Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1839-10-10
From the Charleston Courier

DEATH OF GEN. ROBERT I. HAfNE.
Our City and State have sustained an
other heavy aud distressing bereavement.
Death has again leveled its shaft at a shin
ing mark and our community, willie
vet in tears for the lameu'ed BLANDINo,
nourns with deep and universal sorrow
the loss of the gifted and eloquent, the be-
loved aud admired HAySE.
The career of Gen. IIayne was bril-
liant, although short one-seldom indeed
has so much of honor aud usefulness, as
fell to his TO-, been crowded into such
span Of human existence. At an early
age, he was borne into public life on a
tioodtide of popular favor, and retained it
withou, ebb or abatement to the hour of
his death; and his term Of public service,
once begun, although varied in its honors
and responsibilities, continued uubroken,
except by brief and single interval, TO
the end Of his life. lie was born on the
10Th November, 1871. His father was
Col. William Hayne, deccascd-his moth
er, Mrs. Eliza Haync, a Pcronneau by
birth, is yet ali to mourn the nntimeIy
death of her distinguished son. The ad-
rautages of a school education were all
that he received TO fit him for his part in
life, but the wan, OF college discipline or
college honors threw no impediment in his
path. lie gave early promise Of future
distinction was admitted to the bar, un-
der special circumstances, ere he had quite
arrived at the age Of legal maturity, and
soon became one Of the leading and most
successful members of his profession. lie
early became an officer ollhe militia, and
passed regularly through all the various
aradatious of the service from a private 10
The Office of NIajor General. In October,
1914, before he had completed his 23d
year, he was elected to the popular branch
Of the State Legislature, al the head of
the republican ticket from Charleston.-
lie at once took his position as a leading
aud efficient member of that body; aud
his elevation to other public honors soon
followed in rapid succession. In Novem-
ber, 1918. he was elected Speaker of the
House Of Representatives, and during the
same session Of the legislature he was
chosen Attorney General of the State
After brilliant service of four years in
the last named office, wider field of action
and flame was afforded him, by his cleo
ton, in December 1922, as Senator in
Congress from his native State, when but
one year beyond the age Of constitutional
qualification for that high dignity. As a
member of the American Senate. he filled
Il large space in the public eye-provins
his capacity for business and usefulness
by his arduous lahours as Chairman Of the
Committee on Naval Affairs, and being
not only one of the most attractive spea-
kers, but engaging with honor. if not al
WAYS with triumph, in the conflict Of de-
bate with the siant-intellects of that august
assembly, then numbering among its mem
bers. as it generally has done, The first
minds of the republic. His celebrated
passage at arms, in 1880, with the disln-
guished Senator from Massachusetts, will
long live in the recollection of those who
witnessed it. as one of the most gallant and
interesting conflicts ever fought on the
field of Senatorial debate, and as one in
which both Of the complaints cowncd