and Democrats alike, as a man of irreproachable integrity and an able and fearless champion of his convictions. .

At the end of his second term, the political pendulum in Ohio swung again to the Republican side, and the Legislature elected John Sherman to be his successor.

Sherman had for his colleagues during his term of service not only Wade and Thurman, but also Pendleton, Fayne and Brice.

Pendleton was one of the most accomplished men of his time. He was a polished speaker. He had engaging manners, decided ability, and a good name in every sense of the word. He was never severe or acrimonious in debate, yet was sufficiently partisan to be constant and zealous in the support of his party and the advancement of its policies. His greatest work was as the successful advocate of our first civil service legislation. That legislation has been severely criticized, but it has never been repealed, and never will be. Amended and improved it will continue to stand as his greatest monument.

Payne had been prominent in his party for years. He was its candidate for United States senator when Wade was first elected in 1851, and its candidate for governor against Chase in 1857, when he was defeated by only 503 votes.

He was a Democratic member of the House of Representatives in the Forty-fourth Congress, and chairman of the house committee that acted in conjunction with a like committee from the Senate in devising the Electoral Commission for the settlement of the Hayes-Tilden presidential dispute.

He was quiet and modest in manner, and made but few speeches, but he was so wise in judgment that his advice was sought and followed to such an extent that he exerted an unusual influence upon his party associates, and, in non-political matters, upon men of all parties and measures of all kinds.

He entered the Senate late in life, when his party was in the minority, and when, on that account, there was little oppor-· tunity for him to add to his reputation.

Brice was young and buoyant, of sanguine disposition, always bright, versatile and charming. He was exceedingly popular on both sides of the chamber. He had a faculty for large

affairs and was unusually successful in business. He might have participated in the debates with much credit to himself, but he preferred the more quiet and less frictional work of the committee, where his power and influence were fully felt and recognized. It is no disparagement of anyone and no exaggeration of the truth to say that, of all the many able men who have represented Ohio in national affairs, John Sherman is facile princeps.

Others reached the presidency, and some of them, through fortuitous circumstances and opportunities, may have attained greater popularity and a more commanding place in history, but no other stood so long on the "perilous heights."

No other was tried in so many ordeals. No other was called upon to deal with so many and such difficult questions. No other showed such varied powers of adaption to rapidly changing and widely different conditions, and no other so completely and uninterruptedly commanded the confidence and enjoyed the respect of the whole American people as a wise, safe and capable leader and statesman.

He had a tall and commanding figure-not a magnetic, but a pleasing personality. He was a man of conservative temperament, considerate judgment and affable manners.

He had a strong intellectual endowment, clear conceptions, and great powers of logic and analysis. His voice was agreeable, and his speech easy and fluent. His arguments were plain, direct and convincing. He commanded attention, and easily held it. No one could remain within the sound of his voice while he was speaking, no matter what his subject, without following his remarks.

He too was a self-made man. He was of the plain people and always had their sympathy and support. He was born poor but had a sound constitution, and was proud to earn his own living. He commenced as a rodman in an engineering corps, but he advanced rapidly. He acquired a good education, read law, was admitted to the bar, and finally entered public life in 1854 as a member of the Thirty-fourth Congress, admirably equipped for the great work and the great career before him.

The slavery question in general, and the Kansas-Nebraska question in particular, then held public attention. From the first he took and held high rank as a leader and a debater.

part.

When the war came he was thoroughly prepared for his

Entering the Senate in March, 1861, he carried with him from the House an experience and a prestige that gave him rightfully a place in the front rank of his colleagues.

It is impossible and unnecessary to relate here his services during the thirty-six years that followed until the fourth of March, 1897, when he resigned his seat at the request of President McKinley to accept the office of secretary of state. They are so interwoven with the history of our country for that period that all are familiar with them.

It is enough to say that to him more than to any other man the American people are indebted for the sound currency, the safe and adequate banking facilities, and the general improvement of our fiscal system by the adoption and development of those economic policies, under which our country has so developed and prospered.

His most pronounced triumph was in connection with the resumption of specie payments in 1879, but his services in that respect were only in keeping with his record throughout. He was given special credit in that instance not because his labors in that particular were exceptional, but because they were practical and apparent. While he will be most remembered for his services in connection with the finances of the country, yet they were only a part of his work.

In the troublesome and trying days of reconstruction he was untiring.

As a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Railroads and the Judiciary, he was constantly engaged in the consideration of grave questions and great measures.

Many statutes bear testimony to his far-sighted wisdom as a legislator. One of the most important was one of the latest. It shows how clearly he understood the progress of changing conditions and the legislative remedy to apply to correct apprehended evils and abuses.

He was among the first to see the enormous combinations of capital we have been witnessing and the temptation there would be to unreasonable restraint and monopoly, and before others realized the danger or comprehended that any legislation was necessary or even appropriate he had secured the enactment of what the whole country has recently become familiar with as the Sherman Anti-trust Law of 1890.

He gave himself up wholly and devotedly to his work, so much so that he probably did himself an injustice by the consequent neglect thereby occasioned, to some extent, at least, of social duties and relations.

He was for years, without regard to his own desires in the matter, considered a leading candidate for the presidency. His name was repeatedly presented to national conventions for the nomination. That honor was denied him, but there never was a time when the whole country did not feel that he was well equipped and well entitled to hold that high office. He will rank in history with Webster, Clay and Blaine.

For obvious reasons I shall leave to some future orator who may have occasion to speak of "Ohio in the Senate" an account of the work done by the present incumbents. I take advantage of this opportunity however to inform him in advance that if he shall be able to say of them that they earnestly strove to emulate the examples of their illustrious predecessors that, in their opinion, will be the highest character of compliment and praise.

OHIO IN THE NATIONAL HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES.

CHARLES H. GROSVENOR.

INTRODUCTORY.

Mr. President and Fellow-Citizens:

It is well that at the end of a hundred years of statehood Ohio should pause in her grand march and consider the pathway over which she has trod, take stock of the present, and look forward, with hope and confidence, to the future.

C. H. GROSVENOR.

A hundred years in the life of the world, in the life of the great nations of the world, is but a brief episode; and yet, looking back and contemplating Ohio in 1803 and contrasting her with Ohio of 1903, this state presents a condition of growth in wealth, in property, in intelligence and in patriotism and virtue, unequalled in the history of modern times, and far outranking the development of nations of the old world in all the past.

It is difficult for our neighbors to account for the progress of Ohio. They sometimes think our position has been won by aggressive competition, by aggressive assaults upon the rights of others, but Ohio has ever been contributor of her splendid population to the growth, development, and honor of other states.

I desire to place in this memorial an extract from a little volume called "Ohio in Congress," by Colonel William A. Taylor. That distinguished writer and political philosopher has explained to the public why it is and how it is that the people of Ohio have made this wonderful progress. It is as follows: