But it was not alone in his profession, where he speedily built up a large and lucrative practice, that he attained distinction. Born on a pioneer farm, the eldest of a large family, he was forced from boyhood to be the architect of his own fortunes, and yet he did not enter into the competitions of life devoid of capital. He was peculiarly rich in the qualities that command success, in the full vigor of a splendid physical and intellectual strength, in abounding health, in self-confidence to meet and conquer the difficulties that confronted him, and in a personal magnetism that speedily drew about him a wide circle of devoted and admiring friends. There was in the make-up of Mr. POWERS no trace of snobbery or affectation. He was all his life in close and sympathetic touch with the plain people. Warm-hearted, cordial, and genuine in his dealings with those about him, he constantly extended the circle of his friendships. It was a real pleasure for him to meet old acquaintances and make new ones. His instincts were social. He loved the companionship of his fellow-men, and few there were who could resist the rare charm of his personality. As he came and went he had a cordial word of greeting for everyone he met. He looked out upon life with the spirit of an optimist, and from the depths of his own frank and generous nature radiated an atmosphere of hope and cheer upon those about him.

His own pioneer training stood him in good stead and specially fitted him for leadership in the community with which he had cast his lot. The great country of Aroostook of that day was only in the early stages of the splendid development that has since been achieved there. It was then a pioneer community, and it is doubtful if its own citizens had more than a vague conception of its vast resources still waiting the hand of development. A large part of its splendid domain, now covered with rich and fertile farms, was then a virgin forest.

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it men were engaged in the slow, laborious work of reclaiming the wilderness to the uses of husbandry. Among the hardy, industrious people of this community Mr. PoWERS Soon won the distinction of admitted leadership, both at the bar and in its political life. He served for six years, with notable success, as county attorney, and for four years as collector of customs, declining a tendered reappointment. Then followed a membership in the Maine house of representatives for three consecutive sessions, during which he took a conspicuous part in its proceedings and made a name for himself all over the State. In 1876 he was elected Representative to Congress from the Fourth Maine District and served out his term with a degree of distinction not often vouchsafed to new Members. He was renominated by acclamation in 1878, but was defeated, in common with other Republican candidates, by the so-called "Greenback wave" that rolled over the State in the election of that year.

In 1883 Mr. POWERS again represented his home town in the State legislature, following which he was for a number of years out of personal politics, devoting his time and energies to the practice of his profession and the management of his large and growing timber-land interests.

In 1892, yielding to the earnest solicitation of his friends, he was once more elected to the State house of representatives, where he speedily became recognized as the Republican leader. He was returned to the house in 1895, and was unanimously chosen as its speaker, in which position he further strengthened his strong hold upon the people of his State.

In the summer of 1896 he was nominated for governor of Maine by acclamation, and elected the following September by a record-breaking majority.

It was my privilege to be closely associated with him in his canvass for the gubernatorial nomination, which terminated so favorably to him, and to see him in new lights. What particu

larly impressed me at that time was his large and tolerant spirit and his willingness to overlook and forget present and past differences. He seemed to be singularly incapable of harboring personal or political animosities. He looked calmly out upon the situation in a broad and generous way, without jealousies and without recrimination. What impressed his friends

at all times was the attitude of absolute fairness which he maintained toward those who at first were not favorably disposed to his candidacy. It was this spirit, I know, which ultimately made it possible for him to secure without opposition the high honor he sought. His record during the two terms he served as governor of Maine was a notable one. He brought to the many and exacting duties of the office the same calm judgment, firm purpose, and clear grasp of affairs that had won him eminence in other walks of life. The result was a record in administration in the highest degree creditable to himself and to his State.

I shall not undertake to enlarge upon his distinguished career as a Member of this House. Others who will speak here to-day, and who were more closely associated with him in its work, are far better qualified to do that. In paying this small tribute to my late colleague and friend of many years, I am impressed anew with a sense of the uncertainty of life. Four of the distinguished Members of this House from the State of Maine with whom it has been my privilege to serve on this floor have laid down the burdens of life and crossed that mysterious border line that separates time from eternity. Truly

Death rides on every passing breeze.

He lurks in every flower.

In the death of Llewellyn POWERS his State and his country lost a man of large mold, who had in a marked degree the high qualities that win success both in private and in public life. Genial, tactful, untiring, he stood always in the open, having in

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His death is sincerely mourned by a host of warm friends
and admirers, who watched with interest his rise to influence
in his State and in the Nation, and who felt a deep and an
abiding pride in his distinguished career.

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ADDRESS OF MR. GAINES, OF TENNESSEE

Mr. SPEAKER: I rarely ever 'engage in a memorial service. I have made it a rule of my life to tell my friend of his golden characteristics while he lives. That may, as intended, give him some joy. It does me. I think that that is a much better rule than to wait until after he is dead and gone. But after his demise it is well to speak of his strong and valuable characteristics, that we as individuals, as a people, and as a Republic may profit by it. If the deceased had any faults, I never knew them.

I knew Governor POWERS intimately from the time he appeared as a Member of the Fifty-seventh Congress. His striking personality first attracted my attention. He was a man of large frame, large head, covered with a heavy shock of hair, crowning a thoughtful and expressive face. He showed every appearance of a delightful, social, generous, and thoughtful man. I knew him more intimately socially than I did in the House. I was thrown with him very frequently, almost daily, after the House adjourned.

He was very resourceful in conversation and in debate. With a wonderful fund of information upon most every subject, he was at ease with anyone anywhere. He was gifted in the knowledge of statecraft. His life was spent mostly as a public servant, and happy have been the results of his splendid stewardship. In these respects he was a very remarkable man.

You have but to recall the places of trust that he so well filled amongst his own people and in the Nation to be thoroughly convinced that he must have been a most useful man in every sphere of life.