
 to the senate of New Jersey. Whatever political body Mr. Hobart 
 entered, he was placed at its head. The New Jersey assembly made • 
 him its presiding officer: the New Jersey senate made him its presi- 
 dent; the State Republican executive committee made him its 
 chairman, in which capacity he conducted many of our most im- 
 portant campaigns. He also represented New Jersey in the 
 national Republican committee for many years, and nobody ever 
 thought of a successor. 
 
 Whatever Mr. Hobart did was so well done that opportunity, 
 as I have said, was ever seeking him. I have never heard a criti- 
 cism of his management of a business matter. Governments and 
 courts felt secure in the management of their charges when in his 
 hands. His great capacity and integrity, winning universal con- 
 fidence, must have, as they did, rewarded his business efforts and 
 discretion with affluence. 
 
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[n the career of Mr. Hobart there was nothing sensational or 
 episodical. He never sought but rather shunned notoriety. His 
 aims were definite: his purpose steady as the granite hills; his 
 efforts as sustained as the motions of the planet. To every task 
 he brought the energy of a splendid hope. With him all objects 
 were specific and every duty great, and to his conviction of duty, 
 his definite aims, his tireless energy, and steady purpose, quietly 
 pursued, are largely due the success and honors that crowned his 
 life. 
 
 He was a man of most magnificent courage, never more com- 
 posed and hopeful than in the hour of defeat. When he had given 
 to the service of his party all his splendid abilities during one cam- 
 paign after another, closing with apparent disaster, he could re- 
 gret without being cast down, deplore and be not discouraged: 
 and even in that campaign in his State when he sought to realize 
 the political ambition of his life, and when success had seemed 
 assured until the last days of the contest, when the tides changed 
 and new forces overwhelmed him, and his hosts of loyal friends 
 were downcast and discouraged, he appeared as a rock left by a 
 melting shore, which still lifts its head in majesty above the 
 waters and forms a headland about which the yielding currents 
 must eddy and rebuild the broken line. 
 
 So, too, in that sad day when he returned to his country leaving 
 his beloved daughter, in a foreign soil, dead on the threshold of 
 womanhood; though his heart was bleeding, he turned the same 
 pleasant face to the world, and, while a little drawn perhaps, the old 
 smile was there. And at the last, conscious of his own approach- 
 ing dissolution, when the soul makes the awful query that most 
 affects all that live and die, he smiled with the fortitude and hope 
 and confidence of a hero and a Christian martyr. 
 
 Mr. Hobart was endowed with more admirable and enviable 
 qualities than any one man I ever knew. All men agree that his 
 was a most lovable personality. Informed men spoke of his ac- 
 quirements; churchmen, of his rectitude and deep religious con- 
 victions; the philanthropist, of his unostentatious charity: busi- 
 ness men marveled at his business judgment; politicians wondered 
 at his clear perception of the character and the value of issues; 
 statesmen, at his wide and ready knowledge of national and interna- 
 tional affairs; and all alike, at his ready powers of solution, 
 readily mastering problems, however weighty and however intri- 
 cate. His sympathy was as broad as the field of human struggle, 
 and all classes felt its touch, so that when the dreaded message of 
 his departure flashed over the country, the bitter tear fell at every 
 hearthstone, for all alike felt the loss of a friend. 
 
 When Mr. Hobart was nominated for the Vice-Presidency, 
 factions in New Jersey at once lost their identity and party lines 
 became confused. Regard for policies largely gave way to con- 
 fidence in the man. What part of the 89,000 majority the State 
 gave in that election was due to the personality of Mr. Hobart 
 and the esteem in which he was held as a man can never be ac- 
 curately stated, but it may be safely stated the result was a mag- 
 nificent tribute from the citizenship of New Jersey to her gifted 
 son— an expression of confidence in his patriotism, abilities, and 
 exalted character. 
 
 His example has been a beneficent influence in the community 
 in which he lived and died, in the State which he served and hon- 
 ored, in the nation which came to know and honor him, and 
 to the civilized world which has now heard of him and his life, 
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which, in its business energy and integrity, private Christian pu- 
 rity, and fidelity to every trust imposed, is a model for all men in 
 all countries. He adorned society, lent a dignity to common af- 
 fairs, and elevated every office he filled. 
 
 He died as the good man dies, and he will be remembered here; 
 therefore he has triumphed over death "in time and eternity." 
 
 Mr. STEWART of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I will occupy the 
 attention of the House but a very few minutes. 
 
 Vice-President Hobart is dead. The nation was profoundly 
 startled at the sad announcement. When we last saw him he 
 was apparently in robust and vigorous health; but the black-robed 
 messenger of death beckoned from the hilltops, and he followed 
 with the dying to an eternal rest. I knew him well. I attended 
 his marriage to one of the most delightful young women in our 
 community. Now she is his sorrow-laden widow, cloistered in 
 gloom and loneliness. 
 
 His administration was unique, and the unusual friendship ex- 
 isting between the dead Vice-President and our distinguished 
 President was of the tenderest kind, and gave him personally and 
 officially a dignity and importance herebefore lacking, and raised 
 the office of Vice-President from one of perfunctory faculty to an 
 exalted power. In early life he gave emphatic promise of future 
 wealth and greatness. 
 
 Our deeds do follow us from afar; 
 
 And what we have been makes us What we are. 
 
 He possessed greater business capacity and executive ability 
 than any man I ever knew. He loved wealth and power, and dis- 
 pensed both liberally. As the great poet says: 
 
 The time of life is short; 
 
 To spend it basely were too long. 
 
 His neighbors and friends best know how his shortened time of 
 life was spent. Midas-like, everything he touched turned to gold, 
 and his genial, robust, and cheerful appearance loaded him down 
 with preferment and power. But it is not to the dead our words 
 should be alone or particularly addressed, but to the widowed 
 wife and son who must carry this burden of sorrow throughout a 
 lifetime. To this grand widow and stricken boy let our hearts 
 go out with tenderness, sympathy, and love, and appeal to the 
 Almighty, who is especially the widows' God, to strengthen her 
 in her loneliness for all struggles to come: and when she ap- 
 proaches the eternal throne may she bid a fond adieu to this 
 world to embrace her beloved husband in the life everlasting. 
 
 In this life there is a continual parting — by death, marriage, 
 absence; all are profoundly sad; but death is saddest, for it is for 
 life. How pathetic does our own great poet sing of this sad truth: 
 
 All are scattered now and fled, 
 Some are married, some are dead: 
 And when I ask, with throbs of pain — 
 "Ah! when shall they all meet again, 
 As in the days long since gone by?" 
 The ancient timepiece made reply: 
 " Forever — never; 
 Never— forever." 
 
 Never here, forever there, 
 Where all parting, pain, and care. 
 And death, and time shall disappear. 
 Forever there, but never here, 
 The horologe of eternity 
 Sayeth this incessantly. 
 
 " Forever— never; 
 Never— forever. " 
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 Soon as age greets us we have more friends in eternity than 
 here; and when we are required to depart, death's journey is made 
 easier by this thought. God grant we may all view life as a very 
 transient state and always regard the star of eternity as soon to 
 surround us in its effulgent rays. , 
 
 Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, my acquaintance with Garret A. 
 Hobart began on the day he was nominated to the office of Vice- 
 President at St. Louis. His quiet, cordial, winsome greeting when 
 I first met him lingered in my memory long after an acquaintance 
 had ripened into a lasting friendship. I desire to add my testi- 
 mony to those noble qualities of head and heart that characterized 
 our late Vice-President. 
 
 In our system of government the Vice-President occupies an 
 anomalous and ofttimes uncomfortable position. His is an office of 
 high rank, carrying with it the greatest possibilities of political 
 heirship and yet bringing little power or responsibility. He is the 
 presiding officer of the Senate, and is chosen for that august body 
 and not by them. He has the right to vote only in case of a tie; he 
 rarely has an opportunity to exercise this right while he presides 
 over the deliberations of the Senate. In exercising the preroga- 
 tives of a presiding officer he can never be a potent factor, but is 
 alway the servant of the Senate. 
 
 It is to be regretted that in our political system more important 
 duties and greater responsibility could not have been imposed 
 upon an office of such high rank. The duties of the office should 
 have been in keeping with its great possibilities. In case of a 
 vacancy, he is the constitutional successor of the highest officer 
 in our system. Only a single life stands between him and the 
 Presidency. While he is clothed with the high rank and dignity 
 of presiding over one coordinate branch of Congress, he is shorn 
 of responsibility and power. He has no place in the Cabinet 
 counsels of the Executive. He can not raise his voice in debate 
 in the Senate; he can not vote on the questions, great or small, 
 that come before that body unless the Senators happen to be 
 equally divided. He has no influence there or elsewhere, except 
 that which comes from his own personality; scarcely more than 
 he would exercise as a private citizen. Often his position is 
 scarcely more enviable than that of the heir apparent to a Euro- 
 pean throne. 
 
 In the early days of the Republic great care was taken in the 
 selection of candidates for this office. The fact that this officer 
 was the constiiutional successor to the Presidency whenever a 
 vacancy happened seemed to be the all-pervading influence in the 
 naming of the Vice-President. Down to 1804 the Constitution 
 distinctly recognized this principle. The electors voted for two 
 persons. The one receiving the greatest number was chosen Presi- 
 dent, and he who received the second greatest was chosen Vice- 
 President. Under this provision John Adams and Thomas Jef- 
 ferson were each chosen Vice-President and each succeeded, by 
 election to the Presidential office, the President with whom they 
 had previously been chosen as Vice-President. In like manner 
 at a later period Martin Van Buren also succeeded the President 
 under whom he had served as Vice-President. This method of 
 selection was changed by the amendment of 1804, owing to an un- 
 fortunate complication which arose under the old system. But 
 the reason still existed why a candidate for the Vice- Presidency 
 should be in all respects equal to the emergency should he suc- 
 ceed to the Presidency. 
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Since the change in the constitutional method of selection less 
 care has been taken, as a general rule, in the selection of the Vice- 
 President. Frequently the question of fitness has been sacrificed 
 to that of availability. After hot and bitter strife within the 
 party the Vice-Presidency has sometimes been thrown as a mat- 
 ter of consolation to appease a disappointed and defeated faction. 
 The President always represents the predominant thought and 
 principles of his party; his possible successor should be chosen for 
 the same reason. He ought not to be the exponent of the tenden- 
 cies of the minority. His selection ought not to be the result of 
 a desire simply to gain more votes for the ticket. 
 
 Garret A. Hobart did much to restore the office to its old- 
 time dignity and rank. No one who knew him well doubted his 
 fitness and ability to fill with honor to lrmself and to the lasting 
 glory of his country the place of its Chief Executive. He had the 
 ability, the tact, the statesmanship to take a high place in the long 
 line of illustrious men who have served their country in the great- 
 est office in all the world. 
 
 Mr. Hobart, not officially, but by the force of his character, was 
 a part of the Administration. His counsels were listened to in the 
 executive chamber, and his voice was heeded in legislative halls. 
 May his successor be of the same nigh character and intellectual 
 endownment, amply qualified for all the emergencies which the 
 Constitution has imposed upon the office. 
 
 Garret A. Hobart exemplified the typical life of a successful 
 American boy. He worked his way through college and won the 
 right to practice in the courts of his State by dint of hard work 
 and on the meager pay as a teacher in the public schools. The 
 school teacher became a lawyer at the age of 25, and this was the 
 beginning of his success, culminating in the Vice-Presidency at 
 the age of 53. While engaged in an active and exacting profes- 
 sion, he found time to enter into the councils of his party and 
 perform all the duties of an American citizen. Courage, com- 
 mon sense, ability, and persevering work brought success in 
 every sphere of his usefulness. Responsibilities multiplied upon 
 him. but. like every busy man, he found time for all. 
 
 No interest intrusted to his care was ever neglected. His fellow- 
 citizens honored him and he honored them in the faithful and con- 
 spicuous discharge of private and official duties. He was succes- 
 sively presiding officer of each branch of the legislature of his 
 own State. His advice was eagerly sought by clients and party 
 managers. And with all the burden of responsibility he found 
 time tor his social duties, his family, and his church. He passed 
 away in the ripe maturity of his powers, seemingly in the day of 
 his greatest possibilities and power, yet it was the close of a life 
 abounding in influence and full of honorable achievements. 
 
 As presiding officer of the Senate, he has had few equals and no 
 superior. He seldom left the chair during the session of the Sen- 
 ate, was always fully informed as to the progress of business, 
 never shirked the responsibility of a decision, was ever courteous, 
 tactful, and ready, and with all just and honest. He was re- 
 spected by political friend and foe alike. 
 
 In these few words, Mr. Speaker, I have sought, as it were, to 
 place a single flower on the grave of Garret A. Hobart. His 
 life work, how worthily and well done, the whole nation bears 
 witness. His days were full of usefulness and crowned with 
 honor. His last victory was his best; it was the victory of the 
 Christian's faith. As he calmly bade his family farewell, and 
 with courage turned to meet the great destroyer, it was with the 
 
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calm confidence in a new life, unnumbered by the years. His death 
 was the crowning triumph of his successful life. Verily, " His 
 works do follow him. " 
 
 Mr. DALZELL. Mr. Speaker, since I have been a member of 
 this House I have very seldom taken any part in such exercises as 
 engage our attention to-day. I have never felt that it was my 
 duty to speak when speech would necessarily be only perfunctory. 
 I have felt that the language of eulogy is too often the language 
 of extravagance, and that this is the more apt to be so when it is 
 the result of a seeming regard for the demands of propriety than 
 when it is an answer to the promptings of an appreciative regard. 
 Propriety suggests that we should put upon record our estimate 
 of the nation's loss sustained in the death of the Vice-President: 
 but if that were all that appealed to me to-day, I should remain 
 silent and leave to others the duty of formulating that estimate. 
 
 I come to bring my humble tribute to the memory of Garret 
 A. Hobart because of my personal esteem for him, because of my 
 admiration of his career, and because I believe him to have been a 
 high type of American manhood, illustrating in his life the splen- 
 did possibilities of American citizenship. 
 
 As may be said of many Americans — perhaps of the most who 
 are successful— he was the architect of his own fortune. And yet 
 we are not prepared to say of all who thus achieve success that 
 their lives command our admiration. It is the means by which 
 the success is attained that challenges a place in our regard. 
 
 Mr. Hobart had sterling qualities of character — industry, the 
 love of work that brings experience; the wisdom that turns that 
 experience to account in the seizure and improvement of opportu- 
 nities; the desire to excel that, faithfully pursued, insures excel- 
 lence; the integrity and strength of character, the fixedness of 
 purpose, and the healthy ambition that sooner or later bring dis- 
 tinction to their possessor and make him a marked man among 
 his fellows. 
 
 He was a successful man in every sphere that he entered, and 
 the story of his life has to do with many and varied spheres. He 
 realized success not because of mere accident of fortune or of 
 opportunity, but by reason, above all, of the possession of those fac- 
 ulties and traits of character that appeal to the confidence of men. 
 He attained eminence as a business man. He accumulated wealth 
 and shared it with others. His was the guiding mind in large 
 projects and enterprises whose success meant not only individual 
 but the general weal. He was a public-spirited man. As his 
 means grew so he grew in mind and character. He shared his 
 good fortune with others. His hand was open as his heart was 
 warm. 
 
 He had the conception of a broad-minded man as to his duties 
 and responsibilities. He was one of those who conscientiously 
 assume the burdens and face the duties of citizenship. He knew 
 that good government is an individual affair, that there can be no 
 honest mass unless there be honest particles. And so he gave of 
 his time and of his means to the choice of good men to office. It 
 was regardless of selfish purposes that he took place himself at 
 the call of his fellows; for with him private interest yielded to 
 public, and public office was a public trust. 
 
 As the years went by the sphere of his usefulness and of his in- 
 fluence grew. He became a leading man in his city, in his neigh- 
 borhood, in his State, and at last in the nation. 
 
 He was the law adviser of his city. He was more than once a 
 
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member of his State legislature, and its speaker. He was for six 
 years a member of his State senate, and its president. He was the 
 nominee of his party for a seat in the United States Senate. He 
 was Vice-President of the United States. In all these various 
 positions of trust he so bore himself that few could criticise, no 
 one blame, and all must praise. 
 
 He was a recognized power in his church. He was benevolent 
 and beneficent, exercising an influence for good among high and 
 low, rich and poor, to the'remotest places to which that influence 
 reached. And how many those places were only those can tell to 
 whom his departure came with a sense of personal loss. 
 
 It is not for us to penetrate the sacred precincts and attempt to 
 measure the void made there where he was loved and loving hus- 
 band and father, counselor, and bosom friend. 
 
 Mr. Hobart's was a well-rounded character. He was a well- 
 poised man; evenly developed on all sides, remarkably free from 
 faults, and well equipped with the everyday virtues tuat count 
 for so much in making life happy for those around us. 
 
 But it is the crowning glory of Mr. Hobart's life and that which 
 makes secure his place in history that, during his incumbency of 
 the Vice- Presidency of the United States he restored to that office 
 its old-time dignity and honor. He gave to this generation a con- 
 ception of that office which for many previous generations had 
 faded from the minds of men. 
 
 The framers of the Constitution intended that the qualifications 
 for President and for Vice-President should be identical. Inas- 
 much as upon the death of the President the Vice-President suc- 
 ceeds him, no reason appeared to their minds why the candidates 
 for these offices should not in all respects be equals, and so the 
 Constitution provided that the electors should vote for two per- 
 sons, and that the one having the highest number of votes should 
 be President and the next in number the Vice-President. So John 
 Adams was chosen as the first Vice-President, and subsequently 
 Thomas Jefferson as the second Vice-President, and both were 
 chosen as Presidents upon the expiration of their respective terms. 
 Since their day only one single man has been chosen President of 
 the United States who had previously served as Vice-President, 
 and that was Martin Van Bureu. And yet we have learned in four 
 cases — those of Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson, and Arthur, who each 
 succeeded to the Presidency on the death of the President — how 
 essential it is that the Vice-President should be as well equipped 
 for the first office as is the man chosen for the first office himself. 
 
 The alarm occasioned by the rivalry between Jefferson and 
 Aaron Burr in the election of 1800, when Burr almost succeeded 
 to the Presidency, moved our fathers to amend the Constitution 
 and to provide for the selection of a President as such and a Vice- 
 President as such. At the time of this change in our system 
 there were not wanting those who, measured by subsequent 
 events, have been proven to be true prophets. In the debate in 
 the House in 1803 upon the proposed amendment to the Constitu- 
 tion Mr. Roger Griswold said: 
 
 The President is elected for four years. He may die within that period, 
 he may be removed from office, or he may become disqualified to perform its 
 duties. In either of these events the Vice-President succeeds to the power. 
 Under the existing arrangement you will secure, as far as human prudence 
 can accomplish it, the most eminent men for these two offices. Each candi- 
 date must be voted for as President, and if the electors fairly execute the 
 Constitution they will give their votes for those men whoarethe best qualified 
 to administer the Government. Thus under everv probable event you will 
 find one of the most eminent of your citizens at the head of your Govern- 
 ment. 
 
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 But if the amendment prevails, the case must be greatly changed. The 
 man voted for as Vice-President will be selected without any decisive view 
 to his qualifications to administer the Government. The office will generally 
 be carried into the market to be exchanged for the votes of some large States 
 for President. And the only criterion which will be regarded as a qualifica- 
 tion for the office of Vice-President will be the temporary influence of the 
 candidates over the electors of his State. It is in this manner you must ex- 
 pect to obtain a man to fill the second office in the Government and who must 
 succeed to the power of President upon every vacancy. The momentary 
 views of party may perhaps be promoted by such arrangements, but the 
 permanent interests of the country are sacrificed. 
 
 In how many national conventions have we seen the realiza- 
 tions of these forebodings! In how many conventions have we 
 seen men chosen as Vice-Presidential candidates without any con- 
 trolling regard to their fitness for the office of President, but 
 simply because of expediency and availability for ulterior pur- 
 poses! The consequence has been a lowering of the dignity of the 
 second office in the Government in the minds and estimate of the 
 people, and a consequent diminution of the power and dignity 
 pertaining to the office itself. And while our Vice-Presidents, as 
 a rule, have been distinguished men, they have acquiesced in the 
 popular estimate, and have sought no wider sphere or broader 
 duties than pertain to the Presidency of the Senate. 
 
 To this rule Mr. Hobart was a conspicuous exception. He 
 brought to the administration of his office a lofty conception of 
 the place, and a feeling of personal interest in and sympathy with 
 legislation. His strong personality pervaded the Senate Cham- 
 ber. His clear convictions, his earnestness, his patriotism, made 
 themselves felt upon his associates. He was not a looker-on, but 
 an actor, an efficient instrument in the administration of govern- 
 mental affairs. Unlike his predecessors, he did not stand apart 
 from responsibility. He had the confidence of the President; he 
 ^^ participated in the councils of the Cabinet; he helped to shape 
 and mold policies and direct events. He kept abreast of the times 
 and had Providence so decreed he could at any moment have 
 taken up the task had the President been compelled to lay it down. 
 
 It was his fortune to live in stirring times, to participate in 
 grave events. He belonged to an Administration that will mark 
 a new epoch in American history and shape for good or ill our 
 future destiny. Of that Administration he was a part. Toward 
 the shaping of that destiny he contributed his share of counsel and 
 control. He magnified his office. He taught the people to esti- 
 mate it as he estimated it. He taught us all a lesson that I doubt 
 not will bring results in our future history. He restored the Vice- 
 Presidency to the place in our system that it held in the system 
 of the fathers. 
 
 And so when death claimed him all the people mourned his loss. 
 They said of him as we say of him: He was a good man, a good 
 citizen, a loyal friend, our great Vice-President. 
 
 Mr. BROSIUS. Mr. Speaker- 
 Sir Launcelot, there thou lye«t; thou were never matched by none earthly 
 knight's hands; thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode a 
 horse: thou were the kindest man that ever struck with a sword.— LaMorte 
 <T Arthur. 
 
 The Arabs had a saying that death is a camel that kneels at 
 every man's door. This expresses how common an event it is in 
 the providential order, as common and familiar as birth: yet of 
 all natural events it produces the most profound and lasting im- 
 pression upon the mind. This is true even when it comes to the 
 humble and undistinguished; much more so when it overtakes 
 
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 those eminent persons who have achieved honor and distinction 
 in the public service and occupy positions of great elevation in the 
 public eye and in general esteem. 
 
 The death of the gifted and great has always been and will 
 ever be a solemn, impressive, and imposing circumstance. Its 
 value in the way of example, admonition, and instruction is in 
 proportion to the elevation from which the subject falls to his 
 natural end. It comes to the surviving like a faithful school- 
 master with the open book of a closed life and assigns the lesson 
 which we must study or lose its teaching. The fame of the great 
 and noble dead is among the most enduring and valuable of our 
 public possessions, and the contemplation of their example and 
 their virtues exerts a salutary and ennobling influence upon the 
 living. 
 
 It is one of the very best of men— and there is no higher praise — 
 that we contemplate to-day. It is the universal estimation, the con- 
 sensus of opinion among those who knew him, that the late Vice- 
 President, in the essential elements of a well-organized being and 
 the necessary excellencies of a character of the very first rank, 
 had few, if any, superiors. The high success he achieved, the 
 eminence he attained, the perfect character he formed, were not 
 due to any adventitious aids. Neither birth nor rank nor for- 
 tune smoothed his upward way to the clear-aired heights he 
 reached and kept. True, he had the good fortune to be born in a 
 country one of whose glories is that its social formation is not in 
 horizontal strata common in the Old World, through which few 
 ever pass from below upward, but is mobile as the sea. where the 
 lowest drop, winged with merit, may rise and glitter on the high- 
 est wave that rolls. All else was due to principles, qualities, and 
 forces which summed up a strong, interesting, and attractive 
 personality. 
 
 If the limits of the occasion permitted, we could easily name the 
 traits which were chief agencies in the development of his splendid 
 manhood. Honor, sympathy, courage, and duty were the precious 
 and conspicuous jewels in the crown of his superb character, and 
 we may set them apart to-day and lift them over his new-made 
 grave as the golden texts in the lesson of his life. 
 
 Some one has said he had an unusual capacity for winning 
 affection. This was due to his deep human sympathy. He was 
 not deficient in imagination and could place himself in the posi- 
 tion of others and realize their distresses and their needs. His 
 kindness to every human creature was proverbial. He was happy 
 in promoting the comfort of those who served him. In his business 
 career, which was a conspicuous success, his example if followed 
 would cure two maladies said to afflict our time — the envious 
 hatred of him who suffers want and the selfish forgetf ulness of 
 him who lives in affluence. This problem can be solved by sym- 
 pathy, love, and good will. 
 
 There is no sunshine like that of kindness to open those beauti- 
 ful flowers, sympathy, love, hope, and trust, which ought to bloom 
 over the garden walls which separate the rich and the poor. Mr. 
 Hobart was thoroughly imbued with that beautiful sentiment 
 which holds the hum:m family in the bonds of unity and love, 
 "that we are children of the same Father, traveling toward the 
 same home, and hoping to sit down at last at the same banquet, 
 and therefore we should love one another." 
 
 So many gods, so many creeds, 
 
 So many ways so hard to find, 
 When all this wicked world needs 
 
 Is just the art of being kind. 
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 Our distinguished friend has been twice ennobled. Death and 
 duty ennoble all men. Devotion to duty was one of his charac- 
 teristic traits. Her command to him a "Thus saith the Lord." 
 He was unremitting in his attention to his public engagements. 
 His entire life exemplified the truth that the path of duty is the 
 upward way; that — 
 
 Not once or twice in our fair land's story 
 The path of duty was the way to glory. 
 
 Our souls should bow before the temple that enshrines the 
 divinity of duty. These superb characters are the rarest fruit of 
 earth, and their surviving countrymen may well cherish the fine 
 vintage of their example for their perpetual refreshment. 
 
 The Vice-President, whom we mourn, was stricken in the midst 
 of his usefulness from the highest public place save one in the 
 gift of the people, a position which, despite its elevation, he hon- 
 ored more than it could honor him. The character and relative 
 eminence of the office of Vice-President has been the subject of 
 diverse comment for a hundred years, many people regarding it as 
 quite subordinate in consequence and rank. The original consti- 
 tutional mode of selecting the- President and Vice-President de- 
 noted the estimation in which the trainers of the Const ; tution 
 held the Vice-Presidential office, and yet some of them and their 
 contemporaries spoke slightingly of that office. John Adams said: 
 
 My country has in its wisdom contrived for us the most insigniticant office 
 that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. 
 
 Thomas Jefferson said: 
 
 It is the only office in the world about which I am unable to decide whether 
 I had rather have it or not have it. 
 
 Whatever rank may have been assigned to it at different periods 
 of our history, it is the glory of its last incumbent that he restored 
 the Vice-Presidency to its true rank, redeemed it from any ob- 
 scurity into which it may have fallen, rescued it from the insig- 
 nificance in which it came to be regarded by some, and established 
 its title to the dignity and elevation appropriate to the second 
 office in the gift of the American people. 
 
 It is thus seen what a beautiful and instructive career has closed 
 on earth. He did not live man's appointed time. The mysterious 
 clock to which Dr. Holmes so beautifully refers, which the angel 
 of life wound up to run three score years and ten, ran down be- 
 fore the lapse of the allotted time. But the bounds which are fixed 
 to the duration of life donotalways measure its worth. His career, 
 though cut off in the midst of its usefulness, has been a sweet and 
 wholesome example in right living, high thinking, and unselfish 
 service in private aud public walks of life, and his fragrant 
 memory will ever remain an inspiration to those who loved him 
 living and mourn him dead. 
 
 There is a tradition that among the Seneca Indians a singu'arly 
 beautiful belief prevailed that when a loved one died, if the) 7 
 caught a singing bird and, binding it with messages of love and af- 
 fection, released it over the grave of the departed, it would not fold 
 its wings nor close its eyes until it reached the spirit land and deliv- 
 ered the messages to the loved and lost. So may the friends who 
 mourn to-day bind with messages of love the birds that are sing- 
 ing in their hearts songs of homage and affection, and, releasing 
 them at the grave of the departed, may enjoy the solace of believ- 
 ing that they will not fold their wings until they reach the spirit 
 land and deliver the messages to the loved and lost. 
 
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 Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I did not have the good 
 fortune to enjoy a long and intimate acquaintance with the illus- 
 trious man whose memory and deeds we honor here to-day. Death 
 is a theme not lightly to be mentioned by those who are subject 
 to its power; for the young may die, the old must die, and the 
 wisest of us know not how soon. In the prime of years, in the full 
 strength of manhood apparently , and with short notice, Vice-Presi- 
 dent Hobart was called hence. As already stated, my acquaint- 
 ance with him being limited, I shall not attempt to speak at 
 length in respect to his private character and inner life. I leave 
 these remarks to be made by those who knew him longer and more 
 intimately. We learn that he was born in New Jersey in 1844; 
 that he spent all the years of his busy life in that State: that in 
 early manhood he fo'lowed the profession of school-teacher, and 
 later became a lawyer. 
 
 The first public office he held was that of attorney for the city 
 of Paterson, where he resided, in 1871. That later he was counsel 
 of the board of freeholders of his county; that he was several 
 times chosen a member of the legislature of his State, serving in 
 both branches thereof, and filling the presiding officer's chair in 
 each body. Once when his party was in the minority in the leg- 
 islature he was voted for as its nominee for the -United States 
 Senate. In 1896, at St. Louis, he was nominated for Vice-Presi- 
 dent, and was duly elected in November of that year. The same 
 month three years later he died. 
 
 During the comparatively brief time I have had the honor to 
 occupy a seat in the House of Representatives I have witnessed 
 the death of two incumbents of the Vice-President's chair. The 
 first was that of the highly favored son of Indiana, Hon. Thomas 
 A. Hendricks. He died in November, 1885. While Vice-Presi- 
 dent Hobart had not figured or participated in the public affairs 
 of the nation at large so extensively as had Mr. Hendricks, yet in 
 the narrower field of his State politics he was idolized to the same 
 passionate extent. As there was nothing in the gift of the people 
 of Indiana too good for Mr. Hendricks, so the people of New Jer- 
 sey felt that Mr. Hobart richly deserved their warmest affection 
 and most exalted honors. 
 
 In my personal experience in public life I have met but few 
 men more easily approached and more civil and courteous in in- 
 tercotirse than was the late Vice-President. I recall well the first 
 time I met him, shortly after he entered upon his duties as pre- 
 siding officer of the Senate. The circumstances of our meeting 
 made it necessary for me to speak to him without the formality 
 of an introduction. I was immediately impressed with his mild 
 manner, his dignified and pleasing address and polite attention. 
 Gifted as he was in these respects, it is not sngular or strange 
 that he was personally popular and was held in such affectionate 
 regard by those who knew him best. 
 
 He was blessed with a large estate, which he had amassed by an 
 active life and successful business methods and management. He 
 was enabled thereby to entertain, and he dispensed his hospitality 
 in an almost lavish manner. This he did not for the mere sake 
 of entertaining, but because of his generous and purely hospitable 
 nature and the disposition to give good cheer and contribute to 
 the comfort, happiness, and pleasure of those around him. He 
 was, nevertheless, a man of duty, and rarelj 7 failed of success in any 
 undertaking. This was because of his great energy, unflagging 
 industry, good judgment, earnest convictions, and sound common 
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 sense. As the presiding officer of the United States Senate he 
 was unusually successful and popular. By many members of 
 that body he was pronounced a model presiding officer. 
 
 It can be truly said of him that in all the circumstances and 
 conditions of life in which he was placed he bore himself well, 
 and did no act to provoke the unfriendly criticisms of partisan 
 opponents or to mortify a friend. I had the honor to attend his 
 funeral services at his home, and I shall never forget the irnpres- 
 siveness of the scene there. It seemed that every man, woman, 
 and child in his home city and, indeed, for miles around came to 
 do him honor and pay a tribute of respect to his memory. There 
 was scarcely standing room in Paterson that day, and all were 
 moved with pity and sorrow, the highest evidence of sincere and 
 genuine affection for their honored dead. Though ill for many 
 months, we learn he bore his illness with fortitude and quiet resig- 
 nation. He never lost his heart or became impatient. He knew 
 his end was approaching, but he contemplated the fact with that 
 sublime confidence which belongs only to those who rely upon a 
 past life marked by purity of conduct, integrity of action, Chris- 
 tian piety, and religious convictions. The Vice-President is dead, 
 but his example in public and in private life is left to us all as a 
 priceless heritage. As I close this brief tribute the poet's descrip- 
 tion of how a man should live comes to my mind, for I believe he 
 so lived: 
 
 So live that when thy summons comes, 
 
 Thou can take thy place with patriarchs, prophets, and the blest, 
 
 Gone up from every land to people in heaven, 
 
 And when that mighty caravan which halts one night time 
 
 In the vale of death shall strike its white tents for the morning march, 
 
 Thou shalt mount onward to the eternal hills, 
 
 Thy feet unweary and thy strength renewed, 
 
 Like the strong eagle for his upward flight. 
 
 Mr. GROSVENOR: Mr. Speaker, the death of Garret A. 
 Hobart brings forcibly to our minds some features of our political 
 history which, aside from the personal consideration, are of pro- 
 found importance. The office of Vice-President has not been con- 
 sidered by our people as possessing that degree of importance which 
 it would seem ought to appertain to that position. Death has more 
 than once laid low the President of the United States and opened 
 that great office to the constitutional successor. Six different Vice- 
 Presidents have died in office — George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry, 
 William R. King, Henry Wilson, Thorn is A. Hendricks, and now 
 Garret A. Hobart. I wish to call attention to an event in our 
 history curious, interesting, and important. It reflects upon the 
 necessity of careful arrangement in the matter of succession in 
 high office. 
 
 Thomas A. Hendricks, who had been elected Vice-President 
 with Mr. Cleveland at his first term, died during a vacation of 
 Congress. In other words, he died when there was no House of 
 Representatives in existence as an organized body. Mr. Hen- 
 dricks had studiously prevented the election of a President pro 
 tempore of the Senate. The construction given to the constitu- 
 tional provision that ' ' in the absence of the Vice-President or 
 when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States " 
 the Senate might elect a President pro tempore operated to per- 
 mit the Vice-President to preside so constantly in the Senate that 
 no temporary presiding officer could be elected. And so it was 
 that when Mr. Hendricks died there was no President pro tem- 
 
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 pore of the Senate. Nor was there a Speaker of the House of 
 Representatives; for the House of Representatives had expired on 
 the 4th of March preceding. The effect of this was to leave but 
 one life between organized" government and chaos; and that life 
 was the life of Mr. Cleveland. 
 
 Mr. Cleveland did not go to the funeral of his vice-presidential 
 associate. There was very considerable criticism in the press and 
 everywhere throughout the country because of what seemed to be 
 an indifference manifested by Mr. Cleveland. Afterwards the real 
 reason came out, and was complimentary to the kindly nature and 
 generous heart of Mr. Cleveland. He was preparing for the long 
 jjourney in the inclement weather of November to attend the fu- 
 neral at Indianapolis, when the question suggested itself to some 
 one— not the President, as it was understood— that it was hardly 
 the right thing for him to do, to travel all the way to Indianapolis, 
 exposing himself to the danger of railroad accidents and other 
 contingencies, and upon the advice of gentlemen of both parties 
 Mr. Cleveland withdrew his engagement and remained in the city 
 of Washington. 
 
 It is easy to see how wise was his precaution. Had he been 
 killed in an accident or in any other way lost his life, there was 
 no chart to guide the people of the country in supplying his place. 
 Thereupon, and for this reason, and growing out of this very cir- 
 cumstance, as I understand, Congress passed the existing law cut- 
 ting off the succession of the Speaker of the House and conferring 
 it (following the Vice-President, the successor by the terms of the 
 Constitution) upon the Secretary of State and successively upon 
 the other members of the Cabinet in the order named in the stat- 
 ute. This covers all the members of the Cabinet except the Secre- 
 tary of Agriculture, an office created since the passage of that 
 law and which, therefore, was not enumerated by the act. And 
 so we have assured safety again. 
 
 Garret A. Hobart brought the office of Vice-President to a 
 higher degree of value than it had ever had since we were ac- 
 quainted with the operations of the Government. He was a 
 man of strong personality, a man of high business qualifications, 
 thorough political training and sagacity, genial-minded, warm- 
 hearted, a lovable and admirable personality. And he came to 
 his high office with a purpose to cooperate, not segregate, the 
 office. His nomination at St. Louis was not the accident of polit- 
 ical movements by any means. To a great many men who par- 
 ticipated in the preconvention politics of 189G the nomination of 
 Hobart was as well assured before Congress adjourned as it was 
 after the ballot was declared. 
 
 He was a fitting coadjutor of the splendid Administration of 
 William McKinley. This is no time nor place, perhaps, to eulogize 
 the current Administration. It may be proper, however, to say 
 that in all its personality, in all its conduct of affairs, the mode 
 and manner of its procedure, the contact of its officials with the 
 public, the dignity and bearing of the Chief Magistrate and those 
 about him, this Administration has been popular and admirable. 
 And there was not one feature of the Administration, aside from the 
 great personality of the President, that was so attractive to the 
 people of the United States as was the personality and participa- 
 tion of Hobart. 
 
 As I have said, he did not come here to isolate his office and sim- 
 ply be the presiding officer of the Senate, but he came here to 
 become of the Administration, to be of its councils, to be of its 
 advisers. And the President gladly availed himself of the wis- 
 
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 dom, the knowledge, and the administrative ability of the Vice- 
 President. Their friendship was as the friendship of brothers. 
 The proximity of the residence of the Vice-President to the Execu- 
 tive Mansion made association easy, and all forms of dignified 
 distance and ceremonial intercourse were for the most part set 
 aside. A close association between the President and the Vice- 
 President was one of the great features of the period. 
 
 Mr. Hobart stamped himself upon the results of legislation. 
 He had no vote, but he had a voice, and his judgment commended 
 itself to Senators and Representatives. During his incumbency 
 of the Vice-Presidential office more than one great event in legis- 
 lation happened. The enactment of the Dingley law and the 
 ratification of the Spanish treaty were two most memorable con- 
 tests; and no man outside of the President had more to do with 
 carrying those measures to a successful issue than did Garret 
 A. Hobart. His wisdom, his just appreciation of others, his 
 kindness of heart, his magnetism, and his personality in general 
 made him a great factor in reaching the results that grew out of 
 those matters. 
 
 Of his social life I had but limited personal knowledge; yet I 
 came to be impressed, as others did, with the warmth of his char- 
 acter, with his geniality. He came in contact with American 
 citizens as an American citizen. He had no pride of place that 
 compared with his pride and love of home and home ties. Otheis 
 will speak more fully of these characteristics. As husband and 
 father, as citizen and politician, as Vice-President, and as a high 
 official in other places his life was above criticism, his efficiency 
 beyond disparagement, and his memory will be to us all a bene- 
 diction. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I bow with reverence and humility before the 
 awful blow that Providence delivered upon the American people 
 in the untimely death of Hobart. I seek to look beyond the dark- 
 ness of the clouds that lower upon us, and have faith to believe 
 that beyond them there shines the light of the countenance of the 
 Father "of us all, who "doeth all things well." But it is difficult 
 sometimes to feel that degree or reconciliation that is due; we 
 naturally come back to the human standard, and wonder while 
 we bow our heads. We must be rescued from a condition of 
 revolt by the assurance, which we must take with blind faith. 
 "He doeth all things well." 
 
 Mr. PARKER of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, Garret A. Ho- 
 bart was born June 3, 1844, and died November 21, 1899, at the 
 age of 55 years. During this comparatively short life he did well 
 his part as husband and father, as counselor and friend to high 
 and low, at the bar. in the legislature of his native State, in the 
 conduct of great business enterprises, as a leader in politics, and 
 finally as President of the Senate and Vice- President. 
 
 His death brought tributes of love, grief, and honor from a 
 nation. The words of the great men in the Senate as to their 
 young President read as if they had lost a Nestor. The speech of 
 a Senator who had been at the head of a great railroad recalls 
 that Mr. Hobart had been the arbitrator of traffic between the 
 railroad systems of the whole country. He says: 
 
 No judge ever held office by so precarious a tenure or had to decide more 
 important matters. There can be no more significant tribute to his unfail- 
 ing judgment, tact, and character than the remarkable fact that there was 
 never an appeal from his decisions or complaint of their fairness or justice. 
 
 The Senator from Massachusetts tells us that in two short years 
 
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 "he restored the Vice-Presidency to its proper position, and lifted 
 it np before the people to the dignity and importance which it 
 merits;'" that he lifted it out of neglect and misconception, and 
 made himself part of the Administration as one of the President's 
 friends, advisers, and supporters. 
 Other Senators say: 
 
 •'His close attachment for the President was as rare as it was generous 
 and beautiful. " 
 
 "The Vice-President loved justice. His sense of fairness made him the 
 friend of the people and the people his friend." 
 
 " He appeared not to be an ambitious man, but carried wisdom and justice 
 in his bosom, and friendship in his heart; love for his fellow-man and for his 
 country." 
 
 " As he loved us. so we love and revere his memory." 
 
 A close friend, who knew and loved him, has said that it was a 
 peculiarity of Mr. Hobart that he never made a mistake; that he 
 seemed to know intuitively what to do, and when he once made a. 
 friend he never made the mistake of losing that friend. 
 
 Governor Roosevelt says: 
 
 With great titular rank he was not supposed to have any active share in 
 formulating the policy of the Government and helping carry it through. 
 What he did was done, not by force of position, but by force of character, his 
 rare tact, his extraordinary common sense, and the impression of sincerity 
 he created upon every man with whom he was brought in contact. 
 
 These and like sentiments, said here and elsewhere, are not com- 
 mon utterances, nor made by ordinary men. They speak the love 
 and admiration which our friend's character inspired in all who 
 knew him, and tell us the fact that he was not one of a class of 
 great men, but that his work and character were unique. His 
 was a rare union of qualities not ordinarily found in one man. 
 He was active, but calm; earnest and judicious; wise, simple, and 
 modest; witty, but n ver in derision; kind and gentle, yet cour- 
 ageous; a partisan, but absolutely fair; a skillful politician, yet 
 entirely true; severely honest, but never puritanical; sweet as a 
 gi od woman and strong as a true man, and loved with the affec- 
 tion that we give to each. 
 
 One can not paint the rainbow, nor will words depict the blend- 
 ing qualities which make up an arched and rounded character 
 and which shade into each other so imperceptibly that even in 
 looking at the man it can not be seen where one ends and the other 
 begins. His sun is set and the rainbow is gone forever. We can 
 not portray it to those who have not seen it, but we remember its 
 presence as a joyful memory, bringing the world nearer to the 
 sky. He was perhaps most remarkable in that he was always at 
 his best, never failing in instinctive and instant perception as to 
 what should be said or done, and what should be left unsaid or not 
 done. Hisbusinessenergy was wonderful. His letters were always 
 answered and his tab'e clear, and his friends wondered when it 
 was accomplished. He always had the time to see a friend, even 
 when the stress of nations brought perplexity to the wisest. 
 
 Those who were with him at St. Louis know how calm he was 
 before his nomination. He had felt the pulse of the political situ- 
 ation so distinctly that he calmly expected his nomination, and 
 said so. Yet when it came, he was for a while as if overwhelmed. 
 He realized instantly the change in his life, the greatness of his 
 new duties and of the place that he had to fill— the stand which 
 must be taken and the responsibility that was upon him. He 
 shrank from public welcomes and retired to the counsels of his own 
 heart. And when he spoke, a single sentence of his brief letter of 
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 acceptance rang through the country like a trumpet as he man- 
 fully proclaimed his belief that a dollar could not be made of 
 "fifty-three cents' worth of silver plus a legislative fiat.'' 
 
 Such a sentence tells of his character more than any description. 
 His simplicity of thought, his "veracity of mind" (as the Senator 
 from Massachusetts terms it), his lightning and enlightening per- 
 ception of facts, his simple statement of the issue, his power to 
 put volumes of financial argument into a phrase, and, above all, 
 his political truth and courage— all these appear written in that 
 sentence as if in the handwriting on the wall. Those who then 
 lived with him know what resolution it took to put and keep that 
 sentence in his letter, how many of the wisest wished to disguise 
 the issue, and what influences he had to meet and conquer. In it 
 is seen, too. his poetical insight, then, as always, instinctive and 
 unerring. From that moment the nation knew him as a leader. 
 
 He was born to be such, for he always dealt with realities and 
 with great issues, and not with little ones. He faced what had to 
 be done. He decided instantly, when others reasoned or doubted, 
 and was never entangled with words or phrases. 
 
 Like all great leaders, he also knew men. and loved them as 
 men, and recognized the best that was in them. He was informed 
 not only by wide experience, but by a universal sympathy with 
 others, that enabled him to know the mind and heart of the nation. 
 
 The office of Vice-President, carrying with it no official duty 
 except to preside in the Senate, and no power except that of the 
 ca-ting vote in case of a tie, gave to him opportunity to bring all 
 branches of the Government closer together. In the century of 
 national life the Senate has grown from 26 to 90 and the House 
 from 65 to over 350, while the deiails and departments of the work 
 of the Executive and of the courts have grown until this great 
 Go'i eminent, in its various branches, is hardly to be recognized 
 as the oll'spring of the simple assemblage of gentlemen who first 
 met under the Constitution. 
 
 Naturally these braiuheshave grown apart. ItwasMr. Hobart's 
 work to bring each nearer to the other and to the nation. By 
 his loving friendship with the President, by the relations which 
 he maintained with men of all parties in the Sena'e, by his close 
 affiliation with the House and with the leaders of national politics, 
 he was enabled to bring each in touch with the other. All con- 
 sulted him and wished to know his opinion. All trusted him. 
 Senate and House, the Executive, the Army and Navy, the judges 
 and the diplomats, were drawn closer together and felt how much 
 he made for mutual confidence and peace. 
 
 If dispute threatened a deadlock, his advice was sought by men 
 of the most various opinions. His decisions were accepted because 
 he was known to be always true and fair. " He had a perfect gen- 
 ius for friendship." His influence in the Senate was almost un- 
 bounded, and yet he never infringed the privileges of that body. 
 His advice was all the more powerful because it was always sought 
 and never obtruded. It will never be known how much the lead- 
 ers relied upon him in the crises that preceded the appeal to arms 
 or how much they recognized his conservatism, courage, and 
 Americanism. 
 
 Blessed are the peacemakers. But it takes rare wisdom to be a 
 peacemaker— rare tact and disinterestedness. 
 
 When he fell ill, a shock came to us all, a sense of national 
 calamity. His life had crept into that of the nation! We felt 
 how much we might have to miss him in the reconstruction that 
 
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 follows after war; how much he could do, and how much he 
 could prevent. The nation watched at his bedside, and finally 
 wept by his grave. _ • 
 
 The President himself has written his touching epitaph: 
 
 In him the nation has lost one of its most illustrious citizens and one of its 
 most faithful servants. His participation in the business life and the law- 
 making body of his native State was marked by unswerving fidelity and by 
 a high order of talents and attainments, and his too brief career as Vice- 
 President of the United States and President of the Senate exhibited the 
 loftiest qualities of upright and sagacious statesmanship. In the world of 
 affairs he had few equals among his contemporaries. His private character 
 was gentle and noble. He will long be mourned by his friends as a man ot 
 singular purity and attractiveness, whose sweetness of disposition won all 
 hearts, while 'his elevated purposes, his unbending integrity, and whole- 
 hearted devotion to the public good deserved and acquired universal respect 
 and esteem. 
 
 As an American and from his own State, "I will instruct my 
 sorrows to be proud. "' He is one who served his country faith- 
 fully. He died for that country as truly as any soldier in battle, 
 welcoming the work that killed and meeting death without fear 
 as patriot, statesman, and Christian gentleman, the Nation's serv- 
 ant and the People's friend, leaving a memory that is unstained 
 and that best of monuments, the universal affection of the People 
 for whom he worked. 
 
 Mr. DOLLIVEtl. Mr. Speaker, it is not certain that the death 
 of any man ought to be spoken of as untimely, because the world 
 in which we live is without meaning or significance of any noble 
 kind if we forget that our times are in the Hand which is upon 
 all things. Yet the death of such a man as Garret A. Hobart 
 seems to the feeble insight which is granted to us amid the per- 
 plexities and mysteries of human affairs like the squandering of 
 an estate or the loss of a priceless treasure. 
 
 He died in the midst of his labors and his honors, at the very 
 moment of his largest usefulness in the world. The career of 
 such a man is not an accident, it illustrates not only the opportu- 
 nities of American life, but the benevolent working of the laws 
 under which the progress of society is made sure. There is a doc- 
 trine grown to influence in these days which impeaches the whole 
 framework of society, because it imposes upon all a struggle for 
 existence in which only the fit survive. In order to put an end to 
 such a tragedy, the world is filled with dreams of impossible 
 conditions, in which all shall share alike in the rewards of life. 
 According to the teachings of this school of thought, all who win 
 success under the present condition of things are reckoned enemies 
 of those who fail: and there are men who. in their eagerness to do 
 away with the battlefields of life, are ready to set mankind on a 
 dead level, in which there shall be neither failure nor success, but 
 a perfect calm, in which all may enjoy the luxury of a common 
 repose. 
 
 It is a sign of unhealthy times when the social and political 
 philosophy of a race like ours becomes infected with these morbid 
 opinions, for they not only pull down the fabric of society which 
 has been slowly builded through the ages, but make any worthy 
 and progressive human institutions impracticable. 
 
 A Senator of the United States, famous in the world of business 
 
 and politics, in paying tribute to Mr. Hobart's memory, found 
 
 an illustration of the probity of his character in the success of his 
 
 work as arbitrator of the Joint Traffic Association. The orator 
 
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 said that every one of the thirty-seven railway managers con- 
 cerned had come up from the ranks and had won his way by 
 his own ability. And no one could listen to his words without 
 peixeiving in them not only a tribute to Garret A. Hob art, 
 but a justification of the law of labor, under which the victories 
 of life belong to those who win them. 
 
 While the world is larger than it was when Garret A. Hobart 
 was born, the fear is just as groundless as it was then that the 
 sons of the rich are to drive the sons of the poor out of the race of 
 life. The poor boy is the only boy that has any chance in the 
 world or ever did have. This world will always be governed by 
 the intellectual and moral strength there is in it. and neither the 
 one or the other will ever be possible except under the discipline 
 of hardship and necessity. The hope of mankind to-day lies not 
 in the palaces of luxury and wealth, but in the cottages of the 
 people, about humble family altars, in obscure places where the 
 storms of all skies beat and where the rugged fiber of manhood 
 is made, which is a victor over circumstances, a master of oppor- 
 tunities, a crowned athlete in the games of fortune and achieve- 
 ment. 
 
 The ancestors of Mr. Hobart were pioneers in the woods of 
 New Hampshire, so far as the favor of nature is concerned prob- 
 ably the most backward of that marvelous group of communities 
 called New England, which not only nurtured the intellectual 
 life of America, but has sent forth her children to lay the founda- 
 tions of new commonwealths and bequeathed to them the imper- 
 ishable riches of the old homestead. 
 
 It may be counted fortunate for Mr. Hobart that he did not 
 enter upon the responsibilities of liie without an adequate prep- 
 aration. It may be true, as Thomas Carlyle has said, that "your 
 true university is the collection of books,'' and that men may ob- 
 tain knowledge without the advantages of other education, but 
 the number of self-educated men who have reached great emi- 
 nence, without the patient training of the schools, is not suffi- 
 ciently large to mislead the youth of our day. The estimate 
 which General Garfield once gave of the influence of the small 
 colleges of the country compared with the great seats of learning 
 is justified by a thousand illustrations, and by none more com- 
 pletely than by the case of the late Vice-President. At Rutgers 
 College, a struggling institution within easy reach of his home, in 
 an atmosphere free from every contagion, surrounded by teachers 
 who entered into the personal life of the student and kindled within 
 him that love of learning which can not be communicated without 
 the touch of sympathy, he found the exact environment adapted to 
 his case. 
 
 The fabulous endowments now steadily flowing to the centers 
 of American culture, new and old, are not to be despised, but the 
 youth of America ought to be warned against the temptation 
 never absent in circumstances of ease and extravagance, of de- 
 grading the ideals of learning by the parade of material things; 
 and the universities boasting themselves of size without age need 
 to be often reminded of the blasphemy of the imposter in the 
 Acts of the Apostles, who thought to buy the gift of God with 
 money. 
 
 It is not to be supposed that Mr. Hobart, graduating at the age 
 of 19, founded his success in life upon what he learned at college, 
 or even upon what he acquired as a school-teacher and student of 
 of law. Yet, it would be hard to overstate the advantages which 
 
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 a young man derives from the training of a college course and the 
 arduous self-discipline of a school-teacher. A good teacher gives 
 much to a school, but the school gives to the teacher even more; 
 so that it is not strange that so many men and women have come 
 from the patient labor of the district schoolroom into the larger 
 service of their day and generation. Mr. Hob art was in some 
 sense a pioneer of the new professional life which in the larger 
 American cities has abolished the old-fashioned attorney and made 
 the new counselor at law a part of th9 industrial and commercial 
 activity of the community. While he had the faculty of plain 
 and direct speech, he was at no time in his career noted as an ad- 
 vocate, nor did he ever pose as a jurist weighed down with the 
 obsolete lore of the profession. 
 
 He had the genius of success. As a student he copied papers and 
 records in the law office which he afterwards owned, and for 
 twenty years he was president of the bank in which he began as a 
 clerk, "during the trying period in which he was getting a foot- 
 hold in the world. He was a man of affairs, who understood the 
 law as applied to modern business with perfect accuracy, and 
 whose opinion on practical questions involved in large enterprises 
 soon came to be counted everywhere as sound. 
 
 It has been observed by the older judges that the legal profes- 
 sion as it was known to our fathers has been noticeably influenced 
 to the revolutions of the modern business world. The orator who 
 once captivated juries by his persuasive eloquence is hardly more 
 than a tradition, while the leader of the bar who once overawed 
 the courts by the weight of his personal authority no longer finds 
 an appreciative audience outside of the rural circuit. In their 
 places have come experts in the various fields of business enter- 
 prise, shrewd and limited men who have taken the pains to know 
 more about a few things than their predecessors ever had time to 
 find out about everything. In such a professional atmosphere the 
 common man is lost, and sinks to a cipher without vital relation 
 to the world at large of any sort, while the profession itself runs 
 the risk of becoming a mere case-grinding drudgery in which the 
 larger faculties of the mind perish altogether. 
 
 Mr. Hobart lived through the perils which beset the corpora- 
 tion lawyer of our times, rising year by year into a broader intel- 
 lectual horizon: and when the American people called him to the 
 second office in their gift, he was able to lock up his law office at 
 Paterson, close the business engagements of a lifetime, and be- 
 come the trusted counselor of all with whom he was associated in 
 the Government of the United States. By his singular foresight 
 he became a man of wealth, yet in his whole career no man ever 
 suspected his integrity or disparaged his prosperity. He had the 
 respect of poor and rich alike, and in the city where he lived his 
 name inspired the confidence and affection of all. He gained his 
 wealth in a manly, honest way, and used it while he lived to help 
 and bless the world. Few men have ever exhibited a more symmet- 
 rical life than his. 
 
 The thing that struck me most forcibly about him when I first 
 knew him neariytwentyyearsagowasthe fact that though histime 
 was pressed upon by a variety of engagements so innumerable as 
 to encumber and bewilder any but an extraordinary man, yet in 
 the midst of all the cares of business he had time for politics, 
 local and national: time for his church, time for his friends, and 
 time for the fireside, from which he drew the gentlest inspirations 
 of his laborious life. 
 
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 My acquaintance with Mr. Hobart began in the summer of 
 1884, when, as an inexperienced campaign speaker, I saw much of 
 him at the national headquarters of the committee which managed 
 Mr. Blaine"s Presidential canvass. He was one of the extraordi- 
 nary group of young men who were drawn about the person of 
 Mr. Blaine by those remarkable qualities which made him so long 
 the leader of his party, and I speak here to-dav on this mournful 
 occasion because in those years I found in Mr. Hobart a friend 
 whose counsel was always unselfish and whose hand was ever 
 ready in acts of kindness and good will. In three Presidential 
 campaigns I knew him as a political manager charged with the 
 success of the party to which he was devoted. I saw him day and 
 night in the work of the campaign, and while I have seen the storm 
 of clamor and detraction gather about the heads of those who were 
 associated with him in this party service, the fact that Garret A. 
 Hobart shared in every responsibility of his associates has always 
 enabled me to feel that the working field of American politics, in- 
 stead of being a corrupt and corrupting thing, is a high arena in 
 which men of chai-acter may serve their countrymen without dis- 
 honor or reproach. 
 
 Surprise has been expressed by some that this plain man, whose 
 name was comparatively obscure until his party selected him as its 
 candidate for the Vice-Presidency, should have been able to so 
 exalt that office as to bring back the prestige which it bore in the 
 earlier days of the Republic. To those who knew Mr. Hobart 
 well there is nothing strange in the fact that his brief service in 
 the chair of the Senate dignified that public station with a new 
 and high distinction. Few men knew more about American 
 politics or had studied the public service of the United States to 
 a better purpose than he. From the day he opened his law office 
 in Paterson he was profoundly interested, both in theory and in 
 practice, in the politics of his town, his county, his State, and 
 his country. 
 
 Mr. Hobart was a great Vice-President: first, because he be- 
 came easily the master of the duties of that office; and then, so 
 large and generous was the man himself that he brought to the 
 office a personality which attracted at once the consideration of 
 the whole Senate and the whole country. No man ever met him 
 without receiving from him a word of helpfulness and good cheer, 
 and no man ever entered his door without breathing at once the 
 air of a perfect hospitality. His judgment was unerring upon 
 questions involving public or party policy, and the man himself 
 was too great to use a minute of his time in spiteful disparage- 
 ment of other men. 
 
 It has been observed as worthy at least of note that the late 
 Vice-President, while he lived, was an adviser and intimate friend 
 of the President, helping him to bear his burdens and giving him 
 with an unselfish motive continual help and guidance in the midst 
 of difficult affairs. It has been said that no such relation between 
 the two offices was ever known before, and that with no exception 
 our American Vice-Presidents, though many of them were strong 
 and famous, have spent their influence in undermining the Ad- 
 ministration of the President or in stupid lamentations over their 
 own neglected and unimportant lot. 
 
 If Mr. Hobart was loyal to the President it was not, as some 
 
 have thought, because he was conscious of any disqualification in 
 
 himself that would make his own aspirations to the Presidency 
 
 out of place. It was partly at least because, knowing by experi- 
 
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 ence more probably than anybody else about the nomination of 
 Presidents and the election of them, be had acquired the wisdom 
 to know that men are not lifted up in the estimation of the world 
 by trying to drag others down; and that the forces which make 
 Presidents of the United States out of men operate on too large 
 a scale to be seriously affected by the gossip of the dinner table 
 or the whispers of the cloakroom. 
 
 Therefore, with a sane mind, grateful to his countrymen for the 
 honor they had given him, he set himself to deliver the office of 
 Vice-President from the cheap and petulant influences that have 
 always surrounded it. How well he succeeded all men know, and 
 it is liot too much to say that had he lived he would have drawn to 
 himself such a measure of popular enthusiasm that his countrymen 
 wi mid have invited him to step from the second chariot into the 
 first. Already his name was spoken with honor in every section 
 of the country. On the day he died, in traveling over the prairies 
 west of the Missouri, I saw upon every schoolhouse the flag at 
 half-mast, and at every railway station groups of people talking 
 in subdued voices of the death of Vice-President Hobart: and 
 wherever the flag of the United States is known, even in the ends 
 of the earth, it became the sign of the universal affliction of his 
 countrymen. We come here to-day to add our tribute to his 
 memory. We can not hope by what we say in the least to repair 
 the loss which the nation has sustained in his death. We may not 
 even presume with our faltering words of eulogy to console the 
 broken hearts which have so recently followed him to the grave; 
 we can only commend them to God and the Word of His grace. 
 
 Mr. DALY of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker. Garret Augustus 
 Hobart, Vice-President of the United States, died at half past 8 
 o'clock ou the morning of Tuesday, November 21, 1899, at his 
 home in the city of Paterson. N. J. His death was not unexpected, 
 for Mr. Hobart had made a strong battle for life before the sum- 
 mons came. All that medical science and the encouragement of 
 friends could do was exerted in his behalf, but he had to suc- 
 cumb finally to the hand of death. 
 
 Few men in the histoiy of this country have grown into such 
 great prominence as Mr. Hobart from the time he became Vice- 
 President of the United States until the day of his death. It was 
 an unusual spectacle to behold, contrasted with the past, a Vice- 
 President of these United States who was close in touch with the 
 molding of the policy of his party, being accorded that considera- 
 tion in the councils of the nation which has seldom been accorded 
 to one occupying the position he did. It can not be said that this 
 recognition grew out of any prominence he had attained in public 
 life or from any great attainments that he was himself master of; 
 nor can it be said that it was due to any transcendent position he 
 occupied in his chosen profession : but it can be truthfully ass srted 
 that it was due to the strong personal character that admitted of 
 his grasping situations with celerity and a power of discrimina- 
 tion in his judgment of men and measures which come to those 
 who by perseverance and aggressiveness have been able to sur- 
 mount obstacles and throw down barriers in order to accomplish 
 the object sought. 
 
 Born in comparative obscurity, he possessed to a remarkable 
 degree the energy and determination which have proved the main- 
 spring of success in the lives of all successful men. 
 
 He was born in historic Monmouth County, in the month of 
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 June, 1844. Monmouth, whose fields were consecrated to Ameri- 
 can liberty by the blood of patriots at old Monmouth Court-House, 
 nigh unto the very soil that was trodden by such heroes as Wash- 
 ington, Wayne. Lafayette, Knox, Green, Steuben, and a host of 
 others; neur where Washington and Lafayette, wrapped in a 
 single cloak, lay down to rest the night before the battle of Mon- 
 mouth Court-House, and near where the brave Mollie Pitcher 
 became famous and went down into history as the "woman 
 cannoneer of Monmouth." With these environments it is little 
 to be wondered at that the late Vice-President, no doubt inspired 
 by his patriotic surroundings, was urged onward to achieve glory 
 in civil life, which finally ended in his becoming the second citi- 
 zen of this great Republic. 
 
 Like the majority of the great men of this nation, his early edu- 
 cation was obtained in our country's greatest institution — its com- 
 mon schools. He finished his education at old Rutgers College, 
 graduating in the year 1863, and, as I understand it, soon entered 
 upon the duties of a schoolmaster, finally taking up the study of 
 law and entering the ranks of that profession, no doubt, when he 
 started out, intending to reach a position that might place him 
 with some of the great legal lights that have made New Jersey 
 famous. 
 
 He was not long destined to remain in the ranks of the strug- 
 gling attorney. This was not due to lack of education or legal 
 attainments, but to the fact that he found other pursuits more 
 congenial, and he directed his attention to some of the great in- 
 dustrial interests of New Jersey. His legal ability must have 
 been of a superior order, for we find that early in his professional 
 career (1871) he became counsel to the manufacturing city of 
 Paterson. and a year later counsel to the board of chosen free- 
 holders of the county of Passaic. The appointment to these 
 positions indicate that young Hobart was possessed of superior 
 legal ability, for in the exercise of his duties he was compelled to 
 pass upon grave constitutional and municipal questions, and no 
 one could occupy either position unless a sure and safe legal edu- 
 cation had been acquired. 
 
 About this time — 1872 — he entered the field of politics by being 
 elected a member of the house of assembly for the city of Pater- 
 son. He was reelected in 1873. and in the year 1871 his rank was 
 such in his party that they honored him with the position of 
 speaker. He entered the senate of the State in 1876 and served in 
 that body six years, twice occupying the distinguished position of 
 president of the senate. During all this time he kept growing in 
 the confidence of the people, and his ability was such that he 
 ranked as one of the leaders of the Republican party in the State, 
 and during this period, either in the house of assembly or in the 
 senate, he was associated with and had for his colleagues some of 
 New Jersey's most eminent citizens. 
 
 At one time or another there sat with him the distinguished and 
 learned Chancellor McGill, Chief Justice Magee, of the supreme 
 court of the State, ex-Governor George C. Ludlow, the senior 
 Senator from New Jersey, William J. Sewell, and my colleague, 
 Mr. Gardner, of the First Congressional district of the State. 
 Some of these whom I have named were then but young men : some 
 of them had not reached middle life, but they have since arisen pre- 
 eminent in my State and in the nation, and do you wonder that with 
 th-se surroundings the lamented Vice-President paved the way to 
 ascend the ladder of fame? His very contact with these men must 
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 have further excited his ambition as they moved along side by 
 side in life's struggle. 
 
 After he left the senate of New Jersey the bent of his energes 
 was directed in the channel of business enterprise, and I am in- 
 formed that at the time of his death he was interested to the extent 
 of b3ing director in more than sixty companies, banking and busi- 
 ness interests. He became general manager of the East Jersey 
 Water Company, and was president of the Passaic Water Com- 
 pany, the Paterson Railroad Company, and the Peoples Gas 
 Company. He was director in the First National and other 
 banks of Paterson and elsewhere; was director of the New York, 
 Susquehanna and Western Railroad, the Lehigh and Hudson Val- 
 ley Kailroad, Barbour Brothers Company, Barbour Flax Spinning 
 Company, the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, and many 
 other large institutions. His connection with these great concerns 
 demonstrated his great financial and business ability, for from 
 struggling corporations he built some of them up, by his perse- 
 verance and the exercise of wisdom and discretion, to be the 
 greatest industries of our State, and through his connection with 
 these institutions he laid the foundation for the building up of 
 the great fortune he left behind. 
 
 With all these interests absorbing his time and energies, one 
 might imagine he would lose sight of the people; that he would 
 lose sight of the governmental interests and policies of State and 
 nation; but, instead, he kept in closer touch with his party and 
 his party's leaders and the country. Ever genial, ever kind, 
 possessed of a strong magnetism, his party and people sought his 
 advice and counsel, and he maintained that hold upon them that 
 even while occupied with business interests he guided the policy 
 of his party in his State and aided in guiding its policy in the nation. 
 The power which he possessed in the great interests of his State 
 would have made some men arrogant, overbearing, and selfish ; but 
 never once have I known it to be said of him that his political or his 
 business preferment ever made him lose sight of the fact that he 
 was plain Garret A. Hobart. He posses ed all the attributes of 
 a leader. He was conciliatory, yet brave; extremely partisan, but 
 generous to a political opponent. His presiding over the Senate 
 and his ever-courteous bearing toward all parties demonstrated 
 his strength of character, for public history has recorded the fact 
 that the stronger the partisan and the greater the leader the less 
 arbitrary his conduct when called upon to exercise discretion in 
 trying situations. Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but 
 in the main this principle will apply. 
 
 I knew Mr. Hobart well. As a member of the senate of the 
 State of New Jersey I frequently came in contact with him at 
 the statehouseand had many opportunities to judge of his charac- 
 ter. I do not wonder that when he came to Washington he made 
 the same impression upon those he came in contact with that he 
 did in his own State. Those who knew him well loved him; those 
 who knew him not so well admired him. 
 
 The tribute paid Mr. Hobart by his colleagues in the Senate 
 • speaks eloquently and forcibly of his fairness in presiding over 
 the deliberations of that body. Grave public questions were in- 
 volved during his occupancy of the chair as presiding officer, but 
 it has yet to be said that he ever exercised any arbitrary power or 
 discriminated in favor of one or the other. He treated all alike. 
 
 I have never heard Mr. Hobart criticised save for being a par- 
 tisan: but, Mr. Speaker, to my mind that was a tribute, for when 
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 a man enters public life he does it through the channels of some 
 political party to which he has become devoted, and if. forsooth, 
 his party err on some given proposition, yet for the good his party 
 has done he remains true, relying upon the conservative element 
 to correct the error when the proper time comes, and not rise and 
 strike it down that upon its ruins might be erected and perpetu- 
 ated another. Such a partisan was Mr. Hobart, and such politi- 
 cal characters live in the hearts of men when party destroyers 
 have passed into oblivion. 
 
 Mr. Hobart's strict attention to public business, his attention 
 to his private interests, and that genial disposition of his nature 
 which led him to attend to the calls which society made upon him, 
 soon undermined the vigorous constitution of which he was pos- 
 sessed, so that on the 4th of March, 1899. he with the President 
 and Senator Hanna took themselves to the quiet retreat of Thom- 
 asville, Ga., there to recuperate and build up his physical and 
 nervous condition. It was there that he was first taken seriously 
 ill, and he soon returned to Washington. As his sickness pro- 
 gressed he longed for his home by the sea at Long Branch, to be 
 near the scenes of his earliest childhood in the county of his na- 
 tivity, hoping that the ocean's bree :es might benefit him and the 
 dreary monotony be relieve 1 by gazing upon the scenes of pleasure 
 of that locality. But relief came not, and I have no doubt as he 
 looked on the waves breaking their force upon the shores and 
 calmly receding the thought of the po?t was suggested: 
 
 Faded wave, joy to thee; 
 
 Now thy flight and toil are over; 
 Oh, may my departure be 
 
 Calm as thine, thou ocean rover. 
 
 When this sad soul's last joy on earth 
 
 On the shore of time is driven, 
 Be its lot like thine on earth. 
 
 To be lost away in heaven. 
 
 He practically spent the entire summer at Long Branch, save 
 for a short trip to Lake Champlain, whither he went to join the 
 President. In the early fall he returned to his home in Paterson, 
 and there lingered, battling with disease, until the date I have 
 mentioned, when he departed this life. 
 
 No tribute tongue could pay could be as grand as that paid 
 by the people of his adopted city as he lay in death in Carroll 
 Hall. Public business was suspended, great manufacturing in- 
 terests closed that thousands in that busy city might join in the 
 manifestations of sorrow that pervaded our entire country. 
 What a scene was that, Mr. Speaker, when the rich and the poor 
 and the great men of our nation were bending their heads in sor- 
 row in the streets of that city, all alike feeling the loss of a great 
 public servant and benefactor. The personality of the man was 
 alike to all; the same sunny smile was for the rich as the poor, 
 and the same cordial greeting was bestowed upon everyone he 
 came in contact with. His generous liberality was appreciated 
 by everyone. 
 
 I wish I were possessed of the eloquence to pay that tribute his 
 memory deserves. By those who knew him he wili be fond ly spoken 
 of until the last survivor has passed away, and when history shall 
 write him, he shall live as one who loved his country, who loved 
 its institutions and its people. I can not better summarize than 
 to say he lived a true life, and in the language of the great philan- 
 thropist. Horace Greeley, who said. "Whoever seeks fo know if 
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 his career has been prosperous and brightening from its outset to 
 its close should ask not for broad acres or towering edifices or 
 laden coffers; ask rather, Did he live a true life?" 
 
 Garret A. Hobart lived a true life, and as he lived, so much 
 greater shall be his reward in the hereafter. In a quiet spot 
 in Cedar Lawn Cemetery reposes all that was mortal, there to rest 
 until called forth on the resurrection morning to enjoy eternal 
 happiness in the presence of his Redeemer. 
 
 Mr. FOWLER. Mr. Speaker, Garret A. Hobart still lives, 
 both yonder and here. His soul nourished the hope of immortal- 
 ity, and his life here was so consonant with that hope that his life 
 there will be but an exalted, beautified, and glorified realization of 
 his ideals. 
 
 He was a typical man; typical because he illustrated in an 
 almost matchless degree the best of our civilization. During all 
 the ages, in art and architecture, in poetry and philosophy, those 
 only have left permanent influences for the welfare of the human 
 race and have moved the standards of right living onward and 
 upward who typified those ideals that will forever mark their 
 times. Garret A. Hobart was the highest type of the American 
 citizen of his day. 
 
 In this eager age of wealth gathering, over against the hot haste, 
 in bold relief, stands every virtue; and he who in the midst of the 
 mad rush illustrates those virtues truly typifies all that is best 
 of his time. You will search in vain the long list of noble lives 
 ending with the century for a life that more completely and 
 beautifully exemplifies and symbolizes the essential virtues of our 
 civilization than that of Hobart. 
 
 Born upon a farm, he started life at the lowest round of the lad- 
 der of human endeavor, but never missed a step in its ascent, as 
 the farm boy, the district-school lad, the college student, the 
 teacher, the lawyer, the State representative, the man of stu- 
 pendous business affairs, the ideal Vice-President of the United 
 States. 
 
 Is honesty for its own sake one of the essentials of American 
 manhood? Garret A. Hobart stood for all that that word can 
 suggest; he could not even think dishonestly. He was a stranger 
 to indirection. His plans were great, but as open as the sunlight. 
 His honor was the "finest sense of justice the human mind can 
 frame."' He was too broad and generous to cavil over technical- 
 ities; with him implication was as binding as his bond. Intent, 
 not forms of words, determined his action. 
 
 Are the boundless burdens of our highly organized society to be 
 voluntarily assumed by every true friend of mankind? This was 
 his belief, for he gave his great heart of sympathy and generous 
 hand to every good work. 
 
 If the influence of loyalty to principle and fidelity to duty be 
 sought in its highest development, we need seek no other illus- 
 tration than his life. 
 
 No man had a profounder and sweeter sympathy or enjoyed 
 more the fragrance of a friend's heart. His was a friendship 
 which, once pledged, never swerved; weighed well before it 
 trusted, but did not weigh before it served. 
 
 Very recently a lifelong companion remarked that if Hobart 
 happened by any chance to learn that a friend wanted some- 
 thing, he would straightway try to obtain it for him. When 
 the shadows of life were thickening, and he knew well that the 
 
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 sun would shine through them no more, he expressed an earnest 
 wish that he might do a kindness for one, who, he said, had been 
 true to him. 
 
 His was a truly noble life; simple, yet exalted. He made his 
 character by being what he desired to seem. 
 
 What essential quality or virtue did he not possess? He was in- 
 stinctively intelligent and profoundly just. He possessed great 
 talents, and his tact was boundless. His judgment was almost 
 unerring and his generosity limitless. His patriotism was calm 
 and unswerving. He was the very soul of honor. He harbored no 
 bitter hatreds; he nursed no relentless animosities. His friend- 
 ship was a devotion. His character was as pure and spotless as a 
 star. 
 
 His was a life of sunshine, and it cast no shadows. What circum- 
 stance, what incident, what event, what endeavor, what achieve- 
 ment, what private obligation, what public duty, what institution, 
 what personal relationship, what human life was not more fortu- 
 nate because the soul of G-arret A. Hobart had touched it? And 
 so he still speaks in ten thousand sweet influences that can know 
 no ending; and the world will forever be the better because he 
 once lived in it. 
 
 His name, reaching down the age of time, 
 
 Will still through the age of eternity shine 
 
 Like a star, sailing on through the depths of the blue, 
 
 On whose brightness we gaze every evening anew. 
 
 Mr. SALMON. Mr. Speaker, I would not attempt at this time 
 to add to what has been so well said in the Senate and in this House 
 upon the life of our lamented Vice-President, were it not that his 
 home was so near my own and my acquaintance with him had been 
 so pleasant. It is natural for men to value an acquaintance with 
 one who has risen to a position of honor and distinction. The 
 memory of such acquaintance is inspiring and encouraging. 
 
 I first met Mr. Hobart in 1878. when he was a member of the 
 New Jersey senate and I of the house of assembly. I well remem- 
 ber his quiet, genial manner, and his smooth yet decided way in 
 dealing with matters requiring his attention. He never impressed 
 his partisanship upon those who differed with him, while at the 
 same time he was earnest and strong in his efforts to secure his 
 object. I met him occasionally between our first acquaintance 
 and his election as Vice-President, and he always exhibited the 
 same genial manner and courteous dignity. 
 
 Mr. Hobart had a comprehensive mind with quick perception, 
 and he was thoroughly executive in character. He wielded his 
 power not by physical force or menacing threats, but by an irre- 
 sistible force of reason and persuasion that so rarely accompanies 
 the strong will and determined purpose. His tact in leading 
 others to accept his conclusions was more than ordinary. 
 
 Goethe said, "The difference between great and little men is 
 in the amount of energy applied to their undertakings." Mr. Ho- 
 bart was a hard worker. He applied his mind closely and inces- 
 santly to his business. I know of his expressing weariness and a 
 lack of satisfaction in mere business success before his election to 
 the Vice-Presidency. His soul was too great to be satisfied by the 
 mere accumulation of wealth. Though it may not be said that he 
 made opportunities, yet by his fortunate location opportunities 
 were offered, and he had the grasp and energy of mind to take 
 advantage of and develop them. 
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 The city of Pater son, to which, from his native county of Mon- 
 mouth, he came when a young man, has been progressive beyond 
 most Eastern cities. Since the civil war it has grown from a mere 
 town to a city of about 100,000 people. It is a thoroughly manufac- 
 turing city. Its industries are and always have been varied. Its 
 iron manufactories and silk mills are extensive. Because of the 
 great number and varied character of its silk factories it has been 
 called the -'Lyons" of America. With this enterprising people 
 Mr. Hobart made his home when a young man, and there he found 
 opportunities for the employment of his rare energy and tact. 
 
 The lessons taught by his life are different from those taught 
 by the lives of most men whose names are honored in oar coun- 
 try's annals. Few indeed are they who, having gained high po- 
 litical station as well as eminent business success, retain the es- 
 teem and love of their fellow-men to the time of their death as he 
 did. 
 
 Mr. Hobart has been called from this life at an age when he 
 might reasonably have been expected to be in the vigor of health 
 and mental activity. He was but little past 53 years old at the 
 time of his death. 
 
 He gave his honors to the world again, 
 
 His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. 
 
 The years he lived fell far short of the allotted length of man's 
 life: yet if we measure life by what is accomplished, there have 
 been few in our country who have lived as long as he lived. 
 
 If any are discouraged and feel that they can not succeed, they 
 will find in the history of his life an inspiration to hope and per- 
 severe; if any are inclined to believe that kindness and courtesy 
 are not proper elements in the character of the strong and suc- 
 cessful man, they should recall the scene at the funeral of the de- 
 ceased Vice-President, where thousands gathered and with bowed 
 heads attested their sorrow because of his untimely demise. 
 
 Patriots have toiled, and in their country's cause 
 Bled nobly; and their deeds, as they deserve 
 Receive proud recompense. We give in charge 
 Their names to the sweet lyre. The historic Muse, 
 Proud of the treasure, marches with it down 
 To latest times; and Sculpture, in her turn, 
 Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass 
 To guard them, and to immortalize her trust. 
 
 Mr. GLYNN. Mr. Speaker, in behalf of a number of my fellow- 
 Democratic Congressmen from New York State, I lay a laurel 
 wreath at the door of the tomb of Garret A. Hobart. My words 
 but echo their thoughts; their thoughts but reflect the feeling of 
 their hearts; their heart- feelings but mirror forth the opinions and 
 beliefs of the American people. Mine was not the pleasure of a per- 
 sonal acquaintance with the distinguished statesman whose mem- 
 ory we revere to-day. Had it been, I would feel myself better 
 qualified to speak the eulogy which I am about to utter, but pub- 
 he men live in their works as authors live in their books and as 
 artists abide in their pictures— there to be the subject forever of 
 discussion at the pens of writers, the tongues of speakers, and the 
 minds of critics. No one living to day had a personal acquaint- 
 ance with Jefferson, Shakes; eare, or Michael Angelo, yet who liv- 
 ing to-day in this broad land can be said to be unacquainted with 
 Angelo, Shakespeare, and Jefferson, who live, though dead? In 
 the analogy of this thought lies my reason for uttering the f ollow- 
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 ing sentiments of respect, shared in common by my Democratic 
 conferees. 
 
 To voice a proper description of Garret A. Hobart would be 
 to delineate the last four years of the political history of the United 
 States, to epitomize the political incidents of the State of New- 
 Jersey for a decade at least, and to narrate many chapters in the 
 commercial annals of the upbuilding of American commerce and 
 the fostering of American manufacturing. However much one 
 may differ with the political principles advocated by the late Vice- 
 President, he must confess that in the workings of his own per- 
 sonal career, in the undertakings of his legal profession, and in the 
 consummation of his business plans, Garret A. Hobart was a con- 
 structor and not a destroyer. Most men die without creating ; few 
 die without destroying. He has lived well upon the tombstone 
 of whose grave can be carved the verity, " Herein lieth a man who 
 was a creator and not a destroyer." In his tribute President Mc- 
 Kinley paid as grand a eulogy to the memory of Garret A. 
 Hobart as man could utter when in his last message to Congress 
 he said: 
 
 His private life was pure and elevated, while his public career was ever 
 distinguished by large capacity, stainless integrity, and exalted motives. Ha 
 has been removed from the high office which he honored and dignified, but 
 his lofty character, his devotion to duty, his honesty of purpose, and noble 
 virtues remain with us as a priceless legacy and example. 
 
 In the life of Garret A. Hobart can be found the lesson that 
 inspiration comes of working every day. He, as much as any 
 other man of his time, has given proof that genius is encompassed 
 in the ability of doing a hard day's work and doing it on ever>- 
 working day in the year. He did all things well because he did 
 all things intensely. He had learned that in things where the 
 heart is not, the hand is never powerful. From his life we learn 
 that greatness flows not from chance, nor from a mere happy com- 
 bination of events, but simply from the magic of unwavering de- 
 termination, clear apprehension, and ceaseless toil. Garret A. 
 Hobart became a great man because he possessed these qualifica- 
 tions and because they enabled him to fill great occasions. He had 
 the abilities, the confidence, and the stamina to meet momentous 
 occasions, and therefore such occasions marked him and called 
 him to be what the successes of his abilities, confidence, and 
 stamina would make him. Jackson, Lincoln. Clay, Blaine, and 
 Tilden all drew their greatness from this same fountain head: aye, 
 more, all the great master spirits, all the founders and lawgivers 
 of empires, all the defenders of the rights of men, all the upbuild- 
 ers of the greatness of a nation, are made by these same laws. 
 
 It is fitting that we should pause in the rushings of our work-a- 
 day world to pay tribute to a man who. by the sheer force of ability, 
 carved his way from ' ' a man with the hoe " to be the occupant of the 
 seat of the Vice -Presidency of the United States. Only from the 
 facts of a life like this is composed substantial thought. All other 
 thought is mere speculation, mathematical philosophy, a puncture 
 by the rapier of probability into the clouds of guess-land. It is 
 well that we should pause and reflect upon the incidents of such a 
 life, because, when events daily increase in the growing magni- 
 tude of a nation like ours, history becomes a dwarf and passes 
 into biography and there is need in the rapidity of national ad- 
 vancement for the microscope to be placed on every honored son 
 of the Government, so that he may be seen in his true grandeur 
 and taken at his true worth. To the student the life of Garret 
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 A. Horart must drive home the fact that glory is only a furrow 
 in the dust, but at the same time it can not help teaching that it 
 is worth while to stamp that dust under foot, so as thereon to 
 leave an impression by which the world and posterity may know 
 that we have once journeyed along the road of life. 
 
 Some one has said that death transforms an opponent into a 
 friend. In a political sense this can not b? said to apply to the 
 man whose loss we mourn to-day. Even his hardest political op- 
 ponents never allowed the smoke of the fiercest political battles 
 to blind their vision as to the sterling worth of Hobart. They 
 recognized that in politics, as in war. the greatest men are those 
 who never capitulate. They realized that while men of different 
 political faiths differ as to everything on earth, they may some 
 day be united in what is larger than everything mundane, in what; 
 embraces the sum total of life and thought the arms of Provi- 
 dence. History teaches us that as great men see the right more 
 right lv than small or mediocre minds, so they see the false more 
 falsely. The knowledge of this fact brings to opponents in poli- 
 tics a'brotherhood and a manliness that almost deify differences 
 of opinion and sweeten the acrimonies of opposition. 
 
 From a farmer's son Garret A. Bobart worked his way 
 through college and made himself a legal light of his State and a 
 power in the politics of the nation. His ascendancy was like the 
 atoms of the soiling charcoal that we little value, becoming by 
 wise combinations and gradual arrangements the resplendent dia- 
 mond which every eye admires. Grandly, indeed, in all the work- 
 ings of his life did this son of the masses attest the fact that from the 
 pure, untainted blood of the common people come the rulers of the 
 world. Grandly did he perform his business functions for his 
 associates, his official functions for his country, and accomplish 
 projects which scores of mediocre minds could never accomplish. 
 The people of his native State loved him, his business associates 
 loved him, his opponents respected him, and men are not wont to 
 cherish so deeply that which is not deserving of their love and 
 admiration. According to Edmund Burke — 
 
 Reproach is concomitant with greatness; envy grows in a direct propor- 
 tion with fame, and censure is the tax that every man must pay the public 
 for being eminent. 
 
 In the main these assertions are true, but in the history of 
 Garret A. Hobart is found the exception which proves the rule 
 of their truthfulness. Throughout all his undertakings Mr. 
 Hobart exercised an indomitable will to acquire and retain suc- 
 cess. He found no joys in the intrigues of the wanton courtier; 
 his heart was not wedded to the revels of pleasure; his soul always 
 took flight beyond the ticklings of sense. With him one great 
 goal was always in view and the desire to reach it was father of 
 all his efforts. Such ambition has served the world in good stead. 
 It has worked like the desire of the philosopher's stone on the 
 chemists of old. The object of their search was truly a chimera, 
 nevertheless it was productive of a real good in the shape of 
 modern chemistry. In like manner civilization owes inestimable 
 advantages to such ambition as Hobart's, though the honor which 
 is the object of its quest may prove a will-o'-the-wisp. It was 
 the spur that goaded Hobart on from business triumph to busi- 
 ness triumph, from office to office, only in the end to find him- 
 self Vice-President and this country the richer for his ambi- 
 tion. It is the motive power that has ever kept the wheel of 
 progress in motion and prevented the world from loitering on the 
 
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 path to advancement. Far be it from my intention to canonize 
 Mr. Ho bart. In his career he must have made some mistakes- 
 else he would not have been a man— but that man is the greatest 
 who makes the fewest, and Hobart's missteps are far outweighed 
 by his many noble deeds and kind offices, 'in fact, to whatever 
 shortcomings may have been his we can apply the words of the 
 poet: 
 
 Motes in the sunshine, foam bells on the ocean. 
 Cloud shadows flitting o'er the mountain's breast— 
 
 His faults but marked the mighty play, the motion 
 Of a grand nature in its grand unrest. 
 
 To say that Garret A. Hob art was an eloquent man would be 
 to do injustice to the great men who have attained eminence by 
 the arts of Demosthenes and the attributes of Cicero, and at the 
 same time to make that assertion would be to cast a shadow of 
 disrespect upon that grand instrument by which Mr. Hobart 
 achieved distinction, that most potential of instruments within 
 the grasp of man— personal influence. Those who carefully note 
 the comparative value of lives in a community soon learn that the 
 element which counts for most is that subtle thing called personal 
 influence. In it there is something more potent than money or 
 speech, a mystic force which flows out from it and magnetizes all 
 that come within its range. It is to the successful man what fra- 
 grance is to the flower, what light is to the lamp. It is part and 
 parcel of his personality; yet it reaches outside and beyond him- 
 self. That Garret A. Hobart was endowed with this magnetic 
 power in a remarkable degree is evinced from the facts stated in 
 this House to-day by the gentleman who knew him well and knew 
 him long. The value of this personal influence was greatly aug- 
 mented by a great human sympathy and a massive manly sense, 
 communicating to his associates and allies new life and energy, 
 touching and unsealing in their breasts the springs of resolution 
 and self-help, and flooding them with soul cheer. 
 
 In life there is nothing except what we put in it. In the fifty-three 
 years of his life Garret A. Hobart crowded so much work, so many 
 successes, so numerous duties as to merit irom the American peo- 
 ple that most eloquent tribute paid to Goethe by the Emperor of 
 Germany when he met him and exclaimed: •' You are a man.'* 
 Michelet has gone into raptures over the force of that compliment 
 paid to the great German poet, and the American people may well 
 be pleased that there died in harness as the second highest official 
 in the land a man who could well be called '*a man." From his 
 generosity we know that he appreciated the fact that flowers fade 
 without dew and light. From his amiable personality we are sure 
 that he realized the imperishable truths that charity and love are 
 the dew and light of the human heart. He was not of the pessi- 
 mistic mind, which holds that while nations ascend in civilization, 
 governments descend in administration. He was not of those 
 who are constantly living in the dusk of the past, but rather one 
 of those who by the light of the past purpose to see to it that the 
 administration of governments keeps step with the civilization of 
 nations. From the fate of Lot's wife being turned into a statue 
 of salt for turning back, he had garnered the determination to 
 press ever onward in accordance with the thought that he only 
 lives who acts in tlie present and thinks of the future. 
 
 Despite the millions and millions of people on earth, the world 
 knows only two kinds of minds— minds that are metaphysical 
 pure and simple and metaphysical only, and minds that are not. 
 
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 In Robespierre and St. Louis we have examples of the mere meta- 
 physical mind. Those that are not metaphysical are more or less 
 fatalistical. The minds that work out the most for the ameliora- 
 tion of mankind are the minds that are not only metaphysical, 
 but also reflective of their antithesis. In Charlemagne and St. 
 Augustin we have the greatest examples of this sort of mind, while 
 in Hobart it is duplicated in essence, though perhaps not in 
 totality. It is such a mind that makes man the ardent believer in 
 the dispensations of an all- wise Providence, as the gentleman from 
 Pennsylvania and the gentleman from New York, the leader of 
 the majority, represent Mr. Hobart to have been. 
 
 In his religious inclinations and political enthusiasm he must 
 have been somewhat akin to Cardinal de Berulle. Students of 
 French history will remember that when La Rochelle, under Louis 
 XIII, resisted Richelieu so handsomely. Richelieu became fright- 
 ened and wanted to effect a treaty. Cardinal de Berulle per- 
 suaded Richelieu to deviate from this course on account of a cer- 
 tain something, be knew not what, which he called "trust in 
 God." Richelieu, a strong-minded man, made fun of him and in- 
 solently asked De Berulle when God was to keep his promise. De 
 Berulle replied with magnificent simplicity. "lam without en- 
 lightenment, but not without thoughts, and, since you command. I 
 will tell them to you. I count on La Rochelle as I counted on the 
 Island of Rhe. I expect success, not from the siege, nor from the 
 assault, nor from the blockade, but from some prompt and unex- 
 pected effort." And so with Hobart; if he thought his cause was 
 right, he was ready to fight — to fight calmly, easily, diplomatically, 
 so as to make little bluster and but few enemies, but confident that 
 he must win, because he thought he had right with him and because 
 he believed that right would somehow win, even if it had to be 
 helped from above by " a prompt and unexpected effort." 
 
 The political career of Garret A. Hobart affords an interesting 
 comparison between the politics of today and the politics of years 
 ago. Caesar Borgia was a giver of battles with poison. Bona- 
 parte was a giver of battles with cannon. Hobart was a giver of 
 battles with diplomacy, sagacity, and parliamentary etiquette, 
 and so typifies the methods of the present as against the methods 
 of the past, as found in Borgia and Napoleon in the olden days, 
 when they were wont to destroy men so as not to destroy nations 
 by allowing them to hurl themselves one against another. In 
 those days personalities occupied the whole space of the political 
 arena, masses none. In our day the masses are the unit of the 
 political battle, personalities simply the kindling wood of a little 
 enthusiasm. Battles took place then between prince and prince. 
 A mere ordinary man was an obstacle, and was treated as such. 
 That was called politics, and, bad as it was, for those who love 
 humanity it was better than war. Politics then was a game be- 
 tween elevated heads; now it is a contest between millionaire, 
 lawyer, laborer, and men in general, in which Garret A. Hobart 
 has proved that in the United States of America the son of a poor 
 farmer can, by his own merit and his own ability, become a Caesar 
 of the purest type and a Napoleon in both finance and politics of 
 the greatest influence. The lives of Csesar Borgia and Napoleon 
 show that murder and force were the instruments of success in 
 the politics of olden days. The life of Hobart gives proof that 
 the political triumphs of to-day are the victories of intellectual 
 supremacy — not perhaps of one man, but of some party, some 
 principle, as represented by supporters and champions. 
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 Garret A. Hobart is no more. In the councils of his party 
 there is a vacant chair; in the halls of our National Legislature 
 there reigns an air of mourning; in the business circles of the 
 country there are being written resolutions of respect and memo- 
 rials of condolence; but for all this sorrow there is consolation in 
 the fact that while he lived he was a power among men; consola- 
 tion in the knowledge that in honor of his memory the hand of 
 History will write upon her everlasting tablets and beneath the 
 name of Garret A. Hobart: 
 
 His life was gentle, and the elements 
 
 So raix'd in him. that Nature might stand up 
 
 And say to all the world, "This was a man! " 
 
 Mr. GARDNER of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, several gentle- 
 men who desired to contribute something on this occasion having 
 been unavoidably compelled to be absent, I ask unanimous con- 
 sent for general leave to print. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New Jersey asks for 
 general leave to print upon the life and character of the late 
 Vice-President of the United States, Mr. Garret A. Hobart. 
 Is there objection? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 
 Mr. GARDNER of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, as a further 
 mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, I move that the 
 House do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was agreed to. 
 
 Accordingly (at 4 o'ciock and 14 minutes p. m.) the House ad- 
 journed. 
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