UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 ROBERT ERNEST COWAN
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 LIFE AND CHARACTER 
 
 (A SENATOR FROM CALIFORNIA,) 
 
 llKI.IVKKKIi IX THE 
 
 SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 MARCH 25, 1892, AND FEBRUARY 24, 1894. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY ORDER OK CONGRESS. 
 
 WASHINGTON : 
 
 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 
 I8 94 .
 
 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That 
 there be printed of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the Hon. 
 GEORGE HEARST, late a Senator from the State of California, 8,000 copies, 
 of which 2,000 copies shall be delivered to the Senators and Representa- 
 tives of that State; and of the remaining number 2,000 shall be for the use 
 of the Senate, and 4,000 copies for the use of the House ; and of the quota 
 of the Senate the Public Printer shall set aside 50 copies, which he shall 
 have bound in full morocco with gilt edges, the same to be delivered, 
 when completed, to the family of the deceased ; and the Secretary of the 
 Treasury is hereby directed to have engraved and printed, at as early a 
 date as practicable, the portrait of the deceased to accompany said 
 eulogies. 
 
 Passed the House of Representatives March 3, 1893. 
 
 Passed the Senate March 3, 1893. 
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 Page. 
 
 Biographical notice of Senator Hearst 5 
 
 Announcement of his death in the Senate 9 
 
 Remarks of Mr. Stanford 9 
 
 Mr. Ransom 9 
 
 Announcement of his death in the House 13 
 
 Remarks of Mr. Clnnie 13 
 
 Mr. McKenna 15 
 
 Funeral Ceremonies at San Francisco 17 
 
 Eulogies in the Senate: 
 
 >? Address of Mr. Stanford, of California.. 19 
 OS 
 
 Mr. Vest, of Missouri 24 
 
 Mr. Stewart, of Nevada 26 
 
 IK. Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana 30 
 
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 Mr. Bate, of Tennessee 32 
 
 Mr. Dolph, of Oregon... 37 
 
 Mr. Morgan, of Alabama 39 
 
 Mr. Felton, of California 47 
 
 Eulogy in the House of Representatives: 
 
 Address of Mr. Maguire, of California 51 
 
 354974
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 
 
 GEORGE HEARST, a Senator from California, died at his 
 residence, 1400 New Hampshire avenue, Washington, D. C., 
 after a protracted illness, at 9:10 p. m. Saturday, February 
 28, 1891. 
 
 The outlines of his career, as given in the Congressional 
 Directory, are as follows : 
 
 GEORGE HEARST, of San Francisco, was born in Franklin County, Mo., 
 September 3, 1820, one year after his father, a South Carolinian, had 
 emigrated there ; he received a public school education ; passed his early 
 manhood pn his father's farm; in 1850 went to California, where he 
 worked in the mines and located and purchased mining property until his 
 Pacific coast mines and mills gave employment to 2,000 men and his 
 quartz mills crushed 1,000 tons of ore daily; he has ever since been 
 engaged in mining, stock-raising, and farming; in 1865 he was elected to 
 the California State legislature; in 1882 was a candidate for governor 
 before the San Jose" convention ; in 1885 the Democrats, who were in the 
 minority in the State legislature, gave him their unanimous vote for 
 United States Senator, and on March 23, 1886, he was appointed United 
 States Senator, as a Democrat, by Governor Stonemau, to rill the vacancy 
 caused by the death of John F. Miller; was elected to the United States 
 Senate to succeed Abram P. Williams, Republican, and took his seat 
 March 4, 1887. His term of service will expire March 3, 1893. 
 
 He did not live to complete the term two years of it remained 
 unexpired at his death.
 
 6 Biographical Sketch. 
 
 The estimates formed by his associates in Congress of the 
 character of GEORGE HEARST will be found in the memorial 
 addresses contained in this volume. 
 
 In California the death of Mr. HEARST was sincerely 
 mourned. "The public life of the dead Senator," says one 
 writer, "may, perhaps, be less generally remembered than his 
 private life. Thousands will think of him as the kindly, genial, 
 whole-souled friend who never forgot or had a harsh word for 
 any one. What he was in his youth, when he was directing 
 his men in his shirt sleeves at the mines, that he remained 
 after he became a millionaire and counted his acres by the 
 hundreds of thousands. Long after he became the Hon. 
 GEORGE HEARST, United States Senator, to the world at large, 
 he remained plain George to the hard-fisted, red-shirted miners 
 of Nevada County. For them neither his name nor his heart 
 ever changed. To them his hand and purse were always open. 
 Not one who worked in the fifties in old Nevada ever applied 
 in vain to Mr. HEARST." 
 
 Says another : 
 
 GEORGE HEARST is gone from the world, and it has been the lot of but 
 few men to be mourned with a sorrow so general and deep. Thousands 
 will feel the grief of personal friends; for though his long life was passed 
 in the hot strife of competition for fortune he possessed in rich measure 
 qualities which inspired affection. 
 
 He held a large space in the field of business, and his departure must 
 have widely felt effects. For thirty years and more GEORGE HEARST has 
 been one of the vital men of the West one of those peculiarly potent 
 individual forces that have inspired and given direction to that swift and 
 vast development of its resources which stands forward among the ma- 
 terial miracles of the century. 
 
 ***** 
 
 Change of fortune made no change in the man. As a millionaire, as a 
 Senator of the I'nited States, he remained the same simple, straightfor- 
 ward, unaffected, clear-headed and warm-hearted GEORGE HEARST who
 
 Biographical Sketch. 7 
 
 mined on the Feather and Yuba in the fifties and cheerily took his rough 
 share iii the free, manly life of the claims and cabins. To the comrades 
 who knew him then he was ever after a comrade. Ostentation and pre- 
 tense were necessarily abherrent to a man framed on his rugged lines, and 
 
 his generosity of nature no alteration of circumstances could quench. 
 
 **#*** 
 
 A strong man, an able man, a good and very human man, has been taken 
 away in GEORGE HEARST. He had a manly, a gentle, and a loving heart. 
 There will be moist eyes in unnumbered western homes, grand and humble, 
 at the news of his death; and the sorrow will not be least in the cabins 
 dotting the canyons and streams of the Sierras.
 
 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DEATH OF SENATOR HEARST 
 IN THE SENATE. 
 
 FEBRUARY 28, 1891. 
 
 Mr. STANFORD. Mr. President, it becomes my painful duty 
 to inform the Senate of the death of my colleague, Senator 
 HEARST. He passed away this evening at ten minutes past 
 9 o'clock in the presence of his wife and only child, a son, and 
 other friends. I beg leave to offer the resolutions which I 
 send to the desk. 
 
 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California 
 offers a series of resolutions, which will he read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with great sorrow of the death of 
 the honorable GEOKGK HEAKST, late a Senator from the State of California. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of nine Senators be appointed by the Presid- 
 ing Officer to take order for superintending the funeral of Mr. HKARST. 
 
 Resolred, That as a further mark of respect entertained by the Senate 
 for his memory, his remains be removed from Washington to California in 
 Hiarge of the Sergeaut-at-Arms and attended by the committee, who shall 
 have full power to carry this resolution into effect. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these proceedings to the 
 House of Representatives, and invite the House of Representatives to 
 attend the funeral and to appoint a committee to act with the committee 
 of the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 Mr. HANSOM. Mr. President, I can not express the profound, 
 the sincere sorrow with which this melancholy announcement 
 
 9
 
 10 Announcement of the Death of Senator Hearst. 
 
 has impressed the Senate. One more of our esteemed asso- 
 ciates lias passed away even before the echoes from the fresh 
 sepulcher of another of our number have died upon our ears. 
 It is a most unusual and touching spectacle to behold the por- 
 tals of the Senate draped with crape upon crape. We almost 
 see and feel at the same time the two beloved shadows linger- 
 ing upon this floor. This double blow only doubly increases 
 and intensifies our affliction. 
 
 This occasion does not permit any" extended and fitting trib- 
 ute to the memory and virtues of our departed friend. Our 
 grief, sir, is too sudden and too deep for words. Silence can 
 alone respond to our sorrows. 
 
 We, all of us, realize and deplore the great loss which the 
 country, his State, his friends, and family have sustained in 
 the death of Senator HEARST. It leaves a void in this Cham- 
 ber, in our bosoms, over which the waves will not soon flow. 
 
 The images of his noble qualities, of his uncommon faculties, 
 of his strong common sense, of his clear perceptions, of his 
 unsurpassed judgment, of his incorruptible simplicity, of his 
 unostentatious usefulness, of his delightful companionship, of 
 his devotion to his friends, of his love for his country, of his 
 justice to humanity, of his modest, kind, gentle life come 
 thronging to our thoughts and fill our hearts with unspeaka- 
 ble emotion. 
 
 It is right to say, sir, that he was a remarkable and extra- 
 ordinary man. In any community, in any walk of life, under 
 any circumstances, he would have commanded, as he deserved, 
 by the force of his character, the power of his intellect, and 
 the truthfulness of his nature, distinguished position and 
 influence. His virtues were strong, deep, enduring; they 
 were not superficial, but, like the riches of the earth, opened 
 up to greater wealth and beauty the further you penetrated 
 their depths. At this sad moment as I think of him he
 
 Announcement of the Death of Senator Hearst. 1 1 
 
 resembled the solid and useful and faithful metals which he 
 had dug from the mountains or washed from the streams upon 
 the slopes of the great Pacific Sea. These were the elements, 
 the sublime features of nature, amid which he achieved his 
 destiny and from which his character seemed to have taken 
 its form and quality. 
 
 But, Mr. President, neither you nor our brother Senators, 
 nor I, can trust our sensibilities and affections to say more of 
 him now. At this lonely hour of the night, from this gloomy 
 Chamber, we can only turn our eyes to that scene of deeper 
 suffering, to offer and mingle our grief and sympathies with 
 the tears and anguish of that loving and gentle heart whose 
 sad and tender chords must bear this supreme woe, and to 
 invoke for her fathomless bereavement that comfort which the 
 Giver of life alone can bestow. 
 
 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the adoption 
 of the resolutions. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to unanimously. 
 
 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair, in conformity to the 
 resolutions, appoints as members of the committee to take 
 order for superintending the funeral, Mr. STANFORD, Mr. 
 VANCE, Mr. VEST, Mr. HOAR, Mr. SAWYER, Mr. BATE, Mr. 
 BERRY, Mr. STOCKBRIDGE, and Mr. BARBOFR. 
 
 The Senate accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 25 minutes a. m., 
 Sunday, March 1, 1891) adjourned until Monday, March 2, 
 1891, at 9:30 a. m.
 
 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DEATH OF SENATOR HEARST 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 FEBRUARY 28, 1891. 
 
 Mr. CLUNIE. Mr. Speaker, the sad duty has been assigned 
 to me by my colleagues from California of announcing to this 
 House the death of Hon. GEORGE HEARST, late a Senator 
 from California, at his residence in this city at ten minutes 
 past o'clock this evening. At his bedside, prostrate with 
 grief, were his devoted and loving wife and his only son. He 
 lived, Mr. Speaker, the three score and ten years allotted to 
 the favored few and passed away silently and without pain. 
 
 I had the honor of knowing him a great many years. I 
 knew him well and intimately, and I may say tnithfully that 
 no man possessed a stronger hold on the hearts of the people 
 of California than the Hon. GEORGE HEARST, and no man 
 could have been taken from our midst who will be missed 
 more by the masses of the people of that State. 
 
 He left the good State of Missouri in pioneer days and 
 crossed the plains and helped to carve out the destinies of the 
 great State of California. All of her material resources found 
 in him an able advocate and a warm supporter. There is no 
 industry in California in which Mr. HEARST did not interest 
 himself. He started in, Mr. Speaker, mining with a pick and 
 shovel. He continued in the calling until at the time of his 
 death five thousand men were in his employ. 
 
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 1 4 Announcement of the Death of Senator Hearst. 
 
 During all his long career in that State no man ever accused 
 Senator HEARST of one dishonest act. I have walked by his 
 side on many occasions. I have seen him approached by 
 broken-down old miners. He would stop *at their request, 
 and, with tears in his eyes, would put his hand in his pocket 
 and furnish them relief. He was as gentle as a woman, and a 
 kind and devoted husband, a loving father, and a sincere, 
 good friend; and I can say, without fear of contradiction, that 
 no man in our great State did more in a quiet, unostentatious 
 manner to relieve distress in California, and in fact several 
 other States and Territories where his extensive interests 
 called him, than did Senator HEARST. 
 
 The people of our State, differing from him politically, when 
 his name was suggested for the high office of United States 
 Senator, reversed a Eepublican majority of forty on joint bal- 
 lot in the California legislature and gave us a Democratic 
 majority of eleven, elevating him to the exalted position of 
 United States Senator. 
 
 Every Senator was his friend. I could name a score of his 
 colleagues who have told me that no Senator could by simply 
 saying "This bill is right,. I want it passed," get as many 
 votes for a measure as Senator GEORGE HEARST. By his 
 death California has lost an able representative, his loving 
 wife a devoted husband, his only son a kind and indulgent 
 father. 
 
 No man could talk with Senator HEARST without going 
 away from him feeling that he had learned something; and 1 
 regret, Mr. Speaker, that at this late hour I cannot do justice 
 to his many virtues, nor speak of the great enterprises he 
 inaugurated and carried to a successful issue; but I presume 
 under the practice of the House that some fitting time will be 
 set apart and opportunity offered his friends to pay tribute to 
 his memory.
 
 Announcement of the Death of Senator Hearst. 15 
 
 In closing, Mr. Speaker, I desire that the resolutions passed 
 by the Senate be read, after which I will offer, when my col- 
 league [Mr. McKENNA] is through, should he desire to make 
 any remarks, the resolutions which I hold in my hand. 
 
 The clerk read as follows: 
 
 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, February 28, 1891. 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with great sorrow of the death of the 
 honorable GEORGE HEARST, late a Senator from the State of California. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of nine Senators be appointed by the Presid- 
 ing Officer to take order for superintending the funeral of Mr. HEARST. 
 
 Resolved, That, as a further mark of respect entertained by the Senate 
 for his memory, his remains be removed from Washington to California in 
 charge of the Sergeant-at-Arms and attended by the committee, who shall 
 have full power to carry this resolution into effect. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these proceedings to the House 
 of Representatives, and invite the House of Representatives to attend the 
 funeral and to appoint a committee to act with the committee of the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The Presiding Officer appointed Mr. STANFORD, Mr. VANCE, Mr. VEST, 
 Mr. HOAR, Mr. SAWYER, Mr. BATE, Mr. BERRY, MR. STOCKBRIDGE, and 
 Mr. BARBOUR as said committee. 
 
 Mr. McKENNA. Mr. Speaker, Senator HEARST had been sick 
 for some time ; but his friends entertained hopes of his recovery. 
 The announcement of his death, therefore, comes to us with 
 surprise and with deepest sorrow. Hereafter I may display to 
 the House the elements of good and of good example with 
 which his character and life abounded. I will not delay to do 
 so now. 
 
 Mr. HEARST was a practical man, able in business and 
 affairs, and attained eminence in both eminence in fortune, 
 eminence with his fellow-men dying a United States Senator. 
 He was a gentleman in the best sense of that much-abused 
 word, courteous and considerate to everybody, and, as my col- 
 league has said, no man in the State of California, had more
 
 16 Announcement of the Death of Senator Hearst. 
 
 friends than GEORGE HEARST, nor deserved or justified their 
 friendship more. His death will be mourned by them and by 
 his State sincerely, profoundly, and lastingly. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the resolutions. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with great sorrow of the death of 
 Hon. GEORGE HEARST, late a Senator from the State of California. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of nine members of the Honse be appointed 
 by the Speaker to act in conjunction with the Senate committee to make 
 uecessary i.rran<fe;ment8 to accompany the remains to the place of burial. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The Chair will appoint the committee later, 
 with the permission of the House. The Clerk will read the last 
 resolution. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, As a further mark of respect theTIouse do now adjourn. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to; and accord- 
 ingly (at 12 o'clock and 52 minutes a. m., Sunday, March 1) 
 the House adjourned until Monday, March 2, at 10 a. in. 
 
 Subsequently the Speaker announced the appointment of 
 the committee as follows: Mr. CLUNIE, Mr. McKiNLEY, Mr. 
 BLOUNT, Mr. GEARY, Mr. McCoMAs, Mr. TUCKER, Mr. 
 CARUTH, LIr. O'XEIL, and Mr. McADOO.
 
 FUNERAL CEREMONIES AT SAN FRANCISCO. 
 
 Funeral services were held at the late residence of the 
 deceased statesman in Washington, after which the remains 
 were placed on a special train of cars and, accompanied by the 
 committees of the Senate and House of Representatives and 
 the family, proceeded on the sorrowful journey to California. 
 
 When Mr HEARST died the legislature of California was 
 in session and both houses passed resolutions of condolence, 
 appointed committees to attend the funeral, and adjourned out 
 of respect to his memory. These committees were : 
 
 ON THE PART OF THE SENATE. ON THE PART OF THE ASSEMBLY. 
 
 The President, The Speaker, 
 
 Hon. A. W. Crandall, Hon. T. W. H. Shanahan, 
 
 Hon. F. R. Dray, Hon. M. Harloe, 
 
 Hon. F. C. De Long, Hon. G. B. Robertson, 
 
 Hon. D. A. Ostrom, Hon. J. C. Lynch, 
 
 Hon. M. H. Mead. Hon. George E. Hersey. 
 
 In the interval between the departure of the train from 
 Washington and its arrival in San Francisco arrangements 
 were made for the funeral. These were on an elaborate scale, 
 including an escort of military and civic organizations under 
 the command of Gen. John H. Dickinson. 
 
 Funeral services were held at Grace church, which could 
 afford accommodation only to a small number of those who 
 sought admission. The legislature adjourned so as to permit 
 
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 1 8 Funeral Ceremonies at San Francisco. 
 
 its members to be present. The audience included many 
 of the closest friends of the departed statesman. The civil 
 authorities were represented by the highest officers. The 
 governor of California (Hon. H. H. Markham), the senate, 
 the assembly, the mayor of San Francisco (Hon. George H. 
 Sanderson), General Gibbon, representing the United States 
 Army, and Admiral Benham, representing the United States 
 Navy, were some of the many prominent officials present. 
 California was also represented by many of her most conspicu- 
 ous citizens, who assembled to do honor to her distinguished 
 son, while the presence of the committees of the Senate and 
 House of Representatives, who had escorted the remains from 
 Washington, bore witness to the fact that the nation united 
 with the State in mourning the loss of a valued public servant. 
 At the conclusion of the services in the church the casket 
 containing the body of the deceased statesman was borne 
 through a concourse of his sorrowing friends inside of the 
 church and outside of it and, attended by the funeral cortege, 
 was conveyed to Laurel Hill Cemetery, where all that was 
 mortal of GEORGE HEARST was laid at rest.
 
 EULOGIES IN THE SENATE. 
 
 MARCH 25, 1892. 
 
 Mr. STANFORD. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which 
 I send to the desk, and ask that they may be read. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolutions submitted by the 
 Senator from California will be read. 
 
 The resolutions were read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of the death 
 of GEORGE HEARST, late a Senator from the State of California. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the 
 business of the Senate be now suspended to enable his associates to pay 
 proper tribute of regard to his high character and distinguished public 
 services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate communicate these resolu- 
 tions to the House of Representatives. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the 
 resolutions. 
 The resolutions were agreed to unanimously. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. STANFORD, OF CALIFORNIA. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: The death of Senator GEORGE HEARST 
 occurred so near the close of the last session of Congress that 
 we had no opportunity to pay any extended tributes of respect 
 to his memory in this Chamber. 
 
 It is for this reason that I have introduced the resolutions 
 which have just been read. 
 
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 20 Address of Mr. Stanford, of California, on the 
 
 In March, 1850, a young man was traveling westward across 
 the continent, on foot, beside an ox wagon. His outfit and a 
 small sum of money in his pocket were his only possessions, 
 and he was marching 2,000 miles through an uninhabited coun- 
 try to seek his fortune. 
 
 In March, 1891, the same man was crossing the same plains. 
 A long train of cars bore him with pomp to his destination. 
 With him were his family, and in his honor statesmen and 
 warriors were acting as escort. It was the same man who had 
 made the journey forty -one years before, yet not the same, for 
 he was now, in his last sleep and with the honors befitting his 
 lofty station, being carried to his final resting place. 
 
 To those virtues and qualities which raised the young pioneer 
 from obscurity to a place among the first of his country, it is 
 meet to pay tribute and to call attention, as an inspiration and 
 example for others, and it is for that purpose that we are 
 assembled in this Chamber to-day. GEORGE HEARST was 
 and had been for many years my personal friend. Though of 
 different political opinions we always worked in harmony, the 
 line between us being only political. He was in many ways a 
 remarkable man, and in every sense a representative Ameri- 
 can and one of the best examples. His career was one to 
 which those who knew him best can ever point with pride and 
 satisfaction. It is not my purpose on this occasion to go into 
 any of the various details of his life, which was so full of 
 interesting phases that to barely touch upon them would con- 
 sume much more time than would be appropriate now. 
 
 GEORGE HEARST was born in Franklin County, Mo., on Sep- 
 tember 3, 1820. His father, William G. Hearst, was of Scotch 
 descent, and was a native of South Carolina, moving thence 
 to Missouri in 1808. He was an enterprising man, embracing 
 farming among his callings, interested in lead mines, and the 
 breeder of many fine horses. His son inherited his tastes.
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 21 
 
 William G. Hearst died in 1846, bequeathing his farm to his 
 son; but when the news of the rich discoveries of gold in 
 California reached Missouri the young man resolved to try his 
 fortune in the new Eldorado. He therefore settled up his 
 affairs as favorably as possible, and in the spring of 1850 
 joined the army of emigrants then streaming westward, and 
 earned a title of which he was always proud that of pioneer. 
 
 The true history of the Argonauts of the nineteenth century 
 has to be written. No poet has yet arisen to immortalize their 
 achievements in verse. They had no Jason to lead them, no 
 oracles to prophesy success, nor enchantments to avert dan- 
 gers ; but like self- reliant Americans they pressed forward to 
 the land of promise and traversed thousands of miles where 
 the Greek heroes traveled hundreds. They went by ship and 
 by wagon, on horseback and on foot, a mighty army, passing 
 over mountains and deserts, enduring privations and sick- 
 ness; they were the creators of a commonwealth, the builders 
 of States. The year 1850 was possibly the most disastrous in 
 the history of the gold-seekers. The Indians were on the war 
 path, and another and even more dreadful foe, the cholera, 
 spread from ocean to ocean. This was the year chosen by 
 young GEORGE HEARST for his emigration to the new and 
 almost unknown country. It is no wonder that in afterlife he 
 was unwilling to recall the details of that dreadful overland 
 journey, for he was one of the few of his party who reached 
 their destination. 
 
 Eldorado County was at that time the most populous por- 
 tion of California, and here GEORGE HEARST started on a 
 career of mining which he continued until his death. In 
 various places and with varying success he worked for nine 
 years. At last, in 1859, in Nevada, to which State he had 
 moved, he made his first great strike, and now fortune, which 
 had toyed with him long, fairly lavished her favors. One
 
 22 Address of Mr. Stanford, of California, on the 
 
 after another his investments proved profitable, and by hard 
 work and the exercise of great judgment, he rapidly realized 
 what he then considered a comfortable fortune. 
 
 Kor was he less fortunate in another and very different 
 enterprise. In 1861 he returned to his home and realized a 
 dream of his youth by marrying Miss Phrebe Elizabeth Apper- 
 son, the daughter of a wealthy farmer of Missouri. To this 
 union he ever frankly ascribed a large share of his success in 
 life. 
 
 The distinguished lady encouraged and supported him in all 
 his undertakings. She adorned his home with her accomplish- 
 ments and virtues, and by her many charities has caused his 
 name to be an honored household word in California. When 
 she also passes from this life, the unknown poor of our State 
 "will rise up and call her blessed." 
 
 To them was born an only son, William G. Hearst, who now 
 resides in San Francisco. 
 
 From his marriage until his entrance into political life 
 GEORGE HEARST'S time was taken up by large and various 
 business enterprises. His mining interests extended over a 
 wide field, from Montana to Mexico. His ranches were among 
 the largest and most productive in our State, and he devoted 
 much attention to the raising of stock and the improvement 
 in the breeding of horses. 
 
 He had spent the largest part of his eventful life before he 
 took an active interest in politics, or at least entered his politi- 
 cal career. He had contented himself in other directions. He 
 served a term in the legislature in 1865, 1866, and was known 
 as a Democrat of the conservative type and a believer in and 
 follower of Thomas Jefferson. In 1882 he was a candidate for 
 the Democratic nomination for governor of California, but was 
 defeated by Gen. Stoneman, who, as governor, appointed him 
 Senator to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Gen. Miller.
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 23 
 
 He was afterwards elected a Senator to succeed himself and 
 bad he lived his term of office would have expired March 4, 
 1893. He was a successful politician, for being an active 
 worker he surrounded himself with others, who were inspired 
 by his activity. 
 
 As a Senator he was industrious and rendered much valuable 
 service in committees to his State and his country. Among 
 his colleagues of his own party, his counsel was constantly 
 sought and his judgment was relied on, for it was calm and 
 keen. 
 
 He had the faculty of making strong friendships everywhere 
 and retaining that friendship. In no place was this more 
 marked than in this body. He was courteous to all with 
 whom he came in contact, attentive to his Senatorial duties 
 and obligations, and soon secured for himself the respect, good 
 will and confidence of all his associates. He was unable on 
 account of illness which had begun its ravages upon him 
 during the preceding summer, to attend the last session, 
 though he came to this city with that determination in Jan- 
 uary, and on the 28th of February, 1891, in the closing days 
 of the Fifty-first Congress, he also closed his labors and passed 
 the portal of death. 
 
 On March 5 the funeral took place from his residence in this 
 city, and was attended by the officers and members of this 
 body, many members of the House of Representatives, and 
 numbers of personal friends. His remains were attended from 
 Washington to San Francisco by a committee of the Senate 
 and House of Representatives. The final ceremonies took 
 place in San Francisco, Sunday, March 15, and were the occa- 
 sion of a very large cortege, who followed the remains to 
 Mount View Cemetery, Oakland, Cal. 
 
 Success such as that achieved by GEORGE HEARST is not a 
 mere accident nor the result of chance or luck. It can only
 
 24 Address of Mr. Vest, of Missouri, on the 
 
 be attained by those qualities which were his industry, per- 
 severance, good judgment, and truth. During his life he was 
 ever a hard and undaunted worker. In that particular field 
 of mining, where he first earned his refutation, his judgment 
 was of the highest order, and upon it his ventures were based. 
 He was true to his word and to his friends, and these were 
 true to him. 
 
 Such were the qualities which enabled my friend and col- 
 league to bring to a successful close the great battle of life. 
 When the final call came to him he had achieved honors to 
 which few attain ; and I have no doubt that in those last sol- 
 emn hours when he knew that death was near, his eye was as 
 keen, as it looked to the future, and his faith in its possibilities 
 as strong as when in his earlier days he sought the golden 
 veins of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. VEST, OF MISSOURI. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: It is impossible to conceive an acclaim 
 more triumphant and ecstatic than that of the dying Chris- 
 tian, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy 
 victory f 
 
 No human achievement can crown any life with such an 
 ending, but next to this must be the consciousness of duty 
 performed, and of fortitude under adverse fortune. 
 
 To have risen unaided from low estate to have overcome 
 difficulties and dangers and acquired wealth and power by the 
 sheer force of will and courage, above all to have pitted native 
 intellect untrained and untaught save by hard necessity, 
 against the learning of all the schools, and secured the confi- 
 dence of a great people, must give consciousness of mental 
 \
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 25 
 
 and moral elevation which even approaching death can not 
 destroy. 
 
 In the canyons of the mountains, amidst the solitudes where 
 nature frowns as in resentful mood upon those who would drag 
 from her rocky bosom the precious metals for which men slave, 
 and cheat, and kill, GEORGE HEARST developed the qualities 
 that win distinction everywhere. 
 
 His nature was honest, rugged, and kindly, with nothing 
 artificial nor pretentious. His qualities and acquirements 
 were such as men must have in a hand-to-hand struggle with 
 the dangers and hardships of the frontier. 
 
 Above all, he knew himself, and put no false estimate upon 
 his powers, either of performance or endurance. Selfcon- 
 tained, self-reliant, with every faculty trained in the school of 
 practical life and absolute necessity, he wasted no energy upon 
 ornament, but reserved his strength for the real and useful. 
 
 In framing an epitaph for one with characteristics so foreign 
 to all trick of words and mere display of rhetoric, the simple 
 truth is sufficient. 
 
 He did not hide nor hoard the wealth acquired by self- 
 denial and long endeavor, but gave cheerfully and liberally to 
 deserving objects. 
 
 His generous gift to the ex-Confederate Home of Missouri, 
 his native State, has enshrined his memory in many hearts, 
 and lifted his name to heaven in many prayers. 
 
 Death found in him no craven victim vainly protesting 
 against the inexorable fate of all our race, but the dauntless 
 pioneer who had calmly faced the dangers of a long and event- 
 ful life, and with modest courage accepted the inevitable end. 
 Who can say that such a man has lived in vain ? And what 
 higher tribute can we pay to his memory than that he wasted 
 no faculty or endowment, but discharged every duty earnestly, 
 honestly, and well 1 ?
 
 26 Address of Mr, Stewart, of Nevada, on the 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. STEWART, OF NEVADA. 
 
 I formed the acquaintance of GEORGE HEARST about forty 
 years ago in Nevada County, Cal. He was then a prospector 
 for mines and a miner. He followed that pursuit until the end 
 of his days. At the time of his death he was largely engaged 
 in extensive mining operations. He was one of the best spec- 
 imens of that vast army of gold-hunters collected from the 
 most enterprising young men of every city, town, and hamlet in 
 the United States who laid the foundation for eight sovereign 
 States and three Territories. He joined in the excitement of 
 the explorations throughout that vast mining region from the 
 City of Mexico to Alaska and from the Pacific Slope to the 
 plains of the Missouri. He endured all the privations of the 
 miner hard labor, coarse fare, fatiguing journeys over moun- 
 tains and deserts for two-fifths of a century. 
 
 He had the true instincts of a miner. The discovery and 
 development of mines was a passion with him, which led him 
 to overcome what to others were insurmountable obstacles. In 
 his investigation of mines he became one of the best geologists, 
 for practical mining purposes, that this country has produced. 
 His observations were so critical and his experience so exten- 
 sive that in the last ten or fifteen years of his life he seemed to 
 know at a glance whether geological formations were suitable 
 for mines of the precious metals. 
 
 When it is understood that hundreds of thousands of the 
 best and brightest men the world has produced were engaged 
 in the same business of exploring and developing mines and 
 that not one in a hundred were successful, it must be conceded 
 that a man whose judgment with regard to mines was surpassed
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 27 
 
 by iione and equaled by few, must have bad great natural 
 capacity and the will and persevereuce to dare and do beyond 
 what is allotted to ordinary men. 
 
 GEORGE HEAKST was no ordinary man. I knew him in 
 prosperity and in adversity. He was the same simple, genial, 
 cheerful, delightful companion under all circumstances. He 
 made many fortunes during the long years of his miner life. 
 The last fortune which he acquired, and it was large, he left to 
 his family. With all the hardships and privations which he 
 endured he by no means led an unhappy life. He enjoyed his 
 occupation; was always buoyant, hopeful, and full of courage. 
 He inspired all who came in contact with him with new hope 
 and ambition. Adverse fortune did not sour his genial nature 
 or make him think ill of his fellow-men ; on the contrary, he 
 was charitable to all, and in return was universally esteemed, 
 loved, and respected by all who knew him. He made no dis- 
 tinction of person between honest people, but made all classes 
 feel that he was a friend and well-wisher. His strong common 
 sense inspired confidence and made him a leader of public 
 opinion and of men. He also had a vein of humor which 
 amused and fascinated the learned as well as the illiterate. 
 He was at home in the company of men of all conditions, 
 whether laborers delving in the bowels of the earth or million- 
 aires enjoying the luxuries of wealth. 
 
 He was a good judge of character, and readily distinguished 
 the true from the counterfeit. His name is a household word 
 throughout all the Pacific States and Territories. He was 
 welcome everywhere, because he brought enterprise, thrift, 
 and prosperity with him. There was no hamlet between the 
 plains of the Missouri and the Pacific Ocean which did not 
 welcome him. All were glad when he came and sorry when 
 he left, because he always had something good to do or say. 
 
 As a Senator he was not given to speechmakiug, but in con-
 
 28 Address of My. Stewart, of Nevada, on the 
 
 saltation his advice was valuable. There was no question 
 affecting the general good upon which he could not throw some 
 light when necessity required. He was particularly well 
 versed in the resources and needs of the Pacific States and 
 Territories, and whenever the interest of his constituents was 
 involved it was certain that his voice and vote would be on 
 the right side. 
 
 He was a modest man, never obtruding his views. At first 
 his character was not well understood by Senators, but grad- 
 ually, as they came in contact with him, his sterling qualities 
 inspired respect. His genial nature, generous and responsive 
 heart made him many fast friends among his colleagues in this 
 body. 
 
 The same qualities of head and heart and originality of 
 character, which made him a favorite in Washington, had 
 interested and amused his comrades about the camp-fires of 
 miner^ from the tropics to the frozen zone. No expedition in 
 the mountains and deserts of the West, however hazardous 
 or difficult, was looked upon with dread or misgiving when it 
 was known that GEORGE HEARST was to be one of 'the party. 
 His presence on such occasions not only promised success, but 
 insured good companionship and good cheer, which banished 
 all fear of discomfort or fatigue. 
 
 The simple facts of his life, if written, would be a history 
 stranger than romance. He was one of the 250,000 young men 
 who left their homes in the East to seek their fortunes in the 
 great gold discoveries of California. Such an opportunity can 
 not again occur; such an emigration can never be repeated. 
 The sons of farmers, mechanics, merchants, bankers, lawyers, 
 and statesmen, from all the States of the Union, rallied in a 
 grand army of gold-hunters and rushed to the modern Ophir 
 of California, a land not only rich in gold but of genial skies. 
 balmy and salubrious climate, lofty mountains, fertile vallevs,
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 29 
 
 magnificent rivers, all presenting a new world for adventure 
 and enterprise. 
 
 The restraints of society were removed. The influence of 
 family and tradition was unknown. Each man was estimated 
 on account of his own individual worth. His character was 
 weighed, his standard was fixed by the impartial judgment of 
 men without prejudice or preconceived opinions. A man who 
 passed through that ordeal, who lived in those times, and 
 maintained through an entire generation the love and respect 
 of such a community, could not be a sham, but must of neces- 
 sity be a sturdy, self-reliant, strong, and vigorous character. 
 
 Such was GEORGE HEARST. His life was not only one of 
 toil, excitement, and adventure, but it was most useful. He 
 inaugurated and carried into successful execution vast mining 
 enterprises which gave employment to thousands of men and 
 contributed largely in the production of both gold and silver. 
 It was such men as GEORGE HEARST who converted the vast 
 region between the plains of the Missouri and the Pacific Ocean 
 from what was supposed to be an uninhabitable desert into 
 prosperous and growing States. It was by the efforts of such 
 men as GEORGE HEARST in the development of the hidden 
 resources of the mountains of the West that the financial pros- 
 perity of the United States was secured and maintained. 
 
 He led a useful and honorable life. In his death his con- 
 stituents and the country suffered a great loss. But his works 
 will live after him. The enterprises which he inaugurated, the 
 good which he accomplished, will not be ephemeral, because by 
 his efforts he contributed to that permanent and growing pros- 
 perity which makes the country he loved so well so conspicuous 
 and prosperous a portion of the Union. 
 
 His estimable wife and brilliant son, who mourn his loss, 
 have the consolation of knowing that the husband and father 
 who has gone vyas a brave, self-sacrificing, and useful citizen ;
 
 30 Address of Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, on the 
 
 that his memory is cherished and revered by thousands of 
 comrades who knew a'nd loved him in life and mourn with 
 them his loss, and that he lived a useful and honorable life and 
 left a name of which they may justly be proud, 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. VOORHEES, OF INDIANA. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT : We pay tribute to-day to the memory of 
 one who but recently walked amongst us, respected, honored, 
 and beloved in every relation of life. 
 
 I first saw Senator HEARST when he first came upon this 
 floor as a member of the Senate. His reputation was here 
 before him, but the charm of his personal presence could not 
 be understood except when felt. I was personally attracted 
 to him at once. He had a high manliness of bearing, a gentle 
 kindliness of manner, a winning courtesy, and a native gra- 
 cious dignity which were magnetic and to me irresistible. I 
 was much with him, and always with pleasure. 
 
 I induced him often to talk of his wonderful career, and I 
 never wearied listening to his vivid sketches of pioneer life, 
 and to his broad, liberal, and magnanimous views of men and 
 the world. He was not a man of books, but he had a far 
 keener and higher wisdom' than can be obtained from libraries. 
 His education was acquired in the rugged haunts, the ambitious 
 councils, and the daring struggles of busy men rather than in 
 the schools and academies where the classics are taught. No 
 one could be with Mr. HEARST an hour and fail to discover that 
 he was richly and peculiarly endowed with native gifts of the 
 rarest and most valuable character. 
 
 I hazard nothing in saying in the hearing of eminent gentle- 
 men who knew him best that nature never, in her most benefi-
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 31 
 
 cent mood, created a nobleman of her own school more just, more 
 upright, more considerate, or more knightly in his intercourse 
 with his fellow-men than the late Senator from California. 
 
 Sir, what a marvelous period in American history was meas- 
 ured by the years of his active life ! In 1850, from Missouri to 
 the Pacific Ocean, he followed the awful trail of 1849, marked 
 by wrecks of suffering and of death. He crossed the Great 
 American Desert, as it was then known, behind slow-moving 
 teams of horses and cattle, and amidst peril, privations, and 
 ceaseless hardships. 
 
 He lived to return full of wealth and of honors over the same 
 line of travel at the rate of 40 miles an hour, surrounded by the 
 comforts of a palace, and speeding through great American 
 States. He saw, not in the mere fancy of a poet's vision, but in 
 solemn fact, the desert blossom as the rose, and the wilderness, 
 and the waste places change from their loneliness and desola- 
 tion into the busy, thriving abodes of happy, prosperous people. 
 
 Nowhere else on the face of the globe, and never before in the 
 annals of the human race can there be found in the same length 
 of time such a transformation of the face of nature; such a 
 triumph of man's dominion over the earth ; such a development 
 and growth of civilized power ; such a giant stride in the prog 
 ress and glory of mankind as was witnessed between the Mis- 
 souri Kiver and the Pacific coast from the time Mr. HEARST 
 first looked down from the Sierras on the plains below until he 
 returned a Senator of the United States. 
 
 Within that magical period the policy of Jefferson, in the 
 purchase of the Louisiana territory, and subsequently in the 
 annexation of Texas, and the war with Mexico, culminated in 
 such strength and glory to the Eepublic as even the prophetic 
 vision of our forefathers had not beheld nor the heart of man 
 conceived. To have lived in such an era and to have been a 
 foremost factor in its rushing events constitutes a life worth
 
 32 Address of Mr. Bate, of Tennessee, on the 
 
 living and one entitled to be remembered in marble and in 
 bronze. 
 
 Mr. HEARST may most justly be spoken of as a successful 
 man. He acquired great wealth, but in doing so lie was not 
 unmindful of other acquisitions more valuable than wealth. 
 At every step of his long career he acted upon the principle 
 that " a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches," 
 and so now he sleeps in honor, without stain or blemish, 
 amongst the people he loved and faithfully served. He has 
 left to his country an unsullied name and the example of a 
 well-spent life, and his country in turn will embalm his memory 
 as one of her truest and noblest types of American manhood. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. BATE, OF TENNESSEE. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT : In the successful life of the late Senator 
 from California, Hon. GEORGE HEARST, the great fact was real 
 ized that nothing is denied well directed labor, and that nothing 
 valuable and worth living for is to be attained without it; that 
 only the labor of a lifetime can obtain that success which wins 
 the confidence of the public. It was the ambition of our late 
 colleague to raise himself, to win his way to power and influence 
 through the laborious gradations necessary to one of limited 
 education and adverse circumstances. It was his lot in life to 
 confront and overcome difficulties, and with rare sagacity he 
 learned to use every difficulty so overcome as an instrument 
 for new conquests over new difficulties. 
 
 With a strong natural understanding and a stout and reso- 
 lute heart; with an industry and application unwearied, he 
 would delve and dig in the bowels of the earth until experience 
 had brought him that wisdom which made his judgment and 
 foresight almost unerring in all that related to the many and
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst, 33 
 
 multiform features of mining for the precious metals. He 
 found tlie road to wealth and eminence no easy one to travel, 
 but he never faltered, and however weary it may have been, 
 he followed it to this temple of honor, which, while always 
 open to honest integrity, is but seldom reached without diffi- 
 culty and struggle. 
 
 An Argonaut of the modern Eldorado, he literally worked 
 his way from Missouri to California, and was one among that 
 band of American pioneers who founded an empire on tlie 
 Pacific; and from a laborer, with pick and spade, so shaped 
 his life's work that he rose without the factitious aid of specu- 
 lation in stocks and bonds (for he was in its true sense a miner) 
 to be one of the wealthiest citizens of that laud of gold, with- 
 out encountering the envy and malevolence which so often 
 follow the accumulation of wealth. 
 
 He exemplified the remark of a distinguished author, De 
 Tocqueville, that 
 
 The inhabitants of the United States are never fettered by the axioms of 
 their professions ; they escape from all the pre j ndices of their present station ; 
 they are not more attached to one line of operation than to another; they 
 are not more prone to employ an old method than a new one ; they have no 
 rootedhabits, and they easily shake off the influence which thehabits of other 
 nations might exercise upon their minds from a conviction that their coun- 
 try is unlike any other and its situation is without precedent in the world. 
 
 Such unquestionably was the condition and situation of Cali- 
 fornia when the Argonauts undertook its civilization. It was a 
 land of wonders, in which everything was in constant motion 
 and every movement was oneof improvement. With that baud 
 of pioneers the idea of novelty became that of amelioration, with 
 no bounds or limits to the efforts of man. Our late colleague 
 was one of that heroic race who held that what is not yet done 
 is only that which he has not yet attempted to do. ^ 
 
 Amid those pregnant vicissitudes of fortune, accompanied 
 with unforeseen fluctuations of wealth, life in California in the 
 S. Mis. 65 3
 
 34 Address of Mr. Bate, of Tennessee, on the 
 
 days of the u Forty-niners" was that of feverish agitation, but 
 which invigorated action and kept the mind in a state of 
 excitement above that of the ordinary level of mankind ; it was 
 a game of chance, a great crisis, a battle, in which our late 
 colleague courageously entered with all the ardor and enthusi- 
 asm of youth. A man of singular warmth and earnestness in 
 his desires, enterprising, fond of adventure, and devoted to 
 innovation and change. He became successful because he was 
 intelligently industrious and preeminently practical ; and he 
 became popular because he was just and kind and generous. 
 
 His party, the Democratic, promoted him to the Senate, and 
 upon this floor the maxim which directed his public course was 
 that the nation's will is the legitimate rule of its government, 
 as much as the Constitution is the supreme law of its existence; 
 that the one is as obligatory as the other, and that without 
 both there can be no real and substantial liberty. Engaging 
 but little in debate, his vote never lost sight of this maxim, 
 and no member of this body was more true to its spirit or 
 more devoted to this principle. 
 
 With inflexible steadiness to his political convictions, he was 
 invariably gentle and urbane in asserting them. In his temper 
 and disposition he was not only kind and affectionate, but gen- 
 erous and considerate of the feelings of all around him. 
 
 Of this, Mr. President, I know whereof I speak, for in this 
 Chamber we sat side by side, desk-mates, so to speak, which 
 constantly brought us in personal contact in the varied phases 
 of social intercourse and political confidence. 
 
 Senator HEARST was a typical Californian in ready risks and 
 dash in money-making and money-spending. No enterprise, 
 however hazardous, appalled him, provided it was within the 
 legitimate channel of mining operations, in which he felt at 
 home. Outside of that sphere he was wanting in self-confi- 
 dence, and if venturing at all in the realm of speculation out
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 35 
 
 side of mining and mining operations, it was with prudence 
 and caution, because he mistrusted his own judgment. 
 
 It was in this way, not in "bulling and bearing" stocks and 
 bonds, that he amassed his large fortune which he enjoyed in a 
 generous manner, and bequeathed to his devoted wife and son. 
 
 Tall and gainly in form; with manners straightforward and 
 unaffected ; with heart free from guile, and reposing in confi- 
 dence, he was easily approached. Full of the milk of human 
 kindness he always remembered and loved his friends. In this, 
 he beautifully and truly illustrated the epigram 
 
 O, Memory ! them art no weather bauble ; 
 O, Friendship ! thou art not an empty name. 
 
 His home, whether the rude shanty in the mining camp, on 
 Slitters Fork, or the Yuba, or that modern Pactolas, Feather 
 River, or in a mansion on the hills of San Francisco, or an ele- 
 gant residence in the national capital, that home, however hum- 
 ble or palatial, was the emblem of hospitality, and "welcome" 
 was the password. 
 
 Senator HEARST held to his death an unabated love for his 
 comrades of the " olden times," and when fortune smiled upon 
 him, putting means at his command with which to help, he never 
 found one of them in need that he did not supply his wants. It 
 is a part of his history that in later years many of those " old 
 timers," his former comrades of the pick and spade, made reg- 
 ular pilgrimages to see " George," as they familiarly called him. 
 They well knew that wealth could never seduce him from the 
 plain and genuine simplicities of nature and decorate him with 
 pretentious "airs," and that no political station, however 
 exalted, could taint him with the "proud man's contumely and 
 the insolence of office," and they also knew that "George" would 
 replenish their empty pockets, if desired, to meet necessities 
 and give comfort. 
 
 Pertinent to, and illustrative of this, let me, Mr. President,
 
 36 Address of Mr. Bate, of Tennessee, on the 
 
 relate the simple incident that, while on a visit two years ago 
 to California, on one occasion when I was in the Palace Hotel 
 with a social party. Senator HEARST becoming the subject of 
 conversation, one of them who knew well his generous nature 
 and his habit of helping his friends especially those old adven- 
 turous "Forty-niners" illustrated his character in this regard 
 by pithily saying, that if "coats of arms" were recognized in 
 this country as in England, that of GEORGE HEARST ought to 
 be a "purse of gold, open at both ends, with a charity box 
 attached." 
 
 Mr. President, in fulfillment of the duty assigned me by your- 
 self, as one of the committee to escort the remains of our late 
 colleague to his home in San Francisco, Cal., I had afforded 
 me the opportunity of witnessing the unaffected devotion of 
 all classes of citizens to his memory. The day of his funeral 
 was exceedingly inclement, rainfall continuing throughout the 
 day, yet it seemed not to lessen the vast crowd of friends who 
 had come from various parts of the State to attend the funeral 
 of their old friend. 
 
 When en route, as we rapidly passed along in modern rail- 
 way coaches, impelled by steam power over the great highway 
 piercing tunnels, leaping chasms, and here and there trimming 
 the brows of the Eocky Mountains, and spinning through the 
 canyons of the Sierra Nevada, I could but reflect on the eventful 
 changes effected in the short space between the time that 
 GEORGE HEARST, poor and friendless, traveled by slow grada- 
 tions, with pack mule and slow-moving wagon train, along the 
 uncertain trail through desolate regions uninhabited and com- 
 paratively unknown to civilized man, and the swift, electric- 
 like transit bearing his remains in state along the mighty high- 
 way to the sepulture prepared to receive them in the heart of 
 a marvelous city which meanwhile had sprung up on the ocean 
 shore of the West.
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 37 
 
 This is food for thought, for inspiration, and philosophy. It 
 is the romance of history. It is a revelation to man, showing 
 the wonderful working of progress in mind and matter, and the 
 wonderful opportunities this country affords for the advance- 
 ment of civilization,, for the development of material and scien- 
 tific resources, and for possibilities to the unaided individual 
 man of courage and energy properly applied. 
 
 After an adventurous life, marked by "fitful fever" and full 
 of vicissitude, Senator HEARST was gathered, as a ripened 
 sheaf, into the great hereafter. He sleeps now in the bosom 
 of that wonderland he loved so well; a land that honored him 
 with a seat in this body and to which he was ever faithful; a 
 land, Mr. President, that has borne apples of gold on waiters 
 of silver, in untold value, to the coffers of our national Treas- 
 ury. 
 
 The spot on which our late colleague has final repose is just 
 outside the corporate environs of San Francisco, the city of his 
 pride and his home. It is a romantic hilltop, warmed by a Cal- 
 ifornia sun, cooled by the sea breeze, and 
 
 Where the woodbine spices are wafted abroad 
 And the musk of the roses blow. 
 
 It overlooks the Golden Gate, through which the unrest tide 
 of the Pacific ebbs and flows. It is a fitting place for the final 
 rest of an old " Forty-niner," who began his life with pick and 
 spade, and ended it in the Senate of the United States. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. DOLPH, OF OREGON. 
 
 The biography of our departed brother has been told by 
 those better qualified than I am for that duty. His associa- 
 tions with the members of this body, his participation in the 
 business of the Senate have been fittingly alluded to, that if it 
 
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 38 Address of Mr. Dolph, of Oregon, on the 
 
 were not for the fact that he was so long and so extensively 
 identified with so many interests of the Pacific coast I should 
 not prolong the exercises of the hour by attempting to add to 
 what has been said. 
 
 It was not my pleasure to enjoy the acquaintance of Senator 
 HEAKST until after he became a member of this body; but our 
 subsequent acquaintance was most enjoyable. He was a self- 
 made man. Fortune smiled upon him. Accidents and oppor- 
 tunities may have conduced much to fortune's favor ; but his 
 case was no exception to the rule that chiefly the creation of a 
 man's fortune is in his own hands. Blessed with great wealth, 
 his opportunities to do good with his means were abundant 
 and his benefactions were liberal. 
 
 It is a great gift to be able to use great wealth wisely and 
 well. No one need envy the possessor of a large fortune. 
 Opportunities brings responsibilities; riches bring care and 
 anxiety. Misfortune runs hard after success. No fortune is 
 exempt from calamity. Every crown is set with thorns. 
 Power is encompassed with care, with troubles, and with 
 dangers. 
 
 Senator HEARST was better fitted for the activities of busi- 
 ness life than for legislative halls. In the one his sound judg- 
 ment, his enterprise, and diligence won success against all com- 
 petitors. In the other he was hardly equipped to obtain 
 prominence in competition with those who in youth had received 
 the training and discipline of colleges and institutions of 
 higher learning, and whose lives had been devoted to the law 
 or other professions or had been spent in the public service. 
 
 His social qualities endeared him to all his associates in the 
 Senate. He was always the friend of every Pacific coast inter- 
 est as he understood them. He did not claim to be a public 
 speaker, and never talked in the Senate on subjects not con- 
 nected with Pacific coast interests, and on such subjects only
 
 J^ife and Character of George Hearst. 39 
 
 in a very brief manner; but when he (lid speak his terse and 
 vigorous statements were always to the point and well received. 
 He grew in the estimation of his colleagues in the Senate with 
 length of service in that body. His successful business and 
 political career illustrates the possibilities of success of every 
 citizen of the great Kepublic. 
 
 The messenger of Fate, which pursues us all from the cradle 
 to the grave with flying feet, has overtaken and called from 
 time another member of our body. Again we are reminded 
 that all flesh is grass and all the glory of it as the flower of 
 the field. These often-recurring visits of the King of Terrors 
 to our little circle should serve to keep fresh the remembrance 
 that the lot of our brother is but the common lot of man, and 
 that the bow is already bent and the arrow ready to be let fly 
 which, in accordance with the law of our being, shall accom- 
 plish the will of Heaven with us; that no time or place or posi- 
 tion is sacred against the fatal Archer; that 
 
 Leaves have their time to fall, 
 And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, 
 
 And stars to set; hut all, 
 Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Deat 1 ! 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. MORGAN, OF ALABAMA. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT : My first acquaintance with Senator HEARST 
 was in this Chamber. He came to the Senate almost a stranger, 
 without any great and distinctive reputation as a statesman or 
 politician, and was not widely known as a legislator. He was 
 a natural jurist, a scholar without acquaintance with books. 
 
 He had been chosen as a wise and faithful representative, 
 by a people who are alert to every interest, intelligent, pro-
 
 40 Address of Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, on~the 
 
 gressive, and resolute. They made no mistake ; and the Senate 
 soon discovered that the Pacific coast and the mining regions 
 had in this body a Senator, possessed of genuine abilities, who 
 would represent them with fidelity and unflinching courage. 
 
 His personal presence was a rough expression of the simple 
 dignity of a lofty nature which disclosed in a modest way and 
 without pretension the strength of an earnest and powerful 
 manhood. 
 
 No one would have gathered from his appearance and bear- 
 ing that he was possessed of great wealth, or that he had treas- 
 ured up- for his guidance, through long experience and keen 
 observation, the natural laws of systems of geology and min- 
 eralogy applicable to our mining regions, that were more val- 
 uable to the miner and the country than the collected wisdom 
 of the scientists of this and European countries. 
 
 The leading facts of his life have been already presented on 
 this occasion. I could add to them some other incidents which 
 would give a romantic interest to the rugged steeps of a suc- 
 cessful career, which he ascended with sure and steady steps 
 to their loftiest heights. I trust that some authorized biog- 
 rapher will relate these matters in due season. 
 
 Such a life as his, faithfully portrayed, would give direction 
 and courage to many younger men, who are looking upward 
 from the obscure walks of life, hopefully and fearfully, to wider 
 and more fruitful fields of labor. 
 
 One part of such a record would touch the heart of every 
 good man and woman with deep sensibility, and its develop- 
 ment would prove that the sweetest charities are often con- 
 cealed in bosoms that are rough in exterior, like the mountains 
 that conceal the refreshing streams that give life to all nature. 
 
 No bosom nursed more unselfish charities than were found 
 in the rugged and manly nature of GEORGE HEARST. 
 
 This trait may be justly ascribed to many of the most sue-
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 41 
 
 cessful men who have reaped the golden harvests of the Pa- 
 cific Slope as a characteristic. Their wealth has come from 
 production and the improvement of the country. It has not 
 been gathered from beneath the grinding of usury and dis- 
 count. The uncharitableness of capital earned by such meth- 
 ods has not been visited upon the hearts of these great pro- 
 ducers of wealth, and the result is that all the people of that 
 country have felt the benefit of its enormous resources. 
 
 In that country wealth lends a helping hand to labor, and 
 the grasp of cordial friendship between them is not relaxed 
 when the toilers become millionaires and are clothed with the 
 honors and powers of the highest positions of authority. If 
 we compare the wealth of the United States to-day with what 
 it was in 1849, and carry to the credit of the Pacific Slope the 
 value of the forests and fisheries, the mines of iron and coal, 
 the wheat fields and vineyards, the sheep, cattle, and horses, 
 and the mines of gold and silver that have been opened and 
 developed, our minds are bewildered with the magnificence of 
 the retrospect. 
 
 All coining generations of Americans will honor the men 
 who, with infinite toil and great abilities, have added such 
 wealth and renown to our country. 
 
 In the quartz mines and in the deep reaches of the silver 
 lodes the American mechanic and engineer has found a new 
 field for his daring genius and matchless skill; and those 
 fountains of wealth will yield their precious treasures to the 
 country through centuries to come. All this could not have 
 been but for the intrepid faith and courage of men like GEORGE 
 HEARST. 
 
 When GEORGE HEARST arrived in California the entire pro- 
 duction of gold and silver from all the mines in the United 
 States was under $10,000,000 annually. Now the production 
 annually is more than $100,000,000, one-third of which is gold.
 
 42 Address of Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, on the 
 
 It almost passes the bounds of belief that Congress is now 
 engaged in most earnest and heated debate as to whether it is 
 not best for the welfare of the country to strike out two-thirds 
 of this product as a precious or money metal, and to relegate 
 silver to the category of mere commercial metals, along with 
 copper, nickel, aluminum, and iron, because of its increased 
 production. 
 
 The lesser product is arrayed against the greater in the 
 effort to become the sole measure and standard of value by 
 which all property and the product of every industry shall be 
 regulated. 
 
 In this curious controversy, raging in a country that pro- 
 duces more than half the silver of the world, it has become 
 manifest that the influence exerted by the men whose skill and 
 labor have made such a debate possible has been greater upon 
 the destinies of mankind during the past forty years than that 
 of all the armies and navies of the world. Thus has it been 
 realized that "peace hath its victories more renowned than 
 war." 
 
 If the genius and skill of our bold and heroic men of faith 
 the miners of the West have so increased our wealth in pre- 
 cious metals that we find that through their stimulating efforts 
 the prices of property and labor are seeking to rise into unprof- 
 itable comparison with the value of treasured wealth and capi- 
 talized credit, and that we must check the growth of other 
 values to save these great interests from shrinkage, this new 
 and astonishing necessity of political economy, this unparal- 
 leled emergency of excessive wealth in precious metals, it 
 must be confessed, is the most important event of this century 
 in the financial history of any country. 
 
 No single mind has been more enlightened, no faith more 
 heroic, and no hand more laborious or skillful than that of 
 GEORGE HEARST in this wonderful financial revolution. It
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 43 
 
 maybe that these great labors will result in evil, and that the 
 silver mines that he searched out and opened are pouring forth 
 calamity instead of blessings upon our country; but my faith 
 in the providential arrangement which has made gold and silver 
 the right hand and the left of every toiler who has labored 
 for mankind, to hew out a path for every step in the march of 
 civilization, is so firm that I believe that many generations yet 
 to come will rise up to bless the men who have placed in the 
 reach of those now living such immense power to bless the 
 world. 
 
 The discovery of gold in 1848 in the plains of California, and 
 the later discoveries of silver in Nevada, drew into that vast 
 mountainous region, as yet not fully explored, a population in 
 which there was scarcely a man of inferior abilities or wanting 
 in energy or of doubtful courage. Whoever was their leader, 
 their exemplar, or representative must have been of all things 
 honest. Then he must have the mental power and balance 
 which "the Argonauts" termed " a level head." Courage, tact, 
 and experience were vital qualifications for the leadership of 
 such communities. 
 
 The quality of mind most valued in a leader was that he 
 should be proof against deception. He was required to earn 
 their esteem by his constant course of just and manly conduct, 
 and when he had thus won it their confidence in him was never 
 withdrawn. Justly esteeming themselves the peers of any 
 people, in the powers and qualities that make up a splendid 
 manhood, they equally despised the pretentious demagogue 
 and the foolish man who could forget his associates when 
 clothed by their suffrages with great powers. 
 
 In GEORGE HEARST they found a man who was up to the 
 full measure of their standard, and they loved and honored 
 him. His wisdom was a guide to them in laying the founda- 
 tions of organized society, and in maturing the' organic laws
 
 44 Address of Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, on the 
 
 of a State that was peculiar in its origin, illimitable in its 
 resources, remarkable for the variety of the nations repre- 
 sented there, uuequaled in the rapidity of its growth, and as 
 grand in its destiny as any State that has yet existed. 
 
 He moved as silently almost as an unseen spirit in the midst 
 of the first concentration and growth of these great powers, 
 and is remembered with more interest because of the wise, 
 short, sententious, and often rude speech in which his friendly 
 advice or suggestion was given, than if he had possessed the 
 faculty of impressing himself upon them through the powers 
 of oratory or of graceful writing. 
 
 Free from all specious assumption of superior wisdom, and 
 with perfect independence of thought and action, his wisdom, 
 not derived from books, but from observation, experience, and 
 the logic of intuition, was accepted by his associates as being 
 "solid," as it was termed in the mining camps. He had severe 
 but honest judges; and his associates found in him a judge 
 having the same qualities, so that when they were in agree- 
 ment the bond of confidence between them was of uncommon 
 strength. 
 
 fevery miner who knew GEORGE HEARST felt that in many 
 respects they were recognized equals; and they all felt that 
 he was entitled to be considered the equal of any man, so that 
 his elevation to the Senate did not open any chasm between 
 them. They remained friends, associates, and equals only 
 that he was their honored representative; and in that charac- 
 ter he was entitled to and he received every mark of respect 
 and reverence that was due to his high position. 
 
 This is the true American sense in which those who are 
 raised to high station are not placed beyond the reach of pub 
 lie opinion, whether it is of praise or censure; nor is such a 
 representative ever estranged from the cordiality of the love 
 of his friends or its familiar expression.
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 45 
 
 This close touch of the representative with the people is as 
 far removed from demagogy as the character of our Govern 
 merit is from those that are ruled by inheritance of powers 
 through royal lines of descent. 
 
 The true representative is inspired with affectionate regard 
 for those who inspire him in turn with authority, a.id the hon- 
 orable representative would as soon debase his son with vile 
 and misleading flattery as to cajole his constituents with fawn- 
 ing, and with favors and concessions that tend to debase 
 them. 
 
 On the high plane of mutual respect, confidence, and esteem 
 the true American representative and his constituency meet 
 as equals and as friends, and they, together, devote their best 
 efforts, in faithful sincerity, to the promotion of the general 
 welfare. It was on this high plane that GEORGE HEARST 
 and his constituency united their labors for the country a 
 worthy representative was he of a splendid people. 
 
 The great work already accomplished by the people of Cali- 
 fornia in every line of human effort, and the magnificence of its 
 success, reminds us of that sacred description of the perfection 
 of beauty and riches, " apples of gold set in pictures of silver." 
 Those people seem to have measured, at a glance, the possibil- 
 ities of their future by the bordering grandeur of the Sierra 
 Nevada Mountains to the east and of the incomprehensible 
 Pacific to the west, and the vast alluvial plains that lie between 
 them, over which the water courses and the volcanoes of ancient 
 times have poured the treasures of incalculable agricultural 
 growth. 
 
 The man who was, without ostentation and almost without 
 consciousness of his power and influence, working in the fore 
 most ranks of that great and distinctively American community 
 well deserves the honors we would now bestow upon his mem- 
 ory.
 
 46 Address of Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, on the 
 
 Senator HEARST had not long been in this body until he had 
 engaged the firm confidence and sincere respect of every Sen- 
 ator as to his character, his abilities, and his patriotism. 
 
 It was my privilege to serve with him on the Committee on 
 Indian Affairs that committee which seems to need, more 
 than any other that is charged with purely domestic affairs, 
 the guidance of practical wisdom in providing laws r the 
 government of more than a hundred tribes and bands of p& pie 
 dependent upon the United States for government, for educa- 
 tion and training in civilization, for houses to live in, for food 
 and raiment, for protection against vice and oppression, and 
 for the subjugation of the savage man to accord with the higher 
 liberty of the civilized and Christianized man. 
 
 The brief but pointed and earnest suggestions of the late 
 Senator from California seemed often to unlock any difficult 
 situation with which that committee was confronted. It was 
 in harmony with his nature, and in keeping with a long expe- 
 rience in his associations with the wild tribes of the Western 
 mountains, that he always manifested a faith in the possibility 
 of encouraging them to accept civilization, and to aid in lifting 
 themselves up within reach of its advantages. 
 
 Mr. HEARST was a wise and useful Senator, and if his mod- 
 esty caused him to shrink from the contentions of debate on 
 the floor we all felt that we were compensated by the matured 
 wisdom and the sincerity of purpose that gave weight to the 
 few words in which he would state his reasons for the votes 
 he gave in the Senate. 
 
 A man of great wealth, accumulated through great toil and 
 study; of great latent jiower, always felt at the right moment; 
 of broad, deep charity, without ostentation; if he has met as 
 many true friends in the country to which he has gone as 
 he left behind him, and as few enemies as he had here, his 
 state must be a happy one.
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 47 
 
 Whatever of mercy he has found in the forgiveness of his 
 transgressions here will increase his happiness there, for he 
 had, in an abundant degree, that sweet charity of forgiveness 
 which we love to call generosity, and which, I fondly believe, 
 is the true " charity that covers a multitude of sins." 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. FELTON, OF CALIFORNIA. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: My acquaintance with the late Senator 
 from California covered a period of over one-third of a century, 
 during which time our relations were of an exceptionally pleas- 
 ant and intimate nature. Our friendship included all that the 
 word means. Having succeeded him in this Chamber, it is fit- 
 ting officially, if I may so say, fitting and grateful personally, 
 to say something in addition to that which has been so well 
 said in honor of his memory. 
 
 The senior Senator from California has feelingly related many 
 of the notable events of his life. Other distinguished Sena- 
 tors who had the pleasure of knowing and serving with him 
 in this body have given us their appreciation of the deceased 
 as a Senator and his worth as a man. 1 will speak of the man 
 as I knew him, both in prosperity and adversity. 
 
 Senator HEARST was cast in no common mold; he was 
 endowed with great natural powers, a firm will, and great 
 energy; his ideas were broad and comprehensive; his tastes 
 were simple; his manner was gentle; he cared nothing for "the 
 pomp and circumstance of life" adversity but stimulated him 
 to exertion ; prosperity but increased his desire and power for 
 good. And though deprived in early life of the advantage of 
 an education, other than that which he received from the com 
 mon school, his great common sense, educated in the practical 
 school of experience, eminently fitted him for life's struggle,
 
 48 Address of Mr. Felton, of California, on the 
 
 witliiu the lines be chose, culminating in high political honors 
 and large fortune. And though misfortunes often crossed and 
 obstructed his pathway through life, he met them with a 
 defiant determination that either swept aside or surmounted 
 them. 
 
 Honorable and just in his dealings with mankind, liberal 
 perhaps to a fault, he despised the day of small things and 
 narrow-minded men. True to his nature, his business transac- 
 tions were on a large scale; the greater the magnitude of the 
 operation the keener his incentive to engage in it, and he 
 always relied on his own judgment. He cared more for success 
 than for the material results of success. He was manly in 
 purpose, sensitive in honor, of high self-respect and courage. 
 
 Any imputation upon his integrity as a man he instantly 
 resented, and the amend had to be forthcoming. Yet with 
 apparent inconsistency may be with real consistency he 
 was averse to contests of a pecuniary nature, sacrificing his 
 rights rather than contend for them in a strife he despised. I 
 know of notable instances in his life of this trait, and recalling 
 them, how vividly I also recall him,, with flashing eye doing all 
 that became a man where " honor was the stake," but where 
 money was concerned enduring imposition, forgiving it 
 forgetting with kindliest charity. 
 
 He was born in the State of Missouri and reared on his 
 father's farm until he grew to manhood, when he became dis- 
 contented with his surroundings they were too circumscribed 
 to satisfy the ambitious trend of his mind. At this time, 
 hearing of the discovery of gold in California, he realized in it 
 his opportunity. Excited by it, he started for the Western 
 confines of the continent at that time by no means a common 
 task, involving as it did mouths of time, great fortitude and 
 self-denial how much \ve do not realize now. Then it was a 
 trip of danger, daunting the brave and accomplished only by
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 49 
 
 the brave. Then the great plains and rivers, the parched 
 deserts and rugged mountain chains were barriers indeed, 
 threatening dangers and hardships appalling the stoutest 
 courage. Now it is the trip of the tourist, gazing with languid 
 curiosity at the picturesque from a palace car window. But 
 the contrast need not be marked further. 
 
 Mr. HEARST was of the first emigrants first in the intrepid 
 enterprise which brought the change about. He was a pio- 
 neer a California pioneer and soon after his arrival in Cali- 
 fornia engaged in the pursuit of mining; he seemed especially 
 endowed for it. It was said of him that he read the rocks 
 intuitively, penetrating their secrets, discovering the treasures 
 which ages had stored there. None did more, none accom- 
 plished more, in developing the great mineral resources of the 
 land of his adoption. The Territories of Arizona and Utah, 
 the States of California, Nevada, Idaho, and Montana, all felt 
 the stimulation of his brain and capital. His name was con- 
 nected with their great mineral discoveries and developments. 
 He, however, succeeded as well in other fields, accumulating 
 a large fortune; yet no part of it was extorted from others, no 
 part soiled with dishonor; left a pure legacy to a noble wife 
 and only son. 
 
 The deceased Senator was "of the people 7 ' and with the 
 people, in full sympathy with their struggles, aims, and desires. 
 He was charitable without ostentation; modest in it to shrink- 
 ing, almost to denial. He realized in full measure that " it is 
 better to give than receive." None left his kindly presence 
 without words of cheer and comfort and with substantial aid. 
 Many were the recipients of his bounty who bless his memory. 
 
 Mr. President, I have said he was a pioneer. What strength 
 and sentiment in that word to us of the West! There is com- 
 munity of hardships and perils in it; there is community of 
 sympathy and friendship in it. And among us, to the last 
 S. Mis. i
 
 50 Address of Mr. Felton, of California. 
 
 survivor of us, the memory of GEORGE HEARST, the kindly 
 gentleman, the genial companion, the true friend, will be ever 
 green and tender, ever loved and venerated. 
 
 Mr. President, I now offer the resolution which I send to the 
 desk. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolution will be read. 
 
 The resolution was read, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased, the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The resolution was agreed to unanimously; and (at 4 o'clock 
 and 13 minutes p. in.) the Senate adjourned until Monday, 
 March 28, 1892, at 12 o'clock m.
 
 EULOGY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 WEDNESDAY, February 21, 1894. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. MAGUIRE, OF CALIFORNIA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: I thank the House for according me this 
 privilege of expressing the affection and high esteem in which 
 the late Senator HEARST, of California, was held by the people 
 of my State ; of recounting some of the manly virtues for which 
 they honor his memory, and the profound sorrow which his 
 death occasioned to them. 
 
 For more than forty years Senator HEARST was a leading 
 citizen of California. He was one of the heroic band of 
 pioneers who in the ever-memorable years 1849 and 1850 
 braved the perils, privations, and hardships of a trip across 
 the continent in search of the golden opportunities and rewards 
 for which the then new Territory of California had become 
 world-famous. 
 
 From the hour of his arrival on the Pacific Slope he became 
 a factor in the enterprises of California, and in every advance 
 that marked the progress of her civilization to the splendid 
 position which she held among the sisterhood of States, when 
 death called him from the highest office within the gift of her 
 people. 
 
 Senator GEORGE HEARST was born in Franklin County, 
 Mo., on September 3, 1820, where he resided until 1850, when, 
 filled with the enthusiasm and ambitions of brave and vigorous 
 
 51
 
 52 Address of Mr, Maguire, of California, on the 
 
 young manhood, he started as one of a little band of gold- 
 seekers to cross the plains. Scourged with cholera and pur- 
 sued by hostile Indians, the journey was uncommonly terrible. 
 
 With the remnant of his original party GEORGE HEARST 
 reached the gold fields of Eldorado County, Cal., in October, 
 1850. He immediately commenced work in his newly chosen 
 employment of placer mining. He soon became an uncom- 
 monly good judge of placer diggings and developed far greater 
 skill than the majority of his fellovrs in working them. His 
 judgment, both in the location and working of placer mines, 
 soon became the reliance of those who were seeking their for- 
 tunes with him, and many of them preferred working for him 
 to relying upon their own judgment and skill in the selection 
 and working of independent claims. 
 
 From being recognized as one of the most skillful and suc- 
 cessful of placer miners he soon became a recognized expert in 
 the greater field of discovering and working the quartz veins 
 and lodes of the Sierras. In July, 1859, the Comstock Silver 
 Lode of Nevada was discovered. At that time there was no 
 assay office in that region of country, and GEORGE HEARST 
 was one of the experts appealed to for a guiding judgment con- 
 cerning the value of the discovery. A test of the ore was 
 made, and it was found to carry from three thousand to five 
 thousand dollars' worth of silver to the ton. 
 
 Mr. HEARST, with Judge Walsh, Melville Atwood, and A. 
 E. Head, crossed the Sierra Nevada Mountains on mules to the 
 new lode. Mr. HEARST immediately gave evidence of his con- 
 fidence in his own judgment of the value of the lode by pur- 
 chasing a one-sixth interest in the great Ophir mine from one 
 of its discoverers. Up to that time, although he had been 
 more than usually successful in gravel mining, he had not 
 acquired anything like a fortune, but very soon the immense 
 richness of the Comstock lode was heralded throughout the
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 53 
 
 country, and Ben Holliday purchased Mr. HEARST'S interest 
 in the Ophir mine for a price amounting to a handsome for- 
 tune. This was the beginning of the great and successful 
 career of Senator HEARST in the discovery and development 
 of the richest mines of the golden West. 
 
 Although he was in poor health when he came to California, 
 the rough outdoor mountain life and splendid climate of that 
 region had not only restored his health, but had inspired him 
 with a delight for labors involving hardship and great physi- 
 cal endurance. His successes had made him famous as a min- 
 ing expert, and his fame for absolute and unswerving honesty 
 was as great and as universal as the fame of his knowledge 
 and skill. He dealt fairly with the discoverers of mines and 
 with the purchasers of mines. 
 
 Prospectors who had discovered valuable lodes which they 
 were financially unable to work, all sought to have their mines 
 examined by Mr. HEARST and to deal either with him or 
 through him in working or selling them, because they knew 
 that his judgment in such matters was unerring, that his hon- 
 esty was unswerving, that he was frank and generous in his 
 dealings beyond any other man who dealt in mines, and be- 
 cause no recommendation would go so far with investors in 
 mining properties as the simple word of GEORGE HEARST, 
 given after looking at a mine. 
 
 Every miner on the Pacific Slope from the Pacific Ocean 
 to the Eocky Mountains knew and admired and loved him. 
 He became rich in knowledge and rich in pocket as the result 
 of his ceaseless study and untiring labor, but every miner con- 
 tinued to be his frie nd. Rich or poor, educated or illiterate 
 lucky or unfortunate, all miners were his companions and his 
 friends. Out of the richness of his knowledge he advised them, 
 and advised them with the faithfulness of a devoted friend. The 
 latchstring of his home, in city or in country, was always out.
 
 54 Address of Mr. Maguire, of California, on the 
 
 His heart was always open to sympathy for their afflictions, 
 and his purse was ever ready to aid them in their misfortunes. 
 
 The proverbial generosity of the miner characterized the 
 whole life of GEORGE HEARST. Neither wealth nor station 
 ever chilled his sympathies nor brought to him a moment of 
 haughtiness or a thought of selfishness. He made a great for- 
 tune in his chosen pursuit, but over it there fell not the slight- 
 est shadow or suspicion of oppression. In every enterprise of 
 his life, his means of enlarging his own fortune was also made 
 the means of benefiting his fellow-men. 
 
 No Lazarus ever gathered crumbs that fell from his table, 
 nor appealed unheeded at his gate for sympathy or assistance. 
 His generous heart inspired and his generous hand gave the 
 assistance ere the hands of the sufferer could be clasped in 
 supplication, and he ever sought to inspire the unfortunate 
 with lofty sentiments of manliness in misfortune instead of 
 seeking to impress them with either the sense of their own 
 helplessness or of his goodness, as do so many philanthropists 
 who court the world's applause. 
 
 No man was ever more generous with either means or per- 
 sonal efforts to relieve the distress of his fellow men than was 
 GEORGE HEARST, yet he never made any public pretension 
 to philanthropy or generosity. He was ever the plain, earnest, 
 frank, straightforward, open-hearted miner that the pioneers 
 knew and worked with and loved in the fifties. He sought 
 out the deserving poor to whom misfortune had come and in 
 the quiet, unpretentious character of a sympathizing friend, 
 with no witness but the beneficiary and the Omnipotent 
 Father, he relieved distress, restored happiness to clouded 
 homes, gave a new inspiration to the victims of misfortune, 
 and, without humiliating, gave to the distressed ones new 
 opportunities in the struggle of life. 
 
 If silence was ever broken concerning these generous deeds
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 55 
 
 it was never broken by GEORGE HEARST. But the bene- 
 ficiaries of his generosity from every mountain and valley of 
 the golden West gave to his name, among the whole people, 
 not only of California, but of that entire region, a character 
 that enshrined him in their hearts and made him, in spite of 
 the more showy talents and more ostentatious benevolence of 
 ambitious rivals, the ideal Democrat, the ideal man of the 
 people. 
 
 In the later years of his life he ranked not merely as a mil- 
 lionaire, but as a man whose fortune was variously estimated at 
 from ten to twenty millions, yet the people never regarded him 
 as in any way removed from them by reason of his wealth. To 
 them as to him, his wealth was but an incident to the benevolent 
 purposes of his life; was but a means of extending his power 
 for doing good. 5Jo man ever envied him his possessions, 
 because there was no taint of oppression in their acquirement 
 or in their use. 
 
 In his home life the richness and gentleness of his character 
 shone forth in its truest grandeur. Devoted and exemplary 
 husband, loving father, true and faithful friend; in that sacred 
 sphere 
 
 None knew him but to love him 
 Nor named him but to praise. 
 
 He was devoted to the principles of Jeff'ersonian Democracy 
 to these great principles : "Equal rights to all; special privi- 
 leges to none;" that " the greatest good of the greatest num- 
 ber" should be the end and aim of all government; that the 
 right to govern has its only true foundation " in the consent of 
 the governed," and that all governing power should be origi- 
 nated and maintained by regular and frequent appeals to the 
 judgment of the whole people expressing their will by the right 
 of universal suffrage through a free ballot and a fair and honest 
 count of their votes.
 
 56 Address of Mr. Maguire, of California, on the 
 
 To the accomplishment of these ends, and for the purpose of 
 meeting the sophistries of the press representing the special 
 interests fostered under existing laws, he invested a large 
 share of his fortune in building up a great Democratic daily 
 newspaper in San Francisco the Examiner giving to it a 
 generous support which speedily placed it in the front rank of 
 journalism, comparing favorably with the greatest and oldest 
 newspapers of the civilized world. This mighty contribution 
 to the service of the Democratic party made him for the rest 
 of his life the foremost Democrat of California. 
 
 When, in 1886, the death of Senator John F. Miller, of Cali- 
 fornia, created a vacancy in California's representation in the 
 United States Senate, Governor Stoneman naturally turned 
 to GEORGE HEARST as the man whose appointment to that 
 exalted position would be most likely to meet the approbation 
 of the Democrats of California. He was appointed, and the 
 judgment of Governor Stoneman was vindicated by the people 
 in January, 1887, at which time the legislature of California 
 elected Senator HEARST for the full term of six years. 
 
 Senator HEARST did not shine as an orator. He was not a 
 trained debater. He was not a showy man in the councils of 
 the nation, but he brought to his position that ripe and sound 
 judgment which had guided him in all of his public and private 
 enterprises in the humbler stations of his long and active 
 career. A thorough knowledge of the political principles to 
 which his life had been devoted served as his unerring guide 
 in all great questions of public policy, and his thorough and 
 detailed knowledge of the commercial and industrial interests 
 of the State of California and of her neighboring States and 
 Territories, together with the ever-present strong common 
 sense for which he was distinguished throughout his whole 
 life, made him not merely an efficient representative of Califor- 
 nia, but a safe and useful legislator for the entire nation.
 
 Life and Character of George Hearst. 57 
 
 His career in the United States Senate was brief, but it was 
 honorable, and it was and is appreciated by the people of Cali- 
 fornia all the more because the life of constant enterprise in 
 which his fortunes were so closely blended with those of the 
 whole people, and with the development of the State, placed 
 him at some disadvantage in the councils of the nation with 
 men of the East, trained from childhood to the arts of oratory 
 and statesmanship. 
 
 The quiet bravery of the closing hours of his life, as they have 
 been reported here, was but the natural culmination of a long 
 life of generous simplicity and constant courage. Why should 
 his closing hours have been otherwise than peaceful and cour- 
 ageous? In life he loved justice and practiced mercy. He 
 scorned to wrong his fellow-man ; was true to all his obligations, 
 moral and legal; was fair to the strong, helpful to the weak, 
 and generous to the afflicted. 
 
 The sentiments of the whole people of the West were happily 
 expressed in the following lines from the pen of Mr. Frank H. 
 Gassaway, one of California's brightest and most famous poets, 
 published a few days after the death of Senator HEARST : 
 
 Earth's great ones may sorrow beside him 
 And over his catafalque bend, 
 
 But we we who knew him and tried him- 
 The statesman mourn not, but the friend. 
 
 For our comrade he was from the hour 
 
 He toiled in the ranks by our side; 
 The hand that grasped riches and power 
 
 Forgot not the pick that it plied. 
 
 And surely, if deeds of sweet pity 
 
 Are treasured for recompense meet, 
 The path to the beautiful city 
 
 Is smooth to his home-faring feet. 
 
 S. Mis. 65 5
 
 58 Address of Mr. Maguire, of California. 
 
 Then let his chief mourners, the lowly, 
 With tears he so t)ften repressed, 
 
 The face of our dead cover slowly, 
 A.nd bear him away to his rest. 
 
 And though 'tis an omen that ever 
 Shall soften the pang of regret 
 
 The great heart shall beat again, never, 
 The smile on his face lingers yet. 
 
 Lingers yet and we know 'tis a token, 
 From the shores where the purified dwell, 
 
 The Master's "well done" has beeti spoken, 
 We may bid him "good night," for all's well.
 
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