| Show JUDGE it Is difficult dini cult in a n brief article to give a fair estimate of such a man as was judge gresham GreB liam like most boys in the lie old west ills ilia childhood was fought out in ili poverty ills his advantages were few but lie ho overcame nit all tile the obstacles lit in lill his path lie hall had talent enough to make lik hla mail maik in any walk v alk of 0 life and that he it a young man without culture could enter a volunteer army and by its his courage and abilities alone become became a general of a div division ivl slon Islon was a certain proof that lie was a natural soldier a ila natural tural leader or of men ills ilia army re rec C orti orl Is without a flaw and for his file army services lie deserves tile the gr gratitude abitu de ol of this and nil all succeeding generations genera tlona of americans amei AmetI leans cans that lie cohilj be a becom mended for promotion to a inest responsible position in the ainey ai my by such men I 1 as Sli ennan and mcpherson was vas inch oil an endorsement of 0 hla his soldierly abilities as ought to almost an any am bitten in lils its long ions career ns as a judge wo believe the alie credit Is duo due to Ms ills manifest integrity inore than to 10 tile the ability lie displayed as a n jurist thanking lanking lit 9 0 over er what lie he did one Is con convinced ince d of one of two things lie he filter lacked that hat particular bent of mind which I 1 makes at i man a perfect judge aldge or all t the he if lime P there was a political tl bee in aills ills bonnet iris decisions lacked the absolute logic and the clear judicial intuition if such a word Is permissible which always matic the great jurist to make this cloar clear we would say that lie he hall had exactly the ilia opposite character of mind from that of benjamin liardi son in mso it 11 was aas an open secret that he thought lie ought to have tho the nomination instead of t harrlson harrison for president but bill the men of indiana who know knew both men well inell preferred erred to give it to ll arrison after that hat his lire fire seemed to change chancre lie he became almost hypercritical 11 ile he was not satisfied the way things wele going and when again lit in 1192 the lie preference ran for harrlson harrison rather than to him lie rev revolted itce from tile the pat pai ty under which he hall had received so many honors and he did it under circumstances which carried the im alon to his countrymen that there was in impaled con act that lit in case of 2 mr Clev elands success lie he have a reward As Secre secretary taly of state slate it is only honest to say that lie he waa ivas a failure ile he went ant into the cabinet under such circumstances that the great men ilion 0 ot f the democratic party looked distrustfully upon ills his appointment they did not think it was fair and that feeling in tile the air had more or to less influence upon him the llast duty he it was waa called upon to per perform forin was to deal with c the Ila hawaiian wallan question which lind had beet been directly u under the charge of ills hla old rival Pre president harrlson harrison and the way he handled the question convinced millions of his countrymen that it was st d labor of love tor for him to try to reverse what president li harrlson arrison had done and if possible cast obloquy upon his administration ile he mas equally unfortunate in almost every enery other great duty of its his office 0 alce thi the most chail table view law to take of the matter la Is that the seeds of the disease which finally killed hilled him have been working in its ills system and have had their effect upon his naturally clear intellect from the de of ills ilia symptoms it la Is clear that tor for a long time a disease has been fastened upon him which directly at affected the mind in so far as to make inake it lose its steady poise it Is generally indicated by its fits at 0 depression forebodings of evil and misfortune a disposition to brood and to doubt the sincerity of bf other men certain it Is his tame fame would have been brighter bright cr today to day had he remal remained ned a judge upon the bench I 1 and not been caught by the glare of the next highest office to that of the president lie will be b remembered 1 mostly as it a glorified soldier who in his youth offered his life over and over for ills country who ho suffered sulTer cd grievous wounds who as a soldier never faltered and was never found wanting w who to as an all uncultivated young man went into the army and by sheer dint of character executive ability and of valor won the stars of a general in the greatest war or of modern times As such on decoration day as the years go by with infinite tenderness the people will deck its his grave with flowers and they will hold him as one of the heroes who with grant and sherman and sheridan an and thomas and all the long array of glorified spirits that served their country in the test to which a mortal can be put ills hoina collic life was beautiful ills hla domestic relations delightful at the close ot of life ills his old soldier splint returned to him anti and ile he went down to death unfalteringly even as lie he led his division into the vortex of pitiless battle |
