LIBRARY 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF 
 CALIFORNIA 
 SANTA CRUZ 
 
 Gift of 
 MARION R. WALKER 
 
 in memory of his grandfather 
 THE HON. MARION CANNON ; 
 M.C. 1892-94 
 
 SANTA CRUZ 
 
MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 LIFE AND CHARACTER 
 
 JOHN G. WARWICK, 
 
 A REPRESENTATIVE KROM OHIO, 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND IN THE SENATE, 
 
 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY ORDER OK CONGRESS. 
 
 WASHINGTON: 
 
 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 
 1893- 
 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring). That 
 there be printed of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon John G. War- 
 wick, late a Representative from the State of Ohio, 8,000 copies, of which 
 2,000 copies shall be delivered to the Senators and Representatives of the 
 State of Ohio, and of those remaining 2,000 copies shall be for the use of 
 the Senate and 4,000 for the House of Representatives ; and the Secretary 
 of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to have printed a portrait 
 of the said John G. Warwick, to accompany said eulogies. That of the 
 quota of the House of Representatives the Public Printer shall set apart 
 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. 
 
 Agreed to in the House of Representatives February 24, 1893. 
 
 Agreed to in the Senate March 2d, 1893. 
 
 
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 PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH. 
 
 DECEMBER 6, 1892. 
 
 Mr. OUTHWAITE, of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, it lias become my 
 painful duty to announce the death of Hon. JOHN G. WAK- 
 WICK, late one of our colleagues and a Eepresentative in this 
 House from the Sixteenth district of the State of Ohio. It is 
 not my purpose at this time to make any remarks upon his 
 life and public services, but I shall at an early day ask this 
 House to devote a few hours to paying a proper tribute to his 
 memory in hearing addresses from his friends upon this floor. 
 I offer the resolutions which I send to the desk and ask their 
 immediate consideration. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of the death of 
 Hon. JOHN G. WARWICK, late a Representative from the State of Ohio. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to transmit a copy of 
 these resolutions to the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to his memory the House do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 And accordingly (at 1 o'clock and 40 minutes p. m.) the 
 House adjourned until to-morrow noon. 
 
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Address of Mr. Ohliger, of Ohio, on the 
 
 EULOGIES. 
 
 FEBRUARY 18, 1893. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The hour of 3 o'clock having arrived, the 
 Clerk will report the special order. 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That Saturday, the 18th day of February, 1893, beginning at 
 3 o'clock p. m., be set apart for the purpose of paying tribute to the mem- 
 ory of Hon. JOHN G. WARWICK, lately a Representative from the Sixteenth 
 district of Ohio. 
 
 Mr. OUTHWAITE. Mr. Speaker, I offer the resolutions I send 
 to the desk. 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended that oppor- 
 tunity may be given for tributes to the memory of the Hon. JoHNG. WAR- 
 WICK, lately a Representative from the State of Ohio. 
 
 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased, and in recognition of his eminent abilities as a distinguished 
 public servant, the House, at the conclusion of these memorial proceed- 
 ings, shall stand adjourned. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these proceedings to the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk be instructed to send a copy of these resolu- 
 tions to the family of the deceased. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. OHLIGER, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: The duty devolves upon me of paying a 
 tribute of respect to the memory of my predecessor, the lamented 
 JOHN GEORGE WARWICK. If as a neighbor and friend almost 
 lifelong, if as a political coworker, I can suggest to this House 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 5 
 
 some portrait of the Eepresentative who disappeared from this 
 earth only August last, I will be content. 
 
 JOHN G. WARWICK was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, 
 December 23, 1830. When he had just about attained his 
 majority he and a brother, who is still living, bid farewell to 
 their boyhood home in that beautiful isle, that land of poetry 
 and song, eloquence and wit, whose genial-hearted and sympa- 
 thetic people have long struggled for liberty, and emigrated to 
 the United States, tarrying awhile in Philadelphia, then pushed 
 forward until the two brothers reached the small village of 
 Navarre, in the proud Commonwealth of Ohio. He was not 
 altogether without means, and yet at a meager salary became 
 a bookkeeper in a dry goods establishment in that hamlet. 
 
 A few years afterward he moved northward, only about 5 
 miles, to the then very prominent canal town of Massillon, and 
 there he was again employed as a clerk in a dry goods store. 
 There are those yet living who recall his disposition, his 
 methods of work, and industry at that early period of life. 
 One can infer that he had an unusual ambition, an imbibed 
 honesty that never departed from his mind, and a closeness 
 of application which was one of the keys to his subsequent 
 success in business pursuits. In a short time he became the 
 successor of his employer and began the successful career 
 in the mercantile line wherein he first engaged. Then he 
 branched out into investments in flour mills and coal mines. 
 
 Coal is an abundant deposit in the region where he lived. 
 He was an adroit investor, with the keenest perception of 
 value and the probable output of mines, and in all other chan- 
 nels of business endeavor his shrewdness was displayed. He 
 was a promoter of railroad construction, and his adopted city 
 owes to his public spirit largely two of its valuable lines. He 
 was a director at the time of his death in the Wheeling and 
 Lake Erie Railroad. It was from an important meeting of this 
 
6 Address of Mr. Ohliger, of Ohio, on the 
 
 directory iu ]$Tew York he had just returned to this city when 
 his fatal illness seized him. 
 
 He gave much attention to farming and raising of fine stock. 
 With great nervous energy he directed his aifairs, however 
 much diversified. In this long business career the secret of 
 his success was his rock-ribbed integrity. He discharged 
 every obligation with utmost fidelity. He had accumulated at 
 his death a large estate. When his early life is remembered 
 the whole struggle furnishes but one more example of what 
 brains, honesty, and persistency can accomplish in this free 
 land. As long as I knew him it was never even whispered, 
 even in the most bitter political campaigns, that JOHN G. 
 WARWICK had ever, by act or intent, blurred the purity of 
 his honest character. This much in brief as a sketch of the 
 distinguished dead as a business man. 
 
 He early became interested in political action. He lived 
 and died an undeviating and sturdy Democrat. His appren- 
 ticeship was served in the common council and the board of 
 education. Gradually he impressed upon his district those 
 combative qualities and shrewd management of campaigns 
 which served him in later years when he was called to 
 higher stations. 
 
 In 1883 he was nominated for lieutenant-governor of Ohio, 
 and, with George Hoadly as governor, was triumphantly 
 elected. It was a memorable canvass. The onslaught made 
 upon Mr. WARWICK was unusually spirited. The most dan- 
 gerous charge pressed against his candidacy was that he was 
 an Orangeman. I trust it may not seem inappropriate to 
 have recorded here that the charge was false. He was a man 
 of singular toleration. Two years later the renomiuation came 
 to the successful candidates, and though my dead friend 
 received an advanced vote the whole ticket went down in 
 defeat. 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 7 
 
 It was not for seven years that he again became a candidate 
 for public honors. But in the interval he was always active, 
 always liberal in contribution. He had a keen relish for polit- 
 ical affairs. It was for him a delight to engage in the combats 
 of parties, where friendship need not die, nor respect for diverg- 
 ent opinions be abandoned. 
 
 Mr. WARWICK was intense in his convictions, frank in their 
 expression. He could not understand neutrality. There was 
 no need to wait long for a discovery of what he thought. So 
 incessantly did he espouse men or measures, with rare accept- 
 ance of compromise, that his real trait of fairness was often 
 obscured. And yet he was nobly fair and generous. As in 
 business, so in politics he had a controlling sense of respect 
 for an obligation. 
 
 In 1890 there came the battle royal in the Sixteenth district 
 of Ohio between himself and the now governor of Ohio, long an 
 honored member on this floor. To the features of that cam- 
 paign, as the daily prints have furnished its history, I have no 
 wish to allude. It was a national combat that can not be less- 
 ened in its character or its vigor by any suspicion that those 
 who participated are prone to exploit or exaggerate it. 
 
 It gave to the lamented dead great prestige and it was not 
 ill deserved. To what impression he made during his brief 
 career in this House it will be easier and more appropriate for 
 those who knew him here to testify, but there are some char- 
 acteristics to which in all sincerity I wish to pay my humble 
 meed of praise. He was public-spirited, profusely charitable, 
 and hospitable. No one in distress ever appealed to his sym- 
 pathy and went away empty-handed; that great heart of his 
 was ever seeking an object upon which to bestow a deserved 
 charity. Many a young man starting in life felt the influence 
 of his favor; he having fought the great battle of life success- 
 fully, knew its trials and loved to smooth the pathway of the 
 young to success. 
 
8 Address of Mr. Ohliger, of Ohio, on the 
 
 Many are the stories of Ms kind acts and charitable deeas. 
 When the men in mines in which he was interested struck, and 
 his partners advised that he furnish them no more flour 
 from his store, his reply was characteristic of the man: "How 
 can they have bread without flour ? While I have flour they 
 shall have flour." It suited his warm heart better to be duped 
 than to turn away from what might be real want. 
 
 In his early youth he became a member of the Episcopalian 
 Church, and in all church affairs he was often appealed to and, 
 possibly, never refused the donation asked. 
 
 In his early youth Mr. WARWICK had received only the com- 
 mon rudiments of an education and at no time had the advan- 
 tages of academic study. But as a young man he imbibed a 
 masterful taste for reading, to which he yielded all his life. He 
 was an omnivorous devourer of history and English literature} 
 his mind had a peculiar bent for statistics, and he was an 
 authority constantly consulted upon important questions. 
 
 There are many incidents in the career of my lamented friend 
 that crowd upon my memory, but there are others here who 
 wish to pay their tributes to him. After a brief illness in the 
 capital, attended by his beloved wife and his dutiful son, his 
 eventful life ended, and his spirit returned to the God who gave 
 it. His death came as a great shock to his entire constituency, 
 and the sorrow had about it none of the formality of royal 
 mourning. 
 
 It was the genuine grief of people who knew and loved him. 
 At his funeral were shown manifestations of the reverence in 
 which his fellow-citizens had held him. Business was sus- 
 pended. A long cortege followed his remains to the tomb. 
 One scene, most touching, was the long line of four hundred 
 miners, standing with bared heads in the blazing sun of that 
 sad August day as the body of their loved employer was con- 
 veyed to the church. If, with measurable fidelity, I have 
 
Life arid Character of John G. Warwick. 9 
 
 drawn a portrait of JOHN GEORGE WARWICK as he was in 
 life, a devoted husband, a loving father, an honest man, a bene- 
 factor of the poor, a faithful friend, I am content. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. JOSEPH D. TAYLOR, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : The death of the Hon. JOHN G. WARWICK, 
 late a member of this House, to whose memory his colleagues 
 and friends are met to pay tribute, is a vivid reminder of the 
 uncertainty of human life. At the close of the last session of 
 the present Congress he was in the full vigor of health and to 
 all appearances had the promise of a long life. A few days 
 before the close of the session he called at the Arlington 
 Hjotel, in this city, where I was then living, in company with 
 the Hon. Daniel McConville, for the purpose of talking over a 
 business enterprise, in regard to which he thought I could 
 give him some information ; and before leaving he arranged 
 to go to Cambridge, Ohio, the town in which I reside, imme- 
 diately after his return to his home at Massillon, Ohio, and I 
 was to notify the parties he was to see at Cambridge that he 
 would be there, and I did so; and before he got home, before 
 he left this city, he was taken suddenly ill, and very soon the 
 startling news came that lie was dead. So sudden, so unex- 
 pected, it was hard to realize that it was true. The cares, 
 burdens, and responsibilities of the long session, which had 
 begun the early part of December, 1891, and lasted to the 
 latter part of August, 1892, had been a continuous strain 
 upon his nervous system. Few people who have had no Con- 
 gressional experience realize the character of the work done, 
 or the responsibilities assumed by a member of Congress. 
 
 The relief of the eight-hour system never comes to a mem- 
 ber of Congress. His hours are the hours he can steal from 
 
10 Address of Mr. Joseph D. Taylor, of Ohio, on the 
 
 constant pressure and constant demand. He does not belong 
 to the district which he is supposed to represent. He does 
 not belong to the party which elected him. He belongs to all 
 districts, to all parties, to all parts of the country, to all 
 classes, and must answer the demands of all, in every waking 
 hour of the day, if not in the sleeping hours of the night. 
 He belongs to the public, is the servant of the people, the 
 tramway between the Government and his constituents, the 
 responsible agent for all the ills of legislation. 
 
 This is the kind of life Mr. WARWICK had been living for 
 nine months, and while he looked well and was apparently in 
 good health his physical and mental powers had been severely 
 taxed and his system had not the ability to resist the unex- 
 pected malady that befell him as he was finishing up his work 
 in the national capital preparatory to going home. Death is 
 always an unwelcome guest. It comes unexpectedly, comes 
 before we are ready for it; but it seems harder in this case, 
 because it came before he had reached his home; before he had 
 the opportunity of once more meeting and greeting under his 
 own roof his family and friends. 
 
 But the sad side of this picture is not the only side. The 
 career of Mr. WARWICK is one which his constituents as well 
 as his personal friends can remember with pride and gratifica- 
 tion. As a citizen, as a business man, as a neighbor, and as a 
 friend, Mr. WARWICK did his duty, and will be associated with 
 deeds well done and with acts kindly remembered. He was 
 honored and appreciated by his party, his State, and his coun- 
 try. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Ohio as a Demo- 
 crat at a time when Ohio was regarded as a strong Eepublican 
 State. He was elected to Congress over the Hon. William 
 McKinley, jr., the present governor of Ohio, who was at the 
 time regarded as one of the most popular men in the country. 
 It is true that the district was Democratic, but his election at 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 1 1 
 
 that time was regarded as a great triumph. Aiid it should be 
 remembered that he never surrendered to any constituency or 
 to any party his personal independence. 
 
 He was a Democrat, but he believed in the principle of a 
 protective tariff, and his influence was always exerted in hold- 
 ing back his party when he thought it was approaching too 
 near the doctrine of free trade. 
 
 He was no extremist on any question. He believed in a 
 wise and well-considered conservatism on all questions. In 
 his home, in his family, in his business, in the senate of his 
 State as its presiding officer, and in the Congress of the United 
 States he was the same unostentatious, unassuming, plain man 
 that we all knew when we knew him first. 
 
 He was born in Ireland in 1830, came to this country in his 
 twentieth year, was elected lieutenant-governor in his fifty- 
 third year, was elected to Congress in his sixtieth year, and 
 died in his sixty- second year. His life swept quickly by, and 
 what was a little while ago a living active presence is now 
 with us only a memory, and it illustrates how transient and 
 transitory are all the seeming realities of life. The sunshine 
 of to-day gives way to the shadows of to-morrow. The joys of 
 the present are supplanted by the sorrows of the future. This 
 is the mysterious lesson of life and death; of time and 
 eternity. 
 
 It is well, however, to note a worthy, useful, and successful 
 life. Prominence among men is not to be lost sight of in 
 weighing the attributes which make up a well-rounded life; 
 but there is a character more to be commended, an ambition 
 more to be admired a faithful allegiance to duty and a con- 
 science void of offense. And it is well to pause in this busy 
 turbulent House long enough to pay merited tributes to the 
 dead, whose vacant seats admonish us that life is too short to 
 
1 2 Address of Mr. Joseph D. Taylor, of Ohio, on the 
 
 be wasted in bitter wrangling or in partisan controversy. 
 Those oft-repeated words 
 
 Life is real, life is earnest, 
 
 And the grave is not its goal ; 
 Dust though art, to dust returnest, 
 
 Was not spoken of the soul 
 
 express well the words of comfort that cheer the saddened 
 heart in the presence of the great shadow that falls so fre- 
 quently athwart this Hall. But our friend and colleague is 
 not in fact dead. Though we speak of him as dead, the great 
 life that awaited him across the shadowy river is just begun. 
 Not only that, but the words he uttered here, the deeds he did 
 in his earthly career, will go vibrating and echoing down 
 through the ages to come. The spiritual forces and d.ivine 
 influences of a noble life have no boundary this side of eter- 
 nity. And the man who exerts these influences and makes 
 the most of life is to be held in grateful remembrance by a 
 grateful people. 
 
 The present Congress has stood around the open grave of 
 many of its members. Four Senators and ten Representatives, 
 fourteen members in all, have gone the way of all the living. 
 The funeral bell has scarcely ceased to ring, the sad requiem 
 of sorrow has scarcely hushed its plaintive notes, and Ohio has 
 had her delegation broken among the rest ; but in the past 
 Ohio has been singularly spared this solemn experience. In 
 the ninety years of her history only one Senator and five Rep- 
 resentatives have fallen at their posts of duty in the National 
 Congress prior to the death of Mr. WARWICK, and the last of 
 these five was my honored predecessor, Dr. J. T. Updegraif, 
 who died in November, 1882. 
 
 The great funeral procession, composed of the men whom he 
 had long employed, of the business men with whom he had 
 long transacted business, of his neighbors and friends, who had 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 13 
 
 watched his successful career from a man of moderate means 
 to a man of large wealth, testified their high appreciation of 
 his worth in life and their sorrow at his death. His success 
 and usefulness in private life were more remarkable even than 
 his efficiency in public life, and his whole career was without 
 stain or tarnish. 
 
 No one could come in contact with Mr. WARWICK without 
 feeling that he was a remarkable man, a man of marked abil- 
 ity, and a man of a high sense of honor, and his Christian 
 character, his generous manhood, his home life and gentle 
 manner made him a model worthy the admiration of the young 
 men of this country. The country owes a lasting debt of grati- 
 tude to Ireland for giving us this worthy and eminent man. 
 
 There are other words of praise I should be glad to utter of 
 my esteemed and honored colleague, to whom I became 
 strongly attached on this floor ; but I leave this to those who 
 knew him longer and better than I did, to whom has been 
 specially intrusted this sacred duty. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. ROCKWELL, OF NEW YORK. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : Could Governor WARWICK have known that 
 these memorial services were to be held, he would have said, 
 "Let there be no fulsome praise, no extravagant eulogy, and 
 let no lips utter any but words of sincerity and truth." 
 
 For he was himself a frank and sincere man. He hated fraud 
 and sham. He loved truth and sincerity. He knew his own 
 powers and recognized his own limitations and he would have 
 thanked no man for exaggerating those powers, or for credit- 
 ing him with an absence of the weaknesses of our frail human 
 nature. 
 
 He was a splendid example of the sturdy Irish Protestant 
 
14 Address of Mr, Rockwell, of New York, on the 
 
 blood which has constantly enriched our country from its 
 earliest settlement, and which has its exemplar in Andrew 
 Jackson, between whom and Governor WARWICK were many 
 marked points of resemblance. The same qualities of high 
 courage, steadfast persistence, great personal independence, 
 and warm and generous impulses, tempered by rare judgment, 
 characterized them both. They each had the same fealty to 
 friends, to party, and to any cause which they espoused. 
 They were each strong in their likes and dislikes. 
 
 With Governor WARWICK, a friend once made was never 
 abandoned nor neglected so long as that friend proved worthy 
 of confidence, and a cause once espoused never failed to receive 
 his entire devotion. Such is the estimate of his character 
 which I formed from my acquaintance with him and my 
 knowledge of his life and career. Before I knew him person- 
 ally, he was the friend of my friend, devoting to his service an 
 energy and zeal which won my admiration, and regard, and 
 this admiration and regard constantly increased as I came to 
 know him better during our brief association as members of 
 this House. 
 
 As I talked with him about the events of his active career, 
 tracing him step by step from the humble Irish cottage in County 
 Tyrone to his beautiful Ohio home; from his clerkship in a 
 small country store to his position as the manager of vast 
 
 * 
 
 business interests ; from the small trader to being the employer 
 of thousands of laborers, and from the immigrant ship to the 
 halls of Congress, I became more and more impressed with his 
 courage, manliness, and fidelity. He arrived upon our shores 
 in 1850, a sturdy Irish boy of twenty years, with no capital 
 save correct principles, a common school education, and the 
 great gifts of energy, perseverance, and unusual business apti- 
 tude. He went at once to Ohio and soon after to the city which 
 was his lifelong home. 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 15 
 
 Engaging in mercantile pursuits, bis prudence and sagacity 
 enabled him in a few years to purchase his employer's business. 
 As he prospered he invested largely in coal lands and flouring 
 mills, and later became largely interested in railroad enter- 
 prises. 
 
 He was from the start public-spirited and earnest in the 
 promotion of the interests of his city, and was successively a 
 member of its common council and board of education. As 
 lieutenant-governor of his State, and presiding officer of its 
 senate, he won the regard and esteem of every one without 
 distinction of party. 
 
 His contest for election to this House against Governor 
 McKinley and the strenuous exertions which were made to 
 defeat him brought him into national prominence, and he came 
 among us modestly wearing the laurels of a great and well- 
 earned victory. He received the unusual recognition, for a 
 new member, of the chairmanship of a committee. The same 
 fidelity and zeal which characterized him as a business man 
 were displayed in the discharge of his official duties. 
 
 The inborn love of liberty and of Democratic principles which 
 caused him to leave his native land and become an American 
 citizen continued to be his guiding star and made him a 
 devoted member of his party. With him Democracy was a 
 creed to which he gave steadfast adherence in prosperity and 
 in adversity. He was no holiday soldier. His home life was 
 happy. His last moments were soothed by the ministrations 
 of his beloved wife and son. 
 
 The affectionate esteem in which he was held by his lifelong 
 friends and neighbors at Massillon his home for thirty-five 
 years was deeply manifested during his life and at his death. 
 His unostentatious deeds of benevolence and charity had 
 endeared him to thousands. As an employer he was just and 
 generous. Four hundred of his employes, with bowed heads 
 
1 6 Address of Mr. Catching s, of Mississippi, on the 
 
 and moistened eyes, followed his remains to their last resting 
 place, testifying in this manner their love and esteem. With 
 the beautiful ritual of the church of his boyhood, to which he 
 became connected before leaving his native land and ever after 
 adhered, his body was consigned to the tomb " earth to earth, 
 ashes to ashes, dust to dust." " He rests from his labor and 
 his works do follow him." 
 
 The great enterprises which he initiated still go on. His 
 army of employe's are still moving on in the steady ranks of 
 industry, though under a new leader. But the land is more 
 prosperous and thousands of its citizens are happier because 
 of the life work of JOHN G. WARWICK. 
 
 I once stood beside the bedside of a friend whose life had 
 been an eventful one. When told by his physician that he 
 must soon die, he lay for a long time in earnest thought and 
 then quietly said: "Well, I have made mistakes; but I have 
 done the best I could." Happy will it be for us all if we shall 
 be able to render such a verdict on our own earthly careers. 
 
 And I believe that Mr. WARWICK could not only have truth- 
 fully said this, but that he would have asked at the hands of 
 his friends and fellow-countrymen no higher eulogy. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. CATCHINGS, OF MISSISSIPPI. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : I esteem it a great privilege that I am per- 
 mitted to take part in these ceremonies. For our deceased 
 colleague I entertained the most profound respect. Few men 
 have possessed greater attraction for me. His campaign 
 against so distinguished an opponent as the present governor of 
 his State, and the great victory achieved by him, had given 
 him national fame, and made him a notable figure in American 
 politics before I ever met him. When the Representatives 
 
Life and Character of John G, Warwick. 17 
 
 elected to this Congress began to assemble in this city in No- 
 vember, 1891, a natural curiosity to see and talk with the hero 
 of that great contest, caused me eagerly to seek his acquaint- 
 ance. His appearance was singularly striking and attractive. 
 His face, to me, was unusually handsome, and bore marked 
 evidence of the high and strong and manly character for which 
 he was ever noted. 
 
 It may be it was because I instinctively associated him in my 
 mind with his great and successful campaign that I thought 
 of him as a soldier; and upon first seeing him I remarked 
 to a friend that he looked like a field marshal. His manners 
 were as attractive as his appearance. He impressed me as a 
 man wholly free from guile, gentle yet strong, deferential 
 yet self-respecting and courageous. A strong friendship 
 soon grew up between us, and I often sought his society, and 
 derived from it great satisfaction and pleasure. 
 
 His modesty is exemplified by the brief and simple biograph- 
 ical sketch furnished by him to the Congressional Directory: 
 
 JOHN G. WARWICK, of Massillon, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, 
 December 23, 1830 ; came to America in 1850 and engaged in mercantile pur- 
 suits ; is interested in milling, mining, and farming ; was elected lieutenant- 
 governor of Ohio in 1883 ; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a 
 Democrat, receiving 20,059 votes against 19,757 for William McKinley, jr., 
 Eepublican, and 846 votes for J. J. Ashenhurst, Prohibitionist. 
 
 The career of the modest gentleman who gave this brief 
 account of himself was one of which the highest and noblest 
 might be justly proud. Coming to this country while yet.a boy, 
 with no adventitious circumstances to smooth his pathway, by 
 his genius, superb judgment, and dauntless courage, he made 
 himself the possessor of a princely fortune. And this was 
 accomplished by such methods only as an honorable and just 
 man may always employ. There were no short cuts, no doubtful 
 practices, and, more than all, there was no grinding of the faces 
 of the poor and the humble. 
 
 H. Mis. 104 2 
 
18 Address of Mr. Lay ton, of Ohio, on the 
 
 All who knew him, rich and poor, haughty and humble, alike 
 rejoiced in his prosperity, and loved and honored him. And as 
 might have been expected of one such as he was, of the bounty 
 that had come to him, charitable benefactions at all times and in 
 many forms were generously, though unostentatiously, dis- 
 pensed by him among those less fortunate than himself. 
 
 His election to the high and honorable station of lieutenant- 
 governor of a great State, and his subsequent election to a seat 
 in this House, bespeak the esteem entertained for him by his 
 friends and party associates. Had he lived out his natural life 
 there can be no doubt that still higher honors would have been 
 bestowed upon him. 
 
 A good man, honorable citizen, and useful public servant has 
 gone from us. His memory shall be affectionately and rever- 
 ently cherished by me always. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. LAYTON, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : JOHN GEORGE WARWICK was born in County 
 Tyrone, Ireland, December 23, 1830. His parents were poor 
 people; his early advantages were few, and it was with but 
 a meager education that he came to America, the land of his 
 adoption, in the year 1850, with his brother Eobert, who yet 
 survives him. 
 
 After a short sojourn in the city of Philadelphia he removed 
 to Navarre, Stark County, Ohio, where he secured employ- 
 ment as clerk and bookkeeper in a small country store. By 
 strict economy and industry he was enabled a few years later 
 to embark in business for himself in the city of Massillon, 
 where he continued to reside until his death. 
 
 In 1865, while still at the head of a large and successful 
 drygoods house, he became the owner of large and extensive 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 19 
 
 flouring mills, and was the first to introduce new and modern 
 machinery and improved methods of manufacturing flour in 
 that locality. He soon thereafter became interested in and 
 waselected and served as director of numerous railroads pass- 
 ing through that portion of Ohio. 
 
 He also invested extensively in real estate, and soon became 
 the owner of several fertile and valuable farms near his home 
 city. 
 
 Later on he invested extensively in mines also, and was one 
 among the many large and successful coal operators of the 
 State. 
 
 While engaged in the dry-goods business, which he disposed 
 of in 1872, he was an extensive buyer and dealer in wool, and 
 in this line, as well as in all others to which he gave his per- 
 sonal attention, by reason of his remarkable energy, careful 
 business traits, and unerring judgment, he was entirely suc- 
 cessful. 
 
 The value of his judgment in important business matters 
 became so well and generally known that his aid and advice 
 was frequently sought after by many other business men, and 
 was always freely and frankly given. He was not only a man 
 of sound judgment, but a man of strong convictions and fearless 
 in their advocacy, and yet without malice, and reasonable in 
 all things. He was also ever kind, charitable, and generous. 
 Many a poor man, many an honest laborer, many a poor widow 
 and orphan child will miss his thoughtful generosity. 
 
 While always a thorough, earnest Democrat, always taking 
 a lively interest in the welfare of his party, he never sought 
 office or place until the year 1883, when, yielding to the pres- 
 sure of his numerous friends, who knew his sterling worth and 
 character so well, he accepted the nomination for lieuten ant- 
 governor on the ticket with the Hon. George Hoadly for gov- 
 ernor, and was triumphantly elected. 
 
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 He presided over the senate of the sixty-sixth general 
 assembly of Ohio, and, although devoid of any prior experience, 
 yet, thanks to his good, sound practical sense and judgment, 
 which always stood him so well in hand, he discharged his 
 duties as such presiding officer, as well as those of the second 
 officer of the State, in such a manner as to secure and retain 
 the general admiration, esteem, and confidence of even his 
 political opponents. 
 
 In the month of July, 1890, he was nominated by the Demo- 
 crats for Congress in the Sixteenth Ohio district, having as his 
 opponent on theEepublicau ticket Hon. William McKinley, now 
 governor of the State. Notwithstanding the prominence of his 
 opponent and hence the extraordinary efforts on behalf of the 
 opposing political party to encompass his defeat, he was elected 
 by a handsome majority as a member of this the Fifty-second 
 Congress, where his merits were at once recognized by his 
 appointment as chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills 
 and as a member of the Committee on Public Buildings and 
 Grounds, the first being an honor seldom, if ever, accorded 
 to a new member. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. WARWICK was married to Maria Karthaus 
 Lavake, an ever-faithful, worthy, and congenial partner, who, 
 together with his only son, W. K. L. Warwick, survive him. 
 And right here I may say that he was ever a kind, consid- 
 erate, and affectionate husband and father. 
 
 He loved his good wife and son and ever merited the love 
 and affection they bestowed on him in return. 
 
 On the 14th day of last August, 1892, at twenty minutes 
 past 9 o'clock a. m., my friend and colleague, JOHN G. WAR- 
 WICK, died at the Riggs House, in this capital of the nation, 
 by reason of a sudden and violent attack of dysentery. His 
 beloved wife and son were with him during his last illness, 
 administering to his comfort with kind and loving hands, 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 21 
 
 but neither their unremitting care nor the skill of his physi- 
 cians could prevail against his acute disease. He was conscious 
 to the end. 
 
 He was willing' and prepared to die. His last words to them 
 were words of comfort and love, such only as a good dying 
 father can give to an ever-faithful and loving wife and dutiful 
 son, whom he will meet in this world no more forever. 
 
 In his religious associations Mr. WARWICK was an Episco- 
 palian, and was a prominent and liberal member of that church 
 in his adopted city. 
 
 It is not by reason of any mere formal custom of this House 
 that I desire to pay my humble tribute to the memory of JOHN 
 G. WARWICK, but to perform a labor of love regarding one of 
 whom I have for many years entertained the highest respect, 
 akin to veneration. 
 
 I first became acquainted with him in 1883, ever since which 
 time, notwithstanding the disparity of our ages, I was his 
 friend, and I have reason to know he was mine. 
 
 And among my cherished recollections shall always be the 
 thought, the knowledge, that I possessed the friendship of this 
 modest, unassuming, yet strong, kindly, manly man. 
 
 His whole life history, from his boyhood days in that beau- 
 tiful green isle to the hour of his decease, is that of intelligent 
 effort and judgment and honorable conduct in its every detail. 
 As a citizen, as husband, as father, as friend, he combined 
 every element that is necessary to constitute each and all of 
 them in their more perfect completeness. 
 
 His quiet, unassuming, and quaint ways, his ever-kindly, 
 pleasant dealings, his liberal ideas, and bounties to the poor, 
 needy, and deserving, his ever courteous and gentlemanly 
 ways and manners in his daily walks, both in private and pub- 
 lic life, endeared him to all with whom he came in contact, and 
 his death has left a feeling of universal regret among all who 
 
22 Address of Mr. Lay ton, of Ohio, on the 
 
 knew him. The high moral character and noble, pure, and 
 patriotic life of my friend remains not only a memory, but an 
 imperishable legacy. A priceless heritage is that memory to 
 his family and friends, who knew him best. 
 
 My acquaintance with my deceased friend was only made by 
 gradual stages. He was not a man who sought intimacies among 
 strangers, nor did he ever respond quickly to their advances. 
 But with those who held his confidence, who, having the " Open 
 Sesame," so to speak, to his big kindly heart, passed once 
 within its recesses, he was like an open book; for them, for 
 these, he " wore his heart upon his sleeve," ever full of kind, 
 gentle, tender sentiments and deeds of charity and good will. 
 
 Fragment by fragment, while quietly conversing with him, I 
 gathered from his own lips the story of his life; of his boyhood 
 days spent in the green isle of his birth, amidst (almost) want, 
 privation, and suffering on the one hand, and on the other (as he 
 himself often said, as if he loved to dwell on the recollections of 
 the place of his birth) amidst what always seemed to him as 
 the greenest verdure, the clearest lakes, the brightest sky in 
 any land; of his early struggles and more or less hampered 
 efforts to obtain an education ; of his patience and self-denial, 
 so hard to exercise and endure by one in whose veins there 
 flowed the fiery impulsive blood of his Celtic ancestors ; of his 
 arduous application to daily labor in inferior situations and 
 employment until at last the bright sunshine of prosperity 
 threw cheerful rays of golden light to cross his rough path- 
 way; of his happy marriage in middle life and the long years 
 of perfect bliss and enjoyment spent in the bosom of his family ; 
 of his business successes, earned by the hardest kind of work 
 and closest application ; of his final participation in civil and 
 political affairs and his election as lieutenant-governor and 
 then as a member of this honorable body. 
 
 The utter simplicity, the genuine modesty, the entire absence 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 23 
 
 of boasting, self-emulation, and self-praise with which all these 
 things were told to nie was absolutely both novel and charming, 
 and strongly but fairly outlines one of the prominent and lov 
 able characteristics of my departed friend. 
 
 While it is true that other men under like disadvantages in 
 early life have climbed from out of the valley of obscurity and 
 poverty to the dazzling heights of fame and fortune, yet it is 
 none the less to the honor and credit of my friend that he by 
 his own unaided efforts and indomitable will rose from this 
 obscurity and poverty in his lowly home in an oppressed and 
 downtrodden land to wealth, prominence, social favor, and 
 high political place among the highest and best of our nation's 
 men. And this fact alone should and no doubt does solace 
 and comfort his stricken family in their hour of distress. 
 
 He lived, as he himself said, in Ohio, his adopted State, 
 because he soon learned to love her beautiful hills, her fertile 
 valleys, her broad, rich plains, her many clear and beautiful 
 streams, and her generous, kindly American people. As I 
 have before stated, lie made his home at Massillon, situated in 
 a stretch of country of which may be said : 
 
 No lovelier land the prophet viewed, 
 When on the sacred mount he stood 
 And saw below, transcendent shine, 
 The streams and groves of Palestine. 
 
 He sleeps. My departed friend, JOHN G. WARWICK, now 
 sleeps where the greater part of his simple, noble life was 
 spent, his memory enshrined not only in the hearts of his 
 immediate friends and neighbors, rich or poor, high or low 
 alike, but of all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. 
 
 He died in the harness while in the very midst of his work 
 as a valued and Tiseful member of this House. 
 
 His last work in this world is done and the record of his 
 life is complete. Its pages are white as the driven snow; 
 
24 Address of Mr. Lay ton, of Ohio, on the 
 
 and liis history, from tlie cradle to the grave, is without blot 
 or stain. His name will not be forgotten until the history of 
 Ohio has been obliterated forever. 
 
 Ohio, the birthplace and the home of many men, living and 
 dead, of whom the nation is proud, has produced stronger, 
 abler men no doubt; but if she has ever produced a better 
 man in her modern days, it has not been my good fortune and 
 pleasure to meet him. 
 
 With all his triumphs 
 
 Nothing in his life 
 
 Became him like the leaving it ; he died 
 As one that had been studied in his death, 
 To throw away the dearest thing he owned 
 As 'twere a careless trifle. 
 
 His gentle voice is now silent; he will ever be missed from 
 among us. After life's labors so well performed he surely has 
 received that highest reward of eternal celestial life. 
 
 As the poet puts it : 
 
 He has done the work of a true man, 
 
 Crown him, honor him, love him. 
 Weep over him tears of women, 
 
 Stoop manliest brows above him. 
 For the warmest of hearts is frozen, 
 
 The freest of hands is still, 
 And the gap in our picked and chosen 
 
 The long years may not fill. 
 * * * 
 
 Never rode to the wrongs redressing 
 
 A worthier paladin, 
 Shall he not hear the blessing 
 
 "Good and faithful enter in?" 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 25 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. HARE, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : It needed not the wisdom of Solomon to dis- 
 cover and declare the impressive truth that in whatever respects 
 men may differ, whatever distinctions of birth or station, ot 
 talent or culture, of wealth or influence may have marked their 
 lives, there is at last one event that is common to all. 
 
 To the monarch upon the throne as to the beggar at the 
 palace gates ; to the statesman crowned with honors as to the 
 lowliest of his countrymen; to the scholar, the scientist, and 
 the sage as to the unlettered serf; to the rich and powerful as to 
 the poor and the oppressed ; to all classes and conditions of men 
 there is this common event in respect to which no man hath 
 any advantage of his fellows, and which none may hope to 
 escape by postponement to a day certain or indefinitely. 
 
 The very certainty of this event, the very fact that it is con- 
 stantly transpiring about us and in our midst, tend to rob it of a 
 portion of its terrors, and, by rendering us familiar with its pres- 
 ence, to render us also, in a large degree, insensible to the pangs 
 it brings, to the wounds it inflicts, to the void it creates, to the 
 loss and suffering it is almost certain to entail. 
 
 We are living in an age of great physical and mental activity ; 
 an age crowded with startling events ; an age in which one great 
 achievement "doth tread upon another's heel, so fast they 
 follow," causing the world about us to pulsate with feverish 
 energy, and to become restless with the spirit of enthusiasm 
 enkindled by its constantly succeeding triumphs, and its antici- 
 pation of new victories in the swift-coming future. 
 
 In the midst of such surroundings as these we are apt to 
 forget or neglect the duty we owe to cherish the memory and 
 bear testimony to the worth and virtues of those with whom 
 we have been associated here, but who have gone out from 
 
26 Address of Mr. Hare, of Ohio, on the 
 
 among us with their life-work completed, the record made up 
 aud the volume forever closed. Oblivion, Mr. Speaker, ought 
 not to be the fate of any man deemed by his fellow-citizens 
 worthy to be their representative in the councils of the nation, 
 certainly not of any man who by his conduct here has honored 
 the choice and confidence of his countrymen. 
 
 Hence, sir, whatever may have been said or written in dis- 
 paragement of the custom we observe to-day in paying tribute 
 to the memory of our departed associate, it is a custom not 
 "more honored in the breach than the observance, " and it is 
 rendered all the more appropriate when the tribute we bring 
 is in honor of such a man. 
 
 For, Mr. Speaker, JOHN G. WARWICK was not only a supe- 
 rior man, in that he possessed in large measure the essential 
 qualities of true manliness, but the history of his life, should 
 it be written, will furnish a most impressive illustration of the 
 possibilities that are open to such qualities, to such a character 
 as his, in this laud of his adoption, and will thereby reflect 
 honor as well upon his country as upon himself. 
 
 Born in County Tyrone, Ireland, the early years of his life 
 were passed in that beautiful but unhappy country, where 
 he acquired such schooling as was possible to a youth of his 
 intensely industrious habits, and where under the guidance of 
 his father, who was a merchant, he was made familiar with the 
 rudiments of a mercantile education, and imbibed a taste for 
 active business pursuits. 
 
 In the year 1850, before he was yet 20 years of age, he came 
 to the United States, landing in Philadelphia. A stranger in 
 a strange land, with no friendly hand stretched out to receive 
 him, with no one to counsel or encourage him, with no capital 
 but health, strength, intelligence, and determination to succeed, 
 this young Irish immigrant encountered and proceeded at once 
 to solve the same difficult problems that have been encountered 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 27 
 
 and solved by thousands of his countrymen who have adorned 
 with imperishable honor the history of their adopted country, 
 and who to-day constitute one of the most valuable elements of 
 its citizenship. 
 
 Tarrying but a short time in Philadelphia, his keen discern- 
 ment pointed his course to the rapidly growing- West, and he 
 was shrewd enough to avoid the mistake so often made of losing 
 his identity by seeking employment in the crowded cities of the 
 seaboard. 
 
 In the selection of a proper location in the West he was equally 
 alert and far-seeing, and was guided by the same discriminating 
 judgment that distinguished his after years. 
 
 There is not to be found on the American continent a more 
 tractive body of land or a region richer in all the diversified 
 forms of material wealth than that embraced within the limits 
 of Stark County, in the State of Ohio. 
 
 It was there that young WARWICK decided to establish his 
 home. Entering into service as clerk in a store in the village of 
 Kavarre, he was able, by dint of the closest industry and econ- 
 omy, at the end of three years to enter into business on his own 
 account in what has since become, largely through his efforts 
 and enterprise, the thriving city of Massillon. 
 
 I shall not undertake, Mr. Speaker, to enter into the details 
 of his remarkable business career. Whether as merchant, 
 manufacturer, mill-owner, mine-owner, whether as the promoter 
 of private or public enterprise, whether as an individual or in 
 association with others, every undertaking in which he became 
 interested seemed to prosper as if in response to the will of a 
 master mind, as if in obedience to the touch of a master hand. 
 
 To him perhaps in as great measure as to any other citizen 
 is the city of Massillou indebted for its past and present pros- 
 perity and for what would appear to be the sure promise of its 
 future. For he was not only a pillar of strength in the main- 
 
28 Address of Mr, Hare, of Ohio, on the 
 
 tenance and support of its varied industrial enterprises, but 
 was as closely associated with its social life, with its charities, 
 with its educational and religious institutions. He was, 
 indeed, by common consent its model citizen. 
 
 Although a man of intense political convictions and always 
 active and zealous in the discharge of what he conceived to be 
 his public duties, it was not until comparatively late in life that 
 he could be persuaded to accept other than strictly local pub- 
 lic office. 
 
 In the year 1883 he was chosen to the position of lieutenant- 
 governor of Ohio, and although without previous parliamentary 
 experience, and perhaps with no taste or natural aptitude for 
 the duties imposed upon him by his election to that high office, 
 he nevertheless so applied himself to the discharge of those 
 duties as to merit and receive the warm approbation of senators 
 of all parties, and to firmly establish himself in the confidence 
 and esteem of the people of Ohio. 
 
 Retiring at the close of his official term, he continued in pri- 
 vate life until called to lead his party in a contest with one of 
 the foremost statesmen of the country, a contest that will ever 
 be memorable in that district, and which resulted in his elec- 
 tion to the Fifty-second Congress. 
 
 His service here was brief, but honorable in the highest 
 degree. Assigned to the chairmanship of the Committee on 
 Enrolled Bills, and to a conspicuous place on the Committee on 
 Public Buildings and Grounds, he brought to the performance 
 of his duties the same conscientious, painstaking application, 
 the same uncalculating zeal and fidelity that had distinguished 
 him through life. 
 
 Perhaps no man who served here for so brief a period will be 
 longer or more pleasantly remembered than will Governor 
 WARWICK. At no time in robust health, but, on the contrary, 
 a frequent sufferer from the disease which ended his life, he 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 29 
 
 was nevertheless always cheerful, always cordial, always 
 hopeful. 
 
 Although his countenance m repose bore the appearance of 
 sternness and might convey the impression that he was of an 
 unsocial and austere disposition, it needed only the approach 
 and greeting of a friend or an acquaintance to cause it to light 
 up with a smile so genial as to betoken a nature at once amia- 
 ble and sincere. And that was his real nature. It was the 
 quality which, united to a fine sense of honor and the most 
 scrupulous integrity, drew to him not only the confidence but 
 the esteem of all with whom he came in contact, and bound 
 to him his legion of friends. 
 
 Nevertheless he could exhibit not merely the appearance but 
 the quality of sternness when occasion required. He detested 
 shams, despised hypocrisy, and did not always carefully weigh 
 his words in characterizing the thing his judgment condemned, 
 but in denouncing what he believed to be vicious in principle, 
 or corrupt in method, he was both vigorous and unsparing. 
 But he was never ungenerous on the contrary, no man was 
 more tolerant or more considerate of the opinions and feelings 
 of his associates. 
 
 At his home in Massillon he was greatly beloved. Not alone 
 in the estimation of his business associates and among those 
 with whom he came into most frequent contact did he hold a 
 high place, but throughout all classes of the community and 
 particularly among the poor, to whom he had been a benefac- 
 tor, whose homes he had often lighted and whose burden's he 
 had helped to bear, his name was a household word, and the 
 memory of his many unobtrusive acts of kindness will remain 
 forever fragrant. 
 
 It was my sad privilege, Mr. Speaker, to accompany the body 
 of our friend to its last resting place in the beautiful cemetery 
 near by the city of his residence. If there could ever have 
 
30 Address of Mr. Hare, of Ohio, on the 
 
 been any doubt of the affection in which he was held by his 
 neighbors, who knew him best, that doubt must have been dis- 
 pelled by the evidences of grief that abounded on every hand. 
 Owing to an accident the train was four hours late in arriving 
 at Massillon, but during those four hours more than a thousand 
 people had stood patiently waiting in the hot sunshine of an 
 August, afternoon in order to be present at the station when 
 the train should arrive. All business was suspended. The 
 great factories, employing hundreds of men, were closed in 
 order that employers and employes might unite in paying the 
 last tribute of respect and affection to him whose unexpected 
 death was symbolized in the tokens of mourning that were visi- 
 ble everywhere. 
 
 It has been my fortune to be present at the obsequies of many 
 eminent men, but I have never witnessed a more impressive 
 exhibition of genuine, unaffected, universal grief than was 
 manifest on that sad occasion. 
 
 On the previous day, at a mass meeting of the people of Mas- 
 sillou, this feeling had found expression in many forms, but 
 notably in a series of resolutions, from one of which I quote 
 such testimony as might constitute a fitting epitaph to the 
 memory of a philanthropist : 
 
 Resolved, That in Mr. WARWICK we recognize a true and valued friend, 
 a man of unblemished character, always kind and generous to the poor, 
 of great and honorable skill in business, and strong and helpful in all 
 public and private enterprises that secured the welfare, prosperity, and 
 advancement of the city and its people. His death is a public calamity. 
 
 And this sentiment, Mr. Speaker, was but illustrated and 
 emphasized in the unforced assemblage of the multitudes who, 
 on the day of his burial, thronged the streets and stood with 
 uncovered heads as the body of their friend was borne to the 
 tomb. Such a demonstration as was there witnessed of the 
 reverent grief of a whole city constitutes a more eloquent testi- 
 monial to the worth and virtues of our departed associate, and 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 31 
 
 to the love and veneration of his fellow-citizens, than the most 
 glowing eulogium of the most gifted tongue. 
 
 And if by those who, at most, bore to him only the relation 
 of neighbor and friend the death of such a man was so deeply 
 mourned, what shall be said of the grief of her to whom for 
 so many years he had borne the tender relation of husband, 
 and of her son upon whom he had lavished from infancy the 
 indulgent love of a father! To the one remains only the price- 
 less legacy of his memory as she walks in the gloom of a shadow 
 that shall never again be lifted; to the other the example of a 
 life and character such as the inspired writer must have had 
 in mind when he declared "A good name is better than pre- 
 cious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's 
 birth." 
 
 The lessons of such a life ought not, indeed, to be lost upon 
 any young man whose laudable ambition it may be to carve 
 out from hard conditions the fame of a successful and hon- 
 orable career. They ought rather to be pondered with serious 
 and attentive care. For his was not an exceptional career 
 saving to the extent and in the respects that it was rendered 
 so by his own efforts and energy. None of the advantages of 
 wealth or influence could be invoked to aid him in the outset 
 of his struggle for recognition and success. No royal road was 
 opened up before him; nothing but the same beaten path that 
 stretches itself at the feet of every youth and is blazed through- 
 out its entire course. 
 
 It is not the "primrose path of dalliance," nor is it always 
 strewn with roses. 
 
 On the contrary, it is sometimes a rough and weary way, 
 beset with thorns and brambles, and calling often for the 
 exercise of the heroic virtues of patience, fortitude, and 
 self-denial. But it leads always to honor and usefulness; 
 often to fortune and fame. 
 
32 Address of Mr. Hare, of Ohio, on the 
 
 And whoever will may pursue it without other guidance 
 than the simple observance of the field notes that are blazed 
 along its course. 
 
 Industry, economy, diligence, sobriety, integrity, these and 
 their kindred virtues, justice and charity, coupled always 
 with a generous sense of equity, and with that fidelity which 
 keeps a man loyal and true to the very spirit and intent of 
 the faith that may have trusted him without requiring at his 
 hands the form of a promise or a pledge ; these, sir, are the 
 emblems that mark the path; these constitute the essential 
 elements of true manhood, and without them success in its 
 highest and best sense is impossible. 
 
 That JOHN G. WARWICK possessed and cultivated all these 
 ennobling traits of character none who knew him would do 
 
 
 
 him the injustice to deny, and they constituted tbe basis of 
 his claim to the respect, esteem, and confidence of his coun- 
 trymen. 
 
 Although he did not attain the age of three score years 
 and ten, allotted as the span of human life, he had yet lived 
 long enough to fill the measure of his early ambition and to 
 accomplish more than is ordinarily achieved by men who, by 
 reason of strength, attain the age of four score years. 
 
 Fortunate in finding a home in this favored land, fortunate 
 in the opportunities that were given him to serve the country 
 of his choice and of his love, fortunate in his business pursuits, 
 happy in his domestic relations, rich in the love of his fellow- 
 citizens, and just entering here upon a new service for which 
 he was well equipped, forming new associations which were 
 in all respects congenial, there were indeed many reasons why 
 our friend should prefer to live. 
 
 But he was not afraid to die. To him the final summons 
 brought no dismay, no apprehension, nor did it take him by 
 surprise. 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 33 
 
 Fortunate as he had been in all the relations of his useful 
 life he was hardly less favored in the circumstances attending 
 his lamented death. 
 
 Conscious to the last moment, in full possession of all his 
 faculties and of the peace that passeth understanding, life's 
 labor done, he was ready to receive his reward. 
 
 And so, surrounded by those he loved and with a smile upon 
 his countenance, he entered upon that dark voyage so full of 
 mystery and yet so full of promise and prospect and faith and 
 hope as to banish all sense of dread from the mind of him upon 
 whose kindling vision the receding earth was only bringing 
 more clearly into view the light that shone from the farther 
 shore, guiding him on the way to his eternal rest. 
 
 Peace to his ashes, reverence to his memory, honor to his 
 fame. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. CARUTH, OF KENTUCKY. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : In the Fifty-first Congress a new measure 
 had been brought forward which affected in some manner or 
 other the whole people. If enacted into a law it would enter, 
 either to bless or injure, every American home. With the name 
 of one of the Eepresentatives of the people that bill will ever 
 be associated. He was a man of high character, of strict integ- 
 rity, of undenied patriotism. He thought he was right and 
 believed he was acting for the best interests of the nation. 
 
 Fierce and bitter was the parliamentary battle that was 
 waged, but the followers of this leader looked to him for advice 
 and guidance, even as the " Old Guard " looked to and obeyed 
 the first Napoleon.' His opponents yielded to him the respect 
 his character commanded, but with vote and voice they con- 
 tested his theories of the rights of the Government and fought 
 to the bitter end to defeat the cause he espoused. The battle 
 II. Mis. 104 3 
 
34 Address of Mr. Caruth, of Kentucky, on the 
 
 ended and on the banner of the leader I have described perched 
 the eagle of victory. 
 
 However, the biennial elections "were at hand, and the de- 
 feated but not yet vanquished transferred the conflict to the 
 hustings and to the polls. 
 
 The measure and the man were to be upheld or defeated by 
 the ballots of the people. What would be the result of the 
 combat? This was the all-absorbing question in every city, 
 town, hamlet, and home in the Republic. 
 
 To the Sixteenth district of Ohio the eyes of the nation were 
 turned, for from this district came the leader I have mentioned, 
 and on the result of this contest there seemed to depend the 
 fate of the measure and the man. 
 
 The opposing forces were led by the one whose memory we 
 this day honor. 
 
 I would not mar an occasion like this by any political refer- 
 ences. Suffice it to say that the measure was repudiated, and 
 when the smoke of battle cleared away from the Sixteenth dis- 
 trict of Ohio after a conflict which was waged furiously over 
 every inch of the field it was seen that the young "Napoleon" 
 had met his political Waterloo. 
 
 It was in that fight that the American people learned to 
 know by name and reputation the Hon. JOHN G. WARWICK; 
 but those who honored him were not strangers; they had 
 known him in the daily walks of life, and had helped to ele- 
 vate him to the second office in the gift of the voters of his 
 State; they had seen him discharge with dignity and honor 
 the functions of lieutenant-governor of the Commonwealth. 
 
 The fame of the battle he had fought, the great victory he 
 had won, made him a conspicuous figure ill American politics, 
 and he was "the observed of all observers" when he took his 
 seat as a member of the Fifty-second Congress. He laid no 
 claim to oratory, nor sought to load the RECORD with his 
 
Life and Character of John G, Warwick. 35 
 
 views on every subject, but modestly, earnestly, and quietly 
 in committee rooms, in the Departments, and in this Hall he 
 discharged with earnestness and zeal his duty to his people, 
 his party, and his country. In his intercourse with his fellow- 
 members he was courteous, considerate, and kind, and loved 
 the society of the scholar and the wit. His conversation con- 
 tributed to the knowledge of the one and the pleasure of the 
 other. 
 
 You remember, Mr. Speaker, the intense heac of the last 
 summer ; how the people fled to seashore and to mountain to 
 escape the heated city and to breathe the cool and health-giv- 
 ing air. The members of Congress, in the discharge of their 
 duties, were chained to their desks and to this Hall, and here, 
 true to his obligations, remained JOHN G. WARWICK, although 
 the companion of his life, she who divided his sorrows and 
 doubled his joys, had been prevailed upon by him to seek for 
 awhile the seashore, on his promise to join her, and find quiet, 
 rest, and strength after the trials of the long Congressional ses- 
 sion. 
 
 This hope of happiness was destined never to be realized, 
 for when the gavel went down to close the session he was 
 stretched on a bed of illness, and this loving, devoted wife had 
 been recalled to his side to minister to his wants and soothe 
 his pain. 
 
 His colleagues hastened to their homes, happy to be 
 released, glad to see once more their neighbors and their friends, 
 but, alas ! never more in life was JOHN G. WARWICK to look 
 on the face of those who loved and honored him. Death came 
 and beckoned him away from the pains and labors of time to 
 the rest and rewards of eternity. He heard the summons and 
 with a farewell word of love to his devoted wife he followed the 
 grim messenger. All was over; a useful life was ended; a 
 distinguished career terminated in the grave. 
 
36 Address of Mr. Caldwell, of Ohio, on the 
 
 The career of JOHN G. WARWICK fittingly illustrates what 
 can be accomplished in this country of ours. Born on a 
 foreign soil, in County Tyrone, Ireland, he left the unhappy 
 land of his birth before he attained his majority to find in this 
 Republic more incentives for exertion and greater liberty of 
 thought and action. A youth without advantages, a stranger 
 in a strange land, with no means, he made his home in Ohio, 
 engaged in mercantile pursuits, then in mining and farming, 
 amassed a fortune, and died before he had reached the allotted 
 "three score and ten," an honored and respected member of 
 the highest law-making body in the land. 
 
 He accomplished this, Mr. Speaker, because he was a man 
 of determined purpose, who in life knew no such word as 
 "fail." Obstacles could not bar or impediments impede him 
 if i.i the way of the object he desired to attain. Fixed of 
 purpose, strong in his convictions, loyal and devoted in his 
 friendships, loving and tender to wife and family, these were 
 the predominant traits of character which marked his life. 
 
 Well may his people mourn the loss of one whose life contrib 
 uted to the benefit of his kind. Well may his family weep 
 over the desolation of a home his loving, thoughtful care made 
 bright and happy. Well may the nation thus sorrow over the 
 death of a patriot citizen who loved her institutions and con- 
 tributed to her greatness. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. CALDWELL, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: The House does well, even when affairs of 
 state are closely pressing it, to commemorate the virtues of 
 JOHN G. WARWICK. To pay the tribute of love and acknowl- 
 edgement to a public man of his worth is an affair of state. 
 
 He was a part of this House, and the loss to us and to the 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 37 
 
 people when he died was so heavy that the memorial custom 
 which has so long prevailed in this body has emphasis in his 
 case. 
 
 One of the wholesome, indeed essential, elements in our 
 beneficent and successful form of government is unceasing 
 party contention. The life of a republic depends on the 
 existence of political parties. With all men in agreement 
 on all propositions, and with no minority to scrutinize and 
 threaten, and even to mount and ride with power with the 
 people for an army we should have a government no better 
 than the effete systems. Indeed, the more earnest and com- 
 bative the parties within the lines of peace the greater is the 
 safety of the form of government we have chosen, for the peo- 
 ple are thus stimulated to a consideration and understanding 
 of public questions. 
 
 Every true and courageous man admires a partisan he who 
 has earnest convictions with the courage to proclaim them. 
 Who advocates and defends his principles with honesty and 
 enthusiasm is useful as a citizen or as a servant of citizens, no 
 matter to what party he belongs. His virility entitles him to 
 admiration and respect which we can not accord to the shuffler 
 and trimmer. 
 
 The men who settle great questions and truly and honorably 
 lead the people are the men with views and rugged fighting 
 qualities. We have respect for an open, honorable adversary, 
 who meets us point to point and foot to foot, and if defeated 
 bows to the majority like a true American. It is one of the com- 
 pensations of our system that we can shake hands across the 
 party lines. 
 
 It does not require much time for the acute man to penetrate 
 a Democratic or Eepublican uniform and discover a warm heart 
 beating within. No longer, certainly, than it takes to prod the 
 cold, repellent disposition. 
 
38 Address of Mr, Caldwell, of Ohio, on the 
 
 Shakespeare wrote for all time and for all men. He indited 
 words applicable to JOHN G. WARWICK when he describes the 
 prince, who was "framed in the prodigality of nature." Nature 
 was profuse to him with its gifts of sense, ability, devotion to 
 friends, philosophic tolerance of the views of his opponents, and 
 a generosity that was princely and absolutely unaffected. 
 
 Governor WARWICK passed sixty fleeting years on earth. He 
 had almost attained his majority before he came to this country 
 from Ireland, but he was of that composition which rapidly 
 comprehends and appreciates free institutions, and he quickly 
 became a typical American. He had the best education in the 
 principles of popular government that a thoughtful and practi- 
 cal man could have a self-education. 
 
 He differed with many of us in the details of legislation, but 
 on the main issue his position could not be fairly questioned 
 even by a political opponent. He was a patriot, a devoted 
 lover of his country. In his modest way he was a statesman. 
 Statesmanship consists not alone in towering oratory and 
 learned treatment of abstruse constitutional questions; it is 
 a term which ought to embrace the qualities of the man who, 
 from a practical standpoint, perceives the precepts of a good 
 government, and uses every effort, according to the light 
 thrown upon him, to preserve and perpetuate that government. 
 
 Governor WARWICK was a power in any enterprise with 
 which he was associated, in politics, business, or social life. 
 He had great strength in his known soundness of judgment 
 and his unquestionable probity. He always did what he 
 believed to be right, and he was not moved to perform while 
 there was the slightest question in his mind as to the honesty 
 of the enterprise. He was a strong organizer and disciplina- 
 rian. 
 
 When ne became an advocate of a measure in Congress, 
 whether political or not, he was an active advocate. He was 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. ' 39 
 
 sleepless and relentless in promoting what he believed to be 
 good and needful legislation. Once convinced of the justice 
 and propriety of a measure, Governor WARWICK was a most 
 valuable ally. His promise of support did not mean perfunc- 
 tory words and a mere ranging of himself on that side. It 
 meant activity and results. It meant argument, solicitation, 
 and the influence of a man whose own integrity was a recom- 
 mendation for whatever he advocated. 
 
 He was powerful in persuasion. His personal appeals to 
 members were more effective than speeches. Within his party, 
 on political issues, and in all parties on questions that were 
 noupolitical, he was almost irresistible. He was a command- 
 ing man. He believed in using the means legitimately at his 
 command to secure proper results. He had a personality that 
 was imperious when necessary, and gentle when gentleness 
 was the proper method. He was a most valuable man in the 
 organization and discipline of the party to which he was 
 devoted, and the party opposing his views always felt the 
 necessity of alertness when he was in authority. 
 
 He was to a great extent a WARWICK in the histrionic 
 sense. He was the potent agent and desired the promotion 
 of many men, and had much to do with the adoption of doc- 
 trines. He was tenacious. To enlist him in a cause was to 
 prepare to fight it out to the end. He was not a compromiser; 
 he always studied the ground so well and was so moved by 
 his integrity, as well as his judgment, that he was past the 
 compromising point before he entered the fight. 
 
 He was versatile in his methods. He had thoughtful things 
 to say to those who were thoughtful; strong argument for 
 those who were wavering; gentleness for those who were gentle 
 and receptive, and stern command for those who were obsti- 
 nate and obstructive. And, with it all, he earned such a high 
 character for integrity and sense that he generally won on all 
 
 
 
 lines. 
 
40 Address of Mr. Caldwell, of Ohio, on the 
 
 Governor WARWICK was a successful man; success came 
 to him riot as a result of a mere spirit of gain, but as the reward 
 of a wise, liberal, anil unselfish policy. His prosperity was the 
 prosperity of the community in which he lived. His example 
 stimulated other capitalists and employers to do justice. He 
 was a useful man. He developed natural advantages, built 
 up towns, and built up men. His generosity to worthy young 
 men seeking to carve out positions for themselves was one of 
 his most beautiful characteristics. He helped himself and 
 then he helped others. His genius led him on to honorable 
 fortune, and his goodness of heart made others the benefici- 
 aries of his success. 
 
 He once found himself, through his associations with other 
 operators of coal mines, with his employes on a strike where 
 their lack of employment soon left them without means, 
 but they had unlimited credit at the store which the governor 
 conducted. An attempt was made by other employers to 
 discipline him for giving practical aid to the strike,- but he 
 had no sympathy with the starvation policy, and rebelliously 
 declared that the men should have provisions from his store 
 as long as he had any. 
 
 This, Mr. Speaker, was illustrative of the character of 
 Governor WARWICK. He was a business man with whom 
 other business men desired to have associations on account of 
 his sagacity and integrity. But he was not sordid. Money- 
 getting was not the chief end of his life; money was to him 
 something desirable to have for the use there was in it. A 
 colossal fortune in the hands of JOHN G. WARWICK would 
 not have incited the unrest found among the people on account 
 of the concentration of wealth. The cry of plutocrat could find 
 no lodgment against him. What he had was employed for the 
 betterment of the general condition. 
 
 The poorest man in his community was always glad to hear 
 
Life and Character of John G, Warwick. 41 
 
 that he had advanced financially, for that meant better times 
 for all. There could be no better example of frankness than 
 was furnished by the man we are honoring. He was abso- 
 lutely unaffected. He was a plain, straightforward, honest 
 man. He pretended nothing. He knew his compass and kept 
 within it. He spread no sails on unknown seas ; he knew what 
 he could do and he did that well. He selected his sphere of 
 usefulness with unerring judgment and became great in it. 
 
 What he might have been as a public speaker, had educa- 
 tion and circumstances bent his mind in that direction, we can 
 not, of course, tell, but that his work was as effective as ora- 
 tory we know. He brought reason, force, and example to bear. 
 He was gifted in persuasion and power ; he was well fortified 
 to meet either the thinker or the obstinate man. In behalf of 
 a friend or in advocacy of a principle he was a soldier as well 
 as a missionary. His zeal was great, but it was not blind. He 
 knew in what fields to work. In the pursuit of an object he 
 lost no time and he wasted no strength. He had in an emi- 
 nent degree the faculty of knowing how to work in each case 
 where an impression could be made, and where work could be 
 of no avail. 
 
 Members of this House in daily association become impressed 
 with the amenities of life. They discover that in the perform- 
 ance of their duties the acrimonies of party politics are only 
 incidental. They learn that in things really necessary to do in 
 the main, purposes for which they have been sent here, there 
 is a common ground on which all must get together. There are 
 honest differences every day, and in essential matters the 
 antagonists of to-day may, on some other question, be work- 
 ing elbow to elbow to-morrow. 
 
 We meet in common in the committee rooms and are naturally 
 thrown together much in the hours of rest and recreation; 
 under associations of this kind no man can long conceal his 
 
42 Address of Mr, Caldwell, of Ohio, on the 
 
 faults, and no man, however modest, can long obscure his virtues. 
 JOHN G. WARWICK bravely passed this test. In our midst he 
 was an active spirit was a working legislator, who kept 
 abreast of current information; who loved fellowship; who 
 was aggressive in promoting what he believed to be right; 
 who was reciprocal when reciprocity was honorable and consist 
 ent, and who had the highest motives in his acts of kindness. 
 
 Being such a man he was well known to all of us, and 
 knowing him as we did we honor his State, his country, and 
 ourselves as much as we honor him in engaging in this memorial 
 service. 
 
 Death is appalling in its frequency. The thoughtful man 
 must shudder when he recounts the mortality even in this 
 Congress. But, often as it may come, it is a duty we owe to 
 ourselves, to humanity, and to the tenderest sentiments to 
 pause and pay honest and loving tribute to him who has gone 
 before us to an eternity whose unknowableness inspires us 
 with awe. 
 
 We can well spare from the public business time to perform 
 these offices which mark civilization and enlightenment. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, a life is not such a little thing that when it 
 goes out we may discharge it from our memory and go on in 
 uninterrupted worldliness. Death comes with a fresh shock 
 every day. We can not get used to it. We wonder why, 
 when there are so many less fair fields for devastation, it cuts 
 off in the supremacy of his usefulness such a man as JOHN G. 
 WARWICK. But we can only wonder and accept, and derive 
 poor satisfaction from the poet who writes : 
 
 The good die first, 
 
 And those whose hearts are dry as summer's dust 
 Burn to the socket. 
 
 The end of the worthy life of a good man conveys a greater 
 lesson than can be expressed in words. It stimulates the faith 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 43 
 
 of the ardent believer in a blissful future and arrests the cold 
 philosophy of the skeptic. Whatever our reasoning may be, 
 whatever material views we may take of the mystery that 
 closes existence, so far as we know it, we find ourselves cling- 
 ing tenderly, hopefully, and in faith to the thought that there 
 is a better and greater life into which our honored friend has 
 entered. To us left, in a brief battle with things mundane 
 and at best but a span behind him, he leaves a gracious mem- 
 ory. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. BENTLEY, QF NEW YORK. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : It was my good fortune to meet Governor 
 WARWICK in the opening days of the first session of the Fifty- 
 second Congress, and, as I lived at the same hotel with him 
 all through the many months of that season, I enjoyed the 
 rare privilege of a close intimacy and friendship with him. 
 His genial personality and his steadfast integrity commanded 
 the respect of all who enjoyed his acquaintance, while his 
 great kindness of heart and sincerity of purpose and manner 
 strongly intrenched him in the affections of his friends. 
 
 Men of genuine excellence in every station of life; men of 
 industry, of integrity, of high principle, of sterling honesty 
 of purpose, command the spontaneous homage of mankind. 
 It is natural to believe in such men, to have confidence in 
 them, and to imitate them. All that is good in the world is 
 upheld by them, and without their presence in it the world 
 would not be worth living in. 
 
 JOHN G. WARWICK was one of these men. From an hum- 
 ble station in life he went forth to do battle with the world; 
 to carve out a destiny for himself. He was inspired with an 
 earnestness of purpose which was determined to win success. 
 
 Integrity, fidelity, and industry were the strong defenses of 
 
44 Address of Mr. Bentley, of New York, on the 
 
 his early years, and never in all his busy and useful life was 
 his honesty or the purity of his motives questioned. 
 
 Born in Ireland in 1830, he came to this country at the age 
 of 20 years and soon engaged in mercantile business, where 
 his energy, tact, and capacity early placed him in the foremost 
 rank of the business men of the town of his adoption. Iden- 
 tifying himself with various public enterprises, he extended 
 his business relations into the fields of mining, milling, and 
 transportation. He served as a director in several railroads 
 and was one of the chief, promoters of the Cleveland and Mari- 
 etta Eailroad. 
 
 A consistent and aggressive Democrat and always a liberal 
 contributor in means, in counsel, and in effort to the success 
 of his party, he was always reluctant to become a candidate 
 himself for any office, but finally accepted a nomination in 
 1883 for lieutenant-governor of the State of Ohio, and, being 
 elected, he discharged the duties of that high office with a 
 fidelity and ability which justified the confidence of his friends 
 and won the esteem and commendation of his political oppo- 
 nents. 
 
 He was again nominated in 1885,'but shared the defeat which 
 came to the entire Democratic ticket. In 1890 he was nomi- 
 nated for Representative in Congress from the Sixteenth Ohio 
 district as the candidate of the Democratic party against Wil- 
 liam McKinley, jr., and was elected after a contest which was 
 one of the most memorable in the history of Congressional 
 elections. 
 
 Taking his seat in the Fifty-second Congress, he brought to 
 the affairs committed to his charge the intelligent industry 
 and fidelity which always marked his business career. His 
 courage, his strong will, his honesty of purpose, and his frank- 
 ness of speech never left any one in doubt as to the position 
 he occupied upon any public question. 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 45 
 
 No man more strongly possessed the characteristic of 
 unswerving constancy to his friends. Never doubting, never 
 fearing, he was always ready with a strong arm to lean upon, 
 a true heart to confide in, and with instant response to every 
 call that could be made upon his sympathy and devotion. 
 
 There was no room for cant, pretense, or hypocrisy in his 
 nature. His pulse never beat with one false emotion. While 
 we mourn his loss; while we miss his pleasant face, his gentle 
 voice, his kindly manner, and offer our most affectionate trib- 
 utes to his worth and memory, we may well pause at the 
 threshold of the touchingly beautiful home life which has been 
 enshrouded with the impenetrable gloom of a measureless sor- 
 row. 
 
 It was there, in the tranquility of his home, where the spirit 
 of love and duty wisely ruled, where the daily life was honest, 
 sensible, kind, and loving, that he found his highest peace and 
 happiness, and no one knew better than he, from a glad and 
 bright experience, that earth holds no joy so sweet as the quiet 
 contentment, the gentle, winning, confiding love, the serene 
 and hallowed associations that cluster around the idea of home. 
 It was in the daily tenderness and devotion of domestic life 
 that the golden threads were wrought into the texture of his 
 moral character, which gave him calm and peaceful entrance 
 into the "beautiful home of the soul." 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. HOUK, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : I have been exceedingly gratified in listen- 
 ing to the eloquent and beautiful tributes that have been paid 
 to the memory and character of our deceased colleague, Gov- 
 ernor WARWICK. As my acquaintance with him only com- 
 menced with the beginning of this Congress, it was not such 
 
46 Address of Mr. Houk, of Ohio, on the 
 
 as to enable me to depict in such terms as have been employed 
 by the gentlemen who have preceded me the qualities that 
 have Inspired such heartfelt and eloquent eulogies. I have 
 therefore made no special preparation in submitting the few 
 thoughts I have to express on this occasion. 
 
 Governor WARWICK impressed me from my first acquaint- 
 ance with him as a gentleman of great sincerity and simplicity 
 of character, kind in all his impulses, of great personal purity, 
 and sterling integrity. I doubt not he discharged all the 
 duties that were ever imposed upon him, in any of the rela- 
 tions of life, with conscientious and diligent fidelity, and with 
 all the ability with which God had blessed him. 
 
 He was a useful man here. His worth was recognized by 
 all with whom he came in contact. It is fitting that such a 
 memorial ceremony as this, in accordance with the custom 
 that has prevailed here for many years, should be observed. 
 
 A few thoughts have been suggested to me whilst listening 
 to these beautiful tributes to the memory of our departed col- 
 league that I will attempt briefly to express. 
 
 In looking around this Hall of the American House of 
 Representatives, upon these seats, and galleries through 
 which there has been passing a constant, never-ceasing flow 
 of life for more than a quarter of a century, I am reminded of 
 scores of eminent men whom I have known, and who have 
 passed from the arena of terrestrial existence. Three of these 
 distinguished men, Gen. Robert C. Schenck, Clement L. 
 Vallandigham, and Lewis D. Campbell, were my predecessors 
 as Representatives of the Third Congressional district of Ohio 
 on this floor. 
 
 Among those recently deceased may be named ex-President 
 Hayes, James G. Blame, Gen. Butler, Samuel J. Randall, and 
 S. S. Cox, all of whom have left their impress upon the legisla- 
 tive history of the country. This stream of life flowing through 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 47 
 
 this Hall, notwithstanding the constantly recurring withdrawal, 
 one by one, from the membership of the House by death, 
 is ever fall 5 but how forcibly are we reminded, by this ever- 
 shifting scene, of the sublime apothegm of Burke, uttered 
 by that great orator when, during a speech on the hustings, 
 he was informed of the sudden death of his competitor. He 
 at once cut short his speech, gathered up his papers, and 
 exclaimed with touching pathos, "What shadows we are, and 
 what shadows we pursue." 
 
 And are we not all shadows ! Are not those who have gone 
 before us, and who during their terrestrial lives impressed 
 themselves upon the history of the country, and contributed 
 to shape its destinies, the realities ? 
 
 Look upon the portraits of those two immortal patriots that 
 adorn the walls of this Hall. There, sir [pointing to the por- 
 trait of Washington at the right of the Speaker's chair], is a 
 character that is more vividly and widely impressed upon this 
 nationality than any merely human personality has ever been 
 impressed upon any people in human history. Everything 
 around us here recalls the life, the name, and the services of 
 Washington. And does he not still live? Does not the mag- 
 nificent monument in sight of this Hall, that symbolizes the 
 purity and dignity and simplicity of his character, testify to 
 living and will it not testify to coming generations that he 
 still lives ? 
 
 And his companion there [indicating the portrait of Lafay- 
 ette], who illustrated the bravery, the chivalry, the generosity 
 of the French character in coming to assist in the achievement 
 of our national independence, does he not, too, still live in the 
 hearts of the living as he will forever in the hearts of future 
 generations of the American people ? 
 
 Mr. Speaker, there are other gentlemen who have asked 
 and been accorded the privilege of adding their tributes on 
 
48 Address of Mr. Pearson, of Ohio, on the 
 
 this occasion. I will not deprive them of that privilege by the 
 use of any further time. I have only arisen to testify briefly 
 my respect for the memory of this estimable and most pure 
 gentleman, who was the first to be called from the member- 
 ship of the Ohio delegation to the Fifty-second Congress, from 
 the activities of this to the mysteries of the better and more 
 exalted life. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. PEARSON, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : Frequently, indeed, have the members of the 
 Fifty-second Congress been called upon to pay their tribute of 
 respect to the memory of a deceased fellow-member; and while 
 on other occasions I have listened in silence and with interest 
 to the words of praise spoken in behalf of such deceased mem- 
 ber, I can not now preserve a silence which might be construed 
 as a want of respect and love for him in whose honor these 
 ceremonies are held. 
 
 While I had some acquaintance with Hon. JOHN G. WAR- 
 WICK prior to our meeting at the organization of this Congress, 
 yet I did not know of his real, true worth, until we became 
 associated as colleagues from Ohio on the floor of this House. 
 It was here that I learned to not only respect and admire, but 
 to love the man. He was a true, manly man, full of honor and 
 truth, bold and aggressive, yet modest and unassuming; a man 
 of strong convictions, and earnest in maintaining them. 
 
 Governor WARWICK, as he was familiarly called by all who 
 knew him, was loved and respected not only by the people of 
 his Congressional district, but by the people of Ohio generally, 
 and by all who were so fortunate as to know him intimately 
 and well. 
 
 If there was one honorable trait in his character which 
 deserves mention more than the many others it was his true 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 49 
 
 friendship and gratitude. In all my associations with men I do 
 not remember to have met any who surpassed him in this regard; 
 once your friend, your especial friend, you could safely depend 
 upon him under the most trying circumstances. 
 
 What /i lesson the history of his life affords to the youth of 
 our country; born upon Irish soil, he came to America when 
 less than 21 years of age, and, in the midst of strangers, in a 
 strange laud, but in free America, where honor, integrity, and 
 true worth are recognized, unassisted by friends of influence 
 or wealth, he commenced, as it were, the battle of life alone; 
 but by his honesty, his industry, and his untiring energy, he 
 fought his way on and up, until he was elected by the people 
 of his State as lieutenant-governor, and later honored with a 
 seat on the floor of this House, both of which positions he filled 
 with honor to himself and credit to his people. 
 
 Governor WARWICK held many positions of honor and trust, 
 and in all of them it can truthfully be said of him that he 
 discharged his duties faithfully and well ; he realized that, in 
 official position, he was but the servant of the people, and it 
 was their interest he consulted in the discharge of all his duties. 
 It was this devotion to their interest which so endeared him 
 to them. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I well remember the expressions of sorrow 
 heard on every hand when the sad words, "Governor WAR- 
 WICK is dead," reached the people of his adopted State. 
 
 As I have said, they had learned to love and honor him; they 
 recognized in him a true representative of their interest, and 
 hence they felt keenly the loss which, in his death, they sus- 
 tained, and in many an humble home the silent sympathetic 
 tear was shed, and a fervent, earnest prayer was offered for the 
 widow and immediate friends of Governor WARWICK. 
 
 H. Mis. 104 4 
 
50 Address of Mr. Dungan, of Ohio, on the 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. DUNCAN, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : It was an ancient Thracian custom to weep 
 around the cradle and to dance around the grave, mourning 
 over the beginning of this troublous life, and rejoicing over the 
 commencement of a higher life. 
 
 But we are more human in our philosophy, and rejoice when 
 we have the great gift of one to love, and mourn when death 
 claims a friend. And even in the deepest grief, how it comforts 
 the stricken soul to recall the virtues, the kindnesses, the count- 
 less acts of love of the departed. And we do not so much mourn 
 for the dead as we mourn for ourselves, for our loss, for the 
 blank left in our lives. It is as natural to remember as to love, 
 and since the days when David sang of Jonathan, his friend, 
 mankind with one accord has done itself the honor to commem- 
 orate the virtues of the worthy dead. 
 
 To-day we dedicate an hour to the memory of JOHN G. WAR- 
 WICK, of Ohio. Nor do we, his friends, want panegyric, but 
 truth; for in this case the truth is highest eulogy. 
 
 Born in the little town of Grotan, in the County Tyrone, in 
 Ireland, he became an American, not by accident of birth, but 
 by the deliberate act of his young manhood he chose our coun- 
 try for his country, our flag for his flag, and our people for his 
 people. Coming to the United States when 20 years old, he so 
 acclimated himself to our institutions that for years he has been 
 trusted with many public places of honor, connected with the 
 management of the schools and municipal government of his 
 adopted city, as well as in the wider field of State and national 
 action. 
 
 Elected lieutenant-governor of Ohio he presided over the 
 Ohio senate with the dignity of a simple, kindly nature. 
 Afterwards, sent to this Congress in a most memorable con- 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 51 
 
 test with a great national leader of the Eepublican party, and 
 then unanimously chosen as Ohio's member of the national 
 Congressional committee, he remained always the same quiet, 
 earnest gentleman it was his nature to be, and the Democracy 
 of his chosen State never did itself more honor than when 
 it honored such a man. And this generous-hearted man from a 
 generous-hearted race, in making so good an American, never 
 forgot to love and help his fellow-countrymen, for he was not 
 only a splendid American, but a typical warm-hearted Irishman 
 always. 
 
 His character can be easily described by those who knew 
 him, for his life was an open book that might be read of all 
 men. A clear-headed, prudent, but energetic man of affairs, 
 with capacity to grasp the details and the possibilities of many 
 kinds of business, he engaged in labor, in merchandising, in 
 milling, in railroad building and operating, in coal mining, 
 and in farming, and successfully conducted them all. His 
 pronounced personal qualities were honesty, modesty, simplic- 
 ity, sympathy, and generosity. 
 
 Can another star be added to such a crown! 
 
 Sincere and unassuming, full of kindness for the humblest 
 man he met, kindness that not only felt, but helped ; trusted 
 by the rich and loved by the poor, none had ever sincerer, sadder 
 mourners than he; one instance will show at once his kindness, 
 his manly independence, and his simplicity. During a strike 
 that stopped work at all the mines in his region, his own 
 amongst them, he was requested to attend a meeting of the 
 mine owners, and was there asked what he meant by supply- 
 ing strikers with provisions from his stores during a strike. 
 u Why," said he, "those people have dealt with me long, and 
 always paid me; they have worked for me, and will again, 
 and if I don't trust them for provisions where can they get 
 any?" and that settled the matter. 
 
52 Address of Mr. Dung an, of Ohio, on the 
 
 The nation and the world have often to pause to say, 
 " We have lost a great man," but we to-day do more than that. 
 We stop the business of this House to mourn the loss of a 
 good man a true man. 
 
 To say more of JOHN WARWICK than is true would simply 
 be to insult the memory of the man, himself so true. 
 
 But this much was just to say, and while we have all heard 
 such memorial exercises lightly spoken of, I yet maintain that 
 they have their high use to the living. 
 
 After the white blamelessness of sixty-two years of active, 
 earnest, almost faultless life, he leaves a memory fully fit to be 
 cherished. 
 
 The legend of St. Humbert is that that good man was buried 
 with a green branch lying on his breast, and when a hundred 
 years afterward they chanced to open his grave they found the 
 body had become dust, but the fair branch, un withered, still 
 kept its perennial green. So with good men. They die and 
 their bones turn to ashes, but long in the hearts of their friends 
 the memories of the good they wrought abide imperishable. 
 " For though dead they do live again. Their lives live after 
 them." And it is well to stand for an hour by this bier and 
 speak to each other of the dead, for there surely are men who 
 when dead still live " to make the next age better than the 
 last." 
 
 And the lives of many people are better happier, and there- 
 fore better because of JOHN G. WARWICK'S life. 
 
 We are better because we knew him, and we may be very 
 sure that in the eternal mystery of death he can not be else 
 than enjoying the reward of a life so full of good deeds done 
 in the body. 
 
 We may not know where the loved who leave us go 
 
 But this Ave know : Our loved and dead, if they should come this day, 
 Should come and ask us, " What is life ? " not one of us could say. 
 Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be ; 
 Yet, oh, how sweet it ia to us, this life we live and see. 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 53 
 
 Then might they say, those vanished ones, and blessed is the thought, 
 
 " So deatli is sweet to us, beloved, though we may tell you naught; 
 
 We may not tell it to the quick, this mystery of death ; 
 
 Ye can not tell us, if ye would, the mystery of breath." 
 
 The child who enters life comes not with knowledge or intent; 
 
 So those who enter death must go as little children sent. 
 
 Nothing is known. But I believe that God is overhead, 
 
 And as life is sweet to the living, so death is to the dead. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. DONOVAN, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: It is not inappropriate that I, a native of 
 the State of his adoption, should pay my tribute of respect 
 and affection to the memory of him whose presence within its 
 borders for so many years did so much to make it a greater, a 
 better, and a happier Commonwealth. His many noble quali- 
 ties, his lofty understanding of his responsibilities, and his 
 earnest endeavor to discharge promptly all his obligations 
 will not soon be forgotten by the good people of Ohio, many 
 of whom were the beneficiaries of his kindness and generosity, 
 and all of whom, with bowed heads and aching hearts, lay 
 their garlands of pathos and sorrow on the hallowed tomb of 
 JOHN G. WARWICK. 
 
 I first became personally acquainted with him at the organ- 
 ization of the present Congress, and although he was 29 years 
 older than I, a lasting friendship soon sprang up between us. 
 1 learned to admire the sturdy virtue, the persistent energy, 
 and the unflinching honesty of my friend and colleague. 
 
 He was born and reared in the sacred land of my ancestors, 
 and possessed the frankness, generosity, and courage charac- 
 teristic of the Irish race. His abhorrence of despotism and 
 his love of our free country and its institutions, impelled him 
 at the age of 20 years to bid farewell to his native isle and 
 
54 Address of Mr. Donovan, of Ohio, on the 
 
 seek a home in a land where kings do not rule by the grace of 
 God. 
 
 He possessed good judgment and business sagacity in an 
 eminent degree, which, with his gentlemanly deportment and 
 unquestioned honesty, soon made him a favorite in social 
 circles and a prominent man in commercial affairs. He 
 believed that in our system politics and the economic problems 
 involved therein are inseparably connected with our business 
 and social life; and he deemed it not only a privilege to -be 
 enjoyed, but a sacred duty to be discharged, that every good 
 citizen should be well informed on all questions of civil gov- 
 ernment and political economy, affecting the welfare of the 
 people and the safety of the Eepublic. 
 
 Mr. WARWICK was a thorough Democrat and labored zeal- 
 ously and effectively for the ascendency of the principles of 
 the party with which he affiliated, and in which he had an abid- 
 ing faith. He was a consistent but not a bitter partisan, and 
 believed that while a candidate for public office should be loyal 
 to his party, a public officer should be loyal to the people. 
 
 It is not surprising that such a man should be sought as a 
 political leader; indeed it would be surprising if he were not 
 so sought. In the year 1883 Mr. WARWICK was nominated 
 by the Democracy of Ohio for lieutenant-governor, and was 
 elected. As presiding officer of the Ohio senate he was 
 patient, fair, and just, and won the confidence and esteem of the 
 members of that body irrespective of party affiliations. 
 
 After one of the fiercest and most memorable campaigns in 
 the history of Congressional elections, Mr. WARWICK was 
 elected in the year 1890 to represent the Sixteenth district 
 of Ohio in the Congress of the United States. During the 
 all toe short time that he served as a member of this body 
 he proved himself an active worker, a prudent legislator, a 
 patriotic citizen, and an honest official. His associates and 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick, 55 
 
 co workers on both sides of this Chamber join me in bearing 
 witness that our lamented colleague deserved all the encomi- 
 ums that have been pronounced on him and was worthy of all 
 that has been said eulogistic of his many virtues. 
 
 No greater panegyric can be delivered on any man than to 
 say that he is an honest American citizen. JOHN Gr. WAR- 
 WICK was an honest citizen of this great Republic, and for his 
 indubitable loyalty to it the people of the whole country owe 
 a debt of gratitude to him, the sanctity of whose ashes is pre- 
 served by commingling with its sacred soil. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. OUTHWAITE, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : So much has already been said to commem- 
 orate the virtues and perpetuate the good name of our late 
 colleague that I feel unprepared to make any important addi- 
 tional contribution to these ceremonies. But my high esteem 
 for Mr. WARWICK and my sense of the loss which this House 
 and the State of Ohio sustained in his death impel me to add a 
 few sentences of tribute to his memory. 
 
 Before he came here as a Representative of one -of the most 
 progressive, prosperous, and intelligent constituencies in Ohio 
 he had won a high place among the citizens of the whole State. 
 He was a self-made man who had impressed upon his neigh- 
 bors and a wide circle of acquaintances the forceful integrity 
 of his character. With but the ordinary groundwork of an 
 education in his youth, by a careful and a zealous course of 
 
 reading he had amassed a wonderful store of general informa- 
 tion. 
 
 He was a close student of history and fond of English liter- 
 ature. He had collected a choice library as he pursued 
 his work of self-edueation, and had learned how to use it to 
 
56 Address of Mr. Outhi&aite, of Ohio, on the 
 
 the best advantage. He was remarkably full of statistical 
 information, especially such as related to important political 
 questions. To facts concerning the promotion of the industries 
 of mining and manufactures he had given much attention, 
 and was a close observer of the operations of commerce. 
 
 To the learning found in books he had the valuable experi- 
 ence which comes from contact with all sorts and conditions 
 of men. He was a large employer of labor, and had the con- 
 stant regard of those in his employ. He had also received the 
 general culture which comes to men as a result of travel, for 
 he had visited many parts of this country, and met leading 
 men in all the channels of life, as well as visited his native 
 land and other portions of Europe. The story of his success- 
 ful life is one of simplicity. 
 
 Starting in business life as a clerk in a little country dry- 
 goods store, he became in mature years prominent in mercantile 
 pursuits, as well as the operator of considerable coal mines, 
 the promoter of manufacturing enterprises, and the owner 
 of extensive farms. He gave to every work he undertook 
 the most careful attention and zealous industry. He owed 
 his success to thi.s fact, and the further fact that his native 
 prudence, sagacity, and industry was supplemented by the 
 strictest integrity and fidelity to his obligations. These char- 
 acteristics of his private life were intensified when he came 
 to the performance of his public duties. 
 
 When lieutenant-governor of Ohio he held the respect of 
 every member of the senate by the fairness of his rulings and 
 his unfailing courtesy. When he entered the Halls of this 
 Congress he came well equipped with information upon public 
 affairs, anxious for the success of the political principles he 
 adhered to, a prudent adviser upon party measures, and full 
 of the patriotic purpose that all he should seek to do might 
 be for the welfare and prosperity of the whole country and 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 57 
 
 the happiness of all the inhabitants thereof. He made no 
 pretensions to oratory, but in assemblies of citizens, in con- 
 ventions and municipal bodies he often talked forcefully and 
 fluently. His manner of speech was plain, blunt, cogent, and 
 condensed. He made a sort of sledge-hammer presentation of 
 cold facts and strong arguments. 
 
 During his last memorable campaign, which resulted in his 
 election to Congress over the Hon. William McKinley, the 
 only personal opposition urged against him was that he could 
 not make a speech. At a great meeting of his party where 
 he was present on the stand, held in one of the cities of the 
 district, such cries were shouted. Mr. WARWICK deliberately 
 came forward upon the platform facing the vast audience from 
 whence such challenge had come and unmercifully rebuked 
 this unbecoming treatment and proved his ability to talk to 
 the point in a very few moments. After his election he made 
 a trip to the Pacific coast, and while in San Francisco he was 
 tendered a reception by a vast concourse of generous Califor- 
 nians. Upon this occasion he made an address upon public 
 questions which was widely and favorably commented upon. 
 
 Mr. WARWICK was a thoroughly domestic man, fond of the 
 retirement of his own home circle, and yet he delighted in the 
 companionship of other men, had a lively sense of humor, and 
 was a good listener. He enjoyed good stories and had a fund 
 of them from which he drew to illustrate, entertain, or instruct. 
 He was always a true friend, and was noted for his kind ways 
 and benevolence. The affection felt for him in his home city 
 was general, and his name was frequently sought to head sub- 
 scription papers of a charitable or benevolent character. The 
 poor of his city were greatly indebted to him and warmly 
 cherished his memory. 
 
 Let me repeat one instance of his generous wisdom. Once, 
 when a strike was going on at one of his mines, fully con- 
 
58 Address of Mr. Gantz, of Ohio, on the 
 
 vinced of the correctness and justness of bis own position, he 
 could not forget that the families of his employes might suffer 
 while the questions of difference were under discussion and the 
 men without work and wages, and he sent them flour and grocer- 
 ies. In the end they yielded to his views. At his funeral 
 many hundreds of these same miners stood with uncovered 
 heads for about an hour in the hot sun to pay tribute to his 
 memory, while here and there tears moistened the eyes of 
 these true mourners for the loss of such a friend, a just tribute 
 to the good heart of our late colleague. He has earned a 
 golden page in the history of this country. 
 
 . ADDRESS OF MR. GANTZ, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : The life and character of the late JOHN G. 
 WARWICK have been so appropriately and eloquently presented 
 by those who have preceded me in these memorial services that 
 there seems to be nothing for me to add, yet I desire to pay 
 tribute to the memory of my late colleague and friend. I first 
 made his acquaintance about ten years ago at the time that he 
 was a candidate for the office of lieutenant-governor of the 
 State of Ohio, and I was then much impressed by his undaunted 
 courage, his sincerity, and his lofty integrity. Fearlessly he 
 advocated his views and the tenets of his party, and by his 
 earnest, sincere manner he proved to be a tower of strength in 
 the political contest of 1883. 
 
 While not an orator, he exerted a remarkable influence, for 
 his positive manner and frankness of speech carried conviction 
 everywhere. He was not reared in the lap of luxury, but 
 unaided he fought his way step by step, until by unremitting 
 toil he attained wealth and honor. He filled the position of 
 lieutenant-governor with great credit to himself and his State, 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 59 
 
 and in the fall of 1890 was elected as a member of the Fifty- 
 second Congress. 
 
 Serving with him during the first session of that Congress I 
 became better acquainted with him, and learned to honor and 
 admire him for his rugged honesty, devotion to his friends, and 
 the many manly virtues which he possessed. 
 
 There never was a more generous friend, and all who knew 
 him will join me in bearing testimony that his was a faithful, 
 enduring friendship. 
 
 Strong to his likes and dislikes, he was an earnest, forcible 
 champion of the cause of a friend, but always fair and honor- 
 able in dealing with an opponent. 
 
 The people of Ohio had the fullest confidence in this plain 
 man, and it was with profound sorrow that they heard of his 
 death. It has been truthfully said that the sorrow for the 
 dead is one from which we refuse to be divorced, but I believe 
 that the poignancy of that sorrow is and should be lessened 
 and relieved by the consolatory knowledge that the departed 
 one filled his mission on earth as God intended, and that the 
 world is better for his having lived. 
 
 I am fully convinced that my friend and colleague always 
 endeavored to do his duty earnestly and honestly, and that he 
 was inspired in all his actions by motives of justice, patriotism, 
 and purity; and certain it is that he missed no opportunity to 
 make others happy. There can be no better test of a man's 
 merit than the esteem in which he is held in the home circle, 
 and in this Mr. WARWICK was everything that a loving and 
 devoted husband and father could be, and enshrined himself 
 in the hearts of his family so that time will not efface therefrom 
 the memory of him who is absent, but not forgotten. 
 
 Any description that I could give of the many good and 
 noble traits of character of the deceased would be incommen- 
 surate with the merits of him whom we all loved, and in whom 
 
60 Address of Mr. Harter, of Ohio, on the 
 
 all who knew him had implicit confidence. But JOHN G. 
 WARWICK is no more, and while we miss him in this Cham- 
 ber, he is also missed in the State of Ohio, and because he 
 was a kind father and a loving husband, he is sadly missed in 
 the home circle; but we may all be comforted in some degree, 
 because we know he has left behind him an honorable record 
 and a noble name. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. HARTER, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : It is a privilege to be allowed to speak, even 
 if very briefly, of the man whose life and character are now 
 before the House for truthful comment and therefore for eulogy, 
 for the truth about JOHN GEORGE WARWICK necessarily 
 takes the form of commendation and the tone of eulogy. I 
 shall not ask much of your time, as a more complete review of 
 his career is very properly within the privilege of the honora- 
 ble gentleman who, coming from the same State, now repre- 
 sents the district which sent Mr. WARWICK to the Congress 
 of the United States. 
 
 Born in the same county in which Mr. Warwick spent over 
 forty years of his life, my knowledge of the man and familiarity 
 with his career continued down to the hour of his death. 
 
 The private life, social character, and business relations of a 
 man largely indicate what will be his career after being called 
 into the public service, and brief and untimely as was the 
 record of Mr. WARWICK at Washington it promised to bear all 
 the fruit which a pure life and an honorable career among his 
 Ohio neighbors, beginning away back in 1850, foreshadowed. 
 
 In all the years I knew him I never heard him charged with 
 falsehood or dishonesty; the head of a large business, con- 
 stantly connected with important enterprises, he won the name 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 61 
 
 of an upright merchant and an honorable and capable admin- 
 istrator of trusts, and when death reached him he enjoyed the 
 confidence and held as firmly as any other part of his estate 
 the esteem of those who knew him best. 
 
 No trait in his character was more distinctly apparent than 
 a sympathy for others, which was almost boundless, and which 
 in his long life showed itself in numberless deeds of kindly 
 charity. In the city in which he lived he will be long missed 
 by the poor and the unfortunate, and his place among the 
 prosperous can not easily be filled. So far as he saw his duty 
 before him, he did it, and more can not be said of any man; 
 and happy will be those we leave behind us if, when the time 
 comes for writing our epitaphs, so fair a scroll can be placed 
 upon our tombs as the most unflattering and least eloquent of 
 
 his friends here in this House declare to be due to JOHN G. 
 WARWICK. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. SCOTT, OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : The grim destroyer does not respect persons 
 in reaping his rich harvest. When he cut down the Hon. JOHN 
 G. WARWICK, of Ohio, he took one of nature's noblemen. 
 
 A brief acquaintance during the first session of this Congress 
 was sufficient to enable me to estimate fully his high character. 
 It was impossible to come in but casual contact with this true 
 man without becoming his sincere admirer. 
 
 He was chairman of one of the committees on which I had 
 the honor to serve. In this capacity I came in close contact 
 with him and we became fast friends. If to know him so briefly 
 and yet to form so strong an attachment for him, what must 
 have been the enduring relation existing with those with whom 
 he associated for a lifetime? 
 
62 Address of Mr.Bretz, of Indiana, on the 
 
 Coming into Congress as a new member, he at once assumed 
 that station to which his natural abilities, strengthened by long 
 public service in his State, entitled him. Ever true and loyal 
 to his friends he had their closest confidence. He was always 
 ready to serve them to the extent of his ability. Having trav- 
 eled extensively and being a great reader, he was fully abreast 
 of the times in which he lived. 
 
 This tribute, though brief, is yet meant to express a sincere 
 admiration for one who in life was an upright, able, and digni- 
 fied gentleman. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. BRETZ, OF INDIANA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: As the successor of Governor WARWICK on 
 -one of the important committees of this House, I come to offer 
 my tribute of respect to the departed. 
 
 Of his life and character in detail I know nothing. My first 
 acquaintance with him was formed at the assembling of the 
 Fifty- second Congress, and as the first session of that Con- 
 gress progressed my acquaintance with Governor WARWICK 
 grew more and more intimate. 
 
 As has been said of him, he was not quick to put himself 
 upon intimate terms of friendship with new acquaintances ; 
 but his force of character so impressed those with whom h 
 came in contact that it was a pleasure to seek and cultivate 
 his friendship. He was a man possessed of sterling qualities, 
 frank and positive in all he said or did, and it is no great sur- 
 prise that he rose, in a short life, from a penniless boy with a 
 limited education to a man of some means, and attained the 
 high distinctions he did in the political arena. So forcible 
 were these rare qualities of sturdy honesty that he was 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 63 
 
 accorded positions on committees by the Speaker of this House 
 rarely attained by new members. 
 
 The news of his untimely death was a great surprise to me, 
 when I remembered that it had been but a day or two since I 
 had left him in this city to go to my home, at the end of a 
 long session of Congress, apparently in vigorous health; but 
 the shock produced by the news of the death of our friends is 
 sometimes somewhat lessened when we remember that many 
 thousand* years ago it was truthfully said: 
 
 "Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He 
 coraeth forth as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and 
 continueth not." '" Thus wastes man ! To-day he puts forth the tender 
 leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, and bears his blushing honors thick 
 upon him ; the next day comes a frost, which nips the shoot, and when he 
 thinks his greatness is still aspiring, he falls, like autumn leaves, to enrich 
 our mother earth." 
 
 So it was with the deceased j while engrossed with the busy 
 work of this life he was stricken down and suddenly there was 
 heard the rustle of a wing and the soul of our esteemed col- 
 league took its flight into eternity. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, no eulogy we can now pronounce upon his life 
 can add anything to his already well-made record. His name 
 and fame will adorn the pages of the history of his State, and 
 when the historian recites in after years the past events of this 
 great nation, the name of JOHN r. WARWICK will not be 
 missing. 
 
 His deeds are aecomplished, his name inscribed on the Book 
 of Life ; peace be to his memory ; green be the grave where 
 sleeps our departed friend. Let us hope that he is better off 
 than those of us who survive him. 
 
64 Address of Mr. Haynes, of Ohio, on the 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. HAYNES, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : At the close of the first session of the pres- 
 ent Congress I parted with my friend and colleague, JOHN G. 
 WARWICK, in this city. At that time he was seemingly in 
 good health and spirits, and told me somewhat of his plans 
 and purposes on returning to his home after the adjournment 
 of Congress. 
 
 The district which he so ably represented having been 
 changed after his election to the Fifty-second Congress it 
 seemed to our friend that there was no important public nor 
 party necessity demanding that he should make further sac- 
 rifice of his business interests, and he had, several months 
 prior to his death, advised his personal and party friends that 
 he would not be a candidate for reelection as Representative. 
 
 He was satisfied and happy in the thought that he could 
 hereafter devote his time, means, and energy to developing 
 and promoting business enterprises which he believed would 
 greatly benefit, not only himself, but the people generally of 
 his town and district. 
 
 A few days after our parting it was with deep sorrow and 
 regret that I learned of Mr. WARWICK'S illness and sudden 
 death in this city. 
 
 I had known Mr. WARWICK personally for many years, and 
 intimately since 1883, when he was the nominee of his party 
 for lieutenant-governor of Ohio on the ticket with George 
 Hoadly for governor. He was elected by a large majority, 
 his popularity especially with the labor vote of the State aid- 
 ing materially in the success of the ticket. He made an envi- 
 able record as lieutenant-governor of the State and president 
 of the senate, retiring with the good will and esteem, not only 
 of his party friends, but of his political opponents. 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 65 
 
 Mr. WARWICK was a man of marked character and ability. 
 Coming to this country when a young man of about 20 years of 
 age, possessing nothing more than an honest heart and willing 
 hands, he made his way to honor, distinction, and wealth. 
 
 In the discharge of his public duties, as well as in the manage- 
 ment of his business affairs, he left the impress of his individu- 
 ality on all his undertakings and his associates. 
 
 A kindly, genial gentleman; courageous, loyal, and true to 
 his friends and trusts, positive in his convictions and earnest 
 in the defense and support of party and personal friends. He 
 was also a man of exceedingly kind feelings and impulses; gen- 
 erous, charitable, sincere, and earnest, he intended to do what 
 was right to friends and opponents. 
 
 Mr. WARWICK was devoted and loyal to the political party 
 with which he affiliated. He was a man of positive and strong 
 convictions on questions of public or party policy, and always 
 careful, painstaking, thoughtful, and efficient in the discharge 
 of all public duties. 
 
 He represented his constituency faithfully and well ; his good 
 judgment, industry, and interest in the duties pertaining to a 
 member of this House made him a valuable associate to his col- 
 leagues in this Congress. 
 
 While it is not my purpose to recount the details of the 
 life of our friend leaving to others to speak of his early life; 
 his great labor and struggle to overcome the difficulties that 
 surrounded his youth and early manhood; of his success in 
 business; of his generosity and charity; of his happy home 
 life and surroundings; the good will and confidence of his 
 neighbors I wish only to add that Mr. WARWICK has been 
 identified with the business interests of his city and district 
 for many years, always contributing his full proportion of 
 money, time, and labor to the development and prosperity of 
 the community. 
 
 H. Mis. 104 5 
 
66 Address of Mr. Doan, of Ohio, on the 
 
 He was recognized iii his city and district as a successful 
 business man of great ability, respected and trusted implicitly 
 by all, and the trusted friend and counselor of his neighbors 
 and friends a trust that was never betrayed. 
 
 I attended the burial of our friend and colleague, in the beau- 
 tiful cemetery in the busy and enterprising city of Massillon, 
 his home for many years. The shops, mines, and business 
 places were closed, all work was suspended, and the long lines 
 of workingmen, mechanics, miners, and citizens, who had 
 stopped their labor and assembled to attest their respect and 
 sorrow at the death of their friend who had, for many years, 
 been their adviser and counselor, and their sympathy for the 
 wife and son who had been bereft of a loving and devoted hus- 
 band and father, told to all who were present that a man loved, 
 honored, and respected had passed away forever. 
 
 Mr. OUTHWAITE. Mr. Speaker, other gentlemen desired to 
 speak on this occasion, but are detained by illness or other 
 causes. I therefore ask unanimous consent for leave to print, 
 and that these gentlemen be allowed to submit their remarks. 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Mr. OUTHWAITE. I move the adoption of the resolutions. 
 
 The motion was agreed to. 
 
 Accordingly, in pursuance of the terms of the resolutions, 
 the House (at 5 o'clock and 20 minutes p. m.) adjourned until 
 Monday, February 20, 1893, at 11 o'clock a. m. 
 
 ADDRESS OF HON. ROBERT E. DOAN, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: We have all been shocked and pained at 
 the mortality among members of the two branches of Con- 
 gress. How true it is that 
 
 To our graves we walk 
 In the thick footsteps of departed men. 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 67 
 
 During the Fifty-second Congress fourteen members have 
 been called to lay down life's burdens and answer the eternal 
 roll call. Had the custom prevailed in this House of wearing 
 the usual emblem of mourning for thirty days, we would 
 have had a constant reminder that death is in our midst, and 
 that this is indeed a house of mourning. 
 
 What a deep, sad lesson is conveyed to us in such a solemn 
 hour as this. When old age has dimmed the bright luster 
 of an active mind, when the zenith of capacity has been reached 
 and passed, and we near the foot of life's hill, we bow in 
 submission to nature's claims. But we stand with awe in 
 the presence of death, when lips are silent that but yesterday 
 pleaded with the impassioned eloquence of strong manhood, 
 or when its withering touch fells to the bier a man in the full 
 possession of all his powers, busied in the ceaseless activity 
 of a useful life. 
 
 What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. 
 
 How forcible, how significant, how impressive are the words 
 of Watts, as they come ringing in our ears: 
 
 Princes, this clay must be your bed, 
 
 In spite of all your towers ; 
 The tall, the wise, the reverend head 
 
 Must lie as low as ours. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, the life of JOHN Gr. WARWICK on earth is ended. 
 His friends and country are left to mourn his loss. 
 
 Death can move from earth our friend, blot out all physical 
 existence, but it is powerless to destroy the results of his labor, 
 the impressions he has left, the good he has accomplished. 
 
 These are legacies of glory over which death has no power. 
 In the well-directed life they comfort us like a living presence, 
 and grow brighter and brighter as we descend the hill of life to 
 sleep at its foot. 
 
68 Address of Mr. Doan, of Ohio, on the 
 
 While there is 110 mystery like death, there is no theme so 
 sublime and grand as immortality. Blessed truth ! 
 
 Fruits fall to the earth and decay, but never a fruit that did not leave 
 its seed, and never a life that did not leave its example. 
 
 The sun of man's life goes down, but the star of his example 
 remains in the firmament. The sun may set in the western sky 
 amid the storms of earth, but it leaves a legacy of glory to the 
 very clouds that obstruct its setting, speaking a language to 
 our souls of a brighter day, a resurrection day, a coronation 
 day, when God will gather His jewels in the eternal sunlight 
 of His love. 
 
 Governor WARWICK was a Democrat of the old school. He 
 was a thorough disciplinarian; he was honest, conscientious, 
 sincere, and true to a fault. What he advocated he believed, 
 and his very sincerity made you his friend. The demagogue 
 he despised. The basis of his political action was that of 
 absolute justice, and his motto was "That it were better to fail 
 in the right than succeed in the wrong." While you differed 
 with him politically, you admired his frankness and probity. 
 
 In all his official acts as a member of the House, upon the 
 floor, in committee, or in debate, he was the same sincere, can- 
 did, manly man. In his death the country has lost a faithful 
 public servant the members of the House a conscientious 
 co-worker in every department of legislation. As a citizen 
 he had the respect of those who knew him best, without re- 
 gard to party affiliations. As a neighbor he was obliging; as 
 a friend to the poor he was large-hearted, liberal, kind, and 
 true. No deserving man was ever turned away from his door 
 empty-handed. While he was firm and positive in his busi- 
 ness matters and in his convictions of right and duty, he was 
 nevertheless gentle in his disposition and ever anxious to add 
 to the " sum of human joy." 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 69 
 
 I have not risen, Mr. Speaker, to deliver a eulogy on the 
 deceased statesman. I shall not attempt to sketch the honor- 
 able steps by which he ascended to distinction in his own State, 
 and obtained the confidence of all as a member upon this floor. 
 That has been well and appropriately done by his colleagues 
 and friends in this House. The deceased has made that task 
 easy for 
 
 The record of a noble life is that life's best eulogy ; the history of the deeds 
 of worthy men their most lasting epitaph. 
 
 I have risen simply to say a word or two in behalf of a worthy 
 colleague from my own State of Ohio, and to render a tribute 
 to his memory that is so justly deserved. In the general sor- 
 row over his untimely death, I want to add the deep feeling of 
 my own heart and drop a tear of sympathy and sorrow with 
 those who loved him best in his own State and in his own home. 
 
 In these lessons remember God speaks, and 
 
 To the dead He sayeth : Arise ! 
 
 To the living : Follow me ! 
 And that voice still sounding on 
 From the centuries that are gone, 
 
 To the centuries that shall be ! 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE. 
 
 ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH. 
 
 DECEMBER 8, 1892. 
 
 Mr. BRICE, of Ohio. Mr. President, I ask that the resolu- 
 tions of the House of Representatives in regard to the death 
 of my late colleague in that body be laid before the Senate. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate 
 resolutions from the House of Representatives, which will be 
 read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, December 6, 1892. 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of the death 
 of Hon. JOHN G. WARWICK, late a Representative from the State of Ohio. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk be directed to communicate a copy of these res- 
 olutions to the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to his memory the House do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 Mr. BRICE. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which I 
 send to the desk. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolutions will be read. 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep regret the announcement 
 of the death of the Hon. JOHN G. WARWICK, late a Representative from 
 the State of Ohio. 
 
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72 Proceedings in the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate this resolution to the House 
 of Representatives. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased the 
 Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 Mr. BRICE. Mr. President, at some future time I shall ask 
 that a day be fixed when appropriate tributes may be paid to 
 the memory and services of my late colleague in the other 
 House. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the 
 resolutions submitted by the Senator from Ohio. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to unanimously; and (at 1 o'clock 
 and 2 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until Monday 
 December 12, 1892, at 12 o'clock meridian. 
 
EULOGIES. 
 
 MARCH 3, 1893. 
 
 Mr. BRICE. Mr. President, I desire to call up the resolution 
 of the House of Representatives relative to the death of Hon. 
 JOHN G. WARWICK. 
 
 The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the 
 Senate the resolutions of the House of Representatives, which 
 will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows : 
 
 IK THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, February 18, 1898. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended that oppor, 
 tunity may be given for tributes to the memory of the Hon. JOHN G. 
 WARWICK, lately a Representative from the State of Ohio. 
 
 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased, and in recognition of his eminent abilities as a distinguished 
 public servant, the House, at the conclusion of these memorial proceed- 
 ings, shall stand adjourned. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk be instructed to send a copy of these resolu- 
 tions to the family of the deceased. 
 
 Mr. BRICE. I offer the resolutions which I send to the desk, 
 and ask that they be read. 
 
 The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolutions will be read. 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the announce- 
 ment of the death of Hon. JOHN G. WARWICK, late a Representative from 
 the State of Ohio, and tender to the relatives of the deceased the assur- 
 ance of their sympathy with them under the bereavement they have been 
 called to sustain. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be directed to transmit to 
 the family of Mr. WARWICK a certified copy of the foregoing resolution. 
 
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74 Address of Mr. Brice, of Ohio, on the 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. BRICE, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: Iii paying tribute I can but indicate a 
 portion of the respect and honor in which, in common with 
 our people, I personally held the late Representative WAR- 
 WICK. I can not, under the circumstances which now sur- 
 round us, properly convey to you or to the Senate the full 
 measure of his worth as a man, a citizen, a friend, and a Rep- 
 resentative. We have now reached that stage in the session 
 which deprives me of the opportunity and the power to 
 express what I myself feel. 
 
 He was my friend for many long years. He was a represent- 
 ative citizen of our State for more than thirty years and one 
 of its best known public men for more than one-half that 
 period. He died in the confidence of his neighbors and friends. 
 He died in the full vigor of his life, after he had been victor 
 in a memorable contest which had made his name, for the 
 time at least, national. The result of that contest placed him 
 in the House of Representatives and put him in such a position 
 in that body as fixed its attention upon him 7 upon his talent, 
 upon his bearing, upon his character. He bore well in every 
 respect that scrutiny, and he had not been a member many 
 months until he was honored, admired, respected, and loved 
 there as he had been at his home and among his people. 
 
 Mr. President, on August 14 of the present year the Hon. 
 JOHN G. WARWICK, a Representative in Congress from the 
 State of Ohio, died at the Riggs House, in this city. His ill- 
 ness was of short duration, and the deceased himself was the 
 first to become aware of his approaching end. The members 
 of his immediate family had been summoned, and in his 
 expiring moments he had the' consolation found in the presence 
 of those who had been dearest to him in life. 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 75 
 
 The memory of Congressman WARWICK as a public man 
 and as a private citizen is still fresh, and yet it will be a mel- 
 ancholy pleasure to recall the incidents of his memorable 
 career. He was a marked type of the public-spirited citizen, 
 and his kindly generosity in the affairs of life deserve a higher 
 praise than I am able to bestow upon this occasion. 
 
 JOHN GEORGE WARWICK was born in County Tyrone, Ire- 
 laud, December 23, 1830. His father was a merchant. In 1850 
 he came to the United States, and, after a short sojourn in 
 Philadelphia, removed to Starke County, Ohio. In this com- 
 munity for forty years he found the scene of his life's endeavor. 
 
 In no man's history can the possibilities of energy and busi- 
 ness integrity find a more striking example. First he became 
 engaged as clerk in a dry goods store, and by perseverance 
 and industry finally entered into business for himself upon a 
 small scale. He possessed the shrewdness and tact charac- 
 teristic of the people of his birth, together with a directness 
 of purpose and skill in management which advanced him rap- 
 idly in the pursuit which he had chosen. His experience as 
 clerk in a country store gave him an insight into human 
 nature and a knowledge of the plain and rugged side of life, the 
 impressions of which lasted until death. In the conduct of 
 his affairs he was undeceived by pomp and ostentation, and 
 always had a friendly hand extended in aid of deserving need. 
 
 When be had fairly established his footing in the community 
 which he adopted as his permanent home he found himself 
 able to embark in more ambitious enterprises. He gradually 
 invested in many undertakings, and was remarkably success- 
 ful in them all. During his career he was not only active in 
 several large railroads, but was an extensive miller. His coal 
 mining interests were large, and he gave much attention to 
 his farms. The great secret of his life's success was his punc- 
 tilious adherence to every obligation, and his enthusiastic 
 
76 Address of Mr. Brice, of Ohio, on the 
 
 and unchanging devotion to every enterprise into which he 
 entered. 
 
 It was not in business affairs, however, that he exclusively 
 took mental exercise. While a young man he had devoted 
 himself eagerly to the study of American and English history, 
 and in after life he was an authority upon nearly every event 
 relating to the two countries whose annals he had so carefully 
 studied in his youth. The diversion of reading was one of the 
 fixed habits of his life, and the newspapers of the day were 
 always to be found at his hand. It is not surprising that he 
 was invariably abreast of the current of public affairs. 
 
 While building up his private business Mr. WARWICK did 
 not seek political distinction. This came to him later in life, 
 when he had more leisure and a greater opportunity to give 
 attention to outside interests. He had accepted some local 
 offices of minor importance, but it was not until 1883 that he 
 became a well-known figure in the politics of his State. In 
 that year he was nominated by the Democrats and elected 
 lieutenant-governor of the State on the ticket of which Hon. 
 (reorge Hoadly was the head. He presided over the State 
 senate for two years with marked ability and fairness. Upon 
 his retirement from that position he was favored with the 
 esteem of all who had come in contact with him as a presiding 
 officer. 
 
 The next occasion upon which he entered actively into poli- 
 tics was in 1890, when he was the Democratic nominee in what 
 was then the Sixteenth- district of Ohio. The campaign was 
 the most vigorous and hotly contested of that year, either in 
 the State of Ohio or elsewhere. He had the honor to defeat 
 a distinguished opponent after a canvass that attracted wide 
 attention throughout the country, and which has since had 
 an important bearing upon national issues. His success in 
 this struggle did not go unrecognized. When he entered 
 
Life and Character oj John G. IVarwick. 77 
 
 npon his Congressioiial duties lie was given assignments of 
 marked consequence in the body to which he had been elected. 
 
 His career in Congress was brief, but by no means unpro- 
 ductive. He had served only through the first session when 
 he was lifted from, the scene of his earthly achievements by 
 the unkindly hand of death. However, within the brief period 
 that fate accorded him for the service of the public in a Con- 
 gressional capacity he accomplished much. The interest he 
 felt in his own State and the particular constituency which he 
 represented made him a watchful, wise, and earnest public 
 servant in their behalf. Enjoying a'S he did the good will and 
 confidence of those with whom he was associated, he used the 
 opportunity for the greatest benefit of his country and his 
 State. He was faithfully at his desk each day, and watched 
 with unvarying care the changeful phases of national legisla- 
 tion. 
 
 He was unhesitating in expressing his opinions upon public 
 questions, and his straightforwardness and courage in advanc- 
 ing his beliefs were always a source of strength to the causes 
 which he espoused. Pretensions to oratory he did not make. 
 In the few public addresses made by him his arguments were 
 plain, cogent, unmistakable statements, requiring no interpre- 
 tation to make clear their purport. In private conversation 
 he had the same directness of manner, which gave him a force 
 that he might never have enjoyed had he been the slave of 
 ornate and effusive speech. 
 
 Full of humor, much of it of the sparkling kind attributable 
 to his Irish birth, fond of the society of his friends, and with 
 the mantle of charity always at hand for the failings and faults 
 of others, no more companionable man ever shed the glow of 
 human fellowship within the circle of his immediate friends. 
 It is within that circle that his loss will be most fully measured. 
 
 In every respect Mr. WARWICK was a remarkable man. In 
 
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 his struggles from poverty to independent wealth the key of his 
 success was his absolute integrity, perseverance, and native 
 shrewdness. The turmoils of business and politics he did not 
 allow to disturb the serenity of his temperament. His views 
 of party animosities, the rivalries and jealousies of daily life, 
 were invariably tempered by tolerance. He looked at the ham- 
 perings of this world with composure. Oftentimes he would 
 step from the scene of his active work and find rest and recrea- 
 tion in his books. It was thus that he sustained the equability 
 of his emotions, notwithstanding the quick and energetic char- 
 acter of his mind. 
 
 Mr. President, I have but sketched the history and qualities 
 of the deceased. An adequate estimate of his worth is the 
 measure of grief that has been poured out by loving friends 
 upon his tomb and the sense of vacancy that they feel now that 
 he is gone. These are the tributes to which I would call your 
 attention, and not to my own inadequate expressions. The 
 memory of his character serves as its highest eulogy. In life 
 he courted no undeserved praise; in death, no flower amid the 
 many blossoms dropped upon his casket fell from an insincere 
 or flatterer's hand. 
 
 * ADDRESS OF MR. DANIEL, OF VIRGINIA. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT : The genius of Ireland, it seems to me, has 
 found its most ample, generous, and brilliant expression in 
 our own land. We often hear our country spoken of as the 
 greater Britain. It is just as truly the greater Ireland. We 
 learn of Irish statesmen and Irish soldiers when we read our 
 school books. We catch the music of Irish poetry in every 
 volume of essay and history or disquisition. The brilliance of 
 Irish wit we find in the local columns of our papers, and 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 79 
 
 repeated from lip to lip iu jest aiid converse by the hearthstone; 
 yet if we were to judge of Irish character only by that which we 
 hear of it as it comes to us borne from that distant land, we 
 should have but a partial and imperfect appreciation of that 
 people. 
 
 In our own country the name of the Irish soldiery has 
 become a proverb of valor, and the brilliant generals who have 
 borne it on every field have added even greater glory to it as 
 it came to us by tradition. In literature too, and statesman- 
 ship, we have seen in our own country exemplifications of 
 Irish genius. 
 
 And there is one feature of Irish character of which we could 
 take but little cognizance except by our own experience, and 
 that is the successful ability with which that race copes in our 
 history with every circumstance which it has to combat. 
 
 We not only find the poor and humble Irishman with his 
 pick and spade climbing the mountain and building the rail- 
 road, but we find him the president of the bank, the president 
 of the railroad, the organizer of great commercial schemes 
 and political movements, showing that Irish ability in busi- 
 ness, where cold intellect meets its like in the hard conflicts 
 of competition, is on a par with its brilliance as it shines in 
 song and in story. 
 
 We know very little, Mr. President, of the details of the 
 struggle of Ireland for home rule, and we know scarce any of 
 it in the sense that we know our own political struggles and 
 conditions; but the fact that the Irishman in this country 
 shows constant progress wherever you find.him, whether in the 
 field of manual or intellectual toil, intensifies the belief that 
 some peculiar condition of oppression must exist which has 
 prevented him from becoming so independent and so great in 
 his native land as he has become in our own. In the Old 
 World the Irish orator might say of his countrymen: "They 
 
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 have fought successfully iu every battle but their own." In 
 this free country they have fought in all our conflicts of civic 
 competition, and iu none better than their own. 
 
 Mr. President, it is a privilege to pay a tribute of respect 
 and honor to the worthy dead, and now as the hours of the 
 Fifty-second Congress wane, we have paused to commemorate 
 the virtues of one who entered it with us but did not live to 
 see its close a distinguished representative, who illustrated 
 alike the genius of his mother Ireland and the great opportu- 
 nities for the rise of merit afforded by his adopted land. 
 
 I did not have the pleasure of even a personal acquaintance 
 with Mr. WARWICK. I do not know that mine own eyes have 
 ever rested upon his face, but a circumstance of name 
 attracted me to take particular notice of his political struggles 
 and his marked career. He bore a name to me ever venerated, 
 that of my own grandsire, John Warwick ; and, while I have 
 no reason to believe that we were kindred, it led me to make 
 frequent inquiries concerning him. 
 
 In this manner I became familiar with the general reputa- 
 tion which Mr. WARWICK bore, not only as a public man but 
 as a citizen in the community where he lived. That fixed rep- 
 utation, which was attested not only by the public prints, nor 
 only by the voice of his political friends, but by every manner 
 of communication from all classes of men who had known him 
 in all relations, is his best praise. One account has always 
 been given of him, and that is that he was a man amongst 
 men, universally esteemed, greatly confided, trusted, and 
 believed in. 
 
 So he enjoyed that greatest proof of a man's worth which 
 comes from the collected judgment of men who know him in 
 all relations and all conditions, and now he lives "in a people's 
 voice, the proof and echo of all human fame." 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 81 
 
 There were certain qualities of Mr. WARWICK which appear 
 to have been as well known and recognized as his name. They 
 were modesty, integrity, charity, and ability. There is such 
 emphasis sometimes put upon the declaration that a man was 
 " honest " as to convey an undertone of suggestion that the 
 virtue is rare. It goes without saying that the public men of 
 our country are honest. The lack of honesty in them is very, 
 very rare. It would be a great reproach to our people and our 
 free institutions if such were not the case. The hazy lights 
 of political literature are often misleading. 
 
 There is no more honest or straightforward body of men in 
 the world than those who represent the American people In 
 public life. They are in the blaze of popular inspection; and 
 if their qualities or actions are sometimes portrayed in dis- 
 torted lights, and if there be occasionally some one that does 
 not deserve the name, it is nevertheless true that in no other 
 walk or profession, whether it be mercantile, legal, scientific, 
 or otherwise, are there more proportioned to their number who 
 deserve the name of honest than the statesmen whom our 
 people have entrusted with power. 
 
 When I speak of Mr. WARWICK as a man of integrity, I do 
 not mean simply to say that he never took his neighbor's 
 goods, nor slandered his good name; I mean to signify that 
 he impressed upon all who knew him the fact that he was 
 punctilious in the observance of every obligation mercantile, 
 social, political, or otherwise. His charity has been borne 
 witness to by too many testimonials to need circumstantial 
 relation. His ability has been attested by many and varied 
 accomplishments. His must have been a diversified order of 
 genius. He was a merchant, he was a farmer, he was a miller, 
 he was a miner, and he succeeded in whatsoever he undertook. 
 
 The public position which he won was through the confidence 
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82 Address of Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, on the 
 
 he bad inspired amongst the people with whom he lived, by 
 his diligence and by his success, and by the character he had 
 manifested in that success. Public honor was but the mani- 
 festation of that broad appreciation of his State which sent 
 forth a representative man representative in his sterling vir- 
 tues as well as in his political opinions, to utter its thought, 
 and do honor to its character. 
 
 Mr. President, the saddest phase of public life is found in 
 the partings which it leads to, and I know not sometimes 
 whether those partings be more sad when they are with the 
 dead or the living. We are but brief sojourners here, at best, 
 whatever may be our fortunes in life; and although many, not 
 to say all of us, are partisans, all partisanship is merged in the 
 friendships formed by community of service for a common 
 country, and by the sentiments inspired when we stand by the 
 dead forms of those who have been our fellows. 
 
 Changes of administration are well for the public weal. 
 Experiment can not test the rival claims of men and meas- 
 ures except through their agency. It is the crucible of ideas 
 and their champions. But whether on one side or the other of 
 political difference, whether of victory or defeat, the change 
 severs strong and tender ties and breaks cherished associa- 
 tions and foretokens the great change when all shall pass the 
 common way. 
 
 JOHN G. WARWICK has only passed before us in the proces- 
 sion. He has lived his life, he has done his work, he won with 
 virtue the laurel that now lies upon his tomb. Those who yet 
 press on the toilsome march find refreshment in his good 
 example: "Let him boast wiioputteth his armor off', not him who 
 putteth it on" is now the conqueror's boast for him. Clean, 
 bright, without tarnish, the armor which he wore is now hung 
 up as the relic of him who wore it well; and Ohio receiving 
 
Life and Character of John G. Warwick. 83 
 
 his dust may be proud in the realization that he whom she 
 honored so often has honored her in turn by his useful and 
 
 unblemished life. 
 
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 The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to 
 the resolutions submitted by the Senator from Ohio [Mr. BriceJ. 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 
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