Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-14
MR.. RANDALL'S DEATH.
The Pennsylvania Statesman Breathed
His Last Early Sunday Morning. q

The END OF HIS .FvFERISG COMES PEACEFULLY
The SCENE AT The DEATH BED-THE REMARK
ABLE CAREER OF THE DEAD REPREsESTArIyE-
TIE SIMPLICITY OF HIS HOME LIFE.
Representative Samuel Jackson Randall died
at o'clock yesterday morning at his residence
on Capitol Hill. For many hours his death
had been expected at any moment. All the
members of his family, his physician, DIR.
Malan and Postmaster General Wanamaker,
who had watched with him during the night,
were by his bedside when he passed away.
Just at 5 o'clock the patient moved in his
bed Mrs Randall leaned over him and. taking
her hand, he whispered mother" with his last
breath. The end passed peacefully. The attack
which finally led to death came upon Mr..
Randall nearly five years ago, and during the
past two or three years he has been at times a
great sufferer. He was first seized with
hemorrhoids, which later developed into
malignant abscess.
Mr.. Randall's Career.
The death of Mr.. Randall takes the most
powerful personality from the House. During
his terms IN Congress he has impressed himself
upon national affairs. and the policy of econ
Omy in national expenditures" which now
obtains bears his name. His biography is
briefly told in the Congressional Directory:
samuel j. Randall of Philadelphia was born
at Philadelphia October 10, 1923; received an
academic education; engaged in mercantile
pursuits; was member of the city councils of
Philadelphia four years; a member of the
state senate of Pennsylvania in 1858 and 49,
was elected to the Thirty eighth Thirty ninth,
Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second. Forty
third, Forty-fourth, Forty fifth, Forty-sixth.
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth. Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses. He was
elected Speaker of the House for the last ses-
sion of the Forty fourth and reelected for the
Forty-tifth and FOrty-siXth Congresses"
From his entrance into public life he has
been a leader of men. and in Congress he was
one of the few men whose advice and warnings
were hardened to by political opponent well
friend. His rugged honesty and ability
secured him the respect OF all his colleagues
of the country at large. He is one man who
has gone through public life, holding promi-
nent place. without the voice of calumny being
ticularly scholarly man or a finished orator,
Mr.. Randall has been most powerful figure
III American politics of the period. Differing
from a majority of his party on one subject
that has been an issue of very recent years, he
has not been the acknowledged leader, vet
during the past three sessions that the leader
ship has been elsewhere there have been times
when the party have turned to him as the man
best fitted to fight their difficult battles. There
Is probably no man from whom few words
will have such influence upon the House in
relation to fiscal affairs, and IN parliamentary
struggle he has always risen above the whole
House. When deeply in earnest on any subject
he has risen to the proportions of giant and
with heavy blows dealt on either hand he has
brushed the hundred and one smaller men of
the House out OF his path.