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Show ILLINOIS PAYS I TRITE TD HER I UTESEHATDR I Life and Public Services of Shelby M. Cullom Pointed to as Inspiration for the Coming Generations. GOVERNOR DUNNE H AMONG THE ORATORS I Body Lowered Into Grave in Oak Ridge Cemetery at Sundown Near Resting B Place of Lincoln. B SPKIXGFIELD, 111., Fob. 1. The hody B of Shelby M. Cullom, former United States senator, was lowered Into . Its gravo In the family lot at Oak KIdge cemetery at sundown tonight. It rests between the graves of his two wives, Hannah and Ju-lia Ju-lia Fisher, who wore sisters, and In tho sarao plat of ground are the resting places of their live children. Funeral services were held in the hall of representatives In the statehoiiPc. where tho memorial sermon was preached by tho Rev. Duncan C. Maclcod, and cu-logles cu-logles wcro delivered by Governor Dunne, Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman and Clin-ton Clin-ton L. Conkllng. from tho same rostrum from which Mr. Cullom five times ad-dressed ad-dressed legislatures which hud ejected him to tho upper house at Washington. With Governor Dunne among the speak-ors speak-ors and formor Governors Flfer, Yates and Dcncen present, the audience Included all the governors now living who followed Mr. Cullom Into the gubernatorial clialr Tho predominant strain of the eulogies was tho unassuming honesty and stead-fastness stead-fastness of the decedent. Hundreds Turned Away. B The coffin, In a great mass of flower?, rested under the rostrum, and between fa-moiis fa-moiis paintings of Lincoln and Dougla , which hang on cither sldo of the hull. The 2200 scats wero quickly filled as soon as the doom were opened, and hundreds wcro ' turned away. In tho hall were friends and acquaintances, political and social, of many years, but tho penalty of the statesman's cighly-fivc year 3 of life was seen in the absence of close relative?. .Of his own blood there were present only two nieces. Mrs. G. H. Schlropff and Mrs. George Davis, and their children, of Po-orla. Po-orla. An aged sister, Mrs. Llnna Lcppcr, survives, hut is an Invalid. All the others had preceded him to the grave. Sister-in-law Present. B At the Interment wero Mrs. CbarlcJ RIdgcly, whose yon, W. B. Rldgely. for-mcr for-mcr comptroller of the currency, married one of Senator Cullom's daughter?, and Victoria Flshor, slstor of the senator's two wives. Other members of tho Jlldgcly family were among tho mourners. jH Part of the road to the cemetery fol-lowed fol-lowed by tho funeral proccpslon today is that over which tho body of Abraham Lincoln, Cullom's early friend and pre-ceptor, pre-ceptor, was borne nearly half a century jH ago. Tho burial ground lay deep In snow Ah tho Rev. Mnclcod read the briof service at the grave he gazed Into the glow of tho declining sun. and In the foreground faced the great .obelisk which marks thn spot where Lincoln lies jH "Thus," said Senator Sherman, "Is the ;old associating of the two In llfo con-tliiucd con-tliiucd In death." Governor Dunne's Tribute. B Governor Dunne paid a tribute to the lnU-grily of Senator Cullom's political career, which extended over a- half ecu-tury. ecu-tury. Ho yald ho hoped the fcenator's Uf would bo an Incentive to the public men of this and other days, and asserted tho senator left friends and relatives a herlt-ago herlt-ago greater than earthly rlchos tho her-ltagc her-ltagc of an honest namo and a record of duty woll done." Governor Dunne said In part: It falls to the lot of few men to ba o tholr lives bo long and so promlntmt- ly woven Into tho hlDtory of hla statu and country as was the life of Sena- tor Cullom. To fewer otlll does It fall to leave after such a life so fragrant and wholcfomc a memory. H Tho secret of Senator Cullom s hold upon his fellow citizens Is easily understood. No man has ever sue- coeded In retaining the confidence or the public for anv great length, of timo unices the public was convinced of his Integrity. Integrity Unquestioned. Men n public llfo are subjected to fierce criticism by their political one-nilos. one-nilos. and he did not oscape It: but no critic that I havo read or heanl ever questioned Sonator Cullom a In- H For thlrtv vears he was a member H of an exalted body of legislators. whose opulence was tho rulo and a H mode-rate competency the exception. M lie had before him tho temptations H thrown around overy man In public H life. Ho became Intimately acquainted H with the ea;c and luxury which H wealth produces, and whlca make M other men envious of such posses- jH slons and yet this man lived and H died comparatively poor, the best M test of integrity. Illinois numbers among its IIIus- H trioiis cons the names of many jH whom history will record among tho M nation's greut. In the long roster of H the namo. of -which IlllnolH fuels H proud and which eho hti given to H the American nation let un now rc- H cord the name of Shelby M. Cullom. H Senator .Sherman said: H This day, mortality's last tribute H to tho dead Is paid. To few of us H (Continued oil Page Two.) B ILLINOIS PAVS LIST TRITE TO CULLDM (Continued from Pago Ono.) will bo glvon Senator Cullom'n length ' of years and full measure of honor " and usofulne."H. Nearly all his contemporaries con-temporaries have Joined tho nllont majority. ma-jority. But tills brief sorvicc in this legislative hall does not mark tho beginning of forgotfulncss. Death has ' stricken his namo from tho roll of the living, hut it cannot obliterate his deeds of fifty years. He was of the typo who build states ' and successfully govern nations. Neither the agitator nor the destroyer fount! In him a response. If sometimes some-times ho seemed to plod It was but a patient pauso that sprang from tho , research and deliberation that sought tho path of safety. Ho never feared criticism. When an evil existed hu saw It and spent no tni In idle denunciation de-nunciation and nclf-advcrtlscmcnt. He devised remedies and sought their adoption. His interstate commerce law was a pioneer and It survives, Liko t!lo fathers who saw with prescient eye tho strength of plan and plea, leaving leav-ing tho superstructure for worthy sons, so h, too, skotched with unerring un-erring hand and hewed with sturdv stroke until tho foundation was strons and the plan sconn. 1 It was no mcro accident, that kept him In public llfo for more than fifty years. Ills associates wero some of the most remarkable men of our country. He kopt pace with them In peace and war and met his duties with ability, dignity and power. |