MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 LIFE AND CHARACTER 
 
 MONROE L, HAYWARD 
 
 (!,ATK A SENATOR FKOM NEBRASKA), 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE 
 
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 FIFTY -SIXTH CONGRESS, 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 5 
 
 Address of Mr. Thurston, of Nebraska 8 
 
 Address of Mr. Fairbanks, of Indiana 21 
 
 Address of Mr. Spooner, of Wisconsin 24 
 
 Address of Mr. Allen, of Nebraska 28 
 
 Proceedings in the House of Representatives 34 
 
 Address of Mr. Burkett, of Nebraska 38 
 
 Address of Mr. Mercer, of Nebraska 48 
 
 Address of Mr. Hull, of Iowa 58 
 
 Address of Mr. Stark, of Nebraska 60 
 
 Address of Mr. Sutherland, of Nebraska 63 
 
 Address of Mr. Neville, of Nebraska 66 
 
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DEATH OF MONROE L HAYWARD. 
 
 PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE. 
 
 DECEMBER 5, 1899. 
 
 Mr. THURSTON. Mr. President, it becomes my painful 
 duty to announce that the Hon. MONROE L. HAYWARD, 
 Senator-elect from the vState of Nebraska for the term com 
 mencing March 4, 1899, departed this life at 6 o clock and 
 20 minutes this morning, at his home in Nebraska City. 
 On some future and fit occasion it is my purpose to present 
 and ask consideration by the Senate of appropriate memo 
 rial resolutions. At the present time I offer the resolu 
 tions which I send to the desk, and ask their immediate 
 consideration. 
 
 The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolutions offered 
 by the Senator from Nebraska will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep regret and profound 
 sorrow of the death of Hon. MOXROK L. HAYWARD, lately elected Senator 
 from the State of Nebraska. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these resolutions to 
 the House of Representatives. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the de 
 ceased, the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agree 
 ing to the resolutions. 
 
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6 Proceedings in the Senate. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to; and (at 2 
 o clock and 40 minutes p. in.) the Senate adjourned until 
 to-morrow, Wednesday, December 6, 1899, at 12 o clock 
 meridian. 
 
 FEBRUARY 16. 
 
 Mr. THURSTON. Mr. President, I wish to announce that 
 at the close of morning business on Friday, the 2d day of 
 March, I will request that the legislative business be laid 
 aside that Senators may pay fitting tribute to the memory 
 of the late MONROE L. HAYWARD, Senator-elect from the 
 State of Nebraska. I have consulted with some of the 
 Senators having in charge the paramount business of the 
 Senate, and I think that that time is agreeable. 
 
 MARCH 2, 1900. 
 
 Mr. THURSTOX. Mr. President, in view of the pressure 
 of important public business, I withdraw the notice I had 
 given for this day and give notice anew that on Saturday, 
 March 10, as soon after the routine morning business as 
 may be convenient, I will submit resolutions on the death 
 of the late MONROE L. HAYWARD, Senator-elect from the 
 State of Nebraska. 
 
MEMORIAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 MARCH 10, 1900. 
 
 Mr. THURSTON. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions 
 which I send to the desk. 
 
 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolutions presented by 
 the Senator from Nebraska will be read to the Senate. 
 
 The resolutions were read, as follows: 
 
 Resolved^ That it is with deep regret and sorrow that the Senate hears 
 the announcement of the death of Hon. MONROK L. HAYWARD, late 
 Senator-elect from the State of Nebraska. 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate extends to his family and to the people of the 
 State of Nebraska sincere condolence in their bereavement. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased the 
 business of the Senate be now suspended to enable those who would have 
 been his associates had he lived to take his seat in this body to pay fitting 
 tribute to his high character and distinguished worth. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary transmit to the family of the deceased and 
 to the governor of the State of Nebraska a copy of these resolutions, with 
 the action of the Senate thereon. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the 
 House of Representatives. 
 
 Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect at the conclusion of 
 these exercises the Senate do adjourn. 
 
Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. THURSTON, OF NEBRASKA. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: MONROE L. HAYWARD was elected 
 United States Senator from the State of Nebraska for the 
 full term of six years, commencing March 4, 1899. It was 
 the culmination of a worthy ambition, the rounding out of 
 a life replete with achievement. 
 
 When the Senate met on the first Monday of December, 
 1899, Mr. HAYWARD was lying on his deathbed, and was 
 never sworn in as a Senator of this body. So far as I know, 
 his is the first case of this kind in the history of the Senate. 
 For the first time the Senate is asked to listen to eulogies 
 upon the life and character of a Senator-elect. I know 
 there are no precedents for the request, but I have felt 
 justified in making it in the case of a man who was in 
 every sense of the word a Senator of the United States, 
 who was entitled to a seat in this body, whose credentials 
 had been received and accepted, and whose succession has 
 been provided for by appointment by the governor of 
 Nebraska, upon the theory that a vacancy happened by his 
 death. 
 
 I knew Mr. HAYWARD long and well, as a practicing 
 attorney, as a practical business man, as a judge, and as a 
 political leader. Our friendship began more than thirty 
 years ago and continued up to the time of his death. In 
 every walk of life he was a true man. Frank, open, con 
 scientious, and honest in all his dealings with his fellow- 
 
Address of Mr. Thurston, of Nebraska. 9 
 
 men, he had and held the universal confidence and respect 
 of the people of his State. 
 
 At the breaking out of the war of the rebellion he volun 
 teered as a private in a New York regiment. Only a boy 
 in years, he made for himself a record on the battlefields of 
 his country of which any man might justly be proud. He 
 wore no epaulets and wielded no sword of command, but 
 he carried his musket bravely and gallantly, and his old 
 comrades are loud in their praise of his many acts of valor 
 and daring on desperate fields. 
 
 The war over, he completed his education as best he 
 could, and was admitted to the bar about the year 1867; 
 soon after which time he located in Nebraska City, Nebr. , 
 and entered upon the practice of his profession. For all 
 that he accomplished he was obliged to work. His is a 
 splendid example of what it is possible for a poor American 
 boy to do. As a youth he toiled by da} and pursued his 
 studies by the midnight lamp. His earnest, patient, untir 
 ing application to his studies indicate well the sturdy 
 character of the man; the indomitable energy, the coura 
 geous persistence, which can not fail of success. 
 
 He was a brave man in every sense of the word. Brave 
 in battle, brave in the search of knowledge, brave in the 
 performance of his daily task, brave in the pursuit of 
 honorable preferment, brave in the performance of all 
 official duties, and brave in the living of an earnest Christian 
 life. 
 
 Mr. HAYWARD won a high place at the bar of my State 
 and ranked with the foremost of its practitioners. From 
 the first he established himself in the confidence of the 
 courts, without which no lawyer can ever reach the highest 
 
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 measure of success. He served for some years as one of 
 our district judges with great honor and ability, retiring 
 from the bench of his own choice to return to the practice 
 of the law r . He was a successful business man, public 
 spirited, and just and generous in all his dealings with his 
 fellow-men. His domestic life was sweet, simple, and 
 serene; his hearthstone was always the altar of his sacred 
 worship. 
 
 Judge HAYWARD was a politician in the highest and best 
 sense of the term. He was not an office-seeker, and on 
 many occasions refused to accept political preferment 
 voluntarily tendered him by his fellow-citizens. He took 
 a deep interest in all public questions, and always insisted 
 on clean and honest political methods. Although a stalwart 
 partisan, he would not under any circumstances counte 
 nance the political success of his party or its candidates if 
 tainted in any way by the faintest suspicion of questionable 
 methods. 
 
 In the campaign of 1898 his party called upon him by 
 unanimous voice to head the Republican ticket as its nom 
 inee for Governor of the State of Nebraska. He neither 
 desired the nomination nor the office, but yielded his own 
 personal wishes to the overwhelming popular demand. He 
 made a vigorous, honorable, able campaign, and reduced a 
 normal fusion majority of 15,000 to less than 3,000. His 
 defeat did not weaken him, but greatly strengthened him 
 in the confidence and esteem of his fellow-Republicans, and 
 so it was that when the legislature of Nebraska met in Jan 
 uary, 1899, with a Republican majority, he found himself, 
 without solicitation on his part, the choice of his party for 
 United States Senator. It too frequently happens that the 
 
Address of Mr. Thurston, of Nebraska. 1 1 
 
 choice of the party is not the choice of the legislature; and 
 for a long time the Senatorial election was held in abeyance 
 by the entry into the field of other candidates whose few 
 but faithful followers continued for several weeks a Senato 
 rial deadlock. The will of his party, however, finally pre 
 vailed, and Mr. HAYWARD was elected Senator, to the great 
 satisfaction of the Republicans of Nebraska. The long 
 struggle wore upon him mentally and physically, and I 
 have no doubt had much to do in bringing on the illness to 
 which he finally succumbed. 
 
 At the time of his election he was in the very prime of 
 life; a sturdy, magnificent specimen of manhood; a grand 
 man, robust and intellectual, instinctively pointed out in 
 any assemblage as a master and leader of men. Looking 
 upon him, it seemed as if nature had intended him for 
 long life, and the citizens of his State were happy in the 
 belief that they were to be represented in the Senate of 
 the United States for many years by one certain of distinc 
 tion and recognition among the ablest statesmanship of the 
 laud. How forcibly comes to us who saw him then, wear 
 ing the laurels of a people s offering, the lines of the poet: 
 
 Ah! had it been but told us then to mark whose lamp was dim, 
 From out yon rank of fresh-lipped men, would we have singled him? 
 
 His death came to the people of his State as a shock; to 
 the Republican party of Nebraska as a bitter disappoint 
 ment. The State lost the services of a man of preeminent 
 ability, certain to render it good service and to win for it 
 recognition and honor. And in addition to this, his party 
 lost a seat in the Senate of the United States which had 
 only been won after a stubborn political battle that tested 
 its energy to the uttermost. We know that for him it is 
 
12 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayivard. 
 
 well, but for those who loved him his family, his friends, 
 his party, and his State the loss is irreparable. 
 
 In the contemplation of his untimely death how vain 
 seems human ambition! How futile the strife for fame, 
 the struggle for place ! And how often does it happen that 
 in the hour of triumph the victor among men bows to the 
 inevitable summons of the grim messenger. 
 
 Leaves have their time to fall, 
 And flowers to wither at the north wind s breath, 
 
 And stars to set; but all, 
 Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death! 
 
 And yet MONROE L. HAYWARU did not live in vain. 
 His whole life is a shining example to those who knew him 
 and those who come after him; and who does not believe 
 that after a life so worthily lived, after a career so honorably 
 rounded, he has but exchanged the perishable laurel of an 
 earthly triumph for the deathless diadem of an immortal 
 crown? 
 
 Such a life as MONROE L. HAYWARD lived, such a death 
 as he died, illustrate many homely lessons worthy of our 
 most reverent attention. He rose from the humblest walks 
 of life to the eminence of leadership. There is nothing 
 impossible to the American child, born as he was the inher 
 itor of American character and virtue; surrounded as he was 
 in youth by the purifying influences of a Christian home; 
 blessed as he was with the counsel and care of a true, good 
 mother; surrounded as he was by the opportunities of 
 American life; inspired as he must have been by the study 
 and contemplation of American history. The doors of 
 opportunity still swing open for the American youth. 
 There is no bar to the ambition or success of the poor 
 
Address of Mr. TJmrston, of Nebraska. 13 
 
 man s son in this land of equal privileges and splendid 
 possibilities. On the broad highway of American progress 
 the barefoot boy outstrips the golden chariot of ancestral 
 wealth, and the humblest mother in this broad land, as 
 she hushes the weak protests of a baby s lips upon her 
 holy breast, knows that her boy may live to become the 
 President of the Republic. 
 
 Mr. HAYWARD S life teaches us the value of persistent 
 effort. He was a student, earnestly, persistently seeking 
 out the heart of things. Nature gave him a magnificent 
 body topped by a kingly head, but the intellect of the mature 
 man that won for him success and honor and leadership was 
 the product of years of persistent effort. The character, the 
 integrity that brought to him the respect and confidence of 
 all who knew him, was the result of long years of right 
 action. And the good name, which is the richest heritage 
 of his descendants, was his, because day in and day out, 
 through all the years of his life, in public and private 
 affairs, he had so conducted and carried himself as to richly 
 deserve it. 
 
 Mr. HAYWARD was a logician and an orator, a trained 
 intellectual debater, winning men to his cause by the irre 
 sistible force of plain, simple, logical presentation. There 
 was nothing ornate in his speech. He never talked over 
 the heads of the crowd, and in all his efforts at the bar and 
 in the forum he relied upon the justice of his case rather 
 than upon any oratorical method of presentation. He won 
 men to him through the simplicity, directness, and geniality 
 of his manner. Men turned instinctively to him for leader 
 ship, knowing that he would never abandon a cause once 
 espoused or desert a friend in any hour of trial. 
 
14 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hay ward. 
 
 He needs no shaft of sculptured marble, 110 words of 
 praise his memory is his monument, his character his 
 epitaph. 
 
 In conclusion, Mr. President, permit me to reverently 
 express my opinion that the death of MONROE; L. HAYWARD 
 was a serious loss to this body and to the country. His 
 sterling integrity, his trained intellect, his great legal 
 acquirements, his profound study of national affairs, his 
 deathless patriotism, fitted him above most men to grapple 
 with and successfully solve the mighty problems that now 
 confront us as a people. There is no dearth of true states 
 manship in the United States, no lack of strong, brave men 
 to man the ship of state; but the loss of even one such is to 
 be deeply regretted and deplored. 
 
 For the dead I do not mourn. It is the loss to the liviiie 
 
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 that I regret. He has passed into the great beyond. He 
 has solved the problem beyond the vail. He stands face to 
 face with the Great Judge of the Universe, who will deal 
 with him as a father with a child; and he is at rest. 
 
 In the city of surcease 
 
 There is only rest and peace 
 From the failings and the wailings neath the sun; 
 
 And the wings of the swift years 
 
 Beat but lightly o er the biers 
 Making music to the sleepers, every one. 
 
 There is only peace and rest, 
 
 But to them it seemeth best, 
 For they lie at ease and know that life is done. 
 
 Mr. President, I ask to have inserted in the Record, as 
 a supplement to my remarks, the address delivered at Mr. 
 HAYWARD s funeral by the Rev. H. L. House. 
 
 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, permis 
 sion to do so will be granted. 
 
Address of Mr. Thurston, of Nebraska. 15 
 
 The address referred to is as follows: 
 
 Remarks by Rci . H. L. House at the funeral of I nited States Senator 
 Monroe Leland Hayward, Nebraska City, Nebr. , December 7, /Syo. 
 
 "Each man s life is all men s lesson," says a modern poet. No one 
 closes his earthly career without furnishing in his life and death valuable 
 instruction to those left behind. Vices that blacken, virtues that ennoble, 
 mistakes that embitter, successes that make glad, each and all in turn 
 teach lessons we do well to heed. "No man liveth xinto himself, and no 
 man dieth unto himself." 
 
 Garfield is Iving there upon his deathbed. The days of pain have 
 lengthened into weeks of agony while a nation gathers about in prayer 
 and in tears. From across the waters Gladstone sends greeting in these 
 words: " In the name of our common Master I congratulate you upon your 
 Christian fortitude." As nobly in his death as in his life did that noble 
 man give witness to the power that sustained him. A woman in China 
 lies dying. The light of the gospel of the Son of God has but just entered 
 her darkened heart, and now death claims her. What may she do for the 
 ignorant sisters about her before her earthly light goes out? She can not 
 tell them of Jesus; her strength will not permit it. But she has seen 
 manv a heathen die; she has witnessed their despair, heard their shrieks 
 of fear. Turning to her friends, she says: "Bear me out into the open 
 air; call to my side friend and neighbor and the chance passer-by, that 
 they may see how a Christian dies." 
 
 " Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of that man 
 is peace." Where God would teach us how we ought to live, how we may 
 live, He sent His Son into the world to be born of a woman and to live a 
 sinless life in the flesh, and so God incarnated His thought of manhood, 
 and at the feet of the Christ the world sits to-day in reverent study, learn 
 ing from the Man how to translate truth into conduct. 
 
 The Scriptures therefore justify nay, they seem to demand that we 
 pause a moment ere we lay away the sacred dust, to study the life just 
 ended among us. Into the details of that life I shall not enter. The press 
 has already done that. That part of his life in which the great public is 
 specially concerned I may pass by with a brief mention. That service is 
 by right the sad privilege of his associates in public life. It is of Mr. 
 HAYWARD the man I wish to speak, and to voice as best I may the feel 
 ings of these friends and neighbors gathered here in such numbers to pay 
 tribute to his worth. 
 
 Some homely lessons this man s life has illustrated and still enforces 
 lessons this generation is prone to forget, upon which it ought often and 
 long to meditate. And first, I notice, true success does not depend upon 
 the accidents of birth or fortune. 
 
 The highest gift in the power of the people to bestow is possible to every 
 rank and station. Men of humble birth, whose early years were a battle 
 
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 with circumstances that compelled most rigid economy, have reached 
 among us social and political leadership. The dream of England s gifted 
 poet has more than once been fulfilled 011 American soil, where some 
 
 Divinely gifted man 
 Whose life in low estate began 
 And on a simple village green; 
 
 Who breaks his birth s invidious bars 
 And grasps the skirts of happy chance 
 And breasts the blows of circumstance 
 
 And grapples with his evil stars; 
 Who makes by force his merit known 
 And lives to clutch the golden keys, 
 To mold a mighty state s decrees 
 And shape the whisper of a throne; 
 And moving up from high to higher 
 
 Becomes on Fortune s crowning slope 
 The pillar of a people s hope, 
 The center of a world s desire. 
 
 Not in prophecy of what may be, but in description of what actually is 
 under American skies at the dawn of the twentieth century, do we recite 
 these words in the ears of the young men of to-day. Leadership, head 
 ship, kingship in social life and statecraft are among the future possibili 
 ties of the barefoot lad who swings the bat on the village ball ground. 
 Seventeen dollars in money and a mother s blessings were Gar field s earthly 
 possessions as he entered upon the struggle which lifted him to national 
 honor. 
 
 Mr. HAYWARD S life began in a typical Eastern home of a generation 
 ago. In that home Christian influences dominated, the more manly, 
 robust virtues were inculcated, and the bread eaten was won by honest 
 industry. Out from that home in early manhood Mr. HAYWARD came to 
 make his own way in life, he himself at last becoming a type of that 
 American of whom we are the proudest to-day the independent, self-made 
 citizen. Bv birth, by sympathy, he belonged to the people. He was our 
 Great Commoner. " He identified himself with the so-called " masses " 
 period. He gave a ready ear and a helping hand to the needs of the 
 struggling, and had he taken his seat in national council, even there he 
 would have been the champion of the weak and the oppressed. No won 
 der the people loved him. 
 
 I notice, again, that Mr. HAYWARD S life illustrates the value of industry, 
 I do not understand that our friend was dowered with unusual natural 
 gifts. You would hardly characterize him as a man of "brilliant parts." 
 His was an intellect trained to keenest, most discriminating thought; but 
 it was an intellect trained. His was a massive brain commensurate with his 
 magnificent physique; but his brain fiber was the product of long years of 
 
Address of Mr. Thurston, of Nebraska. 17 
 
 severest mental discipline. It was his custom from young manhood to 
 grasp present-day problems; to weigh them, ponder them, master them. 
 These problems have grown more subtle, more difficult of master}-, and in 
 trying to keep himself abreast of his age Mr. HAYWARD S brain was kept 
 at its utmost tension. He was a student, a hard worker. He never 
 dawdled. With Lord Derby he could say, "Whether I be happy or un 
 happy is not my chief concern; what most concerns me is to find my 
 work in life, to recognize it, and to do it." He dignified toil. His life 
 was an apotheosis of the plodder. 
 
 But come closer to this man and learn the value of honesty. 
 
 I know the opinion prevails in some circles that if a man would be suc 
 cessful in business or in politics he must not have too nice notions of right 
 and wrong; that he must play fast and loose with morals, juggle with 
 conscience, make compromise with sin. In some circles it is the thing to 
 sneer at Puritanism and laud the "smart" man whose shrewdness laughs 
 at the Decalogue. How our friend s life refutes such teachings! What 
 was it one year ago in the brilliant campaign that reduced so greatly the 
 large majority of the two years previous and almost made our friend the 
 chief executive of this State? What was it a little later that elected 
 MONROE LELAND HAYWARD to the Senate of the United States? This 
 one thing, so conceded by all, Mr. HAYWARD S downright honesty. He 
 had lived an upright life. "He locked his lips too tight to tell a lie. He 
 washed his hands too clean to take a bribe. 
 
 He had a clean record. There was nothing he needed to conceal. 
 
 And more than once God has taught this nation this self-same lesson, 
 aye, written it large, so that the wayfaring man may see it. Look back 
 there some forty years ago. Our country is in turmoil ; her very existence 
 threatened. Envy, jealous}-, hatred, party greed, sectional bitterness, and 
 over it all the black, ominous cloud of coming war across which the light 
 nings begin to gleam in dread portent. Is democracy doomed? Can the 
 Union be preserved? Has God abdicated His throne? Is there anywhere 
 a hand that can guide in safety over these swirling waters our ship of 
 state? And now God stretches out his hand to write. A party then 
 hardly known lays hold upon one wnose fame but yesterday was limited 
 to his own State and makes him its standard bearer. And now they ring 
 out their rallying cry, at once a protest and a challenge, " Honest Old 
 Abe," and on a wave of popular enthusiasm Abraham Lincoln is lifted to 
 the Presidential chair because the conviction had fastened itself upon the 
 popular heart that here was a man, raised up from among the common 
 people, who could be implicitly trusted. 
 
 "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches," words that 
 God seems to have chiseled in the noble face of our friend now lying in 
 repose before us. How many public men during the past few years have 
 fallen into obscurity because of their connection with some disreputable 
 transaction. How many men of wealth, of great intellectual power, of 
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 social standing, never may hold any public office because their names bear 
 the taint of dishonorable dealing. The feeling has taken root and is 
 growing in the heart of the nation, in spite of wickedness in high places, 
 that men of doubtful character shall not represent us before the nations 
 of the earth; that to clean hands and pure hearts shall be committed our 
 great public trusts. Already, other things being equal, the man of blame 
 less life wins the prize that noble ambition covets. The man to-day who 
 would hold high office in our nation woiild do well to meditate upon 
 Jethro s advice to Moses, " Provide out of all the people able men, such 
 as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, and place such to be rulers 
 over you." 
 
 But let us draw still closer to this man and learn the value of genuineness . 
 
 Our friend was honest in action not simply because "honesty is the best 
 policy." His outward life but conformed itself to an inner principle. He 
 could express himself in no other way. True character has no need of 
 cloaking itself with pretense. Inclination and duty yoke themselves 
 together. Moral integrity characterized Mr. HAYWARD S conduct because 
 his character was transparently genuine. How he hated shams! How he 
 scorned the hypocrite! How powerless was friend or foe to whip him into 
 any line of action! How he fretted against restraint! And how impolitic 
 he ofttimes was in speech, judged by selfish standards! 
 
 He was a man of strong convictions. He saw clearly; he believed firmly ; 
 he fought consistently, and as the brave fight. He never could have been 
 a leader in guerrilla warfare. In ambush or in trench he was not at his 
 best. But in an open field, where carnal weapons or opposing principles 
 clashed, there at the forefront would you find him, the bravest of the 
 brave. You might differ with him widely on matters of vital moment, 
 but he always compelled your reluctant confession, "He himself believes 
 what he professes. 
 
 He was a born orator. Thought came to him run in the oratorical mold. 
 He could best marshal in ordered ranks every faculty of his being when 
 on his feet and before an expectant audience. And never was he grander 
 than when, in the glow of a public address, under the inspiration of a 
 cause which his heart had espoused, he unmasked and scourged some 
 traitor to that cause. How his eyes flashed! How his words stung! In 
 famy seemed branded on the craven s brow. No wonder the trickster 
 hated him and the "ring" feared him. 
 
 It was this quality in him that made him such a stanch friend and that 
 won for him such warm love. Years ago he became almost passionately 
 attached to the soldier of the Republic, and to the day of his death any 
 man was dear to him who wore the G. A. R. button upon his breast. 
 
 Recall that scene in our legislative hall last winter. The long struggle 
 is over, the last ballot is announced, and Mr. HAYWARD is called to the 
 platform for a speech. Briefly, tactfully, he recalls the struggle just 
 ended, forecasts with a prophet s ken the great struggles to come, and then 
 turns, with a voice that chokes, to thank the men who had so loyally 
 
Address of Mr. Thurston, of Nebraska. 19 
 
 supported him the "Old Guard," as he significantly calls them promis 
 ing to do for them anything that may honorably be done by their Senator. 
 It was the heart of the man who then spake, as tender a heart as ever beat 
 in a woman s breast. I am not surprised that strong men stood there 
 with tears running down their faces as they witnessed the scene. 
 
 And withal our friend was an unselfish man. There are those who, like 
 the sunglass, catch the rays of fortune and focus their warmth upon a 
 selfish altar beneath. There are others who receive these same rays, and 
 like the prism, send out their beauty upon others. Mr. HAYWARD was of 
 the latter class. He could not shut himself up to narrow, selfish interests. 
 His sympathies were broad. He was public spirited. He gave of himself 
 and of his means to those who made appeal to him. The poor have lost 
 in him a friend; the city one of its most liberal citizens. 
 
 For years I have gone in and out of this home where we to-day are 
 gathered because of a friend s privilege freely accorded. I shall not abuse 
 that privilege by lifting the veil love throws over the place where its 
 chief treasures are gathered. Enough for me to say that a most sweet and 
 gracious presence has abided here and that in many respects this has been 
 an ideal home. A tender husband, an indulgent father, a loyal friend, an 
 enterprising citizen, a clean politician, a true patriot has lived his almost 
 threescore years among us and to-day is not, for God has taken him. Yes, 
 a true patriot. One day when a great crisis was upon our Common 
 wealth, and Mr. HAYWARD had done his very best to avert from us what 
 seemed to him a pending ruin, walking the floor, as his custom was 
 when deeply wrought upon, he turned to a loved one and said, with tears 
 in his eyes, "I think I know a little of what John Knox felt when he 
 went alone before God and cried, O God, give me Scotland or I die! for 
 from my heart I can say, O God, give me Nebraska or I die! " That is 
 patriotism, not of the kind that flippantly expresses itself on some public 
 occasion, but patriotism incarnated in the citizen. Would to God we had 
 more of it. Democracy would perish without it. It is the salt of a nation, 
 the political light to lighten a people. Out of it heroes are born, and 
 because of it life itself is willingly laid upon the country s altar. 
 
 Some forty years ago or more, while yet in that Eastern home, Mr, 
 HAYWARD professed to receive Jesus Christ as the Son of God and his 
 personal Saviour, and united himself with the church of his early choice. 
 A few months ago, just after election to the Senate of the United States, 
 among the letters of congratulation received was one in which this expres 
 sion was used, "I hope you love the Lord Jesus Christ." His private 
 secretary brought the letter to him and said: "How shall I answer 
 this?" Mr. HAYWARD read it, paused a moment, his face grew sober, 
 thoughtful, and he gravely replied, "Tell him I do love the Lord 
 Jesus," In his last conscious moments, while struggling with pain, a 
 loved one says, "Ask the Lord to help you." "He is helping me," 
 and a warm pressure of the hand was the instant reply. 
 
 And he is gone. Verily "all flesh is grass and all the goodliness 
 
2O Life and Character of Monroe L. Hay ward, 
 
 thereof as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower 
 fadeth surely the people is grass," Why he should be taken just now 
 we may not understand. The nation, in the crisis upon it, needs such 
 men to grapple with the questions of the hour and solve them in a 
 way to satisfy the demands of righteousness. Our Commonwealth, our 
 city, mourn his death and may not be reconciled, while friends weep 
 and refuse to be comforted. Life is lonelier to us all since he has 
 been taken away. 
 
 And he is gone w r ho seemed so great 
 
 Gone; but nothing can bereave him 
 
 Of the force he made his own 
 
 Being here; and we believe him 
 
 Something far advanced in state, 
 
 And that he wears a truer crown 
 
 Than any wreath that man can weave him. 
 
 Speak no more of his renown, 
 
 Lay your earthly fancies down, 
 
 And (upon the Father s bosom) leave him 
 
 God accept him; Christ receive him. 
 
 "All flesh is grass." We who are here to-day are going the way of all 
 the earth. Soon for us the golden bowl will be broken, our presence will 
 be withdrawn, the mortal will disappear, our very names be forgotten for 
 "the things that are seen are temporal." But somewhere in God s wide 
 universe you and I shall still be living, reaping what we have sown, re 
 warded according as our deeds have been, for "the things that are not 
 seen are eternal." How shall we spend our earthly lives? To what shall 
 we devote our energies? What record shall we leave behind? 
 
 " Tis not all of life to live, nor all of death to die." Beyond the seen 
 lies the unseen; upon the shores of time break the waves of eternity. Out 
 from the shadowy land hands beckon and point upward, and so thin the 
 veil between the mortal and the immortal that the "whispers of God can 
 be heard by the children of men." Bare and gray would our lives stretch 
 downward to the grave had not God spoken and bidden us look upward 
 and be comforted. Bright and sacred grow these passing moments as 
 faith looks beyond the hills to the land where wrongs are righted, hopes 
 bear fruitage, and growth in all that is noble and passionately longed for 
 here shall know no end. 
 
 And so beside the silent sea 
 
 We wait the muffled oar. 
 No harm from Him can come to me 
 
 On ocean or on shore. 
 
 I know not where His islands lift 
 
 Their fronded palms in air. 
 I only know I can not drift 
 
 Beyond His love and care. 
 
Address of Mr. Fairbanks, of Indiana. 21 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. FAIRBANKS, OF INDIANA. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: I rise to pay my brief tribute to the mem 
 ory of MONROE L. HAYWARD, late a Senator of the United 
 States from the State of Nebraska. My personal acquaint 
 ance was not such as to enable me to portray with complete 
 ness the interesting and instructive life of one who gave 
 great promise of a successful and useful career in this his 
 toric Chamber. Nor is it necessary that I should attempt 
 to do so, for that has been so well and faithfully done by 
 the skillful and master hand of the distinguished Senator 
 from Nebraska. 
 
 There was indeed that in the life of Mr. HAYWARD which 
 was ennobling. There was that in his character which was 
 inspiring and elevating, and there was that at the close of 
 his career which was strangely pathetic. 
 
 When best prepared to live and best fitted to serve the 
 State, the final summons came. He had wrought his way 
 tediously and persistently up and up until he stood supreme 
 in the confidence of his beloved State. He held the com 
 mission of the great State of Nebraska to this, the most 
 exalted Chamber of the nation, but the end came before he 
 took his official oath. 
 
 His death was in a very especial sense the nation s loss, 
 for he would have brought here a splendid equipment which 
 was the abundant fruit of large experience and much pro 
 found reflection. There is, indeed, in this hour of the 
 nation s history, filled with momentous questions which 
 gravely concern the present and the future, need in high 
 
22 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 place for such as he lofty in intellect, exalted in purpose, 
 conservative and judicial in judgment. 
 
 During my brief acquaintance, when I was permitted to 
 enjoy the hospitality of his home, I was greatly impressed 
 with his singular frankness and directness of purpose. His 
 mental processes were not subtle and circuitous, but were 
 as open and palpable as the day the unfailing manifesta 
 tion of a generous and upright heart. He looked forward 
 to the time when he should take his seat in the Senate with 
 a becoming sense of the great responsibilities which he was 
 to assume and addressed himself to the consideration of 
 the leading questions which were to engage the attention 
 of the Congress, for he wished to contribute his full share 
 toward their just and wise decision. He wished to dis 
 charge creditably and in full measure his civic duties. 
 
 He was ranked as a strong partisan, and such he was, 
 for he believed that through his party was to be accom 
 plished the greatest good to the State. He believed always 
 in clean political methods, and would sanction no attempt 
 to prostitute his party to ignoble ends. His party s aims 
 must always be as pure and exalted as his own. He had 
 for his party and himself the same code of morals. 
 
 His career was essentially self-wrought. He was not 
 debtor to merely fortuitous circumstance, but to nature, 
 for generous physical and intellectual endowments and for 
 superior moral courage, the courage to do and dare for 
 conscience s sake. He was a philosopher of the optimistic 
 school, and saw before himself perpetually the bow of 
 promise, the assurance of success, if he but pressed on. 
 
 His life was spent in the midst of the conflict of the great 
 mass of the common people. It was a strenuous life, a 
 
Address of Mr. Fairbanks, of Indiana. 23 
 
 life which he most welcomed. His fiber was virile, and 
 he answered always to dnty, which was his imperious 
 commander. 
 
 In young manhood, upon the battlefields of his .country, 
 at the bar, and upon the bench he met every demand with 
 unflinching courage and with a perfect sense of the respon 
 sibilities which devolved upon him. He was actuated by 
 no sinister motives or unworthy ambitions, but walked the 
 highway of life a candid, sincere man, resolved to leave 
 the world the better for having lived his brief hour. 
 
24 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hay ward. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. SPOONER, OF WISCONSIN, 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: The tribute which I rise to pay to the 
 memory of Senator HAYWARD is entirely sincere, albeit 
 entirely unstudied. Many years ago, for a moment only, I 
 met him, looked into his face, felt the grasp of his hand 
 and the welcome of his cheery voice. That moment, fleet 
 ing though it was, attached me to him, and I looked forward 
 with pleasure since his election to meeting him after the 
 lapse of years as a member of this body. 
 
 The Senator from Nebraska [Mr. Thurston] has referred 
 to the uniqueness of this ceremonial in that the Senate 
 pauses in its deliberations to pay tribute to one who, while 
 he was clothed by the action of his State with the right to 
 sit here, was never permitted by the God who rules the 
 world and the fate of men to exercise that right. It is 
 quite proper, however, that the Senate should do this, for 
 he had a right to sit here. He had been invested with that 
 right by the solemn action of his State, and by a long life 
 of probity, of lofty aspirations, of earnest endeavor, and of 
 fidelity to duty in every relation of life he had proven him 
 self worthy to be thus honored by Nebraska. 
 
 It is always painful, Mr. President, to stand by an open 
 grave. We forget that "it is as natural to die as it is to be 
 born." It is peculiarly sad that this man, who, doubtless, 
 for many, many years had toiled for the honor of a seat in 
 this body I mean not in the way of self-seeking, but by 
 
Address of Mr. Spooner, of Wisconsin. 25 
 
 preparation for the discharge of high public duty should 
 have been stricken at the moment of the fruition of his 
 ambition. 
 
 It is sad for us to remember that, although he had a right 
 to come here, he never was permitted to walk to the desk 
 with his colleague and take in our presence the- oath of 
 office. He had taken the oath more than once to support 
 the Constitution of the United States. He took, before he 
 reached years of manhood, the oath to support the Constitu 
 tion of the United States; and he went, pursuant to that 
 oath, Mr. President, under the flag .which floats over this 
 Capitol, the flag of our whole country, on many a field of 
 battle to dare death and all that the fate of battle might 
 bring to him, that the Government might live forever and 
 that that flag might forever float over a reunited and harmo 
 nious people. 
 
 His life is a fine illustration of what lofty inspiration and 
 honest effort may bring to one living iinder our institutions, 
 willing to work and ambitious to succeed. He had not the 
 aid of adventitous circumstance, Mr. President. He walked 
 along the pathway almost alone. He relied upon his own 
 efforts and upon the good will of the public among whom 
 he toiled, as he commended himself to their confidence and 
 to their affection. 
 
 P>efore he moved to Nebraska he lived for a time in Wis 
 consin, and I have been told of him and of his life there that 
 he was a man of study, a young man of great sturdiness of 
 character, one who could not be allured from the "straight 
 way, and that he was a man who brought home from the 
 camp and its distractions and temptations the cleanly heart 
 of a Christian soldier. He carried away from my people to 
 
26 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 his home in Nebraska their confidence and their respect, 
 and he left behind him in Wisconsin a fragrant memory. 
 
 I had occasion once in my professional life to review a 
 brief which he had made in an important canse the only 
 opportunity which ever came to me to judge of his capac 
 ity as a lawyer and it impressed me much as the argument 
 of an able, thoughtful, strong man, who met in a manly 
 and direct way every contention of his opponents, and I 
 remember that running through it all in a marked degree 
 was that "saving common sense," of greater value always 
 than what the world is accustomed to consider and to call 
 "genius." 
 
 We may not know, of course, the dreams which he 
 dreamed of service and triumphs in this body. His ambi 
 tion to come here was an honorable ambition, and from all 
 there was in the man s life, as testified by the Senator from 
 Nebraska, and as testified by the action of the State which 
 conferred upon him this great honor, we may well know 
 that he looked upon a seat in this body not so much as in 
 itself an honor, but as a conspicuous opportunity to serve 
 in a great forum, by honest and faithful effort, the people, 
 that thereby and there is no other reward which comes 
 to an honest man in public life he might, by intelligent 
 service to the public, attention to duty and the courageous 
 discharge of it, add to his reputation, broaden it, and win 
 that fame which an appreciative constituency is always 
 willing and always glad to give to those who serve them 
 faithfully in high places. 
 
 Mr. President, he made it very plain by his life that in 
 his death his State sustained a great loss, that in his death 
 the Senate sustained a great loss, and that had he been per- 
 

 Address of Mr. Spooncr, of Wisconsin. 27 
 
 initted, in the providence of God, to come among us, his 
 comradeship would have been delightful and his contribu 
 tion to the labor, the responsibility, and the learning of this 
 body would have been of great value. 
 
 The Senate does well, although unfamiliar with his 
 face and although his voice never was heard in this 
 Chamber, to place upon its permanent records this tribute 
 to his memory. He has paid his debt to nature. We 
 here pay ungrudgingly our tribute to him and to his 
 manlv character. 
 
28 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayzvard. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. ALLEN, OF NEBRASKA. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT : It is proper under the circumstances 
 that I should say a few words before the resolutions shall 
 be .put upon their passage and the ceremony closing Con 
 gressional notice of the deceased is concluded. 
 
 MONROE LELAND HAYWARD was born in Willisboro, 
 Essex County, N. Y., December 22, 1840. In 1861 he 
 enlisted in the Twenty-second New York Volunteer In 
 fantry, but was soon transferred to the Fifth New York 
 Cavalry, and was discharged in 1862 "on account of dis 
 abilities brought on by sickness." 
 
 He was educated at Fort Edward Institute, graduating 
 in 1866, and read law in that place and in Whitewater, 
 Wis., and in 1867 settled in Nebraska City, Nebr., where 
 he died December 5, 1899, in the presence of his wife and 
 children, his faithful physician, and other devoted per 
 sonal friends. 
 
 June 14, 1870, he was married to Miss Jennie A. Pelton, 
 an estimable lady of Cold Spring, N. Y., and at the date of 
 his death left surviving him his wife, two sons, Dr. Edward 
 P. Hayward and Col. William H. Hayward, and a daughter, 
 Miss Mattie A. Hayward, one of Nebraska s fairest and best 
 young women. 
 
 His funeral was larp-ely attended by his neighbors and 
 the prominent men of the State. I was prevented from 
 being present, because I was then engaged in holding a 
 term of court in a distant part of the State, which could 
 not be adjourned. My acquaintance with the dead jurist 
 
Address of Mr. Allen, of Nebraska. 29 
 
 and statesman was not intimate. He resided fully 150 
 miles from the place of my residence; and having no busi 
 ness relations with him, and not being his party affiliant, 
 there was nothing but the soldierly tie of comradeship to 
 bring us together. But I frequently conversed with him, 
 and on several occasions listened to him deliver public 
 addresses, and I am sufficiently informed of his personal 
 worth and ability to enable me to speak of him in the 
 highest terms of praise. 
 
 Mr. President, I judge men rapidly and, I think, with 
 some degree of accuracy, and I do not hesitate to say that 
 in my judgment Judge HAYWARD was in all respects a 
 good man. He was a devoted husband and loving father, 
 and he reared a family of whom any man might well be 
 proud. He sought the means of promoting the happiness 
 of his wife and children, and accumulated wealth that they 
 might not know want in the event of his death, or of his 
 becoming incapacitated in later life to pursue a gainful 
 occupation. 
 
 He was a good lawyer and a just judge, and had the 
 esteem and confidence of the bar and public to the hour of 
 his death. Being positive in his nature, he had enemies, 
 but they were few and unable to do him lasting injury. He 
 was a partisan in politics, and believed he was promoting 
 the welfare of his country by obeying the commands of his 
 party. 
 
 He was God-fearing, and recognized the accountability of 
 all mankind to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe. He 
 believed in the essential doctrines of the Christian religion, 
 and sought to lighten the burdens and cheer the drooping 
 spirits of his fellow-men. A distinguished citizen and near 
 
30 Life and Character of Monroe L. Playrvard. 
 
 neighbor of Judge HAYWARD, who knew him well, wrote 
 me that his strongest characteristic was "his absolute hon 
 esty in his home life, in business affairs, and in politics." 
 A greater tribute could not be paid to any man. 
 
 Mr. HAYWARD was free from narrowness and envy and 
 cant. He was not a hypocrite or a pretender. He did not 
 permit himself to become jealous of the promotion or good 
 fortune of others, which was in marked contrast with some 
 of his political associates. 
 
 The deceased jurist was often honored with high and 
 responsible positions. He was many times made chairman 
 of the Republican State convention, and in 1886 was 
 appointed judge of the district court of the district in which 
 he resided. He was a member of the constitutional con 
 vention which framed the present constitution of Nebraska, 
 and in the various positions he was called to fill he dis 
 played marked ability and aptitude for the duties which 
 devolved upon him. 
 
 In his death his family have suffered an irreparable loss, 
 the State has lost a worthy and public-spirited citizen, and 
 the city in which he lived a man of real worth and great 
 merit. Mr. HAYWARD trod life s thorny path with firm 
 step and head erect, and "with malice toward none and 
 charity for all" did his duty as God gave him the vision to 
 see it. He heeded the promptings of his better nature and 
 scattered smiles and sunshine among those with whom his 
 lot was cast. He left the world better than he found it, 
 and by his ability and honesty of purpose added much to its 
 growth and happiness. 
 
 The sympathy of this man was genuine, and his alms 
 giving was just and generous; and many an unfortunate 
 
Address of Air. Allen, of Nebraska. 31 
 
 fellow-traveler was helped over the rough places of life by 
 his timely aid. The death of Judge HAYWARD is sincerely 
 mourned by all Nebraskans, and by none more deeply than 
 myself. He had just been elected to a seat in this Chamber 
 and, with his friends, doubtless looked forward to the time 
 when he would be able to leave a permanent record of his 
 opinions on public questions in this great Forum; but God, 
 in His infinite wisdom, called him to eternal repose, and he 
 now peacefully sleeps in the soil of the State he loved so 
 well. 
 
 While I do not agree that Death is the king of terrors, 
 when it comes in the natural order of events and according 
 to the course of nature, it is always sad, and doubly so when 
 one s life has not reached the allotted three-score and ten, 
 and his work is unfinished. But, Mr. President 
 
 Death is another life. \Ve bow our heads 
 At going out, we think, and straight 
 Another golden chamber of the King s, 
 Larger than this we leave, and lovelier; 
 And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, - 
 The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. 
 The will of God is all in all. He makes, 
 Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure all. 
 
 Judge HAYWARD had lofty hopes and aspirations. They 
 were commendable in him, for they were pure and calcu 
 lated to benefit others and \vere intended to ameliorate the 
 condition of his fellow-men. When he was confined to his 
 bed by his last illness, and heroically struggling for life, I 
 watched the daily report from his home, hoping and pray 
 ing that his disease would take a change for the better and 
 that he would be restored to his family and country and 
 permitted to serve the term in the Senate to which he had 
 been elected with honor to his State and credit to himself. 
 
32 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 But it was otherwise written in the Book of Fate, and he 
 has been called to the mysterious land where the millions 
 of earth s inhabitants out of the centuries that have passed 
 and gone have been called, and to which all of us are 
 rapidly hastening-. 
 
 Mr. President, it would serve 110 useful purpose for me to 
 discuss at length the virtues and excellent qualities of head 
 and heart of this distinguished citizen of my State. His 
 memory is fresh in the minds of the people of Nebraska. 
 His purity of life, his brilliancy of intellect, and the depths 
 of his splendid nature are too well known to require any 
 encomium at my hands. 
 
 It was Job, I think, who, when after the great affliction 
 and in old age, approaching dissolution, exclaimed, "If a 
 man die, shall he live again?" And from that hour to this 
 the nameless millions that have inhabited the earth have in 
 succession asked, "If a man die, shall he live again?" 
 
 To me it seems that we need but look at the course of 
 the seasons, the beauty, system, and order of nature, the 
 perfect harmony eveiyw r here prevailing, and remember that 
 the desire of man for immortality is universal in all races, 
 in all climes, and under all conditions, to lead us to the 
 conviction that death is but a door opening from the grave 
 to eternal life. And so when we look upon the cold and 
 pulseless forms of those we knew and loved in life, it is 
 with the assurances that their dear features, beautified 
 and made better by the change we call death, will again be 
 beheld by us in a better land, in which sickness and death 
 are unknown. 
 
 Channing said that "immortality is the glorious discov 
 ery of Christianity;" and so, "after life s fitful fever" is 
 
Address of Mr. Allen, of Nebraska. 33 
 
 ended and the struggle of this world is closed, man passes 
 through the gateway of death into an endless and blissful 
 immortality. 
 
 Mr. President, what is life but a series of hopes and 
 aspirations and half-rewarded struggles, created and shaped 
 by circumstances over which we exercise no control? We 
 struggle often in vain to mount the heights of knowledge 
 and ambition, but to fall at last, having accomplished noth 
 ing. The law of constant struggle and of constant change 
 is written everywhere and on everything. Our children are 
 born and, like half-open flowers, wither and decay; and 
 those who have trodden well life s pathway with us for a 
 time fall into an endless sleep, and we struggle alone to the 
 end. 
 
 Is all this struggle and sacrifice to be rewarded by obliv 
 ion? No. Man does live after death, and lives eternally. 
 And so to-day, as we are engaged in this solemn ceremony 
 which is to close the history of an earthly career, and as we 
 pay deserved tribute to the life and character of one who 
 was lately of our number, we may do so with the full 
 assurance that 
 
 Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 
 
 Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, 
 
 And intimates eternity to man. 
 
 S. Doc. 455 3 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE. 
 
 DECEMBER 19, 1899. 
 
 Mr. MERCER. Mr. Speaker, I desire to lay before the 
 House the following resolutions passed by the Senate. 
 The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolutions. 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep regret and profound 
 sorrow of the death of Hon. MONROE L. HAYWARD, lately elected Sen 
 ator from the State of -Nebraska. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these resolutions 
 to the House of Representatives. 
 
 Resolved, That, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased, the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 Mr. MERCER. Mr. Speaker, later in the session the dele 
 gation from Nebraska in this House will ask that time be 
 set apart for the purpose of paying fitting tribute to the 
 memory of the lately elected Senator HAYWARD. For pres 
 ent purposes I offer the resolutions which I send to the 
 Clerk s desk. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Plouse has heard with profound sorrow and deep 
 regret the announcement of the death of Hon. MONROE L,. HAYWARD, 
 lately elected a Senator from the State of Nebraska. 
 
 Resolved, That, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased, the House do now adjourn. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the reso 
 lutions. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to. 
 
 Accordingly (at 2 o clock and 6 minutes p. m.) the House 
 adjourned. 
 
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36 Proceedings in the House. 
 
 MARCH 13, 1900. 
 
 Mr. BURKETT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
 that next Saturday after i o clock be set apart for eiilogies 
 upon the late Senator-elect HAYWARD, of Nebraska. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Nebraska asks 
 unanimous consent of the House that next Saturday, after 
 the hour of i o clock, be set apart for eulogies on the life, 
 death, and character of the late Senator-elect HAYWARD. 
 Is there objection? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
. MEMORIAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 MARCH 17, 1900. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The hour of i o clock was set apart for 
 eulogies on the late Senator HAYWARD; and as there is 
 nothing more pending before the House, without objection, 
 the exercises will be taken up at this time. 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Mr. BURKETT. Mr. Speaker, I desire to offer the follow 
 ing resolutions, and ask that they be adopted. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That it is with profound sorrow and regret that the House 
 has heard of the death of Hon. MONROE I* HAYWARD, late Senator-elect 
 from the State of Nebraska. 
 
 Resolved, That, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, 
 the business of the House be suspended to enable his friends to pay proper 
 tribute of regard to his high character and distinguished worth. 
 
 Resolved, That the House communicate these resolutions to the Senate 
 and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased with the action 
 of the House thereon. 
 
 Resolved, That, as an additional mark of respect, the House, at the con 
 clusion of these ceremonies, _do adjourn. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to. 
 
 Mr. BURKETT. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Ne 
 braska, Mr. Robinson, is not able to be present to-day, and 
 I ask unanimous consent that permission be given to him, 
 and to such other gentlemen as would like to avail them 
 selves of the privilege, to print their remarks in the Record. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Nebraska asks 
 unanimous consent to permit members to print remarks on 
 the pending order. Is there objection? [After a pause.] 
 The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. 
 
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38 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. BURKETT, OF NEBRASKA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: In beginning my remarks I desire to read 
 a little from the Congressional Directory of the first session 
 of the Fifty-sixth Congress: 
 
 MONROE ICELAND HAYWARD, Republican, of Nebraska City, was born 
 in Willsboro, Essex County, N. Y., December 22, 1840; enlisted in the 
 Twenty-second New York Infantry at the beginning of the civil war, and 
 was afterwards transferred to the Fifth New York Cavalry; discharged in 
 December, 1862, owing to disability arising from sickness; on returning 
 home entered Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, where he completed his 
 education; in the meantime his father had removed to Wisconsin, and he 
 followed; studied law at Whitewater, Wis., and removed to Nebraska in 
 1867, settling at Nebraska City, where he has resided ever since and prac 
 ticed his profession; was a member of the State constitutional convention 
 in 1873; filled out a term on the district bench by appointment of the 
 governor in 1886; was the Republican candidate for governor in the falJ 
 of 1898, and was defeated by 3,000 votes; was elected United States Sen 
 ator, to succeed William Vincent Allen, March 8, 1899. 
 
 His term of service will expire March 3, 1905. 
 
 That is briefly the life of onr late beloved Senator from 
 Nebraska as the compiler wrote it. 
 
 But that was written while the Senator was yet alive and 
 among us. Now it does not satisfy us. We would know 
 more of him. We would go into detail, follow his life 
 more closely, and from it draw inspiration and hope. 
 
 When that was written we did not need more, we did not 
 want more, for he was himself to all who knew him the 
 revelation of his own life and character, most reliable and 
 instructive and impressive. 
 
 His life, like a book, could not be published until the 
 last chapter was written, for it was growing better and 
 
Address of Mr. Burkctt, of Nebraska. 39 
 
 broader and more beautiful all the while. But he has gone 
 from among us. The deeds of his life are now history, 
 and what may be said of him will need no revision for 
 subsequent data. 
 
 We have set apart this day for eulogy upon his life and 
 character, and when those who wish shall have spoken we 
 shall adjourn this House out of respect to his memory. 
 
 The biography which I have just read is but a paragraph. 
 It covers but a small part of one page of the book. All 
 men s history can be told in about equal time while they 
 live. The little and the great alike need but small space 
 and little of printer s ink to satisfy their fellow-men. 
 
 But how different after death. So long as a man lives 
 we are content with a modicum of information about him, 
 comparatively speaking. We like to know whence he 
 sprung, his source, and in some instances his resources, 
 what he is capable of doing, what he has accomplished, and 
 what he is now. From a laboring man applying for em 
 ployment to a Presidential candidate the category varies 
 but little. Hence his birthplace, his acquired titles, and 
 his politics are about all the Clerk has put in the Congres 
 sional Directory. 
 
 But that is not sufficient now. It does not satisfy us. 
 There is a longing to know more of him. We want to 
 know not merely where he was born and when, but what 
 made him Senator. Ah! more yet than that. We not only 
 would know what made him Senator HAYWARD, but what 
 made him the great-hearted, noble-minded, and beloved 
 "Judge Hayward," as we knew him so long. 
 
 These latter traits made him Senator. The office added 
 nothing to his "parts," nor, indeed, to the affection of his 
 
4-O Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 constituents. The office was but the expression of that 
 affection. 
 
 Those of us who knew Senator HAYWARD (and I regret 
 that you did not all know him well) realize that no biog 
 raphy, of whatever dimensions, will ever do justice to his 
 character and ability, and that no eulogy will compute the 
 good that he has accomplished. 
 
 The choicest things in a great man s life can never be 
 written. They assume forms for which the human lan 
 guage has no words delicate enough to describe. 
 
 There is a power of presence indescribable in a truly 
 great man, and while understood and appreciated it can not 
 be told. There are no words for it. 
 
 By this power of presence or personality in a man, inde 
 scribable, and its influence for good, I speak of the influence 
 which Lowell meant when he said: 
 
 The very room, coz she was in, seemed warm from floor to ceiling. 
 
 I speak of the power of the presence alone of Napoleon, 
 which the Duke of Wellington said "equaled forty thou 
 sand men." I speak of the presence of a godly man, 
 though he say not a word. I speak of the air surrounding 
 a great man, the potent force, the "still small voice" of 
 living and doing and walking and acting that can not be 
 told. 
 
 Nevertheless it is there and, like the subtle aroma of the 
 rose, permeates the entire community in which he is, and 
 all men and things are better and sweeter because he lives. 
 
 Most books are read by scanning the title page, perhaps, 
 then glancing at the introduction, and, possibly, casually 
 looking over the index. There are few books that stand 
 this test sufficientlv to warrant further consideration. 
 
Address of Mr. Burkett, of Nebraska. 41 
 
 Bacon says: 
 
 Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few 
 are to be chewed and digested. 
 
 And as with books so with men. Not all will sustain 
 extended biographies. The deeds of life have not merited 
 it, nor will the resulting benefits to the world warrant it. 
 
 If biography is ever beneficial and worthy of reading, 
 if the deeds and motives are ever worthy of example, we 
 may well give ear to the life and acts and motives of our 
 late Senator. 
 
 Extend his biography, and you have the history of 
 Nebraska. Extol his virtues, and you have noble example. 
 Recite his deeds, and you get inspiration. The world is 
 better because he lived. He did something for his State, 
 his country, and humanity. 
 
 He came to Nebraska the year that the State came into 
 the Union of States. As Nebraska assumed the responsi 
 bilities of statehood he donned the toga of a Nebraska citi 
 zen. Nebraska was a young State, and he was a young 
 man. Nebraska grew, and he developed with her. He 
 endured the cares and vicissitudes of the new country and 
 waxed strong in their midst. He and the State grew 
 together. 
 
 Senator HAYWARD was never for a moment a blank in 
 Nebraska affairs. The State needed his counsel and his 
 indomitable energy every moment. He was not an "office 
 holder," nor, indeed, an " office seeker;" but the story of the 
 State could not be written with him left out. He framed 
 her constitution as a member of the convention. He coun 
 seled in her legislation. He interpreted her laws as 
 judge. He broke her boundless prairies and turned them 
 
42 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 into a cornfield unsurpassed in the world; he developed her 
 industries; he brought to every question and condition 
 thrift, energy, integrity, perseverance, and industry. 
 
 With these qualities he mastered the problems that con 
 fronted the new State, and instead of chaos and uncertainty 
 set up law and order. And with these instruments of peace 
 and tranquillity he brought to her fame and respect abroad ; 
 security and confidence at home. 
 
 He was always a conspicuous figure in Nebraska. From 
 the time of his arrival in the State he was associated with 
 and in competition with the strongest men intellectually. 
 He settled in Nebraska City, where have lived many of the 
 strongest men, not only in our State, but in the nation. 
 
 He had for his contemporaries at home such men as O. P. 
 Mason, late chief justice of our supreme court and a man 
 of giant intellect; Senator Tipton, who but recently died 
 in this city, acknowledged to be one of the strongest men 
 who ever sat in the American Senate, and Senator Van 
 Wyck, who doubtless many here now will remember. 
 Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of whom all Nebraskans are 
 proud as the Secretary of Agriculture in Mr. Cleveland s 
 Cabinet, also lives in the same city, and has been his neigh 
 bor and contemporary for more than a quarter of a century. 
 
 Mr. Morton and Mr. HAYWARD did not always agree in 
 politics. Against each other there was waged the bitterest 
 warfare politically. Each, the leader of his own party, of 
 course received full front the onslaughts of the other. 
 Each had been the candidate of his party for the highest 
 gift within the elective power of the people of the State ; 
 but, to the glory of both, in 1898, when Judge HAYWARD 
 was the candidate for governor, Mr. Morton threw aside all 
 
Address of Mr. Burkett, of Nebraska. 43 
 
 political prejudices, sunk old animosities beneath his great 
 love of home and State and the vital principles for which 
 Mr. HAYWARD stood, and, leaving behind him political 
 traditions, supported Mr. HAYWARD. 
 
 It is pleasant to recall that these two great leaders, for a 
 quarter of a century, of opposing forces, always personal 
 friends, should stand shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, 
 and, from the same platform, battle for the same principles 
 and truths and candidates in the last political conflict that 
 Senator HAYWARD should be permitted to enter. 
 
 Senator HAYWARD was not well known in Washington, 
 at least in Senatorial circles. We regret that it is so. We 
 are proud of him in Nebraska, and every man in the Senate 
 would have been proud of him as a colleague. But he never 
 occupied a chair as Senator. The silent reaper, Death, cut 
 him off from the world before he was permitted to enter 
 this Capitol as a Senator. He was not permitted to adorn 
 yonder splendid Chamber. His voice had no opportunity 
 to give utterance to his wisdom nor to express his kindli 
 ness of heart. 
 
 As a Senator he is not judged, either here or at home, 
 and as a Senator we shall not speak of him. For, exalted as 
 that position is, it did not make him great. He was exalted 
 in public opinion before he became Senator. He was a 
 strong man and beloved without the title. The position 
 was but a golden remembrance from his loving fellow- 
 citizens. 
 
 He stood high as a lawyer and as a judge. He ranked 
 well as a business man. He was quick of perception, keen 
 in discerning, and of good judgment. His counsel was 
 sought in all affairs as worthy of consideration. 
 
44 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hay ward. 
 
 He was a student. His life was one of work. His was 
 an active disposition. No stuffed countenance of feigned 
 learning was his; no assumed u parts;" no arrogated great 
 ness to which he was a stranger. But what he appeared to 
 be he was, and what he was was apparent a strong- 
 minded, cultured, unassuming man. 
 
 He was not a wit. He was not a brilliant man as 
 commonly expressed, resplendent in the effulgence of 
 natural abilities alone. That was not the impression he 
 made. His was the trained mind. His was wisdom 
 wrought out with sledge-hammer blows in imperishable 
 steel. His years of careful research and experience had 
 developed a giant intellect. His contact with the world 
 had molded and shaped that intellect into an instrument 
 of power and beauty. His mind was a gem of matchless 
 worth; yet it was dressed and polished only as a pebble 
 washed down the dancing, chattering brook, by constant 
 collision with the debris by the wayside. 
 
 A strong mind, a firmness of purpose, a quickness of 
 resolution, a never-ending devotion to what he laid his 
 hands to, made his attacks irresistible and his defense 
 impregnable. 
 
 With these qualities he wrought for the world and 
 humanity, and for this he is loved. It is always by what 
 men accomplish that they are measured ; for what they do 
 that they are loved or despised. Men are not measured by 
 what they are capable of doing, but rather by what they do. 
 
 I once heard a preacher say "There are many untaught 
 Jenny Linds on Nebraska prairies." But he uttered only 
 half a truth, and he could not prove that half a truth suffi 
 ciently to give the world credence in his statement. And 
 
Address of Mr. Burkett, of Nebraska. 45 
 
 the "just as good" theory neither detracts a whit from her 
 glory nor even dims the luster of the splendor of the 
 matchless warbler of "Home, Sweet Home." 
 
 Intentions and possibilities are excuses. Doing and ac 
 complishing defend themselves. The heroes of all ages 
 and all people have been those who have done something 
 for their fellow-men, and by it have won their admiration; 
 men whose energy shirked no responsibility imposed by 
 instinct, and whose instinct was fraternal. 
 
 This doing for our fellows may not always consist in 
 saving a nation, nor of leading successful armies. It may 
 not be accomplished in the halls of Congress nor from the 
 pulpit. It may be little or great, but in the measure of it 
 is man loved. 
 
 Senator HAYWARD S life is a rebuke to those men who 
 seem to think that thrift and frugality, or rather the fruit 
 of thrift and frugality, are a stamp that distinguishes an 
 enemy of human kind. He was a successful man in busi 
 ness. While the Eastern press, in many instances, has 
 largely overestimated his fortune, nevertheless he was, for 
 the Middle West, considered a well-to-do man. 
 
 But no one ever impugned his motives on that account. 
 He came honestly by what he had. It was the fruit of his 
 toilsome effort. 
 
 The good that such men do is immeasurable when com 
 pared with the utterances of those whose only aim in life is 
 to array unfortunate humanity and worthless humanity 
 against the imaginary bugbear of capital. Capital is the 
 fruit of head and hand. Motive is of the heart and makes 
 neither rich nor poor, but in both alike is good or bad. 
 
 These manipulators of popular passion depreciate every 
 
46 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 quality of energetic, conservative, industrious living. Such 
 men in few instances do much of good for their locality or 
 mankind in general. They are sterile and create nothing. 
 They are simply circumstances. They just stand around. 
 
 I like more the man who "inspires the heart;" "incites 
 to better deeds;" and whose counsel and sayings lift 
 humanity up out of the quagmire of gnarling. 
 
 It is not difficult to be a "kicker." It is not hard to be 
 a lawyer "able to sit on the court-house steps and criticise 
 the Supreme Court decisions." It is easy to tell how to 
 better things. It is easier to condemn than to bless. It is 
 easy to tell what ought to be done for the State, but it 
 takes effort to do something for the State. 
 
 As I have said before, Senator HAYWARD wrought for the 
 State. He was a successful man and a true man. 
 
 The qualities of a true man are many, but Senator HAY- 
 WARD had them. He had energy, and that was necessary, 
 for the sluggard impoverishes himself, foregoes the assist 
 ance of his neighbors, and merits the disrespect of all men. 
 
 He had method, and without it energy results in much 
 lost motion. He gave to everything application and faith 
 fulness, and it was because of these qualities of a true man 
 that he was successful; for, to use someone else s words 
 
 The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of 
 steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent and work in 
 the truest spirit will invariably be the most successful. 
 
 He was attentive, punctual, and industrious, and " suc 
 cess is more often on the side of the industrious." He 
 was honest in business and honest in the social world. 
 These are the qualities of a true man. He possessed them, 
 and his success was an index that he did possess them, 
 and not the brand of tyranny and oppression. 
 
Address of Air. Burkett, of Nebraska. 47 
 
 He was a veteran of the civil war. His comrades loved 
 him. They had pinned their faith to him. They be 
 lieved in him. They depended upon him for assistance 
 and looked forward with fondest hopes to the time when 
 he should come 011 to Washington to assume the more 
 active duties of his office. For they believed that he 
 would solve some of the difficulties that stand between 
 them and the Government s generosity in their declining 
 years. 
 
 He knew that "the pension roll was a roll of honor. " 
 He knew the heartaches and the suffering and the trials 
 that it took to entitle one to a place thereon. 
 
 He is dead. Our people mourn because of his death. 
 Our State has lost a splendid citizen and an important 
 factor. The nation is deprived of a valuable counselor; 
 but humanity has left his noble example as an inspiration 
 and hope for coming generations. 
 
48 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. MERCER, OF NEBRASKA. 
 Mr. SPEAKER 
 
 As, long ago, that home-returning band 
 
 Of Greeks, victorious o er outnumbering foes, 
 The last hard mountain won, saw sweet repose 
 And safety on the distant ocean strand, 
 So he at last attained what he had planned, 
 Triumphant over hate and envy rose, 
 And saw admittance to the seats of those 
 Most honored of our nation, in his hand. 
 But rest and ease were not for him to ask; 
 
 He would be building still with them that build; 
 
 He sought the cross, now that he had the crown. 
 And as he dressed him to his lofty task, 
 With manhood s aspiration unfulfilled, 
 
 Death stretched a grisly hand and struck him down. 
 "United States Senator-elect MONROE LEI.AND HAYWARD died at 
 Nebraska City on the morning of Tuesday, December 5, 1899, aged 59 
 years. He was born at Willsboro, Essex County, N. Y. , December 22, 
 1840." 
 
 Senator HAYWARD S youth was spent on a farm. He received a com 
 mon school education, and was also permitted to attend seminaries of 
 learning and select schools at intervals. He made the best possible use 
 of all his advantages. 
 
 Early in 1861 he enlisted in the Twenty-second New York Volunteer 
 Infantry. In October of that year, however, he became a member of the 
 Fifth New York Cavalry. With that he served in the Shen^ndoah Valley 
 during the summer of 1862. He did special courier service for General 
 Banks during that year and also participated in each of the battles of the 
 Banks-Jackson campaign. 
 
 In the autumn of 1862 his health was completely broken down. There 
 fore he was discharged from the Army and returned to civil life. Then he 
 commenced the struggle for completing his education and also entered 
 upon the study of law. By teaching district schools and by manual labor 
 he subsisted himself and became a student at Fort Edward Institute, 
 remaining until he graduated with honor. He worked his way through 
 college by teaching mathematics, by bookkeeping, and by strenuous 
 efforts, manual and mental. Self-reliance and self-denial made him sturdy 
 and efficient. 
 
Address of Mr. Mercer, of Nebraska. 49 
 
 Directly after graduating he began, at Fort Edward, N. Y., in the office 
 of Judge Wait, to read law. He subsequently completed his legal studies 
 at Whitewater, Wis., and was admitted to the bar in 1867. Then he 
 located permanently at Nebraska City. 
 
 Senator HAYWARD, from the beginning to the end of his useful life, 
 carried determination and persistent industry into all his enterprises and 
 undertakings. Every task which confronted him was tackled with a per 
 sistent pluck that could result only in achievement . 
 
 The citizens of Nebraska City, Otoe County, and the State have honored 
 him by assigning him to various positions of trust and responsibility. He 
 was a member of the board of education for this city. He was a delegate 
 in the constitutional convention of 1875. He was many times chairman 
 of the Republican State convention. 
 
 In private and domestic life he was a model of fidelty, industry, and 
 temperance. His love of home and family (which is primary patriotism) 
 was only equaled by his love of his country and its institutions. 
 
 In 1898 he was chosen by the Republican party of the State as its 
 candidate for the position of governor. He made a strong and very 
 effective canvass, speaking in nearly every organized county of the Com 
 monwealth. The labors then performed did much to undermine his 
 robust and powerful physique. 
 
 Being defeated by Governor Poynter, he at once became, by pressure 
 of his friends and admirers, the candidate of the Republican party for a 
 place in the United States Senate, and was, after many ballots, finally 
 chosen to that honorable position by the legislature of Nebraska in March, 
 1899. 
 
 It seems cruel that just as a man has entered upon a field of usefulness 
 and eminence toward which his ambition and efforts have long been 
 directed he should be stricken down and all the hopes of his friends shat 
 tered. His death, deplored by family, friends, and neighbors as a per 
 sonal sorrow and irreparable loss, is a State and national calamity. 
 
 His steady fidelity to those principles of finance which alone can give 
 an unfluctuating purchasing power to American currency would have 
 made him a prominent and efficient member of the Senate. 
 
 But " Death opens the gate of Fame and shuts the gate of Envy after it." 
 
 These words appeared in the Conservative, a paper pub 
 lished in Nebraska City, the home of Senator HAYWARD, 
 and were written by the editor, Hon. J. Sterling Morton, 
 formerly Secretary of Agriculture. 
 
 I think it fitting that what I have to say be introduced 
 by the words just read, because they come from a friend and 
 S. Doc. 455 4 
 
50 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 neighbor of many years and from a man who was thoroughly 
 acquainted with the late Senator HAYWARD in all his walks 
 in life. Senator HAYWARD and myslf moved to Nebraska 
 in 1867, he locating at Nebraska City, in Otoe County, 
 while I followed my parents to Brown ville, about 23 miles 
 south. While a boy in my teens I met Senator HAYWARD 
 in his office in Nebraska City, and from that time until the 
 day of his death my acquaintance with him was close and 
 my friendship for him of the strongest kind. 
 
 As a private citizen Mr. HAYWARD always took an 
 interest in the affairs of the community in which he resided. 
 He was public-spirited and always ambitious that the city 
 of Nebraska City should rival all other towns in the State 
 in point of importance both as to population and industries. 
 He always took an interest in any new enterprises which 
 were suggested for the benefit of the city, and contributed 
 often in a financial way to the upbuilding and growth of 
 different institutions. He came to our State as a Repub 
 lican in politics, but never took an active part except to 
 further the interests of his friends and associates. His 
 Republicanism was of the stalwart brand, and whether as a 
 delegate to a convention or as presiding officer of it he did 
 all he could to uphold that kind of Republicanism. Aside 
 from serving his constituency in the State constitutional 
 convention and acting for a time as district judge, to which 
 he was appointed as successor of Judge Mitchell, a neighbor 
 and friend, till the Republican party in our State nominated 
 him for the office of governor in the year 1898, he never 
 was a candidate for office. He rather seemed to shrink 
 from the trials and tribulations following in the wake of 
 office-seeking and office-holding, and was content to be an 
 
Address of Mr. Mercer, of Nebraska. 51 
 
 humble member of the party and contribute his share 
 toward its success. 
 
 The Republican press of our State in the year 1898 advo 
 cated him as a suitable man to be made the member of Con 
 gress from the First district in our State, and in the alterna 
 tive that he stand as a candidate for governor. He resisted 
 this pressure for some time, till finally it became so great 
 that he was compelled to surrender to it, and then it was he 
 gave up the idea of standing for Congress. and announced to 
 his friends he would accept the nomination for governor if 
 tendered him. The Republican press of Nebraska and the 
 Republicans generally had made his canvass for the nomi 
 nation so complete that when the convention met he was 
 nominated by acclamation and by unanimous vote of all 
 delegates present. 
 
 The campaign which followed was a memorable one, and 
 the fact that the legislature which was elected at this time 
 was Republican and that the opposition majority on gov 
 ernor was reduced to the small figure of about 3,000 is due 
 more to the magnificent campaign made by Senator HAY- 
 WARD than by the efforts of anyone else in our State. He 
 traveled from one end of our Commonwealth to the other, 
 visited almost every county, addressed hundreds of meet 
 ings, and conducted himself in such a gentlemanly and dig 
 nified manner as to command the respect of people of all 
 parties, and could that campaign have lasted another thirty 
 days I have no doubt but that the success he was making 
 when election day came would have resulted, so far as him 
 self was concerned, differently, and that he would have been 
 declared governor of our State by a majority of the voters 
 thereof. He overtaxed his strength in this campaign, and 
 his death is undoubtedly due to the overexertions thereof. 
 
52 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 When our legislature convened, being Republican in both 
 branches, attention of the members, especially the Repub 
 lican members, was called to the magnificent campaign 
 just waged by Senator HAYWARD, and the legislature was 
 asked by the Republicans throughout the State and by 
 the Republican press to select him as Senator in the 
 United States Senate. The legislators took up this recom 
 mendation, coming as it did unsolicited from Senator 
 HAYWARD, and after a struggle of many days he was 
 finally elected the Senator from our State. But the contest 
 both in the campaign for governor and in the struggle 
 for the Senatorship, weakened his physique to such an 
 extent that death claimed him before he could take the 
 oath of office. He died, as he lived, among his friends 
 and neighbors at Nebraska City, at the home he loved 
 so well, surrounded by his family and intimate friends. 
 His death not only removed from our State a statesman 
 and an estimable citizen, but it deprived the Republican 
 party of the influence and strength of a Senator in the 
 Senate of the United States. 
 
 Although he had been elected for several months, the 
 election came after the Fifty-fifth Congress had adjourned 
 and too late for him to file his credentials in the Senate in 
 open session and receive the oath of office. In the mean 
 time his illness weakened him so rapidly that he was 
 carried away a few hours after the Fifty-sixth Congress 
 convened in session and too late for him to take the 
 oath of office in that Congress. In this respect his case is 
 almost without precedent; in fact, I do not recall any prec 
 edent of this character. In this connection I am reminded 
 that since Nebraska was admitted into the Union our 
 
Address of Mr. Mercer, of Nebraska. 53 
 
 people have elected ten differrnt citizens to the United 
 States Senate and only fonr of them are living to-day; and 
 remarkable as it may seem, three of the men died in the 
 year 1899. 
 
 I might add that during the same year a member of Con 
 gress elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress also died before 
 he could serve his constituents in the active work of his 
 office. In reviewing the record in this respect I notice 
 that since Nebraska was admitted into the Union 27 men 
 have been elected Representatives in Congress, 7 of whom 
 have passed away. Of the 27 elected, one of them, the late 
 T. M. Marquette, of Lincoln, served as Representative in 
 Congress only two days. The brevity of his term was due 
 to the fact that Nebraska had just been admitted into the 
 Union, and only two days of the Congress to which he 
 was elected remained after the State was admitted. Rep 
 resentatives Laird, Welch, and Greene all died while serv 
 ing a term in Congress. 
 
 Senator HAYWARD had many strong points in his char 
 acter, which always appealed to the masses when made 
 known to them. He was an unassuming gentleman. He 
 did not belong to the skyrocket class. He was not mete 
 oric at any time. He was a good lawyer, full of the 
 knowledge of his profession, and at the same time full of 
 hard common sense. He thoroughly investigated subjects 
 and situations before committing himself, and then after 
 he took a stand he did not change his views. He never 
 played to the galleries. He was not in the habit of going 
 on dress parade, politically speaking, in order to catch the 
 plaudits of the crowd. His judgment was sound and his 
 opinions were always reliable. His advice was a criterion 
 
54 Life ^nd Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 by which most anyone could guide his steps either in the 
 practice of law or in the duties of citizenship. He detested 
 hypocrisy in every form. Perhaps one of the strongest 
 points about Senator HAYWARD was his love of family and 
 home. He was an ideal husband and father, and this fact 
 impressed itself upon his friends and neighbors wherever 
 his presence went and wherever his influence was felt. 
 
 He had a happy family, a contented family. Senator 
 HAYWARD, by his industry and economy, had accumulated 
 a goodly share of this Avorld s goods, and he always de 
 lighted in placing it at the disposal of his wife and chil 
 dren. In this respect he teaches us a lesson, which is 
 indeed a most valuable one, that love of family and home 
 is really the cornerstone of our best civilization. It is 
 always a check upon the bad influences of life, and at the 
 same time it makes the foundation of one s upbuilding so 
 strong and secure that the man who was as strong in it as 
 Senator HAYWARD need have no fear of the average dangers 
 which beset mankind in this changing life of ours. Sena 
 tor HAYWARD served his country in time of war, and per 
 haps there learned many lessons which proved of value to 
 him in after years. In war he was the same plain, unas 
 suming man that he was in peace, but he was just as good a 
 soldier as he was a citizen and lawyer. 
 
 During the campaign of 1898 in our State the old sol 
 diers flocked to his standard irrespective of party, and some 
 of the most interesting scenes I observed during that cam 
 paign grew out of the renewal of friendships between 
 HAYWARD and some of the boys in blue who had followed 
 him side by side in many a hotly contested field. It seems 
 they knew him well in those trying times, had seen his 
 
Address of Mr. Mercer, of Nebraska. 55 
 
 courage and his manhood tested in all kinds of fires, and 
 were glad of the chance which had finally come to them to 
 place upon his head the distinguished crown of governor 
 ship or Senatorship. The old soldiers in Nebraska, irre 
 spective of party, voted for him, and I think to this fact is 
 due in the main the splendid result he obtained on election 
 day. 
 
 Senator HAYWARD has passed away, but the lessons 
 learned from his life by the people of our State will live 
 forever. We hope to profit by the good example he set for 
 us, and in the days to come we will ever remember his pre 
 cepts and his teachings as well as the manner in which he 
 exemplified them. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I think it but proper and fitting that I con 
 clude these remarks by adding to them the resolutions 
 passed by the Bar Association of Otoe County, Nebr. For 
 over thirty years Mr. HAYWARU, as a practitioner, and 
 Judge HAYWARD, as a judge, either practiced law or dis 
 pensed it, and these resolutions show the respect and con 
 fidence in which he was held by the members of that bar. 
 
 The resolutions are as follows : 
 
 Judge Paul Jessen, chairman of the committee, read the resolutions pre 
 pared by the committee. 
 
 MONROE LELAXD HAYWARD. 
 
 Whereas it has seemed meet to an overruling Providence to remove 
 from our midst, and from his scenes of usefulness, our brother, Hon. 
 MONROE L,. HAYWARD, cut down in the prime and vigor of life and at 
 the beginning of an extended career of honor, usefulness, and fame: 
 
 Resolved, That it is fitting that his brethren of the bar of Otoe County 
 unite in the expression of our profound sorrow at what is a calamity to our 
 city, an irreparable loss to our citizens, and a personal loss to those who 
 have been associated with him daily in the practice of our chosen profes 
 sion for a long series of years, and that we make a matter of record in the 
 forum where many of his successes were achieved, a tribute of his brethren 
 
56 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 to his long and useful service as a lawyer, a legislator, and a judge; his 
 great powers, his honest record in public and private affairs, his loyalty to 
 his friends and to his nobility of character, all which go to make his name 
 and fame the heritage of our community, and have endeared him to the 
 people of the State and to his brethren of the bar. 
 
 A esoh erf, That in his life and record we recognize in our deceased brother 
 great power as a close analytical reasoner, both upon the principles of law 
 as well as in the domain of fact, before the juries of the country. With 
 out claiming to be possessed of great eloquence, as that term is usually 
 understood, he was easily the strongest member of the bar of the county, 
 if not in the State, in his discussion of facts, in his presentation of the 
 salient points of his case, and in the skill with which he carried conviction 
 to the minds of those whom he was trying to convince, and his successes 
 in that forum attest his preeminent ability. In the discussion of legal 
 propositions he was clear, logical, and convincing, displaying great acumen 
 and analysis and a happy faculty in the application of legal principles to 
 the facts as they developed. 
 
 He was a man of great force of character, great kindness of heart, in that 
 he was always willing to assist the distressed with his purse or advice, and 
 he was of unquestioned integrity. 
 
 As the judge of this court he displayed the essential qualities of strict 
 impartiality, fearlessness in his decisions, being always guided by what he 
 believed to be right, and solicitous only that impartial justice be done 
 between the contending parties. His insight into the merits of cases was 
 intuitive, and he rarely erred in arriving at a just decision in any cause 
 submitted to his judgment. He knew the law, and exposition of it 
 adorned his opinion, unobscured by those special and personal influences 
 which always surround a subject in controversy. 
 
 He lived among us for years, and left upon the records the imprint of 
 his strong individuality. He was a safe and conscientious counselor, 
 faithful to his clients and zealous in defense of their rights, and no man 
 among us had in a larger degree the confidence and respect of the whole 
 community. 
 
 His gifts were varied and many. He successfully conducted great finan 
 cial enterprises, and he understood and was versed in the laws governing 
 trade and commerce and the true principles underlying our financial sys 
 tem. He never sacrificed his honest convictions in the hope of selfish 
 gain nor agreed with the mistakes of the majority, but strenously com 
 bated their fallacies and errors. 
 
 He was an open, honest, indefatigable opponent and a true and loyal 
 friend. He knew his foes and they also knew him. His integrity was 
 never doubted; he was above the suspicion of corruption; he neither 
 bought nor sold, and he has left to his family the legacy of a good name 
 and untarnished reputation. 
 
 The success he achieved in the political field was great, but his methods 
 
Address of Mr. Mercer, of Nebraska. 57 
 
 were clean and honest, and no suspicion of bribery or wrongdoing clouded 
 the ultimate success, and the great pity is that, standing upon the thresh 
 old of a new and more influential career, he should be stricken down 
 before he had the opportunity of demonstrating his capabilities and force 
 in the new field. To have achieved the goal of his ambition and then to 
 have the cup snatched from his lips as he was about to quaff the wine of 
 success is a forceful and sad reminder of the fleeting character of earthly 
 honors and of the emptiness of human ambition. 
 
 Resolved, That we condole with his family in their great loss as we 
 grieve for our own personal and professional loss in his untimely decease, 
 and that we report these resolutions to the court from a desire to testify to 
 our affection and make a record of our appreciation of his eminent quali 
 ties of head and heart that distinguished our departed brother, and request 
 that they be spread at length upon the records of this court and made a 
 part thereof. 
 
 It is further ordered that a certified copy of these resolutions, under the 
 seal of the court, be furnished the family of the deceased. 
 
 PAUL JESSEN. 
 
 E. F. WARREN. 
 
 W. C. SLOAN. 
 
 JOHN A. ROONEY. 
 
 D. T. HAYDEN. 
 
58 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. HULL, OF IOWA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: It was not my good pleasure to enjoy an 
 extended personal acquaintance with the late Senator from 
 Nebraska. Living in an adjoining State, I knew of him 
 and his work, and was therefore greatly pleased last year 
 during the summer to have the privilege of spending some 
 four or five days with him and becoming in a limited degree 
 acquainted with the man and his characteristics. From 
 that brief acquaintance I feel persuaded that the country at 
 large has lost a valuable counselor in the higher branch of 
 the National Congress. 
 
 I met him in Montana, traveled 011 the same car with him 
 through the Dakotas, and spent a few days with him in 
 one of the Dakota towns. He impressed me as a man of 
 strong, splendid physical characteristics, possessed of a mind 
 to correspond with his body. As one of his colleagues has 
 said, he was not a man of great brilliancy of mind, but a 
 man rather of splendid judgment, of untiring energy, and 
 of unswerving honesty. And from what acquaintance I had 
 with him at that time, I looked forward in anticipation 
 that in the broader field opening before him he would add 
 to the already splendid reputation he had attained in his 
 State as an upright citizen, as a safe counselor, as an incor 
 ruptible judge, and as a man upon whose judgment all of 
 his acquaintances and friends could rely. 
 
 It was to me a matter of personal sorrow that I could not 
 meet him here in Washington, and that he could not enter 
 upon the career to which the people of Nebraska had called 
 him. 
 
Address of Mr, Hull, of Iowa, 59 
 
 I can not add anything to what has been said. I can only 
 say that in my judgment the nation at large has lost one of 
 its most useful citizens, that the members of his family 
 have lost a devoted husband and father, and the State of 
 Nebraska a citizen who has done so much for the State in 
 the past and whose record will be entwined with the best 
 years of his State up to the time when death claimed him 
 and he lay down to an eternal rest. 
 
60 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hay ward. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. STARK, OF NEBRASKA, 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : I would briefly, though earnestly, render 
 tribute to the life, the works, and the worth of MONROE L. 
 HAYWARD, late a Senator from Nebraska. 
 
 Favored by only a slight acquaintance with him for several 
 years, yet I came to know the measure of the man, his intents 
 and purposes. His was the life of a true American ; his 
 ambition and aspirations, his hopes and desires were of and 
 for his home and his country. The persistent pursuit of 
 purpose, the fidelity to friends, faith, and party, together 
 with the strict integrity of his manhood s years, bespoke 
 the fact that in childhood and youth he had had the sweet, 
 the tender, and the watchful care of a good mother. 
 
 In that little hamlet in New York State this boy and 
 youth had a brave, safe, wise counselor and guide. Who 
 among us can make proper estimate of the great value of 
 the impressions made by the mother on the son, or of their 
 far-reaching influences upon his after life? The filial les 
 sons learned about the family hearth are never forgotten, 
 and the maternal impressions left upon the plastic mind can 
 never be wholly effaced. 
 
 What a world for good does not the glorious motherhood 
 of America now control. 
 
 Read all the languages of earth, 
 
 Compare each with another ; 
 Did ever one a word give birth 
 
 Like that dear and loved word mother ? 
 
 We first hear of him when, in his twentieth year, at the 
 breaking out of our great civil war, he enlisted in his conn- 
 
Address of Mr. Stark, of Nebraska. 61 
 
 try s service. His was the will to do and to dare; on his 
 country s altar he laid his all ; in the defense of our flag 
 risked his life. Never before then had this world witnessed 
 such unselfish patriotism, such grand sacrifices to principle, 
 or such heroic devotion to his country and flag as was dis 
 played by those heroes, the noble volunteers of 1861 to 1865. 
 The irksome duties of the camp, the watchful guard kept 
 day and night, the long and tedious inarch through storm 
 and mud, the bivouac in snow and rain, the struggle with 
 disease on cots of pain or with brave foes upon the battle 
 line defending flag and country are my highest conception 
 of true patriotism. 
 
 Then came the news, war has begun, 
 
 Brothers engaged in bloody fray: 
 The advance, the charge, a battle won, 
 The shallow trench, the mangled son, 
 The humble prayer, "Thy will be done," 
 
 And bowed heads turning gray; 
 The hospital, the prison pen, 
 The skeletons that once were men, 
 The unmarked graves in shadowy glen, 
 
 Come back to us to-day. 
 
 One-third of a century ago MONROE L. HAYWARD struck 
 out for himself. To carve out a home and a future he 
 soiight the boundless prairies of the West. He became a 
 pioneer, and in 1867 located at Nebraska City, in my State. 
 
 Even then the buffalo and Indian roamed at their own 
 sweet will over those great plains, now covered by rich 
 fields and gardens, with thriving towns and villages, 
 peopled by a generous, a happy, an intellectual, and a 
 patriotic people. 
 
 To the pioneers who in the past through countless trials 
 and hardships blazed the way for a home, church, school, 
 and the press, we owe a profound and lasting gratitude. 
 
62 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hay ward. 
 
 Senator HAYWARD began the practice of the law, and by 
 close attention and constant application he took a high 
 place in the profession in our State. On our level and 
 fertile prairies, with vision unobstructed so far as the eye 
 can reach, men s minds broaden, their sympathies expand, 
 and human aspirations and hopes have boundless range. 
 Senator HAYWARD advanced; he entered the judiciary ; he 
 became district judge. 
 
 He succeeded financially ; for that country he became a 
 wealthy man, yet not at the expense of conscience. 
 
 The following incident, told by his tried friend, Dr. 
 Whitten, of Nebraska City, illustrates the character of the 
 man : 
 
 Mr. HAYWARD had rented a farm to a poor though honest farmer for a 
 cash rent per acre, money to be paid after the marketing of the crops. 
 Just as all was ready for harvest, by a storm of hail they were beaten to 
 the ground. The honest tenant came to HAYWARD and proposed to mort 
 gage his stock, implements, and furniture to secure the debt, that he 
 might have an opportunity to raise another crop. But Mr. HAYWARD 
 said, " I have only lost the interest on the money that I have invested in 
 my farm, while you have lost your seed and all your year s labor. You 
 do not owe me anything." And he aided the farmer in making another 
 crop. 
 
 Senator HAYWARD S ambitions were for his family and 
 country. His family relations were tender and true, and in 
 the sacred precincts of the family circle his great wealth of 
 affection was freely shown, and he was at once the protector, 
 counselor, companion, and friend. 
 
 That he succeeded, the happy home he built, the reputa 
 tion he sustained, the friends he made, the honors we accord 
 him to-day doth well attest. The world is better because 
 he lived ; he quitted himself like a man and left an example 
 worthy of emulation by all men. 
 
Address of Mr. Sutherland, of Nebraska. 63 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR, SUTHERLAND, OF NEBRASKA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: Senator MONROE L. HAYWARD was a 
 prominent character in the history of Nebraska. After 
 having served his country as a volunteer in the dark days 
 of the civil war, he came to onr State to establish a home 
 and to practice his profession. For years he was a leading 
 member of the bar and was honored by being appointed to 
 a position on the bench. In 1898 his party called upon 
 him to lead in the campaign, and he made a fair and vigor 
 ous canvass for the governorship. The legislature having 
 been carried by his party, he was elected to the Senate of 
 the United States, but Providence saw fit to call him before 
 he entered upon his active duties. Senator HAYWARD was 
 a man of broad and liberal conduct toward those who 
 differed with him upon public questions. I met him fre 
 quently during the campaign of 1898, and in no instance 
 did he depart from the kindly and courteous manner that 
 always possessed him. When the news of his death reached 
 me, I felt that not only had the State lost an able citizen, 
 but it was a personal loss to me; for while differing politi 
 cally, I had come to look upon him as a warm friend. 
 
 When on occasions like this we remember the one who 
 has fallen in our midst and who no more will share our 
 responsibilities and labors, it is but natural and fitting that 
 our review of his life should be fraught with the utmost 
 feeling of tenderness. Death is a fact the knowledge of 
 which in its mysterious potency does much to influence the 
 
64 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 action and shape the destiny of men. As we panse in 
 remembrance of the years of unrelenting toil and unyield 
 ing perseverance of effort, fed by the hidden spring of manly 
 determination and absolute adherence to a great purpose, 
 culminating in lofty character, broad intellectual capacity, 
 and the greatest of all genius, the ability to accomplish by 
 real labor, we wonder how the fact of death, which seems 
 to rob us of all the qualities and attainments of our departed 
 colaborer, can be reconciled with the best and truest end 
 of man. 
 
 We see one after another of those whose work seems 
 only partially done, whose purposes are not fully accom 
 plished, and whose lives give promise of much that will be 
 useful and beneficial to their fellow-men stricken down by 
 the ruthless hand that neither pities nor tarries, and we are 
 tempted to believe that all the toil of preparation, the store 
 of wisdom, and the power of accomplishment are in the 
 fact of death lost to us forever. But not so. A truer phi- 
 losphy and a calmer reason comes to our aid, and a voice 
 cries out within us in spite of our fears, in spite of our 
 doubts and forebodings, that neither death nor any princi 
 ple, power, or law can destroy and obliterate the character 
 and influence of man. Towering above all other elements, 
 whether inherent or attained, man s moral nature is his 
 most valuable estate. His moral purposes find expression 
 in his actions, and actions repeated become habits. Habits, 
 whether good or bad, in course of time ripen into princi 
 ples which are the elements entering into the construction 
 of character, which is immortal. No thought ever dies. 
 The influence of no act ever ceases. The power of no 
 example is ever lost. The energy of pure principle is a 
 
Address of Mr. Sutherland, of Nebraska. 65 
 
 living force that no power can destroy, and the character 
 builded of such principle can know no death. 
 
 We share to-day the common sorrow that this bereave 
 ment brings. Our sympathy is extended to the home from 
 which husband and father is missed and mourned. We 
 appreciate the loss to the community of one whom many 
 delighted to honor. We realize in some measure the loss 
 of a State bereaved of her chosen representative, as also 
 the loss of the nation, one of whose chief council has 
 fallen. Still, in the midst of sorrow and the memory of 
 loss, we are assured that in recounting the forces and ele 
 ments that make for elevation, progress, and an ideal 
 civilization nothing is or can be lost. 
 
 MONROE Iy. HAYWARD lives! In thought, purpose, and 
 character, in energy and influence, he lives and can not die. 
 While we wait our time to meet the same grim messenger 
 that he has met, while we endure the doubts and fears 
 attendant upon death s relentless agency in changing rela 
 tion and environment, while we bow of necessity to death s 
 demand upon the flesh, we exult in the fact that is an intu 
 ition the untaught language of our inner nature which 
 speaks to the world, saying that to man in moral nature 
 and achievement there is no death. In this confidence we 
 approach the future with the prayer 
 
 O Thou of soul and sense and breath, 
 
 The ever present Giver, 
 Unto Thy mighty angel, Death, 
 
 All flesh Thou dost deliver; 
 What most we cherish we resign, 
 For life and death alike are Thine, 
 
 Who reignest Lord forever! 
 
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66 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR, NEVILLE, OF NEBRASKA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: I should not feel that I had performed my 
 duty as a representative of Nebraska if I failed to use this 
 opportunity to express the great sorrow felt by all Nebras- 
 kans by reason of the death of Senator MONROE L,. HAY- 
 WARD. 
 
 My personal acquaintance with him extended over only 
 a few years, but there was nothing hidden in his character, 
 and an acquaintance with him of however short duration 
 revealed as a part of his great individuality the three 
 striking qualities of love, justice, and charity toward 
 his fellow-beings. 
 
 I knew of him as one knows the illustrious persons of 
 any State or country long before it was my pleasure to 
 kno\v him personally. 
 
 From the members of his political party, which differed 
 from mine, I heard of him as one demanding honesty of 
 purpose and faithful performance of pledges as a prerequi 
 site to party success or his support. He was not an office 
 seeker, but at all times possessed the confidence of the 
 members of his party throughout the State, constantly 
 declining political honors in favor of his fellow-workers, 
 yet universally mentioned as the ideal standard bearer 
 when the task in hand appeared to be herculean. 
 
 After his party had for a few years occupied a degraded 
 position in his State, resulting from a criminal and con 
 victed leadership, and while a felon s cell still held the 
 spoilsmen, Judge HAYWARD was called to the helm and 
 
Address of Mr. Neville, of Nebraska. 67 
 
 landed his party with a majority in the legislative branch, 
 and for this service he was rewarded with the high office of 
 United States Senator. 
 
 From the members of the legal profession, who are best 
 qualified to determine judicial character, I learned that he 
 was a laborious, able, and just judge, ahvays impartial in 
 his rulings, correct in his legal conclusions, genial to the 
 officers of his court, obliging to the witnesses and litigants, 
 and merciful to the convicted unfortunates. 
 
 His ability, temperate and frugal habits, and industry 
 enabled him to acquire sufficient of this world s goods for 
 the comfort of his own family and to largely accommodate 
 his needy neighbors, and it is said of him, to his great 
 credit in this day and age, that when a debtor sought of 
 him an extension of time, he got not only the extension 
 asked, but along with it more money to tide him over his 
 perplexity. 
 
 Coming into manhood in a period in our history when 
 the great question of human liberty was about to dismem 
 ber man s ideal government, he enlisted, in 1861, in the 
 Twenty-second New York Infantry Volunteers, and, being 
 transferred to the Fifth New York Cavalry, served his 
 country until sickness and disability caused by exposure in 
 active army campaign compelled his discharge. 
 
 Those of us who were near his age and who with him 
 were enthused by patriotism inspired by our country s call 
 and danger can realize what must have been his chagrin 
 when notified that he was not physically able to longer 
 battle in the ranks for a united country. 
 
 Words in eulogy, no matter how numerous and high 
 sounding, can only interest those who could not know him 
 
68 Life and Character of Monroe L. Hayward. 
 
 personally. To his acquaintances his greatness was beyond 
 the descriptive powers of combined language. Word paint 
 ing can in no sense condole the bereaved family surviving. 
 To them stern reality was inefTaceably lodged when the 
 heart of their loved protector ceased to beat, and their only 
 solace is the knowledge that the inestimably good must in 
 the future be rewarded with greater opportunities. 
 
 Day after day, year after year, and century after century 
 the minister has said to the mourning throng, "It is God s 
 will;" and with as much uniformity the mourning widow, 
 while shaking her head in agonizing dissent, has murmured 
 to herself, "Why is it I?" forgetting for the time being that 
 I, we, and all are recorded to suffer when God s will discerns 
 less use for our protectors here than in the great realm to 
 which we are all heir. We are too apt to feel that this one 
 of the trials through which all must pass in fulfilling the 
 decree of God has come to us too soon and that it would 
 have pressed more lightly upon other shoulders. Yet upon 
 calm reflection we must see that the hope of long life to us 
 and our dear ones is equally and from the same cause and 
 with the same right the hope of the entire human family. 
 
 Let us hope in this instance that God s mercy will aid 
 recuperating nature, and that the desolate widow, with the 
 advantages obtained by contact with such a noble husband, 
 may live long to continue the life work so well carried 
 forward by both. 
 
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