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Show A IIU'Allllll untin ami hrUIMIAN. AHvriiniof thenatlon'titrongmen liattuJway, Jurili .'..MeDonald, whoUledat bli hoiuelnlinll.naiullt onHundaynljht,,,, C,UI, whog ion t he iwntry, an J (uartU ularly I ndl. am, hat great oicalon to lament, Htateiintii ol hit llar (ft of mind are not M ,bunu., ,u, , T e drop out of their l,ce without -gw Uliturblog ,,. lf , , T "lumuiuiaottu, wuu,tr, 'm,; rcer, though not all that ho Would have Uialred, wat to the liit probibly aavlgorouiand uieful to lilt country aalf hit political fortune In I reached the full mtaoure of lilt amblllont. Illicniolil Olltlcal labora practically practic-ally tegan In I1H with lilt election to C'ongrete, at a Demncratlo Itpre-aentillve Itpre-aentillve from the ritate of Indiana, In which capacity ho nerved one term but wat defeated forthe neat term. In Hill he ran for Deinocntto governor atitnit Oliver 1'. Morton, and wat defeated again. In HIS lie wat made chairman of the Hlate Democratic committee, and by hit energy and tageolly n Democratic Legltlalure wat elected, which In lit turn elected hint to the United tftatet Henale, where lie mud from tST.IIulSSl. lilt defeat!, Ilk lliwe of many other ttatetnu u of thli nuntry wboM naniet have mued Into liltory at plllara of Iho government, were the reiultof lilt rty nlltk rather than any want of merit for the potlllont he aougbt. That hit labora and ctpvMlltlet were rerog lilinl and a predated, It wltneeted In the fact that ou morn than one ncca tlon he hat been nniong the probable candidates for I'retlJentof the United HUtea. Kroin the lieglnnlrg to the end he wat a Democrat and while alwaya a leader, lilt record Wart none of the blemlihea which live to embarratt the labora of many of hit fellow rtltant, at relict of Uie lata civil atrlf. He wm one of thot who, w Idle always a Democrat, Dem-ocrat, had the manhood and courage to It alwaya a trlot. lli-Henalor MoDonald flguredprotn-Inentlylntheconteetover flguredprotn-Inentlylntheconteetover the pror tyof the "Mormon" t'burch, 11 ng awwlateil with Col. Ilroadhead and the Church attorneys on the defence. Thlioccailoued one of the moil In famout attack! from the "Liberal" organ In Ihliclly ever male upon a prominent and Irreproachabl member of the. bar. The earne foul hand can not refrain, even now, from ratting a clod at the departed itatraintn an I lawyer, law-yer, becaute he wat faithful to the caue of hit cll.nl. Hut aa libelling the living and defaming tlio dead are the chief works to which that liaud la devoted, we may look upon In effort In thli caie at evidence of the worthtueat of the vljectof llivlleamult. Joe McDonald, aa he waa familiarly and affectionately railed by lilt Intimate Intim-ate frleudt,wut a i-ower In Indian politics poli-tics and an Influential mill wherever lie moved. He hatgoneto lilt reel and left a name and a fame that will Hguru prominently lu Hi hlrlory of tills nation. Wo i-onJole Willi hit bereaved wlfeand family and mingle our regrets with Uiomi of lilt Htateand the lutlon at larire. |